Caller ID activated on main phone numbers for Goddard Schools
Effective October 21, 2008, calls originating from Goddard Public Schools phones will show on your Caller ID the main number for the building from which the call was dialed.
 
For example, calls from Goddard High School will show up on Caller ID as 316-794-4100.  Calls from Explorer Elementary School will show as 316-794-4181.
 
YOU WILL NEED TO LISTEN TO THE MESSAGE LEFT BY THE CALLER to determine which individual staff member placed the call to you!

Please listen to the message before calling the school office to ask, “Who called me?”  Our office staff members are very talented and have impressive skills -- but it is unlikely they will know who placed an individual call from one of the more than 675 phones in    Goddard Public Schools!   
 
We are pleased to be able to offer Caller ID to our patrons, and hope you will find it useful to know that someone from your child’s school has tried to call. Please understand that individual staff members’ phone numbers will not display on Caller ID – only the number of the building from which they are calling.
 

Thank You Westlink Christian Church
Westlink Christian Church made a cash donation to our school and we appreciate their generosity. The donation will be used to support students that are in need of some type of care during the school year. Thank you for your 
support!!

Homework Help
KERC features a direct link to HomeworkKansas at www.kerc-ks.org which is a service provided by the state library of Kansas and Kansas public libraries.  It offers tutoring available seven days a week, from 4:00 pm to 11:00 pm and, in Spanish language Sunday through Thursday, from 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm.  The service is high tech and sophisticated, but very simple to use—students indicate their grade level and the subject they need help in and HomeworkKansas connects them to the best available tutor.  Tutors don’t provide answers, they provide help

Remember
Please call the Discovery office by 9:00 a.m. to excuse your student if they will be late or absent.  Requests for homework should be made before 11:00 a.m. to allow teachers time to prepare work for pick up by 3:00 p.m.  Thank you for your cooperation. 

Thanks to all the parents that were able to make it to conferences in October.  We appreciate you taking time out of your schedule to visit with us about your students.  In the coming month we will continue working on division and then move onto measurement in math.  In reading we will cover fact/opinion, description, main idea, and retelling of stories.
Parents, please make sure that your student is dressed appropriately for the cold weather.  We go outside everyday for recess unless the temperature is below 25 degrees with wind chill.

Parent-Teacher conferences were very productive. We enjoyed meeting with parents and discussing their student’s successes and talking about strategies to improve weaknesses. Thank you for taking the time out of your schedule to attend conferences. If something prevented you from conferencing with you child’s teachers, please let us know and we’d be happy to set up a time for you.

During November, Reading classes will be working on sequencing, context clues, and comparing and contrasting. Please find time to read with your child often!

Our focus in Math will be fractions. 6th graders will be studying the ins and outs of fractions: adding, subtracting, simplifying, and converting are just a few of the operations we will discuss. Practice using fractions at home while cooking!

In Social Studies we will continue our studies of Ancient Egypt and Nubia. Students will be bringing a letter home regarding their Egypt project in the next two weeks.

 In Language we will be finishing up our study of nouns and looking forward to some fun writing projects for the six graders this nine weeks. You can be a big help to your student by proofreading his or her paper.