Golmen Gazette

Volume 3, Issue 19 January 14, 2010

What’s New? MATHEWS R.A.P the MAP!!!

January Character Trait is
Integrity!! Reaching for Awesome Performance on the
Doing what is right even when no MAP!!!
one is watching!! 
MAP testing is quickly approaching, and it is our goal to get
the kids excited to “Show What They Know” on the upcoming
Weekly Quizzes & Work
test. We are hoping to achieve this goal with Mathews RAP
THE MAP! We’ll use a hip-hop theme as we prepare and
Friday ~ Math Check Up, Spelling Test, Reading celebrate. Each week we will focus on a test-taking strategy
Skill Assessment
Daily- Reading towards 100 minutes for the
and a testing vocabulary word. This will begin the week of
week, DLR January 24th.
MAP Mania
Over the next eight weeks, we will be focusing on MAP review
Future Plans! and preparation. One way we do that is through MAP Mania.
Jan. 17th No School-Martin Luther This is done on Fridays only and will continue through March
King Jr. Day (2ND Snow Day) 25th. Students are split up between four of the 4th grade
th
Jan. 25 Boot Camp classrooms and the 4th grade teachers rotate through the
Jan. 27th Tropical Thursday rooms, teaching lessons that are focused on MAP related
Feb. 11th Valentines Parties skills. We are still able to fit in our weekly Working With
Feb. 15th Spring Pictures Words quiz and Math Check Up, but our schedule is a little
Feb. 15th, 17th, Parent/Teacher different than normal. This time is extremely beneficial in
Conferences preparing your child to do their best on the MAP test. Thanks
th
Feb. 18 No School (3rd Snow Day) for your support!! 
Feb. 21st No School Newcomers
th
Mar. 10 End of 3rd quarter/PBS We have a new student teacher in our classroom. Tessa
Big Event Sheppard will be joining us for the remainder of the school
th th
Mar. 14 -18 Spring Break year. She is excited to work with the students, and we are
th
Mar. 29 Boot Camp
th th
This week’s Merit Award Winner is:
Mar. 30 -Apr. 8 MAP Testing 
Aubrey Stevens

What’s Coming Up?

Reading: Questioning
Writing: Effective Endings
Working With Words: buy, who, doesn’t, deodorize, invasion, suddenly, lately, carefully, truthfully,
hopefully Prefix: de- Suffix: -ize, -sion
Math: 3-D Geometry
Science: Mixtures and Solutions