The Goshen Gazette
February, 2020
From the Principal - Mr. Graves
Welcome to February, the shortest month in the year, but none the less busy for the staff and students at Goshen Lane. Each day staff are working hard to prepare and deliver instruction that is challenging, engaging, and designed to prepare students for what comes next in their education.
In past newsletters I have written about the importance of student attendance. It is important that students are present both physically and emotionally so that they can be at their best as they learn. I recently read the following about student attendance. According to multiple studies, missing several days of school over the course of a year significantly reduces the likelihood that students will graduate from high school. With attendance a crucial factor to keeping kids on the right path to graduation.
With that being said, it is also important that we recognize when it is appropriate to keep children out of school. When children are sick, they need to stay home. If your child has any of the following symptoms, please do not send him/her to school: Fever of 100 degrees or more. Children should stay home until the fever has been gone for 24 hours without fever reducing medication. Vomiting or severe diarrhea.Children should stay home until symptoms have been gone for 24 hours. A little sniffle is not a reason to stay home, but a severe cold or influenza is. If your child has a communicable disease, he/she should not come to school.
Please click on the below link for information from our school nurse about the flu.
COSI Coming To Goshen
Lost & Found
Upcoming in February
February 11, Parent Teacher Conference Night
February 13, PTA Dine Out (Raising Canes)
February 13, Classroom Valentine's Day Celebrations (see classroom teacher's newsletters)
February 14, No School
February 17, No School (Presidents Day)
February 21, End of 2nd Trimester
February 21, PTA Movie Night at Goshen Lane 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
February 24, No School (Staff Professional Development Day)
February Success Tips
- Help your child stay motivated by creating new homework routines when old ones get stale. Your youngster may want to work in a different location, listen to soft background music, or meet a friend at the library to do assignments.
- Ayude a su hijo a seguir motivado con crear nuevas rutinas para hacer tareas cuando se estanquen las anteriores. Quizá su hijo quiera trabajar en un lugar diferente, escuchar música suave de fondo o encontrarse con un amigo en la biblioteca para hacer las tareas.
- Stretch your children’s creativity by asking them to paint pictures without using paintbrushes or their fingers. What tools could they use instead? Examples: cotton swabs or balls, pieces of sponge, craft foam, feathers, toothpicks, straws.
- Estimule la creatividad de su hijo al pedirle que pinte dibujos sin usar brochas ni los dedos. En lugar de estos, ¿qué herramientas podría usar? Ejemplos: hisopos o bolas de algodón, pedazos de esponja, fomi, plumas, palillos de dientes, pajillas.
- Kids who take part in activities they find meaningful are more likely to finish what they start and work harder while doing it—two of the traits it takes to have grit. Keep this in mind as you help your youngster choose extracurriculars or hobbies to try.
- Es más probable que los niños que participan en actividades para ellos interesantes terminen lo que iniciaron y se esfuercen más al hacerlo, 2 rasgos necesarios para tener determinación. Considérelo al ayudarlo a elegir qué actividades extracurriculares/pasatiempos intentar.
- Use a balloon for a game of rhyme volleyball. The first person “serves” and says a word (cat). The next person hits the balloon back and says a rhyme (rat). Keep going until you run out of rhymes. The last person to make a rhyme gets the point and starts the next round.
- Use un globo para jugar vóleibol con rimas. El primero “hace el saque” y dice una palabra (gato). El siguiente toca el globo de regreso y dice una rima (pato). Sigan así hasta que se queden sin rimas. El último que haga una rima se lleva el punto y comienza la siguiente ronda.
- Your children can use reading to practice math, too. Have them track the number of pages they read each day for a week, then estimate how many pages they might read in a year. They could check their estimates by graphing the number of pages they read each month.
- Sus hijos también pueden usar la lectura como práctica matemática. Pídales que lleven cuenta de las páginas que leen a diario por una semana y luego calculen cuántas páginas podrían leer al año. Podrían revisar sus estimaciones al graficar el número de páginas que leen al mes.