Pleasant Hill Intermediate School

                                           1204 E. 163rd Street                  

Pleasant Hill, MO  64080

                                              816-540-3156                 

  August 2012

Important Dates 8/14/12-1st Day of School 8/23/12-Fall Pictures 8/31-9/3/12-No School, Labor Day Weekend

5B TEAM NEWSLETTER

Please see our blog for our back to school video!!!

Purple day specials:
Haight-Computer/Art
Lucht-Art/Computer
Murray- Music/PE
Gold day specials:
Haight:  Music/PE
Lucht:  PE/Music
Murray-Computer/Art

Science-Social Studies--Mr. Haight
Science - We will  begin the year with life processes and the classification of plants and animals.  We will have a short quiz over life processes at the end of the first week of class.  This will be more of an open book type of quiz.


Social Studies - We will begin with the Native American settlement of the Americas and early cultures such as the Mound Builders and the Anasazi.  We also will be memorizing the locations of the continents and oceans.


Math--Mrs. Lucht
Welcome to 5th grade team B math. I look forward to working with you and count it a privilege to teach your children.  In math, we will begin with place value.  We will be making a foldable for place value this week. Accelerated Math is an individualized math program and we will be sending a letter home about that this week. We will begin math club Sept. 4th at 7:25 am.  This will be for extra math practice and help with homework. Most homework should be done in class.  There will be times where they will have some extra practice at home.  Please contact me for any questions or concerns. I so look forward to working with you this school year.
Sincerely, Mrs. Lucht

Communication Arts--Mrs. Murray
Welcome to our school and my class!!!  I am so excited to introduce myself to my new students and parents!  I am Rebecca (Becky) Murray!  This is my 6th year in Pleasant Hill and my 12th year teaching!  I look forward to introducing some extra hands in our classroom this year!  Ms. Sharon Meyer will be in our classroom during 1st and 4th hour.  This will be her 29th year.  We are both very excited to be co-teaching as a CWC class this year.  I am also excited that we will have a student teacher, Mrs. Michele Yount.  She will be with us for 8 weeks.  Our first 2 weeks will be getting used to the routines in communication arts.  I will have your student for Reading, writing, grammar, spelling and vocabulary all rolled into 84 minutes of FUN!!!  We will be spending these 2 weeks on class expectations, procedures, individual and group assignments and how small group reading and centers will look in our class.  We will be working on character, plot, context clues, sentences and fragments, short vowel spelling words, and types of sentences.  We will also be taking a pretest common assessment to place us on the “Right track” this year to Moving on UP!!! Please feel free to email me with any questions or concerns.  rmurray@pleasanthillschools.com

Student Teacher- Hi! I am Mrs. Michele Yount and I am looking forward to spending time and teaching your children these next eight weeks. Many children may recognize me from the Pleasant Hill Pool “American Red Cross Learn to Swim Program” where I have taught for the last thirteen years. I look forward to taking my experiences working with children in an aquatic environment and transferring it to a classroom setting.