News from the K-team

During first semester the Kindergartners will be studying the unit "Me, Myself and I". In this unit the children will be learning about the family, the five senses, good health habits, sorting and classifying shapes, identifying numbers 0 to 10, capital and lower case alphabets, calendar usage as well as many other interesting topics. This promises to be a great year for students and teachers

What's Up With Third Grade?

We are elated about our new group of thrid graders and the new comprehensive school reform model (Artful Learning/The Bernstein Model). The Artful Learning model addresses the curriculum through the arts using thematic units. We are currently working on government as our first unit. The students are engaged daily in activities for the various disciplines (Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science and Health) with content that relates to government. The students are learning about laws, how they are created, and why they are important. The students have published writings, created mobiles, acted out tableaus, and various other artistic activities to demonstrate their understanding of skills. We are asking that you become an integral part of our new reform model by reinforcing the components of our units.

Second Grade Power

Second grade is on the move with Power Writing! Power Writing is a strategy to teach children how to write a paragraph showing understanding of main idea. This allows us to teach the standards while engaging the students. This will result in high student achievement. Second graders can write about anything using Power Writing.*

*This paragraph is an example of Power Writing.

Counselor's Corner

Where does your child do homework? At the kitchen table On the bed? Children need a consistent, quiet place to do their homework. A table or desk is great. Supplies can be kept there and since the place doesn't change, students will get into the homework mode whenever they sit down there.

Busy Bees

The first graders at W.J. Scott are busy bees! They have been learning sightwords and spelling words. They have been reading ande learning about power writing. They are learning addition and subtraction. The first graders at W.J. Scott Elementary have been busy learning!

Fourth Grade has Something to Shout About

During the Spring of 2006-2007 the GCRT was administered to fourth graders at Scott Elementary. Prior to testing, the fourth grade classes decided we would work diligently to strengthen every weak link in our academic chain. We were resolved to help our school receive a high rating.

Our principal, Mrs. R. Smith provided much assistance to help us. She informed us of the students we needed to work with especially hard. Additionally, extra tutors were hired and a variety of materials were purchased that allowed us to do extensive drills on a daily basis. Bonuses were given to high achieving students by our principal. She made sure that parents were constantly aware of our new strategies and plans.

On August 18th we were told that our hard work had paid off. According to our calculations--we met all of our targets. The students at Scott elementary were winners! the school year 2006-2007 will be no different! We as teachers will again plow, motivate and successfully teach our students so that they will be winners again next spring.

One Pasa

During Spanish class this year the students will take an exciting adventure to New York and through this magical exploration, I will learn to: Talk about myself, my family and my neighborhood, writes and draw characters from literature, express my likes and dislikes,use a calendar to gather information, use a map to give and receive directions, respond to directions and use Spanish for daily classroom activities and routines.