GOLDEN HILLS NEWSLETTER
October 2024
Dear Golden Hills Families,
Golden Hills Families,
We hope you enjoyed your October Intercession! I am sure the fifth graders needed the rest after the wonderful experience at Shady Creek! It is such a memorable experience for all of our students who attended!
Would you like a way for your students to practice math facts at home? Reflex can be accessed on technology at home. It is so important that our students know their math facts. Students can use flash cards to practice, the Dollar Store has math flash cards. When you are driving in the car, quiz your student on multiplication facts.
Students are working towards being Math Math Masters and 144 members. To be a Math Master students master math facts up to 10’s, to be 144 Member students master their multiplication facts up to 12’s. Students will receive a certificate at our weekly Monday Morning Meeting and a Brag Tag to celebrate their success!
Red Ribbon Week is October 21-October 25. In honor of this year's red ribbon week theme, "Life is a Movie, film drug free”. We will celebrate in a spirit-week fashion while raising awareness of the dangers of drugs and alcohol, bullying and promoting making healthy choices. All students will receive a Red Ribbon and a pencil. Advisory Club will be selling Red Ribbon Week brag tags for $1.00 during lunch. All proceeds will go to our parent teacher group to plan activities for our school.
Red Ribbon Dress Up Days:
Monday, October 21: Tangled- don’t get tangled up in drugs and alcohol! Wear a crazy hairstyle or hat.
Tuesday, October 22: Sleeping Beauties- your dreams can come true when you say no to drugs and bullying! Wear your favorite school appropriate pajamas.
Wednesday, October 23: Inside Out- embrace your inner joy, stay drug and bully free! Wear your favorite Inside Out character color or wear your clothes mismatched or inside out.
Thursday, October 24: Ohana Day- Ohana means family- friends and family don’t let each other do drugs! Twin with friends or wear your Hawaiian gear or bright colors.
Friday, October 25: You're the Star of your Own Movie- Make choices for a bright future! Wear your Golden Hills spirit attire or school colors.
Oct. 31 is the Halloween Parade: Golden Hills Halloween Parade will immediately follow Helen Wilcox, it usually begins around 9 am on the black top. Families are welcome to join! Students can wear school appropriate costumes. No masks or scary costumes please.
Thank you for your support, please reach out if we can support you or your student in any way,
Mrs. Napoli
Golden Hills Principal
Join us for a Literacy Chat!
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 at the beginning of the year 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 October 23rd 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
Coming soon: Golden Hills Giving Tree
This year we will be having our first Golden Hills Giving Tree!. This will be a chance to help members of our Golden Hills community and make sure everyone has a wonderful holiday season! Be on the lookout for more information coming home with students soon.
Counselors Message:
In September we introduced the Mood Meter. The Mood Meter is a tool to understand and identify our feelings. The feeling of the month was determined. Determined is a yellow feeling because our energy and pleasantness levels are usually up when we feel determined. The new feeling of the month is anxious. When we feel anxious our energy level is up but our pleasantness is usually down. As your child to share a time that they felt anxious. What was happening to their thoughts, in their bodies, expression and how did they act? Share a time that you felt anxious and talk about what you thought and felt in your body and how you expressed your feelings. You can talk with your child about the strategies you use to deal with your anxious feelings.
Our advisory students are working hard on improving our school. They came up with a new spotlight staff member idea. Every week we will spotlight a staff member so that our students can learn more about them. Learning more about our staff should help support trusting relationships between staff and students. The advisory students will be introduced at our first eagles nest after break. They want the rest of the students to know that they are here to help. If other students need a friend to talk to they can go to an advisory student. We will add their names and pictures to the newsletter and a bulletin board in the cafeteria. Advisory students will be selling Red Ribbon brag tags during Red Ribbon week for $1.00 during lunch recess. Proceeds will got our PTG to plan school events.
Counseling small groups will start in October. If your child is being invited to participate in one of our small groups I will send home a counseling permission slip. Please let me know if you have any questions or want your child to participate. You can contact me via phone at (530)532-6000 ext.4006 or by email at rwalker@palermok8.org
Sincerely,
Rainbow Walker
School Counselor
