Hornsby Happening Issue 1

Thanksgiving Holidays Wed, Nov 23 to Fri, Nov 25

Grades due for Progress Reports

HDE Mon, Nov 28

Math & Reading Mock Windo 3rd & 5th grade Hornsby Dunlap Elementary

Mon, Nov 28

Science Fair

Hornsby Dunlap Elementary Tue, Nov 29

Progress Reports go Home

HDE Wed, Nov 30 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Winter Musical 1st

Hornsby Dunlap Elementary Thu, Dec 01

PTO Meeting HDE Art room

Thu, Dec 01 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Science Fair Night Hornsby Dunlap Elementary

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Reading Night "Read-Aloud" workshop HDE Literacy Lab rm 402

7:00 PM – 7:45 PM

Writing Mock 4th grade

Hornsby Dunlap Elementary Mon, Dec 05

Math Landmark Window 2nd 5th

Hornsby Dunlap Elementary Mon, Dec 12

Science Mock Window 5th Hornsby Dunlap Elementary

Mon, Dec 12

DVISD Board Meeting

DVISD ADMIN Building Tue, Dec 13 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Polar Express Pre-K and Kinder

Hornsby Dunlap Elementary Thu, Dec 15 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

EARLY RELEASE

Hornsby Dunlap Elementary Fri, Dec 16 At 12:00 PM

Winter Holidays Mon, Dec 19 to (Jan 2, 12)

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Hornsby Dunlap Elementary Community, This is a great time to be a Hound Dog! Leadership and ca-pacity is building every day. Our students are organizing themselves into numerous leadership teams and it is with great joy and pleasure that I announce that Hornsby now has an active PTA! Our PTA was established on October 27 and we are excited about partnering with each of you. The PTA mission of helping every child reach their potential by engaging and empowering families to advocate for all chil-dren is a belief that we share and I am hopeful for building a strong home-school relationship. Congratulations to Hornsby Dunlap Elementary PTA Board Members; Mi-chelle Castillo, Rebecca Birch, Angelica Wikswo, and Caro-lyn Greene. We would like to thank them for their service to Hornsby Dunlap Elementary. Mark Estrada

October 24th -28th was national Red Ribbon Week.

Hornsby had an exciting week that was packed full of fun activities. Our students dressed up in different out-fits to showcase the Red Ribbon Week message. It is never too early to start teaching our students about

healthy decisions. Thank you Hornsby-Dunlap Elemen-tary School for making Red Ribbon Week a HUGE

success!!!!!!!!

Principal’s Pen

Counselors’ Corner

Volume 1, Issue 2

Hornsby Happenings

Oct 31st—

Nov 4th Book Fair

Nov 9th Early

Release Nov 23rd—

Nov 25th Holiday No School

Nov 30th

Progress Reports

Hornsby Dunlap Elementary School 2011-2012 Del Valle Independent School District

Novemeber 2011

Please remember!

We  have  a  busy  month ahead  of  us.  In  Language Arts, we  will  be  focusing  on  color words  and  rhyming.  We  will continue  to  talk  and  learn about  the  letters  and  the sounds  they  make.  We  are learning  how  to  take  those same  letter  sounds  and  make 

words! We will  also  be  discuss‐ing the main events of a story.  

In math, we will be focus‐ing our attention on shapes, sort‐ing  and  patterns.  My  teacher  is helping  me  learn  my  numbers and  how  to  count  from  1‐20.  I am  learning  the  difference  be‐tween more, less and equal.  

In  social  studies  and science, we will be discussing pumpkins,  fire  safety,  living and non‐living things. We will be talking about farm animals. I  am  looking  forward  to  our field trip that we will have No‐vember  4,  2011.  We  will  be going  to  Crowe’s  Nest  Farm and  see  some  of  the  animals that  we  have  been  learning about! 

home to complete homework daily and reading 15-20 minutes every night. This month’s core value focuses on persever-ance- trying your best even if it becomes difficult. We will reflect on what this looks like and how we attain this character trait at school as well as at home and in the com-munity. Lastly, we want to thank you for your support in your child’s development. You are a critical part of their education! Keep up the great work.

