FIRE SAFETY

This past week was Fire Safety week.  The West Licking Fire Department visited us Monday and we got a chance to go through the Fire House.  That was great, but we had a special guest on Thursday, Andy Robinson (Abby Robinson's father) who is a firefighter with the West Licking Fire Department as well.  He gave us some more in-depth information in our classroom, showed us how all of his gear works to protect him, and even let everyone hold his helmet.  We also spoke a lot about the engineering of his gear and how engineers designed this gear to to save lives! 


Be sure to ask your student.... How many exits should you have to get out of the house safe?  Also, be sure that your family has a designated meeting place!


Enjoy the pictures below!

WE NEED H2O! NOT REALLY, JUST THE BOTTLES...

We are in need of at least 25 empty plastic water bottles to be used for a design challenge in a week or so.  We will be reading the book The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle and then the kids will be designing a structure from their own plastic bottle.  Their bottles will be used to create either a supporting, transporting, containing, sheltering, or directing structure.


Also, we are in need of some 3M Command Hooks with silver hooks to support our ever-growing, but not yet hanging, reading web. 

Lastly, we are still in need of old magazines for to be used for cutting pictures out of for various writing and engineering activities.

STAR SCIENTIST

Brooke Bailey is our first Star Scientist and she did a wonderful job reading the book Pinkalicious to the class today.  She was loud and clear.  She read fluently and with expression.  You could tell that she had read this before!  What a wonderful model for us to learn from!  I tried to grab my camera to take a few pictures, but realized that I had left it at home.  The good thing is I happened to have the Flip camera, so.....

Here is a small clip of Brooke reading Pinkalicious to the class.  You may have to turn up the sound.  I was kind of far away from her.  It's only about a minute long.  Enjoy.  And great job Brooke!

STAR SCIENTIST BEGINS NEXT WEEK

We will begin learning about each of our Star Scientists in depth next week.  This week I am the Star Scientist and am modeling the types of things expected of the students coming up.  Please be sure to click the links below to find out more information about how Star Scientist will work and to see when it is your Scientist's time to shine!


Star Scientist Information
Star Scientist Schedule

Please let me know if you have questions.

Mr. H

VOLUNTEERS

Many of you have expressed interest informally about volunteering to help.  As we begin to build routines I have found a few areas in which I would greatly appreciate some assistance.  At this point in time most of the "jobs" will be clerical in nature.  If you are interested in helping please take a look at the list of jobs below and decide if any of these are for you.  If so email the following to me:

1. which job(s) you are interested in
2. how often you would be willing to come in (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, as needed)
3. days of the week and times you are available


         JOBS       

• general copying ( and/or possibly filling word work folders weekly)
• laminating/cutting
• building games and FUSION journals (copying, laminating, cutting, etc)
• managing our reading web (tabulating student logs and helping to assemble the reading web using paperclips on a weekly or bi-weekly basis)

Thank you very much for you willingness to help.

SUMMIT STEM SPIRIT WEAR AVAILABLE

AGENDA BOOKS

We are testing out our agenda book skills today for the first time.  Your child should have came home with his/her agenda book.  This will contain homework related information and should be checked and initialed nightly.
Thanks,

Mr. H

Welcome to Mr. Hardy's class at Summit STEM Elementary!

It was a pleasure to see all of you at the Parent Orientation Open House night!  Thank you so much for your support and interest in our school.  Please click on the link below to view the Parent Information Packet that we discussed last night.  Please let me know if you have questions.

Mr. H

Parent Information Packet 2011-2012