The Bison Reporter
January Newsletter
Principal Update
Congratulations to 4th/5th Grade Students who made Honor Roll for the 2nd Quarter. Students earn Honor Roll by receiving all A's and B's in the Math/Reading. Be sure to check out the paper soon for your name. I also recognized students in 4th/5th grade who were able to improve a grade in Math and/or Reading. Thank you for all your hard work! Keep it up the hard work!
I will be starting a focus group to hear from parents regarding our Preschool- Kindergarten needs for the 21-22 school year, if you have a student in those grades or know someone who will next year, please pass the information along. I look forward to your feedback.
I am excited to begin the second half of the school year and look forward to a few events to get to know many of you!
Important Dates:
February 2nd- Preschool-5 year old Focus Group Meeting
February 15th- No School Presidents Day
February 18th- Virtual Bingo Night- more information below
Mrs.Karn
Literacy Tip of the Month
Reading Focus: Phonemic Awareness | Grade: K/1, 2/3
Hands on learning for Phonemic Awareness!
Try making a collage of items that start with the same sound using pictures from magazines or the internet.
Puppets can be another fun way to work on these skills. Make one that likes to munch on words that start with a certain sound. Let your child have fun “feeding” his puppet different objects or pictures that start with that sound.
Reading Focus: Phonics | Grade: 3/5
Here are some specific decoding skills your child will work your 3rd- 5th grader can work on! Decoding is being able to use patterns to figure out new words and decipher their separate sounds.
Putting together compound words from greatschools.org
-a snake with a rattle is a rattlesnake
-cheese with cake is cheesecake
-fire with works is fireworks
-moon with light is moonlight
See how many you can come up with!
For more ideas, blogs and videos for parents and reading go to:
Math Tip
3 Tips To Learning Math Facts
1. Teach Mental Math Strategies
2. Daily Practice of 10-15 minutes a day
3. Using Engaging Activities
https://primaryflourish.com/2014/09/3-tips-to-build-math-fact-fluency.html
Race To Read Event
- 1 mile for every 25 books that is read
Virtual Bingo Night
Thursday, Feb 18, 2021, 06:30 PM
Google Meet Link
PTA Annoucements
Abby Karn
Email: Abby.Karn@k12.sd.us
Website: https://www.hssd.k12.sd.us/
Phone: 605-430-6734
Facebook: facebook.com/HotSpringsSchools23-2