Next week is a busy one! There are events at the school every day.
Monday 2/9: Breakfast with Books-8AM. Come to the library for breakfast and a free book!
Tuesday 2/10: Breakfast with Books-8AM. Come to the library for breakfast and a free book!
Wednesday 2/11: Volunteering opportunities in classrooms.
Thursday 2/12: Math Night- 6-8:30PM.
Baked potato bar and fun math games for the whole family!
Friday 2/13: Family potluck in Room 12!
Join us any time of the day for learning games, and definitely don't miss the potluck lunch at 12:15 in the classroom! No junk food! Your student has a sign-up form to specify what they plan to bring.
2/16- 2/21: Mid-winter break
See you next week!
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Reminder! No school next Monday!
There will be no school for students next Monday, January 26th. This will be a professional development day for teachers.
Monday, January 19, 2009
History in the making!
Tomorrow morning at 9AM we will watch Barack Obama become the first African American president of the United States! Come join us! This is an historic event that all of us are blessed to experience in our lifetime. It is significant that the students of Room 12 are seeing this occur in their childhood, while they are developing their hopes and dreams. We will follow the live TV coverage throughout the morning.
Students are hard at work on their "Whose Shoulders Do We Stand On?" poems, and will have writing homework each night this week. Every student will read a line of their poem as part of a larger class rap that we are working on together. We are preparing for our class performance at the school Social Justice Celebration which will take place next Thursday, January 29th at 6:30 PM. Please try to make sure that all of you attend- the students' writing is so powerful that it has already brought tears to my eyes. You can also come at 1:30 on the same day to view the all-school dress rehearsal.
I am rescheduling the family potluck for Friday, February 13th. This is the day before mid-winter break, and the last day of Family Involvement Week. Let's hope we don't get snowed out again! We will do an all-day game day: literacy and math games in the morning, and free choice games in the afternoon. Lunch will be at 12:15, and all family members are invited. Every student should bring some dish to contribute. Drop in to play games with your child at any point during the day, but definitely try to join us for lunch! We will do a short Valentine's day party for the last half hour of the day, but lunch will be real food. No junk food, please!
Please comment to this thread and let us know what you plan on bringing! I will bring a pot of spaghetti. I will also send out reminders as the day draws closer.
Happy birthday to Dr. King, and happy inauguration day to Barack Obama!
Students are hard at work on their "Whose Shoulders Do We Stand On?" poems, and will have writing homework each night this week. Every student will read a line of their poem as part of a larger class rap that we are working on together. We are preparing for our class performance at the school Social Justice Celebration which will take place next Thursday, January 29th at 6:30 PM. Please try to make sure that all of you attend- the students' writing is so powerful that it has already brought tears to my eyes. You can also come at 1:30 on the same day to view the all-school dress rehearsal.
I am rescheduling the family potluck for Friday, February 13th. This is the day before mid-winter break, and the last day of Family Involvement Week. Let's hope we don't get snowed out again! We will do an all-day game day: literacy and math games in the morning, and free choice games in the afternoon. Lunch will be at 12:15, and all family members are invited. Every student should bring some dish to contribute. Drop in to play games with your child at any point during the day, but definitely try to join us for lunch! We will do a short Valentine's day party for the last half hour of the day, but lunch will be real food. No junk food, please!
Please comment to this thread and let us know what you plan on bringing! I will bring a pot of spaghetti. I will also send out reminders as the day draws closer.
Happy birthday to Dr. King, and happy inauguration day to Barack Obama!
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Party on Friday!
Maybe my New Year's resolution will be to post more regularly!
Students in Room 12 are hard at work mastering the use of apostrophes, adding and subtracting decimals, and writing scientific conclusions. We are wrapping up a busy and challenging fall and preparing to regroup in January.
Many of you have questions about the school district's plan for Hawthorne next year. Amid a major budget crisis, there seems to be a new plan every week for the Hawthorne building. Among other proposals, there is a possibility that the Hawthorne program will be eliminated next year and students assigned to other schools. Some of you came to the community meeting in the library last week, and we have forwarded your many ideas and concerns to the superintendent's office.
