November 4, 2013
In This
Issue:
1
Principal’s Corner
1
Common Core Connection
1
PTA Press
2
Calendar of Events
2
SAC
2
Leaders of the Month
2
Book of the Month
3
Inside our Classrooms
4
Inside our Classrooms
Common Core Connection
Why is it important to have Common
Core State Standards in English
Language Arts and Mathematics?
Common Core State Standards are
benchmarked to international
standards to guarantee Florida
prepares our students to learn and
achieve in and outside of the
classroom. Our students will have to
compete in a global marketplace
against students from China,
Singapore and the United Kingdom.
And with Common Core State
Standards, we can prepare them to
thrive.
Most of the top jobs in America
today did not even exist a decade
ago. These new standards will help
maintain America’s competitive
edge, and ensure all our students
are prepared with the skills and
knowledge to compete with their
peers at home and abroad.
Greetings Parents/Guardians,
Happy November! This month many events are planned for our students
including several academic field trips as well as school closings due to the
holidays. Be sure to check your child’s planner, see the marquee, and/or our
new website at http://hsg.duvalschools.org for more information.
In addition, our habit of the month is “think win-win,” which means coming up
with a solution that will benefit all. Our students will have many chances to
practice “habit 4: think win-win” and show off this habit inside and outside of
the classroom, in the community, as well as at home. One way students can
think win-win in the community is by participating in the Salvation Army Food
Drive at our school. Students can simply bring a canned good and/or one nonperishable item for the food drive. What a wonderful way to support the
community!
On another note, just a reminder that school starts at 8:25 am and ends at 3 pm.
Ensure that your child(ren) arrive on time for school, between 8:00 - 8:25 and is
picked up by 3:00 pm. If this is not feasible before and after school care is an
option for Kindergarten – 5th grade students for a minimal fee. For more
information about Extended Day, call 720-1640.
As always, thank you for entrusting Hogan with your child as we “prepare
students for LIFE” – to Lead, Inspire, Focus, and Excel!
B. Sistrunk
Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
IT IS DOLPHIN DASH TIME
THE ANNUAL DOLPHIN DASH WILL START ON NOVEMBER 8TH WITH A KICKOFF
RALLY. THE DASH WILL BE HELD ON NOVEMBER 15TH. START LINING UP YOUR
SPONSORS TO WIN ONE OF THE THREE MEDALS - GOLD, SILVER OR BRONZE!
LOOK FOR MORE INFORMATION COMING SOON.
Ms. Meadow’s students are hard at work.
Habit # 4:
Think Win-Win
* * * Check your child’s planner daily for general information. * * *
School Advisory Council
SAC is made up of parents, staff,
business partners, and citizens in the
community. Anyone interested in joining
SAC should contact the main office.
The Council meets 8 times a year.
The Next meeting:
November 14, 9:00 a.m.
in the conference room
Welcome
Ms. Andrews
to the Hogan-Spring Glen Family!
She is our newest teacher and we
are so glad to have her!
Book of the Month
Calendar of Events
November 4 - Report Cards Go Home
November 6- Early Release
November 7- Awards Ceremony Day
November 8- Dolphin Dash Kick Off
November 11- No School, Veteran’s Day
November 14- SAC Meeting
November 15- Dolphin Dash
November 20- Early Release
November 27-29- Thanksgiving Break, No School
Leaders of the Month
Stone Soup
By Marcia Brown
Not pictured:
Three soldiers came marching down the
road towards a French village. The
peasants seeing them coming, suddenly
became very busy, for soldiers are often
hungry. So all the food was hidden under
mattresses or in barns. There followed a
battle of wits, with the soldiers equal to
the occasion. Stone soup? Why, of
course, they could make a wonderful
soup of stones...but, of course, one must
add a carrot or two...some meat...so it
went.
CLIP AND SAVE
Classes will compete to see who
can bring in the most Box Tops,
Campbell’s Soup Labels, and Coke
Product caps. Start saving them
today!
What’s Going On in Our Classrooms?
GRASP 3rd grade Math: Multiplication facts. They’ve done several
activities to practice facts including bingo, card games, and reflex math
on the computer. In science, they are discussing various forms of
energy making roller coasters with rulers and marbles to see how
energy changes.
GRASP 4th grade Math: Multiplying using larger numbers and word
problems. They have relay races outside where the kids had to race to
various checkpoints and solve problems. In Science, they are working
on matter and different changes matter can go through.
Physical Education has been
working on “Leader in Me”
concepts all month. In
November, they are starting a
Basketball unit.
First Grade is learning that gravity is a force that pulls things toward Earth. They are making connections
to the real world by observing the effects that gravity has on us and things around them. In math, they
will be solving problems with 3 addends, missing addends, and applying inverse relationships. In Writing,
they are practicing Procedural / Informational writing. In reading they are retelling stories, including the
essential elements such as characters, settings, and problems and solution.
Microsoft Office & Windows Upgrade
The Enrollment for Education Solutions agreement between Microsoft and Duval County Public
Schools provides each student a single license for home use of both Microsoft Windows Upgrade
and Microsoft Office Professional Plus. Please use the assigned Student Login and Password to
access the portal to download software.
Student Usernames and Passwords
Link: http://ssw.duvalschools.org
Note: Duval County Public Schools does not provide
installing software on home computers. Should
please use the standard Microsoft
http://support.microsoft.com. Installation
Macintosh computer requires purchase of
media in order to perform the installation.
For step-by-step instructions with pictures, go to:
http://www.duvalschools.org/static/students/
student_software/StudentOptionHomeUseStep-By-Step.pdf
Username: Student number with an "s"
in front
forof
Password: Uppercasesupport
first letter
assistance be required,
first name,
birth
date (January 25,
support
website,
1999 = of
25),
lowercase
Windows on first
a letter of
last name,
4 digits
of SS# (if that
thelast
optional
physical
doesn't work, try the last 4 digits of the
student # instead of the SS#)
Example: John Smith, born on March
1st, with SS# 123-45-6789
USER NAME: s98765432
PASSWORD: J01s6789
Livingston's leaders are looking
forward to the next nine
weeks and demonstrating how they
can become leaders! Everyone has
new leadership roles for their
classroom! They are also getting
excited about finishing their
classroom text - "The One and Only
Ivan" by Katherine Applegate. Look
forward to reviews to be posted
soon!!!
In November, Third Grade
will be working on the
following:
Reading - Summarizing,
Homophones, Cause &
Effect, and Compare &
Contrast
Math Multiplication and Division
strategies.
Science - Matter & Energy
Pre-Kindergarten is working very hard to learn all of our
letters. Come see our Chicka Chicka Boom coconut tree.
All of my students who know all of their letters have added
their name on a coconut to our coconut tree.
Halloween Dance
In November, Kindergarten will be
working on: Science- Matter and
sorting objects by observable
properties; Math - Counting &
Cardinality and Number Sense;
Writing- printing and spacing and
spelling simple words phonetically;
Reading - reading and
comprehending a variety of fiction
and non-fiction stories about
Thanksgiving and autumn, rhyming
words, letters and sounds, word
families (cvc words) and reading
common high frequency words.