Coming up we will be having our PTO meeting on November 3rd from 6-7 pm and following will be our Math and Science night from 7-7:45 pm! Pizza will

November is here already and we have completed a successful 1st 9 weeks! Second grade is off to a great beginning and we hope that your child is coming home and telling you all about the fun and interesting things we are learning about at school. We strongly encourage you to ask your child what they are learning on a daily basis, this creates a great source of communication for them to reflect upon as well as share with you. Con-tinue to reinforce to your child the importance of working diligently at

be provided at a low cost, math and science games will be full of excite-ment, and there will also be a wonder-ful auction with a variety of goodie baskets you could have the chance to win. Come prepared to have a great time with your child! On Wednesday, November 4th, we will be having our monthly early release day, school will be out at 11:45 am. Thanksgiving break will be November 23-25, we hope you have an restful and safe holiday. Lastly, a friendly reminder that your child needs to be at school by 7:45, this is when school and class begins. Please be on time everyday!!!

Kindergarten

to keep practicing sight words and fluency to help us reach our goal. It is very important to make sure to read home-work books each night as well.

In math, we’ll finish up our unit with addition and subtrac-tion and then take our district landmark. Then, we’ll move on into related facts and fact families.

Finally, we’ll also start rehearsing for our 1st Grade Annual Christmas program that will be held in December. We have a very busy month ahead, but it’ll be lots of fun.

Wow! October just flew by! Thank you so much to all of the parents who came to our Book Character Pa-rade. We had lots of fun with Laura Numeroff’s books.

Now, it’s November! This month, our goal for reading is to have all of our stu-dents on level E. Make sure

First Grade

Second Grade

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The first nine weeks has come to an end and we are excited about the second nine weeks. Thank you for all the parents who attended their parent teacher conferences! It was wonderful getting to know all of you. In November, the students will be learning about pat-terns, reading temperatures, telling time on a clock, the sci-entific method, science tools,

reading strategies and devel-oping their writing skills. We also have many landmarks in November. We will be having out math landmark covering geometry and measurement on Nov. 9. After Thanksgiving break, we will be having our first round of MOCK STAAR test-ing for both Reading and Math. We will also be attend-ing our 3rd grade field trip to Bob Bullock IMAX on Tues-

day, November 22! The cost will be $4.00 per child. Finally, we invite you to join us at Math & Science night on November 3. Third grade will be in the library. We will be having activities to do with you and our child! We look for-ward to working with you and

reading at least twenty minutes each night. Science We have been learning about dif-ferent types of energy including heat, light and electric-ity. Students have had the op-portunity to build simple circuits and learn about how all the en-ergy around us that we use daily. We are beginning a unit on landforms, the rock cycle and weather. Our first science mock test will be on November 3rd. Please remind your child to get plenty of rest that week. Also, encourage your child to use their ICE tools when completing their homework.

Reading This month, we will be begin-ning state research pro-jects. More information about this project will be available soon. We have also begun reading a historical fiction novel called Esperanza Ris-ing. This book touches on many themes including the great depression, migrant workers, Mexican history and perseverance. We will also continue to work on our CAFÉ skills, developing our compre-hension, accuracy, fluency and expanding our vocabular-ies. Please help your students by making sure they are com-pleting their homework and

Math We have been and will continue to work with fractions at the beginning of November. After our Fractions test we will start working on Geome-try. This includes 2-D shapes, 3-D shapes, area, perimeter, and vol-ume. The students will be reviewing concepts such as parallel, perpen-dicular, and congruent. Please have your student continue to review/learn their multiplication facts.

Third Grade

their volume. Our fourth grade scien-tists measured, calculated, analyzed, and graphed temperature 4 times every school day for one week. We noticed trends in the temperature – yes it is finally getting cooler. We also grew and measured plants as part of our study of the scientific method. Our fourth grade writers are con-tinuing to build upon all their writing skills. We have been exploring the wide variety of written text and their differing purposes. Our students have working on taking their first personal

narrative essay through the writing proc-ess, meanwhile mastering the writer’s craft skill of show, don’t tell. Students are learning to use components of figura-tive language and sensory detail to “paint a picture” of their stories. If we are not writing, we are reading. Our fourth graders are going to be starting to move into shared reading literatures circles in the near future. The groups of students will be reading the same novels, and then coming together in grand discussion to build upon a vari-ety of reading skills and strategies.

Fourth graders continue prac-ticing 2 digit X 1 digit and 2 digit X 2 digit multiplication in both number and word problems. We are also practicing identifying key words which help us determine which operations (add, subtract, multiply, or divide) to use to solve word problems. We built 3D rec-tangular prisms and calculated

Fourth Grade

Fifth Grade

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