Meal Balances

Trojan Times Nodaway-Holt Elementary School “Quality Education Today for a Successful Tomorrow”

Volume 16/17, Issue 8 May 1, 2017

Character word for May: Perseverance – demonstrating determination and commitment to complete a task.

MAP Testing Dismissals in May Spring must be here – it is almost time for testing!!!!!!! Students in 3 – 6 May 16 1:00 Dismissal grades will be testing during the month of LAST DAY OF SCHOOL April and early May. All tests will be taken online. Teachers have the schedule for testing sessions and you will be receiving a Meal Balances letter with your child’s test schedule. I ask Thanks to the families that keep a for your help in scheduling any minimal balance on their child/children’s appointments around testing dates. meal balance. Notes regarding meal balances are sent home on a regular basis, if Kindergarten News your child is not bringing these notes home– Our reading unit is all about PLANTS! please let the office know. You may inquire Letters and sounds I am learning: about your child’s balance by calling the -Kk as in kite elementary school office. -ck like at the end of duck Please pay your child/children’s -Uu as in umbrella lunch balance before their field trip. All Words I am learning to read: class field trips have been scheduled and -little -said -here -was you should have received the necessary Books we have been reading: information regarding date, place and cost. -Nonfiction: Oak Trees by Melanie Mitchell about the life cycle of an oak trees. “Christmas in the Summertime” Seed Secrets by Tom Leonard tells the many Applications for the “Christmas in ways seeds can travel and be planted. the Summertime” project will be accepted at Fiction: Sunflower House by Even Bunting Community Services starting May 15 is a beautiful imaginative story about a boy through June 9. Students who qualify to who plants sunflowers in the shape of a participate in this program must be in grades circle. He has many adventures inside his K through 12 and enrolled in a Nodaway sunflower house. MATH County school for the upcoming 2017-18 We are working hard on learning how to school year. fluently add and subtract within 10 and add Registration for the program is up to 20. We are having fun using Math through Community Services of Nodaway Mountains to learn about the partners of County. This project is sponsored by each number. On each Math Mountain a Nodaway County churches and provides Tiny Tumbler family lives on top and some each student with one entire outfit of of the family likes to roll down one side and clothing. the rest of the family likes to roll down the Stop by Community Services in other side. Maryville or give them a call at 660-582- May 11- Kindergarten End of Year 3113 to see if you or someone you know can Celebration @ 2:00 in Library qualify and complete an application. The ---Mrs. Bohannon deadline for submitting applications is June 9. First Grade News Second Grade News The year is coming to an end, but we The second graders are now are finishing first grade strong! As we are published authors! Show Me How A winding down the year, we are continuing to Collection of How To Stories written by the build character in our classroom and we are second graders arrived from the publisher a applying that character throughout the day. couple of weeks ago. If your child did not We have also talked a lot about order a book, there is a class book that they perseverance and what that looks like for can check out and take home to share with finishing out the school year. their family. In reading we have been practicing During reading students read a story and reviewing the different reading about the moon and learned many strategies we have learned throughout the interesting facts. Next, we will be reading year. We are continuing to work on pausing Mice and Beans, a story about a Mexican for punctuation as we read in order to family which will go along with our next become fluent readers. The last few weeks theme unit as we learn about Mexico. We we have been talking about bossy r when it will have a fiesta on May 5 to celebrate is paired with vowels such as in the words Cinco de Mayo. There will be a letter sent part, torn, and girl. We are preparing to home soon asking for your child to bring move on to reading words with “oo” such as something to help with the fiesta. moon and zoo! Unit six in math has been completed. Thank you for taking the time to read Students took a test last week and are with your child! We have been reading a lot beginning unit seven. They will be learning in our classroom in order to complete the 40 about arrays. Book Challenge. We wouldn’t have been To celebrate May Day, students will able to accomplish that goal if it wasn’t for be delivering baskets to residents in your willingness to read to or with your Maitland on Monday, May 2. We will be child. They are very proud of their walking to the Nutrition Site. If you do not accomplishments with reading! want your child to participate, please send a In math we are starting to work with note. 2-digit addition. The students are excited --- Mrs. Shamberger about working with larger numbers! We are using games and various tools to help your Third Grade News child understand what it looks like to add It’s the final countdown! We are so larger numbers together and why it is close to the end of the school year and we important to make tens while adding. have so much to look forward to in the We have been taking some time to coming days. We will be having our “Hall work extra hard on our handwriting, but we of Fame” for our Famous Missourians on are starting to jump back into science and May 11 form 1-3p.m. and we are going on social studies! In science we have been our field trip to Science City on May 12. talking about plants and the different parts Over the last month we have been working of plants as well as their needs. We even hard to squeeze in what we could before we took some time to plant flowers in our began MAP testing. In reading we have been classroom. We are excited to start observing working on drawing conclusions, author’s and discussing bugs within the next couple purpose, breaking words into syllables, weeks! decoding words and much more. We are Thank you for all that you do for your child. almost done with our Treasures book and If it wasn’t for you contributing to their will soon be doing a unit over the book learning, they would not be where they are Sarah, Plain and Tall. In writing, we are still today! plugging away at our Famous Missourian --- Mrs. Haffecke project. We are trying to make them perfect. The students have to have a paper, PowerPoint and 3-5 sentence intro that they will need to memorize. In math, we have relationships that authors use when writing. continued to work with two-step problems, We are