Welcome Back

We are all looking forward to a fabulous year here at LHIS. Fourth graders are our passion and we hope you will all love it as much as we do! A few things to remember:

• Complete all paperwork and return it to school with your child as soon as possible.
• Don't forget to sign up for your teacher's text messages.
• Clear or mesh backpacks are allowed.
• Lunch is at 11:30 each day.
• Agendas need to be signed EVERY night (M-F.)

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks and look forward to getting to know your students this year!

Handchime Performance

This morning we traveled over to the high school to hear a Christmas Handchime Performance from Ms. White's 8th grade General Music Class. They were very good and the students really enjoyed hearing the festive holiday music. Here are a few pictures from the event. Enjoy!

Tacky Christmas Sweater Day

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from your teachers!

Christmas Party

Christmas Party

December 20, 2011

Dear Parents,

      Our Christmas party will be Tuesday, December 20^th.  We thought we would relieve some stress and time off of your hands this year and do something a little different…If your child is going to attend the Christmas party, we would appreciate it if you would send $3.00 for the treats.  We will go purchase the treats.  This will allow us to have a variety of treats and make sure that we don’t have too many duplicates.  Please send $3.00 by Thursday December 15th. 

Merry Christmas!

Mrs. Murders, Mrs. Reeves, and Mrs. Chuang

***If you are willing to help by sponsoring another student that would be great!! You can just send the extra money with your child. Thanks in advance for your generosity!!

Binders

Today we had “The Great Binder Cleanout of November!” (lol)  Everything in your child’s binder right now should stay in there until we tell them they no longer need it. We will make sure the students know what to keep in their binder and when to throw it away that way there is not confusion and we can avoid unnecessary signing. We appreciate your support and help in this situation as we try to mold responsible students.

Help, Please!

Parents,

I need your help! On October 18 and 20 we will be having Parent/Teacher Conferences from 3:05-6:05. One thing the school district would like is for parents to take a survey while they are at school. It is my job to see that the survey is taken and that we have a good turn out to take the survey. However, I will be having conferences with some of you! I need some volunteers to direct people to the computer lab and have them fill out a slip to be entered in a drawing for prizes. If you would be willing to do this please let me know what day and time would work for you. You can send me an email or send a note to school with your child. Thanks in advance for your help!

Mrs. Reeves

Social Studies Update

Parents,

Beginning Monday (9-12-11) we will start learning the states, capitals, abbreviations, and locations of the states in the Northeast Region of the US. These states include:

·        Maine

·        New Hampshire

·        Vermont

·        New York

·        Pennsylvania

·        Massachusetts

·        Rhode Island

·        Connecticut

·        New Jersey

·        Delaware

Students will get a study guide on Monday with the state name, capital, and abbreviation code. They will have approximately 2 weeks to learn these. Please encourage them to study these at home. If they will study a few each night, they’ll know them in no time flat!

          The first time they take a test like this it is obvious who studied and who didn’t. I want ALL students to be successful in school and will encourage them to study each night. We will not be spending a lot of class time reviewing this information. However, It will be talked about briefly each day.

          Social Studies is my favorite subject and I hope the students enjoy it too!

Mrs. Reeves