Shive Elementary School

Support your Stingers!

-Please continue to ask your child questions about what they are reading each night. It will help with their comprehension skills. 
- We need some things for the class. If you can send in paper towels, baby wipes, extra snacks, pencils, or magic erasers(generic brand) it would be greatly appreciated!

-Try to come to our school Family Night in February. It is a fun time and it helps out our school.

What We Are Learning

Reading/Language Arts:  adding endings to base words, fluency, digraphs, long vowel sounds, main idea/details, and inferring

Math: regrouping (addition and subtraction), problem solving, and math facts to 18

Writing: Writing small moment stories, adding details, writing good beginnings and middles

Social Studies: Courage

Science: Matter (solids, liquids, gases) and Penguins

    Homework

*Agendas should be signed and returned daily. Inside your child's agenda you will find homework assignments, daily conduct, and notes from me. You can send me notes in the agenda also.

*Parents, we are trying to teach your child to be responsible. Please help us with this by not filling in the reading log for your child. All you need to write on the log is your initials.

*Vocabulary tests will have a matching part where they match the word with its definition and a fill in the blank part where I will read the sentence and they will have to put the correct word that makes sense.

*Spelling - Study your spelling words each night to prepare for the test on Friday. Here are some of ways you can study your words: write them over and over, spell them out loud, ask someone to call them out for you, and write sentences using them, triangle spelling, and rainbow write them. Don't just memorize your words in order to pass the test. You need to LEARN them! These are words you will need to be able to spell in the future... not just this week.

*RED Folders go home on Tuesdays and should be signed and returned the following day. Please look at your child's work and talk to them about what they learned. Important papers from the office will also be sent home in this folder.

*Please remember to sign & return all tests that are sent home. They will always be found on the return to school side of your child's red folder.

How can you help your child at home?

*Talk to your child about what he/she is learning in school each day.

*Read to and with your child daily! Ask questions when you read. Here are some great questions to ask: Who are the characters in the story? Where is the story taking place? What happened in the begining, middle and end of the story? What was your favorite part and why? What was the problem in the story and how was it solved? What does this story make you think of? Is this book like another book you've read? What do you think is the author's purpose?

**PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE addition & subtraction facts up to 18. These facts are called "snap facts" in class because the students should be able to give the answer as fast as they can snap their fingers. You can practice these in the car if you're short on time! They will have a 1 min. timed test every Friday with 12 problems beginning in October.

                                            December, January, February         

                   Colby, Hannah H., Lauren, Jaysa, 

Shive Stinger Rules

Special Classes

Library-Mon.

Fit For Motion-Tues. 

Art- Wed. 

Music-Thurs.

P.E.-Fri.

Lunch- 11:50-12:20 

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns by emailing me or calling me at school at 704-279-2899. I am here for you and your child.

Thank you,

Mrs. Heather Lankford

"Think positively and great things will happen!"