HMS Weekly Update

JANUARY

9.4th Gr Chorus

World Language

10. HMS Chorus Concert - 5:30pm at SHS

Yoga

11. Explorations

12. Explorations

Chess Club

16. School Closed - MLK Day

17. Delayed Opening at 10:50am

5th gr Chorus

Yoga

18. Explorations

19. PTO Meeting - 9:30am

BOE Meeting - 7pm at MAS

Explorations

Chess Club

23. 4th gr Chorus

World Language

24. 5th gr Chorus

Yoga

25. 5th gr Field Trip to MPAC to see Harriet Tubman & the Underground Railroad

Explorations

26. 5th gr CogATs

Explorations

Chess Club

27. 5th gr CogATs

Wear Purple for Citizenship

30. 4th gr Chorus

World Language

31. 5th gr Chorus

Yoga

Schools are closed on Monday, January 16th and we have a planned delayed opening (2 hours) on Tuesday, January 17th for a teacher-inservice. A reminder that all before and after school activities still meet on delayed openings.

Family Life is a unit within our 4th and 5th grade Health/PE curriculum. The HMS Family Life lessons will be taking place the week of January 30th, during P/E classes and taught by Mr. Agnor, Mr. Markovich and Mrs. Farrell.

We will be sending a separate, more detailed e-mail about the Family Life lessons the week of 1/16. An additional e-mail will be sent to parents who opted for the Extended Health Lesson which will be taking place during the same periods as the Family Life lessons.

Reminders about Family Life lessons:

-They are taught by our P/E teachers and nurse, not homeroom teachers.

-The Extended Health Lesson is on nutrition (4th grade) and alcohol, tobacco and drugs (5th grade).

-In 4th grade, Family Life is one class period.

-In 5th grade, Family Life is covered over two class periods.

-Parents can access the HMS Health curriculum, specifically the unit on Family Life (Personal Growth and Development), as well as all district curricula via Atlas.

On, January 17th HMS students will be voting for their favorite quote from Martin Luther King, Jr. Up until the 17th, our morning announcements have featured a different quote from Dr. King. The winning quote will be prominently displayed throughout the HMS hallways (and of course shared in an upcoming newsletter)!

4th Grade: Students are currently exploring prime and composite numbers and identify factors and factor pairs of double-digit numbers. Standard 4.OA.B4

5th Grade: Students have already learned how to multiply multi-digit numbers, now they are doing it with decimals. Standard 5.NBT.7

Are you as smart as 4th/5th Grader?

4th Grade Questions:

1. List all of the factors, from least to greatest, of the number 54 (the divisibility rules chart below helps get some of us started.)

2. There is only one prime number that is even, what is it?

5th Grade Questions:

1. 3.4 x 2.5=

2. See picture to the right.

Congratulations to our Band and Strings students for their fabulous winter concerts. Kudos to Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. Yang for their leadership and passion for music instruction.

Join us for our final winter concert, the HMS Chorus students, led by Mrs. Nigro, are performing on Tuesday, January 10th @ 5:30pm at Sparta High School.

We have over 100 students participating in our after school Explorations activities. This is very exciting, but certainly means a lot of traffic at HMS just as it is starting to get dark. To help improve the traffic flow and overall safety of navigating our parking lot please know:

1. Archery (Wednesdays) and LEGO Robotics (Thursdays) are getting picked up in the gym. Only those parents should proceed around the right side of the building in parking in our lower lot.

2. All other parents should parking in our upper lots and pick up in the cafeteria.

3. Please enter the building to pick up your child.

4. Please drive slowly and carefully in the HMS lot.

Thank you.

PLEASE USE THE LINK BELOW TO SIGN UP YOUR 4TH OR 5TH GRADE STUDENT FOR ALIGN WELLNESS CENTER FREE YOGA CLASSES TAUGHT BY JENNIFER CAPUTO.

THIS IS SERIES 2 YOGA:

Series #2 - Yoga & You

• Focus - How can yoga support me to shift from unfocused to focused?
• Self-Talk - How do my thoughts impact how I feel?
• Balance - How can yoga help me stay balanced?
• Kindness - How does yoga help me to cultivate kindness for myself and others?

SIGN UP ON THE BELOW LINK:

HMS ALIGN YOGA SERIES 2 STARTS NEXT TUESDAY 1/10/23

Please email align@sparta.org or jane.esposito@sparta.org with any questions.

Click here to view the latest announcements and invitations from local organizations.

Forgot about that Genesis e-mail, or you accidentally deleted it? Check out our Blackboard e-mail log on the HMS website under the "Newsletters and Publications" tab.

Also, on the HMS website, the HMS suggestion box. Have an idea, comment, concern but don't know who to contact? The HMS Virtual Suggestion box is there for you.