The Sloan-HendrixElementary School Newsletter No. 91 November, 2007

SCHOOLNEWSTHIRD GRADEMrs. Kincade

The 2007-2008 school year is off to a busy start! The year began with 24 students. They are Taylor Bowen, Colton Dail, Paige Dill, Kierce Due, Courtney Finley, Katie Gann, Colby Hostler, Curtis Humes, Brittny Malone, Chasaty Malone, Tristan Matthews, Matthew McAfee, Logan Medlin, Destiny Miller, Jade Moore, Jaspor Murphy, Jordan Price, Julius Roberson, Makenzie Rone, Aley Thielemier, Clayton Thomason, Caitlin Waddell, Dalton Yates, and Logan McCain.

The boys and girls are working hard in all their subjects, Reading, Word Study, Language, Writing, Math, and Science. “Read Aloud” and independent reading time are especially enjoyed by the students. Mrs. Kincade is currently reading “Charlotte’s Web” to the students during Read Aloud time. A “book wall” keeps track of all the vocabulary words that the boys and girls are learning, then these words are recorded into a section of their writer’s notebook.

September birthdays belonged to Colby Hostler, Chasaty Malone, Logan Medlin, Jor-dan Price, Julius Roberson, and Dalton Yates. October birthdays belong to Colton Dail, Mat-thew McAfee, and Logan McCain. November birthday wishes belong to Caitlin Waddell.

September Altrurian Art winners were Clayton Thomason – 1st place, Caitlin Waddell – 2nd place, and Paige Dill – 3rd place.Mrs. Wilson

We have 22 students in our classroom: Jamie Zimmerman, Megan Wicker, Destiny White, Stone Weind, Alex Smith, Katelin Puckett, Sue Price, Cody Ponder, Tyler Mur-

phy, Devin Meeks, Brenda McCain, Samuel Lyon, Chase Kirks, Myhailah Jones, Colby Johnson, Chad Johnson, Karmyn Gray, Dexter Gann, Matthew Frazier, Autumn Doney, Ashley Chavez and Britany Caton.

Altrurian Art winners for the month of September were Spencer Holder – First Place; Karmyn Gray – second place; and Chase Kirks – third place.

Children celebrating fall birthdays are Matthew Frazier, Colby Johnson, Chase Kirks, Samuel Lyon, Devin Meeks, Katelin Puckett, Britany Caton, and Myhailah Jones.

FOURTH GRADEMrs. Powell

Welcome to Mrs. Powell’s 4th grade class. This year we welcome a lot of new faces to our class. These new students are: Mor-

gan King, Carolyn Price, Summer Dawson, Zachory Taylor, Monica Hoover, Kalie Stout, and Dakota Hopper. The others in the class are: Bailey Bradley, Whitney Campbell, Joe Collins, Jonathan Davis, Brittany Gosha, Ca-mie Haynes, Clayton Kirks, Michael McAfee, Patrick Ponder, Ammity Rose, Mackenzie Strowmatt, and Amber Swartzlander.

The first nine weeks in social studies was spent studying world history and learning the continents and oceans of the world. To help better understand this, the students made a paper mache globe and wrote a country report on the country of their choice. They also experienced something new and somewhat frightening. As part of their country report, the students had to give an oral presentation. All survived and some are actually looking forward to their next opportunity to give a speech.

Students in Mrs. Powell’s fourth grade class work very hard tocreate paper mache globes.

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This month’s spotlight is on Chelsea Matheny. Mrs. Matheny is new as a teacher to Sloan-Hendrix this year, however she grew up in Imboden and attended school here. Mrs. Matheny’s family includes husband Ty, Dad Rick, sister Marti, and Mom Lisa. Her family influenced her to become a teacher. Mrs. Matheny’s favorite subject is P.E. She enjoys sports, hunting, fishing and taking trips. Mrs. Matheny’s favorite places to visit are Niagra Falls and Miami, Florida. Her favorite thing about Sloan-Hendrix is the friendliness and sincerity shown by the students and teachers. She says “I re-ally feel like I can truly be myself around students and other teachers”.

We have been working hard in all of our other subjects and are currently learning our multiplication facts and how to divide in math.

We are looking forward to the rest of the year and all of the fun and exciting things it will bring.

FOURTH GRADEMrs. Duncan

There are twenty fourth graders in Ms. Bobbi’s class. The boys outnumber the girls eleven to nine.

Our first nine weeks was very busy. Students explored their relative location on earth by creating a paper mache’ globe. Since this project has several steps it took many days to complete. Parents proudly took them home during parent-teacher conferences.

Calendar of EventsDeer Holiday .............................. November 12Thanksgiving Holiday .......... November 22/23Christmas Holiday ........ December 20—Jan. 2

Intramural BasketballGrades ...................................................... 3 – 6November ....................................... 1, 6, 19, 26December ........................................... 3, 13, 17

Teacher Spotlight

Students in Ms. Kincade’s third grade class enjoy playing a nutrition game to wrap up their unit of study on nutrition. Pictured from top clockwise are Chasaty Malone,

Kaitlyn Waddell, MaKenzie Rone, Jade Moore, Kierce Due.

In science we’ve dissected flowers and used a microscope to explore the cells of onion skins. We are currently conducting an experi-ment using a red potato and a sweet potato. We wanted to test which potato would form a root system first. So far, the sweet potato is grow-ing roots and sprouting leaves the fastest.

To bring the first nine weeks to a close, students wrote creepy stories. Our lesson was about writing leads that hook our audience and lure them into reading our stories. We also learned how to close our stories by leaving the readers wanting to read more, but knowing the story was finished. In a darkened room with only a flashlight to read by, students told their creepy stories in their creepiest voices on Hal-loween day. This is where school memories are created.

Mrs. Jennifer Grisham’s students were among those dressing up during Red Ribbon Week observed October 22-31. Red Ribbon Week is the nations largest anti-drug program.