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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
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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 lwortman@gccschools.com.
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