Here are a few links that may help keep you informed. The current superintendent's proposals are here. Seattle Public Schools community blog is run by active Seattle parents (not published by the school district) and has extensive information and opinions about the latest developments. Please also feel free to contact me with any further questions and I will do my best to help. This is a big deal for all of us.
We will be having a potluck lunch party this Friday, December 19th. Each student should do their best to bring a food item with some nutritional value to share! All family members are invited, and it would be great to have any of you join us.
I hope you all are enjoying the season and staying warm in this incredibly cold weather!
Students in Room 12 are hard at work mastering the use of apostrophes, adding and subtracting decimals, and writing scientific conclusions. We are wrapping up a busy and challenging fall and preparing to regroup in January.
Many of you have questions about the school district's plan for Hawthorne next year. Amid a major budget crisis, there seems to be a new plan every week for the Hawthorne building. Among other proposals, there is a possibility that the Hawthorne program will be eliminated next year and students assigned to other schools. Some of you came to the community meeting in the library last week, and we have forwarded your many ideas and concerns to the superintendent's office.
Here are a few links that may help keep you informed. The current superintendent's proposals are here. Seattle Public Schools community blog is run by active Seattle parents (not published by the school district) and has extensive information and opinions about the latest developments. Please also feel free to contact me with any further questions and I will do my best to help. This is a big deal for all of us.
We will be having a potluck lunch party this Friday, December 19th. Each student should do their best to bring a food item with some nutritional value to share! All family members are invited, and it would be great to have any of you join us.
I hope you all are enjoying the season and staying warm in this incredibly cold weather!
Monday, November 3, 2008
The Eve of an Historic Election
We are all so excited about the election tomorrow! Room 11 taught us today about the Electoral College, so be sure to ask your student if you have any questions about this sometimes confusing system. Election reports are also due tomorrow, so your student may enjoy an extra pair of eyes as they do their final editing and revision.
Don't forget to vote!!
Don't forget to vote!!
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
So much for weekly updates!
Hello families! Tonight is open house curriculum night, and there is so much to share with you! We will have dinner at 6pm, listen to a presentation in the lunchroom, and come upstairs to check out Room 12. The students will talk about our daily schedule, and I will discuss homework and our curriculum plans for the year.
Your students are amazing, and I am learning something new from them every day. Our fieldtrip yesterday to the Cedar River Watershed was great. Students learned a lot about where our drinking water comes from, and how electricity can be generated from dams. All of this is a real life extension of our land and water science unit. I will figure out how to post pictures soon!
Keep checking back, I will try to update every Monday.
Your students are amazing, and I am learning something new from them every day. Our fieldtrip yesterday to the Cedar River Watershed was great. Students learned a lot about where our drinking water comes from, and how electricity can be generated from dams. All of this is a real life extension of our land and water science unit. I will figure out how to post pictures soon!
Keep checking back, I will try to update every Monday.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Curriculum Information
What will students learn this year? In science, they will work with microscopes, learn about erosion and ground water, and even become engineers. For the next two months we will be following the presidential campaigns very closely. We will also be studying the world of work and the labor movement, particularly in Washington State. Most reading instruction will be linked to our social studies themes, using resources from the Comprehension Toolkit. Writing will be taught using the Writer's Workshop format in combination with at least two research projects.
We continue to use the rigorous Everyday Math program at Hawthorne, which I have been quite pleased with. There are two 4/5 multi-age classrooms this year, and we will be separating students by grade level for math. I will be teaching math in my classroom to the 4th graders in Rooms 11 and 12, and Charlene Smith will be teaching math in Room 11 to the 5th graders in both classes.
We continue to use the rigorous Everyday Math program at Hawthorne, which I have been quite pleased with. There are two 4/5 multi-age classrooms this year, and we will be separating students by grade level for math. I will be teaching math in my classroom to the 4th graders in Rooms 11 and 12, and Charlene Smith will be teaching math in Room 11 to the 5th graders in both classes.
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