May
Dear Parents,
Your child just brought home his/her NWEA scores for the spring of 2014. I wanted to share with you what I shared with the students in class. I am so proud of them and the growth they've made in all academic areas..... Especially in reading!
When I shared their class and individual results with them, they were so proud of themselves! They were able to reflect that hard work, determination, and lots of great reading is what made the difference. :) Thank you for your help and support this year as I was given the opportunity to work with your son/daughter.
1/12
Dear Parents,
Iowa Test of Basic Skills will be given the week of February 6th. We will be taking these each day in the morning. This year we will only be testing math, reading and science which will cut the testing from five days to three. We will test Tuesday- Thursday.
I am looking for parents who would be willing to provide healthy snacks for us to eat during breaks between tests. If you would be interested in sending snacks to school with your son or daughter we would greatly appreciate it. We have 24 students in our room and you may send the snacks any time.
This week we started a nonfiction book about Harriet Tubman. Students seem to enjoy this type of reading and learn a lot about her life. We will relate this learning to our study of the Southeast in social studies. In addition to our study of Harriet Tubman we have watched a great video in social studies titled Brother Future. This is a video about slavery and what it was like day to day for the slaves. I encourage you to ask your son or daughter about it.
In math we have been working hard on larger number multiplication and most students are catching on quickly. We have been learning how to solve problems such as 176 x 7 and
134 x 37 in addition to division facts and division with remainders such as 15 divided by 4.
On another note, I’d appreciate if you’d check with your son or daughter about his or her pencil supply as many students are in need of pencils.
Thank you for your support,
Mrs. Hill
9/1/11
Today we viewed the video clip "Videos from the White House" created by National Geographic and then used the digital cameras to take some pictures outside. We will be using these photos to create a visual project. Look for the completed project in the next week, it will be posted on your child's blog.
10/10/11
Dear Parents,
Time is flying and the first trimester is almost over. I’m looking forward to seeing each of you at conferences and sharing you son or daughters academic accomplishments with you.
This week in literacy we started reading Bunnicula which is about a bunny that may be a vampire. Ask your son or daughter about the funny characters in the book. While reading Bunnicula and Poppy we’ve been studying personification which is when animals or objects take on human like characteristics. We’ve been looking at their animal like and human like characteristics in order to understand this literary element.
In addition to reading Bunnicula we’ll be working on the parts of speech. We will watch the video Grammar Rock and then used this information to make posters to help us remember the parts of speech.
If you haven’t heard your son or daughter use any new vocabulary words that we’ve been studying you might want to ask them as you’ll be impressed.
In math we’ve been studying statistics and will soon move on to probability.
We’ve also been working on subtraction with regrouping and addition and subtraction facts.
Eight of twenty-four students had their subtraction facts memorized last time they were assessed. I’ve asked all the kids to be working on this at home. I have flash cards that can be checked out for the night if your son or daughter would like to borrow a set. Also on our blog you will find many web sites that will help with these skills. One of the best is gamequarium.
In social studies we’ve finished our study of Colonial America and are working on creating slide shows of the colonies. We are hoping to have these posted on our blog for you to view later this week.
We have started our study of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War.
I would like to thank you for your support by signing assignment notebooks and by being involved it your son or daughter’s school work.
We’ve been working very hard here at school on using organization skills and putting papers back in their appropriate folders instead of throwing them in desks. This is definitely an area we will continue to work on.
Lastly, could you check with your son or daughter about his or her pencil supply, several children are out of pencils.
Thank you for your support,
Mrs. Hill
Dear Parents,
Your child just brought home his/her NWEA scores for the spring of 2014. I wanted to share with you what I shared with the students in class. I am so proud of them and the growth they've made in all academic areas..... Especially in reading!
When I shared their class and individual results with them, they were so proud of themselves! They were able to reflect that hard work, determination, and lots of great reading is what made the difference. :) Thank you for your help and support this year as I was given the opportunity to work with your son/daughter.
I'd like to remind you of the summer reading program at the public library and encourage you to have your son or daughter to participate. I've encouraged them to continue to read every day, even though the school year is over. Doing this will help ensure he/she will be ready for the transition to the middle school and fifth grade. Though I know....They'll Do Great!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Hill
Sincerely,
Mrs. Hill
1/12
Dear Parents,
Iowa Test of Basic Skills will be given the week of February 6th. We will be taking these each day in the morning. This year we will only be testing math, reading and science which will cut the testing from five days to three. We will test Tuesday- Thursday.
I am looking for parents who would be willing to provide healthy snacks for us to eat during breaks between tests. If you would be interested in sending snacks to school with your son or daughter we would greatly appreciate it. We have 24 students in our room and you may send the snacks any time.
This week we started a nonfiction book about Harriet Tubman. Students seem to enjoy this type of reading and learn a lot about her life. We will relate this learning to our study of the Southeast in social studies. In addition to our study of Harriet Tubman we have watched a great video in social studies titled Brother Future. This is a video about slavery and what it was like day to day for the slaves. I encourage you to ask your son or daughter about it.
In math we have been working hard on larger number multiplication and most students are catching on quickly. We have been learning how to solve problems such as 176 x 7 and
134 x 37 in addition to division facts and division with remainders such as 15 divided by 4.
On another note, I’d appreciate if you’d check with your son or daughter about his or her pencil supply as many students are in need of pencils.
Thank you for your support,
Mrs. Hill
9/1/11
Today we viewed the video clip "Videos from the White House" created by National Geographic and then used the digital cameras to take some pictures outside. We will be using these photos to create a visual project. Look for the completed project in the next week, it will be posted on your child's blog.
10/10/11
Dear Parents,
Time is flying and the first trimester is almost over. I’m looking forward to seeing each of you at conferences and sharing you son or daughters academic accomplishments with you.
This week in literacy we started reading Bunnicula which is about a bunny that may be a vampire. Ask your son or daughter about the funny characters in the book. While reading Bunnicula and Poppy we’ve been studying personification which is when animals or objects take on human like characteristics. We’ve been looking at their animal like and human like characteristics in order to understand this literary element.
In addition to reading Bunnicula we’ll be working on the parts of speech. We will watch the video Grammar Rock and then used this information to make posters to help us remember the parts of speech.
If you haven’t heard your son or daughter use any new vocabulary words that we’ve been studying you might want to ask them as you’ll be impressed.
In math we’ve been studying statistics and will soon move on to probability.
We’ve also been working on subtraction with regrouping and addition and subtraction facts.
Eight of twenty-four students had their subtraction facts memorized last time they were assessed. I’ve asked all the kids to be working on this at home. I have flash cards that can be checked out for the night if your son or daughter would like to borrow a set. Also on our blog you will find many web sites that will help with these skills. One of the best is gamequarium.
In social studies we’ve finished our study of Colonial America and are working on creating slide shows of the colonies. We are hoping to have these posted on our blog for you to view later this week.
We have started our study of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War.
I would like to thank you for your support by signing assignment notebooks and by being involved it your son or daughter’s school work.
We’ve been working very hard here at school on using organization skills and putting papers back in their appropriate folders instead of throwing them in desks. This is definitely an area we will continue to work on.
Lastly, could you check with your son or daughter about his or her pencil supply, several children are out of pencils.
Thank you for your support,
Mrs. Hill
