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Mound City Elementary and Middle School
April 2024
Mark your calendar!
- April 1
- No School
- April 2
- Bloomin' Fun - PAT group event at Craig, 4:30 PM
- April 15
- No School - In-service
- April 19
- PK and K Round-up, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM (Click for more information)
- April 22
- Spring music concert and art show, 6:30 PM
- April 26
- PK-1 Field Trip
- April 29-May 3
- MAP Testing (Gr. 3-8)
Reminders
- Please dress your child according to the weather. Students go outside for recess unless the temperature or wind chill drops below 20 degrees or if there is wintery percipitation.
- Please do not linger in the hallways after 8:00 AM. All classes (PK-12) begin promptly at 8:00 AM.
- Please do not drop off students before 7:40 AM. Students are NOT supervised before 7:40 AM at the school.
- Breakfast is served between 7:40-7:57. Breakfast is NOT served after 8:00 AM.
- Please share an active email address on the enrollment form and with your child's teacher for easy communication.
Character Trait of the Month
PERSEVERANCE
This month's character trait is PERSEVERANCE. Our focus for perseverance is "working through challenges to complete a task." PERSEVERANCE is worth three points this month!
Examples of perseverance to discuss with your class:
- Doing things that don't come easily at first
- Taking a break when needed but not giving up when things are hard
- Practice, practice, practice makes progress
February Students of the Month
The following students were shining examples of honesty during February:
March Students of the Month
The following students were shining examples of cooperation during March:
Preschool
Elementary School
Middle School
Not pictured: Zachary C.
Title Talk
Math
We are down to the last quarter of school, and the elementary students have worked very hard mastering many new concepts throughout the year. With only a little over six weeks left of school, classes will be working on a few more important math skills, and revisiting some challenging older ones. Third and Fourth grades will begin MAP testing April 24th and everyone is drilling down to achieve their maximum potential. We are so PROUD of all our students.
- K-- Will continue to identify and describe shapes, two dimensional and three dimensional shapes. Identify circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, hexagons, solid figures and shapes in our environment. They will analyze, compare, and create two and three dimensional shapes.
- 1st--Working with ten less than a number, measuring lengths. Comparing lengths by using units and appropriate tools. Learning about time and money. the value of coins, and telling time to the hour and the half-hour.
- 2nd--Working with dimensional shapes and learning their names. Discovering polygons and angles, two dimensional shapes, building with shapes, and working with cubes. Learning about area by finding equal shares,and equal partition shapes. Problem solving finding unknown measurements using addition and subtraction.
- 3rd--Equivalent fractions, comparing fractions, benchmark fractions, whole numbers and fractions, and problem solving fractions. Time to the minute, elapsed time, measuring elapsed time, word problems involving elapsed time. Measuring liquid volume, estimating and measuring mass, word problems involving volume and mass. .
- 4th--Patterns, number rules, repeating shapes, problem solving. Lines, rays, and angles, measuring and drawing angles, adding and subtracting angles, problem solving using appropriate tools. Classifying triangles, quadrilaterals, line symmetry, and drawing shapes.
😄 What is a swimmer's favorite type of math?😄
Dive-ision!
Try this riddle:
Which three numbers have the same answer whether they are added or multiplied?
Answer: 1+2+3=6 and 1x2x3=6
Mrs. Osburn
Title 1 Reading
Mrs. Ashford
Title 1 Reading
Mrs. Asher
Title 1 Math