quickly finishing up our last math and have learned the differences between unit! polygons, quadrilaterals and all of the With all the fun things going on and shapes that fall under those categories. We the weather getting warmer it is difficult to have also been working on area and find time to read. Each student needs to read perimeter of squares and rectangles. We just a Reading Counts nonfiction book and finished this unit and are going to spend the receive an 80% or above on the quiz before rest of the year mastering topics that we may May 4th the quiz will be the May book have struggled with throughout the year. My report. There is no formal book report for hope is to have their facts completely May. Please encourage your child to read memorized that way we can knock the socks every night at home for 20 minutes or off Miss Frueh next year! In Social Studies, even read with them to help practice we just finished our Lewis and Clark unit fluency and comprehension skills. and began to move into the Missouri Unit. In April student stayed busy by We learned all about Lewis and Clark’s presenting to the Nodaway County Retired travels, what they brought, their hardships, School Employees and showed off our who they met and more. In the Missouri PWTW projects. We also traveled to KidsFit Unit we will be talking about the Missouri and enjoyed a morning full of exercise. government, symbols, involvement in the ---Ms. Frueh Civil War and more. We haven’t done much in science lately, but by the end of the year Fifth Grade News we will have talked about states of matter Hello to the soon to be 6th grade and ecosystems. Our year will be busy until families! It is crazy to think that we have just a the bitter end! few weeks of school left ahead of us! It seems ---Ms. Blevins like we were starting school not too long ago, but when I think about how far each one of your students has come over the course of this year, I Fourth Grade News am so proud. We have read numerous books, Is it summer yet? worked with many different math concepts, and We are approaching the summer explored science in a number of ways. vacation that I know all the kids are looking Throughout the last month we have begun forward to a break. Before it becomes reading continued learning about measurement summer we have some fun things planned in terms of area and volume. Mrs. Komerach has for 4th grade. All of the students have been brought in cubes for the students to manipulate busy researching famous Americans during in order to have a visual representation for the social studies. We will be having a Living amount of space something takes up. We have Museum where student will show-case what continued reading Maniac Magee and the they learned on May 11th from 1:00-3:20pm. students have really enjoyed it! Hello to the soon to be 6th grade families! It is crazy to think that I encourage family members and community we have just a few weeks of school left ahead of members to come visit our Living Museum. us! It seems like we were starting school not too There may even be cookies! long ago, but when I think abo The fourth grade will be traveling to Science Last week, we took a small break from City in Kansas City on May 12th. The bus our normal reading and math curriculum to will leave at 8:15 and return to Maitland begin our MAP testing for language arts. The around 5pm. Please make arrangements to students did a great job persevering and I am pick up your child, if you have any looking forward to their concentration over the questions about the trip please be sure to next two weeks of testing. This is the first year ask! that the students will test over science, so we In reading this month we will be have spent a lot of time reviewing concepts from this year as well as years in the past. The first exploring the world of acting by reading, week in May is when we begin the math testing. practicing and performing a play. We are also looking into the variety of different Reminder that the 5th-12th grade spring concert May 8 5th & 6th grade field trip will be May 1st in Graham. We will wrap up the May 9 K – 4 concert 7:00 first week of May with our Mound City Track May 10 K & 1 field trip Meet on the 5th. The students have begun 6th grade orientation practicing for the meet and I think they are all May 11 6th grade physicals at HS getting excited! Also, our field trip to The Hall of Fame - 3rd & 4th 1:00 Omaha Zoo is taking place Monday, May 8th. Many parents have signed up to attend, so make K – End of Year Celebration rd th sure the date is marked in your calendars! There May 12 3 & 4 field trip are many things coming up over the next few May 15 Fun Day weeks, so keep an eye out for reminders and May 16 Awards presentation updates! K – 3rd & 4th – 6th ---Ms. Conley LAST DAY OF SCHOOL 1:00 DISMISSAL Sixth Grade News The end is near! Sixth graders are so excited for their futures in middle school, School Webpage high school, and beyond. We are finishing Be sure to check out the school’s Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth. In webpage on a regular basis to keep informed math we are going to finish our entire math of the upcoming events at school. This is a curriculum before MAP testing! I am so great place to find information about both proud of how hard my students have worked buildings. Be sure to check out classroom to reach the end of our math book. We will webpages as well as the ebooks on the then have a sneak peek at seventh grade library page. www.nodholt.k12.mo.us math’s chapter one. We have been working Remember that ebooks are hard in class to complete our 40 Book available from the school web page. Challenge. Remember to have your student Simply go to the school homepage, click continue to read for their 40 book challenge! on the library and from there you have In social studies we will be discussing the several choices. You may log into the Egyptian empire. Our poems, due 05-04- library and read the ebooks from the Follett 2017, are coming along greatly! I have shelf. You may click on EBSCO Host and enjoyed the personality that your students login (username: nodholt and password: have put into their work. I look forward to NODHOLT). After logging into ebsco one sending their final copies home. Some of your choices is ebooks, or you may read important dates that are approaching include our D.A.R.E Celebration at Bearcat Lanes KEEP COLLECTING BOX TOPS! We 04-28-207, Spring Concert at Graham 05- really appreciate your support of these 01-2017, Track and Field Day at Mound program. City 05-05-2017, Zoo field trip 05-08-2017, th 6th Grade Orientation 05-10-2017, 6th 6 grade D.A.R.E Grade Physicals 05-11-2017, FUN Day 05- 15-2017, 6th Grade Awards Presentation 05- 16-207 at 10:15 a.m. Lastly, please have your students bring track shoes daily for practice. ---Mr. White

