Gold Rush Elementary

“Foster Growth by Challenging Critical Thinkers to Take Risks,

Honor Differences & Care for Others”

A highlight of the week for many was viewing the solar eclipse Monday. Our whole school community gathered on the front blacktop to witness the event. With their safety glasses in place students could see how the moon blocked the sun. Students also enjoyed learning how this event occurs in their classroom. Primary students made paper models and hats to celebrate.

We appreciated the opportunity to come together as a full community to experience science in action!

As you are aware, Gold Rush has the first Young Rotarians Club in the world! Each year the Young Rotarians Club completes local and international service projects. Prior projects include decorating bags for a meal delivery service for the elderly, creating health care bags for individuals in Africa and quilting sleep bags for children in need.

This year GRE's Young Rotarians decided to celebrate individuals in our school community. Students focused on five groups of individuals that directly impacted our entire school, namely our school resource officer, the lunch and recess aides, our cafeteria staff and the PTO. Students created kindness videos that highlight the character traits that each group embodies. These videos were modeled off of Steve Hartman's Kindness 101 video highlighting service. Click here to view the video.

The Young Rotarians Club is sharing their videos with students and staff. They also wanted to share them with our parent community. This week we are highlighting GRE's amazing building engineer, Mr. Branson. We hope that you will watch and see how he models hard work each day.

We could not be more proud of our students for recognizing others and spreading kindness!

We know that creating a positive, collaborative learning environment is essential to all students’ success. Creating balanced classes that meet the needs of all students is a difficult endeavor. This process involves hours of thoughtful dialogue between classroom teachers, administrators and other staff members. The school takes this responsibility seriously and takes each child into consideration.

We value parent input and welcome any insight you wish to share about your child’s strengths, needs and learning style. We will take into consideration all pertinent information that you share on or before Friday, April 12. While we welcome your input, we cannot honor specific teacher requests. Please make sure you communicate your thoughts via this google doc so we can track your input and refer back to it throughout the process.

All students in grades 3-5 are required by the state of Colorado to take an assessment called the Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS). This assessment measures students' achievement and growth in the areas of English Language Arts and Math. Fifth grade students are also assessed in the area of Science. Click here for additional information.

Please see our testing schedule above for specific assessment days and times. We ask that you do not schedule outside appointments during the identified testing window.

Thank you for your cooperation.

It's time to buy your school supply kits. We know it seems early, but before you know it, summer will be here. Start the school year with the exact supplies your teacher requested. Kits are delivered to your child's classroom and are waiting for you at your designated Meet-the-Teacher day in August. DON'T FORGET TO ORDER THE CORRESPONDING KIT FOR THE GRADE YOUR CHILD WILL BE ENTERING IN THE FALL.

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