GOLDEN HILLS NEWSLETTER

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Golden Hills staff is so happy to welcome all the Golden Hills Eagles back from winter break. We hope that everyone enjoyed their time at home with your families. Before we went on break all the students had an opportunity to check out books from our library, those books are due January 12th.

School-wide Progress Reports go Home on January 12th. Be sure to look over the report with your student and reach out to their teacher if you have any questions.

We NEED you! The Palermo School District will be meeting to discuss our LCAP: Local Control & Accountability Plan. We need input from our families to look at our goals and to develop a plan to best meet the needs of our students.

Our district meetings are scheduled for the following dates: Thursday, Jan. 18, Thursday, Feb. 22, Thursday, Mar. 28, Thursday, May 2nd ,Thursday, May 30 from 3:30 - 4:30 pm at the Palermo District Office.

These meetings guide our district by looking at data and funding to make sure we are supporting ALL students in our district. If you are willing to be a part of our LCAP journey and attend these meetings please let the Golden Hills office or your students' teacher know. Your support is GREATLY appreciated!

Thank you,

Mrs. Napoli

Golden Hills Principal

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Thank you to Mr. Sasaki’s class at Palermo Community Day for the donation of a BMX bike. The students built the bike and all students who missed two or less absences in the month of December were put into a raffle. Congratulations to Isaiah for winning the bike!

Classes with Best Attendance for the month of December:

4th

1st: Ms. Smith 91% (.9165)

2nd: Mrrs. Dailey 90% (.9088)

5th:

1st: Mr. Benson 95% (.9542)

2nd: Mr.Zarzynski 95 % (.9505)

December Attendance Challenge: Students with 95% and above attendance were invited to an ice cream social on December 20th, we made over 215 ice cream sundaes

Second Trimester Attendance Challenge is ON!

On March 7th we

To be invited to participate in the Planetarium the requirements are:

Less than 11 absences (excused or unexcused) for the entire school year

OR

Less than 6 (excused or unexcused) absences from 11/29/23-3/6/24

Our third trimester reward will be a field trip to the movies!

If your child is absent please call the school office to let them know the reason so that your child can possibly be excused. Also, if your child will be absent for 3 or more days you can request independent study. Your child will receive work to do and if the work is completed, your child will receive credit for attendance and will not be counted as absent. If you have questions, please call the school office.

Attendance is very important, if your student is not at school, they cannot learn. Thank you for your support!

Boys Basketball Try-outs are this week. They are Wednesday Jan. 10th from 2:45-3:45. Students need to have a completed permission slip. Golden Hills will have a fourth and a fifth grade team. Practices are held after school and games are located out of town, Richvale, Gridley etc. Students must have their own transportation to games.

Shady Creek is a three night, four day environmental camp. Our fourth grade class will be attending next year. In order to attend we must have parent volunteers to stay in the cabins with the students. These parents must be cleared through our district through the volunteer process. We will need to have the parents cleared before the end of this school year to commit to going! The reserved dates for Shady Creek are the week before our October intercession. Please begin the process so we can be sure we have enough parent volunteers.

One of our school’s main focuses this year is literacy. Literacy is a building block skill that will support students with fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. Every student participates in a SOAR (Student Opportunities for Achievement in Reading) class, this is a school wide reading intervention/enrichment block.

Students were given a reading screener in December and based on those results your student is currently placed in a SOAR class that focuses on an area of need. If you are interested in learning specific strategies on how to help your child with this please come to our Literacy Chat on February 1st at 3 pm . We will meet in the Golden Hills STEAM room. We hope to see you there, if you let us know you are coming ahead of time we will have specific resources for your student! Please call the office or email to knapoli@palermok8.org

1/15 Martin Luther King Jr. Day, No School

1/22: 5th grade Growth & Development Movie

1/29: Fourth Grade Hygiene Presentation

2/1 Literacy Chat

2/2: Google Slideshow Due today! -TEAM Slideshow Competition

2/8: School SIte Council/ PTG Meeting at 3 pm

2/12-2/16: February Intercession

3/7: Planetarium Attendance Reward

⅜: Fourth Grade Field Trip to Laxon