5th Grade News!: 1-15-16

1-15-16

January 14, 2016

Dear Parents,

My name is Katelyn Hiscock, and I am the new student teacher in your child’s classroom. I will be co-teaching with Mr. Critz for the next fifteen weeks. I am studying special education with a focus in emotional impairments at Western Michigan University. My minor is in English. I have not yet completed my Special Education internship yet, I will be doing that in the fall. I grew up in the Mattawan/Lawton area and went to Mattawan schools. I have two older sisters. I live in the Wesley Intentional Living Center, which is owned by the Wesley Foundation. I am heavily involved with the Wesley Foundation on WMU’s campus. It is a United Methodist campus ministry. I enjoy traveling and volunteering. I have been on two mission trips thus far: one, to New Orleans, and one to Nicaragua. In May, I will be going to Africa on another mission trip. I currently work at The Kalamazoo Free Store, which is located in the basement of Sunnyside United Methodist Church.

I am excited to be at Lake Center Elementary School, and thrilled to be teaching and interacting with your children.

Sincerely,

Ms. Katelyn Hiscock

Our food drive has been extended by one day since we had a snow day last Tuesday. Please send in all canned goods and non-perishable products by Monday, January 18th. We only have 13 canned goods as of this morning so please send in what you can.

Jump Rope for Heart will take place Feb. 8th-12th

We kicked off our Jump Rope For Heart program in P.E. this week and our school’s event is right around the corner! You can get a jump start by registering online and sending emails NOW. Please follow the instructions below to join the Lake Center team!

1. Go to www.heart.org/jump

2. Click register now,

3. Choose Portage, MI

4. Select Lake Center Elementary and join team.

5. Login

You can also use the Jump Rope for Heart App for fundraising and/or the collection envelope that is being sent home this week, but using the online system is so much easier and your child can earn more prizes that are exclusive to online donations only!

Thanks for your support!

Mrs. Kitchen, PE Instructor

We have a field trip coming up on Wednesday, January 20th. We will be going to see a dance concert called Alchemia that will be performed by Momix. We will be traveling to Miller Auditorium. We will leave Lake Center around 9 and return around 12. We will miss our time in the cafeteria that day so we'll be eating lunch in our room. Please make sure everyone brings their own lunch on that day or orders a sack lunch from the cafeteria.

Our January book order is due by next Friday, January 22nd. You can either send in your order with a check made out to Scholastic or go on-line and use our class code(DX98H). I'm going to try and do a better job of sending home book orders each month.

This week we’ll ask, “What might cause a story character to change?” In the humorous fiction story Officer Buckle and Gloria, we’ll read about the teamwork between a police officer and his dog. We’ll read about a different kind of teamwork in the play Safety at Home.

Target Vocabulary: attention, buddy, obeys, speech, enormous, safety, shocked, station

Phonics Skills: Compound words; schwa vowel sound (was)

Vocabulary Strategy: Dictionary entry

Comprehension Skill: Cause and effect—tell how one event makes another happen

Comprehension Strategy: Monitor/ clarify—find ways to figure out what doesn’t make sense