Events around the school

The reflections contest has kicked off and the school will be accepting applications through October 17. The reflections theme this year is, "A Magical Moment." Please encourage your students to participate. They may create a presentation via visual art, dance, writing, a short movie, and many others. More details to come!

Student Council: sixth- grade students will have the opportunity to run for student council. Applications should have already been turned in to Mrs. Searle. We will be holding classroom votes either by the end of this week or beginning of next week.

What's New Around Class!

Hello students and parents! We are almost through our third week of school! Time is flying by. I thought I would take a moment to update what has been going on around class. In writing we have been working on our narrative papers. We learned about three different types of narratives (biographical, person, and fictional). Students got to choose which they wanted to write. We have went through the step- by- step writing process. We began with prewrite, went to rough drafts, editing, and are currently working on make revisions. Ask your students what they have chosen to write about! This week marked the first week of having our specialists in the room during Power Hour. There are four different literacy based centers that the students rotate to. This provides a way for teachers to work with small groups and really focus on specific areas of improvement needed for each student. In math we are focusing on different properties of expressions. We have done, commutative, associative, and distributive. We will also be getting into algebraic expressions and solving for unknown numbers, also called variables. Science and social studies alternate, depending on the day of the week. In science we are studying phases of the moon. We learned that there are 8 different phases the moon experiences. The students should also be staying on top of observing the moon each night. We began the 5 Themes of Geography in social studies. We are going to be learning more about individual countries and continents of the world. Eventually, we will create our own country! This will be a fun and great way for students to explore everything that makes a country what it is! Please remember to have your student read at least 20 minutes each night. We generally have math homework each night, as well. Next week I will be sending home printouts of any homework I may be missing. If you have any questions or concerns for me, please feel free to contact me by email quinci.hambrick@canyonsdistrict.org. You may also contact me by means of calling the school office and having them page me.
Let's continue to have a great year!
Thanks!
Ms. Hambrick

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
- Confucius

A New Teacher in the Making!

Congrats to my younger cousin, Sepa! She recently received a full- ride scholarship to the University of Utah for the Education Program and I could not be more excited for and proud of her. She has worked so hard to maintain top grades and is in the running to being her Senior Class Valedictorian. I know she is going to be an amazing teacher once she has completed her education and I am anxious for her to be able to touch so many more young lives! Congratulations again, Sep.

The Great Race!

It's that time of year again. Students can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel- summer is just around the corner and this next two months is the long haul. Current school- teachers are preparing for year- end testing and wondering if they will be in the same grade/school for the following school year. All of the greenies and recently graduated have now began the Great Race for job openings and new opportunities to show their fresh knowledge and creative new tricks. I, myself, am part of this so called greeny department. I have been able to substitute teach in both Salt Lake City School District and Clark County School District. I am anxious to be moving back to Salt Lake this coming summer and look forward to more job opportunity in my field. Despite my anticipation for new adventures to come, I have had an amazing time here in Las Vegas! It has offered me a chance to experience an amazing variety of culture and placed me in classrooms with children from as wide a socioeconomic scale imaginable. I love that I can say that I have taught students from every racial background, coming from both wealthy and poverty stricken environments, some being raised by the most cooperative and willing to help parents and some with no parents at all. Working with this young individuals reminds me everyday why I chose to become an educator. My Great Race has just begun...