GOLDEN HILLS NEWSLETTER

Golden Hills Families,

We have one more month of our second trimester! Our students have been working so hard and we are seeing so much growth! The first week of February we are assessing the students on correct words read per minute, accuracy and retell to assess growth in fluency. We will begin our I-Ready diagnostics the week of February 20th to assess overall growth.

Our afterschool clubs have been so much fun! Our knitting and art club just finished and new clubs are about to begin!

The clubs/ sports we have began and continued:

• Boys Basketball Teams, coached by Mr. G and Mr. Gilbertson

• Student Advisory Club with Mrs. Webb & Mrs. Napoli

• Math Tutoring/ Club with Ms. T

• Before School Math & Community with Mrs. Russell

• STEM Club with Ms. Zarzynski

• Band with Mr Grigorik

• Basketball Club with Mr. Gilbertson

Thank you to our Parents who attended our School Site Council and Parent Teacher Group Meeting: The Parent Teacher Group is working on planning a fun day for our students at the end of the year! We could use more support! The next meeting is February 29th 3 pm. Please join us, all are welcome!!

Kristi Napoli

Our fourth and fifth grade girls basketball teams did amazing this year. They played against older students and they kept a positive attitude and did their best! Great Job Girls!

Great job to all the boys who tried out for the basketball teams. It is so difficult for the coaches to make the team and wish we could have a spot for everyone but we do not have the coaches or the resources to do this.

Congratulations to the Fourth Grade Boys Basketball Team:

Alex. S

Axel C.

Cannon C.

Colton E.

Drake P.

Hudson M.

Jaxton F.

Jesse H.

Landen L.

Malaki J.

Miguel P.

Tyler H.

Walker M.

Congratulations to the Fifth Grade Boys Basketball Team:

Esteban S.

Dominique S.

Moses X.

Bentley C.

Lucas H.

Kyler M.

Elias G.

Waylin S.

Rylin S.

Jhett J.

Calix N.

Caleb G.

If your student did not make the team, we have a basketball club on Monday and Wednesdays from 3-4 pm! Permission slips must be turned in to participate by 2/5/24.

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

Thank you to the families that attended!

Our Ironman Winners (class with the best attendance) for the month of January:

4th Grade:

1.) Dailey
2.) Borquez

5th Grade:

1.) Corkin

2.) Russell

The class with the best attendance for February will win a Lego party with Mrs. Napoli

The second trimester Attendance Challenge has begun! On March 6th we will have a magician on campus. ( The planetarium had to cancel so we are having a Magic Show instead!)

To be invited to participate in the Magic Show the requirements are:

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

OR

Less than 6 (excused or unexcused) absences from 11/29-3/2/24

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.

TEAM Google SlideShow Competition: All Golden HIlls students are designing a slideshow of our Golden Hills TEAM expectations. The winners will win Lego, pizza and dessert parties!

Spelling Bee: Our school-wide spelling bee will be held on February 7th in the Golden Hills cafeteria. Our winners will represent Golden Hills in a county wide spelling bee!

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, 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 Marina S and Megan H for volunteering to attend these meetings!

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

2/12-2/16: February Intercession

3/6 Attendance Magic Show

3/ 8: Fourth Grade Field Trip to Laxon

3/ 8 Report Cards Go Home