
Paw Prints
Mound City Elementary and Middle School

April 2024
Mark your calendar!
- April 4
- PK Cap and Gown Pictures - More information to come from Mrs. Holstine.
- April 8
- Preschool Nursery Rhyme Dress Rehearsal at 2:00 PM. Contact Mrs. Holstine with questions.
- April 9
- Arrowhead Field Trip (FundraisingU incentive trip) - See permission form for information if your child(ren) qualified for the trip or contact Mrs. Hollingsworth with questions.
- April 10
- Preschool Nursery Rhyme Program in the multi-room at 6:30 PM. Families welcome!
- April 14-16
- Preschool Screening - Click HERE for more information and to sign-up your child.
- April 17
- Early dismissal at 12:30 PM
- April 18-21
- No School - Easter Break
- April 22-May 1
- MAP testing for grades 3-8 and EOC testing for HS students. See link below for detailed information.
- April 25
- PK-1 Field Trip to Henry Doorly Zoo. Contact classroom teachers with questions.
- May 2
- Preschool and Kindergarten Round-Up from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM. Contact Mrs. Holstine with preschool questions and Mrs. Yocum with kindergarten questions. Click HERE for kindergarten pre-registration information and to sign-up your kindergartener.
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
COURAGE
This month's character trait is COURAGE. Our focus for courage is "choosing what is helpful, right, and kind even when it is hard or scary." COURAGE is worth three points this month!
Examples of courage to discuss with your child:
- Trying something new
- Sharing your art, invention, or ideas with others
- Going on an adventure somewhere
Click the link below to read the newsletter!
Title Talk
Reading
Thank you for the great turnout for the Tournament of Books participation as well as attendance at Brownies and Books! We enjoy sharing the love of reading with your families!
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 28th 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