Read the full newsletter! - Spring Hill Elementary School
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Read the full newsletter! - Spring Hill Elementary School
Spring Hill Elementary School 201 East 15th Street Jeffersonville, Indiana 47130 812-288-4874 Virenda Cunningham-Lester, Principal www.gcs.k12.in.us Volume 15, Issue 82 September 2016 The Wildcat Journal Spring Hill News We’re off to another smooth start for the 2016-17 school year! Thank you for your attendance at our Open House and Cookout. If you have additional questions about your child’s classroom assignments, feel free to contact their teacher at 812-288-4874. Join Spring Hill in welcoming several new staff members to our school: Amanda HammondGrades 4 Teacher Katelan McCullum-Grade K & 1 Interventist Janice Howard-Special Needs Self-Contained Emotional Handicap Teacher Victoria Dimmitt-Special Needs Self-Contained Severe Disabilities Teacher Cross Country Team India Brown Jai’hara Brown Nikkeya Brown Cadence Bertram Elijah Carte Brody Dodson Every Friday at 8:50 students with perfect attendance and no tardies during the week will go to the lunchroom for breakfast and fun! The Breakfast Club will begin September 16, 2016. School Hours are 8:55-3:35! Tyanna Horsman The Building Emily Izquierdo Opens At Salma Mahamud 8:40 A.M. Precious Murrell Zach Serpa Da’Ylan Sims Bryanna Symonette Tiffany Embry-Media Clerk Hilary Curpier-Speech Therapist Savannah VanMeter Michelle McGloshen-Para Educator Coach-Kirsten Larson Joniyah Traynor Follow Spring Hill on: Twitter SHESWILDCATS Spring Hill Elementary Just For Parents PSO Meeting Thursday September 15, 2016 12:00 PM Sept. 5th PSO Fund Raiser Begins Sept. 6th Cross Country Sept.12th Meet @ Parkwood PSO Meeting 12:00 P.M. Sept. 15th PSO Fund Raiser Ends Money Due Sept. 15th Special Needs Field Trip Sept. 19th No School Sept. 21st GCCS Cross Country Meet @ Utica Sept. 22nd Picture Day Sept. 28th Call the school at 812288-4874 before 9:00 to report all absences! Facebook To provide the safest dismissal for our car riders, we are asking parents to drive around the circle and form a car line to pick up your child. We will hold all car riders in a line and dismiss No School them as each car pulls up to the sidewalk entrance. Parents do not drop off or pick students up in the bus loading zone. It’s hard for the bus driver to view walking families and cars while loading students on the bus. Thanks for your cooperation. Fall Break Fall Break Oct. 3rd-14th Fall Intercession Oct. 3rd-7th Class Celebrations 2:00 P.M. Oct. 28th Athletic Shoes on P.E. Days Athletic shoes must be worn on the day your child has P.E. Please be sure they are wearing the appropriate shoes. Classroom News This month will continue to be very busy. We are working on writing a narrative, or story, about ourselves. We are reminding the students to use transition words (first, next, then, finally), and proper use of capital letters and periods. In reading, we continue to focus on retelling the beginning, middle, and end of stories. Students should be reading at home every night for approximately 20 minutes. Our focus in math continues to be addition and subtraction facts. It is very important that children practice facts often so they learn to say them quickly in order to be successful in math. Several students have already earned five orange cards for outstanding behavior. Keep up the good work, second graders! Mrs. Stone and Mrs. Slentz Preschool has had a fun start to the school year! We started with a unit on All About Me and learning about who we are in our school family. We have begun our letter sequence through the Handwriting without Tears program and learning some of our basic math concepts. Our preschoolers have enjoyed learning through movement and play! We are looking forward to growing much this year! The first graders are FALLING into fantastic habits! READ, READ, READ! The more we read the better readers we will be. In math we are working on addition and subtraction to 20. Hello! First, I want to say thanks to all students that brought in items to share. The students enjoyed listening to each other share. Second, we have been busy in kindergarten. The students have been hard at work learning the classroom rules, procedures, and expectations. In reading ,we are working on recognizing and naming the letters and sounds of the alphabet. Our sight words for this 9 weeks are: I, can, see, and, like, the, to, we, go, and me. In math, we are working on patterns, sorting, recognizing and counting numbers to 20. Students are also working on drawing detailed pictures to help tell a story. These are great skills to practice at home with your child. On Monday, August 8th, the students started having homework every Monday-Thursday. Mondays/Wednesdays will be Language Arts/Reading homework and Tuesdays/Fridays will be Math homework. Homework will be checked daily and taken as a grade. All homework will be on skills that the students have already been learning and practicing at school. Please remember you can contact me at (812)2884874 or email me. My email has changed. The new email is [email protected]. On September the 19th, we are going to Boy Scouts camp. That is our special event for the month. We have been learning about transportation in the classroom and just finished charting the Olympic gold medals. Parents! The 4th grade Parents! There is a lot of excitement going on in our third grade classrooms. All of the students took the classes are full STAR reading and math tests and we are very proud of excitement. The students of their efforts! Litzy Rubio is leading the grade level Reading Counts competition with 93 points! Way to are working hard on their Indiana Projects. go, Litzy! She is challenging someone to race with We can’t wait to show you the finished prodher! The third grade has been busy working on our uct. Be on the lookout for the State Poster Community Projects. This is the first big project for Homework Project that will be sent home them. Please encourage them to work hard! The home poster project soon. The students are all also reading books of this unit will be sent home soon, so keep an eye out for it next to earn points for reading counts. This week week! The students seem to be excited about the project. The third Tyanna Horsman is leading the 4th grade graders are working hard on mastering their math facts as well as with 90 points! Who can catch her? Mrs. rounding, place value and time. In reading we are working to become Hammond’s class has earned their first commore fluent readers. In order to help us with this, please have your pliment party for the year! Keep up the good child read something to you every night! We are looking forward to a work fourth graders! In math, we need your great year! Mrs. Riley & Mr. Spencer help by practicing multiplication facts every The 5th grade class is working on state pronight with your child. This is a very imporjects!!! Each student picked a state to research tant standard which will need to be mastered and then wrote a letter to that state’s tourism before going on to the 5th grade. Also, please bureau to request information that will help have your child read to you every night. This them complete their poster project that is done at home. They are will help with their fluency and is a great way also working on a REALLY COOL project in Art that relates to their to build the love of reading with your child. state---We can’t wait to see those! Yay 5th graders! Mrs. Riley and Mrs. Hammond