Golmen Gazette

Volume 2, Issue 22 February 11, 2010

What’s New? MATHEWS RAP the MAP!!!

February Character Trait is
Trustworthiness!! Reaching for Awesome Performance on the
If you say it, you mean it; if you MAP!!!
mean it, you do it!! 
Test Tip: Slow & Steady Shows Your Ready: Keepin’ It Real Yo!
Weekly Quizzes & Work AKA Staying Calm and dowing what you can do with all you have.

Friday ~ Math Check Up, Spelling Test, Reading Skill It is important to remember to stay calm and use your time wisely.
Assessment If you rush through the test, you might miss your opportunity to “Do
Daily- Reading towards 100 minutes for the week, damage”, which means to go the extra mile in the hip-hop
DLR classroom. Always take the time to read all parts of the test. Some
questions are worth more than one point. Look for those
Future Plans! opportunities. Also, don’t spend too much time on one problem, skip
it and come back later. If you are overwhelmed, take a break and
Feb. 15th, 17th, Parent/Teacher come back with the fresh attitute.
Conferences Brain Based Strategy
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Feb. 18 Make-up School Day Power of Storytelling-Use Emotion: Listen to and tell stories to learn
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Feb. 21 No School an important concept. For example when learning long division,
th remember the story of the Division Family (D,M,S,B,R). It’s a family
Mar. 10 End of 3rd quarter/PBS Big
that’s never divided. Creating an emotional tie with what you
Event learn,helps you remember. So mike it “all the way live”, which is
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Mar. 14 -18 Spring Break rapper slang for something so cool, so memorable, you can’t explain!
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Mar. 29 Boot Camp
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Word of the Week:
Mar. 30 -Apr. 8 MAP Testing 
Support: Support means to prove, verify, or give reasons for
something you say, write or do.

Yearbooks are on Sale!
Our school year is packed with special memories
that your child will want to remember forever. 
The yearbook captures the excitement and fun of
this school year in a keepsake that your child will
treasure for a lifetime. Order a yearbook
today!   Deadline: February 25, 2011
Standard Yearbook: $ 16.00
Optional Personalization: $ 5. 00
A note from Ms Golmen: In between snow days, the kids and I have
been working hard on learning about non-fiction text features during
reading time. During our writing time, the students have been
working on their parent letters in preparation of Parent/Teacher
conferences next week. I have been impressed with how eager and
excited they have been to complete this task.
I look forward to meeting you all in Parent/Teacher conferences next
week!

What’s Coming Up?

Reading: Paraphrasing/Reading Non-fiction literature
Writing: Friendly Letters/Subject-Verb agreement
Working With Words: I’m, through, its, forecast, international, misbehave, mistreat, misled, misplace,
misspell Prefix: mis-, inter Suffix: -al Math: Division
Science: Mixtures and Solutions
Social Studies: Famous Missourians