The Carrie Gosch Early Learning Center will resume class on January 7, 2020 at 9:00 AM for a full day session.
| Date | Event | Time |
| January 8 | Data Day | |
| January 8 | Permission slips and funds due for Field Trips | |
| January 14 | Hip Hop Dance Class Parent Meeting in Parent Cafe | 9:15 AM to 10:15 AM |
| January 14- February 20 | WIZ Kids After School Science Club begins on Tuesday and Thursday | 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM |
| January 17- February 28 | Purdue Extension Parent Cooking Classes | 9:15 AM to 10:15 AM |
| January 20 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day | No Classes |
| January 21- February 26 | Hip Hop Dance Classes Begin on Tuesday and Thursday | 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM |
| January 22 | Dancing with Darlings | 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM |
Special thanks to the Pena family for all of their help with this event!
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Indiana Parenting Institute
Students at Gosch learn about self-regulation. Conscious Discipline helps us to teach the students to get ready to problem solve by intentionally teaching the students to identify their emotions and learn how to deal with them. Intense feelings such as anger, frustration, anxiety and fear may be something that your child encounters when beginning school. Our staff utilize strategies from Dr. Becky Bailey to support our students as they learn to manage their emotions.
New to Carrie Gosch ELC this school year is The Baby Doll Circle Time. The circle time is designed to teach students empathy. Specifically, The Baby Doll Circle Time incorporates skills such as attention, self-regulation, impulse control and initiative. Learning these skills help students develop positive relationships with others and supports academic learning. The circle time is facilitated through engaging social activities, such as singing and rhyming and is presented as play to the students. There is also a connection from home to school that is created during this activity.
If you would like to learn more about Conscious Discipline or the Baby Doll Circle, let your child's teacher know. Your child's teacher will provide printed information. If we have enough interested parties, we will host an informational session at Gosch in the Parent Cafe.
County Line Apple Orchard
County Line Apple Orchard
STEM Room Visit
Making Shapes
Conscious Discipline Breathing Technique- The Balloon
Pre-K: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Elementary Schools: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM (Late Start Wednesdays: <9:00 AM - 3:00 PM>)
Middle School: 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM (Late Start Wednesdays: <9:30 AM - 3:30 PM>)
High School: 7:30 AM - 2:30 PM (Late Start Wednesdays: <8:30 AM - 2:30 PM>)
School Family,
Gosch students took the Children's Progress Academic Assessment (CPAA) within the first few days of December. Your child's CPAA results will be sent home on our District Data Day, January 8, 2020. Please check your child's book bag for strategies to help your child master skills and information about your child's progress, thus far, at Carrie Gosch ELC. Please look for a letter and a packet of information for your family, on Wednesday, January 8, 2020. If you have questions, please contact your child's teacher.
We will extend our instructional cycles and add 1 additional week of teaching before we end each unit as we move forward this year. The teacher's investigation into our data indicated that the students need one more week to solidify the concepts that we are working on per unit. The upcoming unit of instruction will be about winter and winter celebrations. The students will work on the following concepts in January: Geometry (investigating shapes), Number Sense (rote counting, one-to one counting, subitizing and identifying numerals 1-7), Reading Comprehension (re-telling stories, identifying characters, setting and problem/solution in stories), Phonemic Awareness (identifying the beginning sounds in words), Writing ( using pictures, letters and symbols to convey meaning). The focus for Social Emotional Development this cycle is, using problem solving strategies and understanding that one's actions effect others.
We also have several family engagement activities planned for this month. Ms. Warren, who is a Preschool Teacher at Gosch, will serve as an event organizer for Dancing with Darlings. This event will be fashioned after the TV show Dancing with the Stars. Our embedded skills within this family event, are in the areas of physical development and fine arts. The students will be asked to move/dance in accordance with rhythm and to sing songs with corresponding actions. We will also resume after school activities this month. Activities will be scheduled on Tuesday and Thursday each week. WIZ Kids, which is a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) focused club for preschool aged students, will begin sessions on Tuesday, January 14, 2020. The Hip Hop Dance Troupe will begin practice sessions with our Top 20 Inc. instructor, Ms. Courtney Franklin, on Tuesday, January 21, 2020. Students have been given flyers with information about the after school events and there is still time to enroll your child in our activities.
As always, parents are welcome to stop by our building to observe and learn more about what the SCEC preschool students are learning at the Carrie Gosch Early Learning Center. We Wish You Well and hope to see you at Gosch this month.
Click the link below to find the Pre-K bus routes
