Tony are excited about being placed in new story settings around the world each time they move to a different level. As Sebastian notes, “When you go into different places, the program shows different ani-mals and areas from a map.” Learning and progress are cele-brated with colorful program certificates each time a stu-dent increases a level. Sergio says this is his favorite part!

With internet access, students can even practice in Core 5 and Power Up from home. Ask your child’s teacher for a letter with specific login information today! ~Dr. Lynne Bailey, Interventionist

Dear Parents/Guardians, Over the last nine weeks, Gon-zales students have been using Lexia Core 5 (PreK-5) and Pow-er Up (6-8) Reading, two fun computer-based literacy pro-grams that have helped mil-lions of students (http://www.lexialearning.com). The activities in Core 5 support and build on our classroom curricu-lum and focus on developing reading skills in key areas: pho-nological awareness, phonics, structural analysis, fluency, vocabulary, grammar and com-prehension.

Nearly all of the more than 400 Gonzales students

are enjoying learning with Core 5 and Power Up, and 15% of these students have already moved from beginning place-ment into In and Above Grade Level Material in a fairly short time. Third grade students Mariah, Yanelie, Alyssa, Serenity, and Dominic like that, “Core 5 is fun and it tells you a lot of things you didn’t know.” Gabbi, Damian, Julian, and Jordan say they have learned about suffixes, new words, rules for spelling, and different word meanings since starting the program in October. The activities and visuals in Core 5 are also engaging for students. Anthony, Sebastian, Liv, and

Living Large with Lexia Literacy!

Science Fair in January It’s finally here! All of the

planning, preparing, testing,

and analyzing culminates on

Thursday, January 10th with

the results of students’ science

fair projects.

Please join us in the cafeteria

for a Parent Viewing from

5:00-6:00 pm.

Winners will be announced at

the Awards Ceremony at 6:00

pm.

*Students who are participat-

ing in the Science Fair are

asked to be in the cafeteria by

their science boards between

5:00-6:00 pm during the parent

viewing time to explain their

project.

We hope you can join us for an

evening of fun and learning!

Gonzales Community School

January 2019 Volume I, Issue 4

Newsletter

Important Dates:

1/3– School

Resumes

1/8– PTA Meeting–

5:30 pm– Library

1/10– Science Fair

– 5:00-6:30 pm–

Cafeteria

1/21– NO SCHOOL

– Dr. MLK, Jr. Day

1/24 & 1/25–

NO SCHOOL–

Parent Teacher

Conferences

Inside this issue:

GCS Participates in

the Hour of Code

2

Digital Learning Expo

Shout-outs!

2

GCS’s New Facebook

Page

2

January No School

Dates

3

First Garden Club

Meeting

3

GCS Yearbook Cover

Contest

3

GCS PTA News 4

Students at Gonzales partic-

ipated in the Hour of Code

in December. The Hour of

Code is a global movement

by Computer Science Edu-

cation Week and Code.org.

It reaches tens of millions of

students in 180+ countries

through a one-

hour introduction to com-

puter science and computer

programming. The follow-

ing classes joined in the

learning:

Wednesday 12/5/12

Ms. Pino

Mr. Falk

Ms. Serna

Thurday 12/6/12

Ms. Salazar

Ms.Tana/Mr. Lorenzen

Ms. Perea

Ms. Gaillour

Ms. Sagaoinit

Ms. Dzurec

Friday 12/7/12

Ms. Wilkins

Ms. Corral

GCS Spelling

Bee Winners

1st Place

Ashwin Neel

2nd Place

Truman Evans

school. This helps us to celebrate everyday activities, events, and successes. We are just getting it up and going, but you can join our Gonzales Community School Facebook page at:

The Dis-trict has asked all schools to develop a

social media presence to provide another way for parents and families to remain informed about the

GCS Participates in the Hour of Code

GCS’s New Facebook Page

Digital Learning Expo Shout-outs!

Google Slides!

Also a shout out to Art teacher, Amy Birkan, and students Noah

Velasquez and Roman Nappi for showing off their skills with GCS's 3D printer!

To the participants of the SFPS Digital Learn-ing Expo on the evening of 12/3/18: Shout out to 6th

grade teacher Erick Druva for showing off his students' knowledge of the solar system and

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Newsletter

I have decided to stick

with love. Hate is too

great a burden to

bear.

~Dr. Martin Luther

King, Jr.

www.facebook.com/gcslobos

Be sure to like us!

Thursday, January 24th

and Friday, January 25th

No School for K-8

Students

NO SCHOOL January 21st

Dr. Martin Luther King,

Jr. Day

What’s an easy yet important way to

help your child with school?

Practice math facts with your child for 5 minutes every-

day!

school related yet let your imagination run wild! Please submit your year-book cover ideas to Mr. Clark in Room 205 or to Ms. Becke and Ms. Allicia in

We’re excited to announce the 2018-2019 Gonzales Com-munity School Year Book Front and Back Cover Contest! The illus-trations should be

the front office by January 14th.

Parent Teacher Conferences

The GCS Yearbook Cover Contest

First Garden Club Meeting

Garden Club. Specific

time to be announced

soon. We need help

cleaning up the court-

yard to relocate the

school garden. Please

bring your own shovels,

rakes, and gloves. Any

questions, please ask

Ms. Stella.

The Advanced Orchestra will be playing at the School Board meeting on Tuesday, January 22 at 5:30 pm.

Mark your calendars!

January 19th, weather

permitting, will be the

first meeting of the

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Volume I, Issue 4

Breakfast Program 7:25 am– 7:55 am

Cafeteria

The function of

education is to teach one

to think intensively and

to think critically.

Intelligence plus

character– that is the

goal of true education.

~Dr. Martin Luther

King, Jr.

Gonzales Community School

851 W. Alameda Street

Santa Fe, NM 87501

Phone: 505-467-3100

Fax: 505- 983-0007

Gonzales Community School

the awards ceremony and recep-tion at 6pm in the cafeteria. GOOD LUCK, LOBOS!

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: Please sign up at signupschedule.com/gcs to help during the Science Fair.

Don't forget Gonzales PTA is on social media, please 'like us' on Facebook as 'Gonzales Commu-nity School PTA' and/or on Insta-gram as 'gonzales_pta'

Our amazing Gonzales PTA has the following announcements:

Our next PTA meeting will be on

Tuesday, January 8th at 5:30 pm. We will meet in the library.

PTA is hosting a Teacher and Staff appreciation breakfast on January 8 from 7:30-8:30 am. Parents- please go to GCSP-TA.org to sign up to volunteer to bring in food or help serve.

Also, PTA has been happy to work with Mr. Druva and the STEM club in hosting science cafes and giving out free boards and materials for the 4th-8th grade science fair participants. We also look forward to the Sci-ence Fair on Jan. 10, the parent viewing that night from 5-6, and

Keep Saving Box Tops!

Gonzales Community School PTA News

Go Gonzales Lobos!

www.gcspta.org