Spirit Days!

First Trimester Auction

Thank you to all the families who donated to our auction.  Ask your son/daughter what they bought with their classroom money :)

Class Geography Winners

Our four team winners will now be able to join the school geography club and then compete on the next steps toward Geography Bee Champion. Congratulations!

Red Ribbon Week

October Birthdays

First Skating Party

This Thursday, October 3,  is our Novi Meadows rollerskating party at Bonaventure.  This party is for current Novi Meadows students only.  It will take place from 6:30-8:30 pm and the cost is $10.  You are welcome to drop your student off, but please come inside to pick them up by 8:30.  We will not allow students to go outside without an adult.  Feel free to carpool!

Basketball Jones Assembly

 Jim Basketball Jones came to our school today.  A few of our students were selected to participate.  Matin, Alyna, and Rylee made it to the finals in the dance off competition.  Although, no one could compete with Mr. Payne and his dance moves!

Happy Birthday!

Our first birthday on the team.  Happy Birthday Dylan!!

Information on i-Ready

The testing is being completed this week for our preliminary use of this new assessment tool. Please see the letter below for more information.

i-Ready Information

Mr. Help

The class was introduced to the five themes of geography (movement, regions, human-environment interaction, location, and place) by writing and performing a song to explain the acronym.

Finding Prime Factorizations

Students can create a prime factorization of any number.  Groups competed against each other to find factor strings of the number 840.

Open House

Thank you to all the families that came for Open House. We hope we answered a lot of the questions you may have had about this year. The presentation link is below in case you wanted to review any of the information.

Open House Presentation

Welcome

September 3, 2019

Dear Parents,

Welcome to the new school year!  Our names are Tom Timmer and Trisha Wellock, and we are excited to be your child’s teachers for sixth grade. The two of us are looking forward to helping your child grow academically, socially and emotionally this year.  We hope the following information is helpful in getting the year off to a good start. 

Schedule

Mrs. Wellock is teaching math and science while Mr. Timmer will be teaching language arts and social studies.  We have specials each day at 11:55 and lunch at 10:10. If you drive your child in the morning, please be sure they arrive by 8:05.  If you are picking your child up after school, they will be dismissed from the classroom at 3:00.

Communication/Assignment Notebook

We have found that correspondence via email is the most efficient means of communication with our team.  We usually check our email several times a day and will do our best to respond as soon as possible.  The two of us can be reached at the email addresses listed at the end of this letter.  Please feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns at any time throughout the year; open communication is extremely important to us. If you call, please do so during our planning time (11:55 – 12:55). Calls or messages for students at other times disrupt the learning environment.

We have a class blog, https://wellocktimmer.blogspot.com and use this as a means of daily communication with you.  We do our best to update our team’s page by 3:15 each school day with any homework or special announcements.

We use My Grade Book to communicate student progress and work completion.  A My Grade Book form will be sent home with logins and passwords.

Your child has been given a student planner.  Each school day we ask that he/she fills in each subject section with daily assignments and take the notebook home nightly to review with a parent.  We feel this is an excellent way to keep you informed of your child’s daily activities.  Although homework is listed on our blog, it is your child’s job to write all assignments in the planner.  We do our best to get the site updated at the end of each school day, but know the daily homework is ultimately the responsibility of each child. 

Snacks/Water Bottles & Birthday Treats

We encourage all students to bring a water bottle to school to keep in their locker. We rotate/break many times throughout the day, so students will be able to go to their locker/bathroom/drinking fountain during these breaks.  Healthy snacks are allowed in the morning, if you choose to send one. 

Our team will be celebrating birthdays as a group; therefore, if your child chooses to bring in a birthday treat, she/he will need to bring in enough treats/napkins for about 60 people. Please choose treats that are easy to distribute and remember napkins. Thanks!

Open House

Open House is scheduled for Wednesday, September 4^th.  There will be a “meet and greet” from 6:00 to 7:30 pm with a curriculum presentation at 6:30. We are eager to meet our students’ families.  Your child will have the opportunity to give you a tour of our classrooms as well as the Sixth Grade House.  In addition, please look for sign-up sheets and informational handouts during Open House.

Supplies

In the past students have asked about appropriate school supplies.  We have found that Trapper Keepers are too large to fit in our desks, so we request that students do not bring them to school.  There is no required list of school supplies, but if you choose to purchase back to school items, the following is a list of suggested supplies:

·         One large box of tissue to share

·         One tub of disinfectant wipes to share

·         4 two-pocket folders, any color, any design

·         One 1 ½ inch three-ring binders with five dividers

·         One package of wide ruled notebook paper to share

·         Pencils/pens

Student Information

It is very important for us to get to know your child and open the doors of communication as soon as possible.  To better help us achieve these goals please complete the student information form and have your child return them to us as soon as possible. 

We are committed to providing your child with the best school year possible.  We appreciate your support and look forward to meeting you at Open House. 

Sincerely,                                   

Tom Timmer                                                 Trisha Wellock

thomas.timmer@novik12.org                       trisha.wellock@novik12.org