My name is Miss Phillips and I am honored to be your teacher this year. I received my Bachelor’s from Benedictine in Springfield in Elementary Education with endorsements in Language Arts and Social Studies. I obtained a Master’s degree from Benedictine University in Reading and Literacy K-12 with a Reading Specialist endorsement. I am a life-long learner, a mini doxie owner, and a new mommy to my baby girl named Harper.

I worked for 2 years at Waverly Junior High School teaching 6th grade. I also worked 1 year at Riverton as a long term 4th grade sub. I look forward this school year!

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Objective Focused Learning

My goal for teaching this year is to engage parents in the process. This means that I will be sending home newsletters that focus on the learning objectives I am teaching in the classroom. This will more clearly state how it is you can help your child learn the material. The other focus will be student organization. Students will be bringing home a planner nightly for your perusal and signature. It will include what we worked on (in student friendly terms) as well as a daily summary, which will serve as a conversation

WednesdaysEvery Wednesday

Upcoming TestsSpelling Test 11/07Similes/ Metaphors Quiz 11/07Reading Test 11/07Vocab Test 11/07

No SchoolNovember 11thVeteran’s Day

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Remember, Wednesdays are 1 hour early dismissal. Don’t forget to make arrangements!

THE LOREM IPSUMS FALL 2016

We will be connecting the expanded and standard algorithms, multiplying 2- digit by 1- digit numbers, multiplying 3- digit and 4- digit by 1- digit numbers, multiplying by 1- digit numbers, and problem solving.

This week we will continuing our second theme: American Stories and Immigration. The story this week is “Boss of the Plains” The skills are explain events, procedures, and ideas in a text, and describe the overall structure of the text.

This week we will be continuing opinion essays. We will mine our writing, boxex and bullets framing essays, return to bootcamp, composing and sorting mini stories, and freewriting Fridays.

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Spelling/ Word Knowledge Focus

This weeks’ spelling pattern is the [ar/ir sounds]. Make sure you practice these words nightly! The test for Spelling is always on Fridays. For word knowledge we will be working with similes/metaphors.

Math Focus

We will be discussing the Southwest region.

Reading Focus

Writing Focus

Social Studies Focus