Mrs. Hickson's Class

Dearborn Public Schools

Welcome to the 5th grade!!!

on August 23, 2019

Welcome students,

If you are reading this you are probably one of the students in my class this year! If you are an adult reading this alone please go get your student so they can read my blog with you! This blog will be addressed to the students, for the most part, all year.  It will be expected that students will check the blog on a daily basis during the school year.  Please subscribe to this blog by typing your email in the subscribe box.

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Welcome to 5th grade


I am very excited about the upcoming school year! We will have a learning community of fifth graders! It should be a terrific year!

The first day of school is Monday August 26th. School begins at 8:35 and ends at 11:45. Students will line up on the upper elementary black top. I will meet you there at 8:35. I can’t wait to begin our fifth grade adventure together!!

school supplies

*The usual pencils, pens, and highlighters. You will use black, blue, and red pens this year.

*A small personal pencil sharpener. It saves time and I think sometimes that the sharpener in my room has a pencil eating troll living in it. 😀

*Loose leaf paper. Wide-ruled is probably best. It gives you more room to write neatly and besides…I have older eyes than you.

*You will need a couple of folders. I have plain ones, but if you want folders with Frozen, Star Wars (YAY), One Direction or something else on them you will need to go shopping.

*You will use three binders this year to stay organized. They should all be 1″ binders so they fit in your desk easily. One should be white and will be used for your Leadership Binder. You probably already have one from last year. The second one will be used for literacy. The third one will be used for the content areas (Math, Science, and SS.) I do not care what these two binders have on them…kittens, Red Wings, Star Wars (YAY again)…whatever. They can be soft side or hard side.  Then soft side binders will fit in your disks more easily.

*You will need a couple of packs of dividers to be used inside each binder.

***We will be organizing our binders on Thursday August 29th. Please be sure you have these items on or before that day.

*You also will be using crayons, markers, and colored pencils throughout the year. I have some, but if you want the crayons with names like Sunglow and Pink Carnation you will need to buy a big box.

*Dry erase markers are a must!! They don’t have to be fancy colors. Also, if you want to erase with something other than the baby socks I buy at the dollar store that I have you will need to bring that in too.

*We also always need lots of classroom size boxes of facial tissue and classroom size bottles of hand sanitizer.

*Headphones for the computer…we will be doing a lot of computer work this year. These do not have to be the most expensive ones.  (But I guess that’s up to your parents.)

apples and banana

***Please note that we WILL be having time for a snack on the first day. Your snacks need to be healthy ones such as fruit, veggies, cheese & crackers etc. Please don’t bring in cookies, candy, pop, chips or other junk food for snacks. This is the rule for snacks for the whole year. Also, please avoid bringing nuts on the first day. I don’t know yet if this will need to be a rule for the year or just the first few days. I will let you know as soon as I find out. I do not keep a supply of snacks in my room for the class. If you want a snack, you will need to bring one with you.

Great school year and school house

Dearborn Public Schools Student Code of Conduct
To the right is a link so you may read the Code of Conduct for the Dearborn Public Schools. There will not be a hard copy of this passed out to fifth graders unless they are new to the school district.

We follow the Lindbergh School Expectations in our classroom and throughout the school. We use PBiS at Lindbergh which involves monthly rewards for students who do not move their clips. Moving clips happens when a student chooses not to follow our Lindbergh School expectations for behavior. If your student has a clip move, there will be a note in their planner from me. Please sign it so I know you are aware of the clip move.

Student behavior at school is used to determine which students will be able to take part in 5th grade trips and activities.

safeties

Safeties
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*Morning corner safety patrol-

please report to the cafe at 8:20 am on 8/26/19.

*Bus safety patrol-

please report to your bus stop at your usual time.

*Afternoon corner safety patrol- 

meet at room 205 at 11:35 on 8/26/19.

I can’t wait to see all of you on Monday August 26th!!! This is going to be a great year!!!! I am very excited and I hope all of you are too!!!!!*************


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