Calendar of Events May 1 5 – 12 Concert May 4 Last Day to take Reading Counts quizzes May 5 Holt County Track Meet D.A.R.E In conclusion D.A.R.E has refreshed D.A.R.E. has taught me so much. and taught me somethings. It's taught It’s also been a lot of fun and work to. me about alcohol safety. And drug Our D.A.R.E officer, Officer Smail, safety, and about the differences from told us that some drugs make us feel tattling and reporting. It’s been a lot of better when we are sick. But sometime fun this year and educational. We would people use them for bad. And that could like to thank Officer Smail for everything make you have really poor choices. With he has taught us. using drugs for bad, they could hurt you Briley Russell or make you hurt others. It’s ok to use medicine, but remember that drugs can D.A.R.E hurt you. D.A.R.E. Drug Abuse Resistance Sometimes the people we are Education. It’s an excellent program closest to can do drugs. We have to dedicated to drug and alcohol make safe and responsible choices resistance. It also teaches students about what we do. If they offer us drugs about stress & communication. Today I we have to say no. Sometimes that can will be talking about my experience in be hard to do, and if you are ever the D.A.R.E. program and how it has offered drugs to you should say no. But helped me. to say no so that you get punched in During D.A.R.E, we learned about your face. Or get pressured into drugs many things. The main theme has been you have to be like no let’s go shopping drug abuse and resistance. We talked or go to the park. Or if you go about how tobacco can affect your body. somewhere take somebody with you like We have also learned about effective your friend. Friends might make it easier communication and stress practices. to say no. Throughout the 10 lessons, I have D.A.R.E = define, assess, learned a lot of effective things to respond, evaluate. The 5 w’s of prepare me for the future. These reporting bullying who, what, when, practices are very important not just for where, why is what we use in our short me, but for everyone in the program. answer responses. If the police ask you D.D.M.M. Dare Decision Making questions they are probably going to ask Model. The D.D.M.M is a simple who, what, when, where, why. If you are process to make good decisions. It getting bullied you need to get help by starts with DEFINE - You describe the telling a trusted adult about what’s going problem or challenge. Then ASSESS - on. Also, Officer Smail talked about if Review your choices. Next, RESPOND someone is asking you to send bad - Make your choice. And finally, pictures don’t because once you hit EVALUATE - Review your decision. Did send you no longer have control of that you make a good one? picture. Using the skills that I have learned, I Mixing medicine and alcohol is really can make good decisions more easily. I dangerous. That could really hurt you. can easily review my choices and make You could make poor choices. You a decision that is right for me. I’ve could, as sad as this is, but it’s true you already had to make important decisions could hurt others really bad or take your about certain things that I’ve done. own life. Also don’t, drink and drive D.A.R.E has helped me be able to make because when you are drunk you can't decisions using the D.D.M.M process, see very well, and your judgment is lost. and I am very thankful for that. That’s when good people make bad Thanks to Officer Smail, I have choices. You would also have to pay a already learned a lot of important big fine and go to jail if arrested. information on why not to use drugs or alcohol. I have learned a lot about drug resistance, stress management, alcohol, communication skills and more. This program has been great, and it sure has prepared me for the future. Ruel Jefferies

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