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!

We will be completing a study guide, completing the topic 6 test, arrays and multiplying 2- digit numbers by multiples of 10, using mental math to multiply 2- digit numbers.

This week we will continuing our second theme: American Stories and Immigration. We will be focusing on background knowledge of Ellis Island and Immigration.

This week we will be continuing opinion essays. We will be composing and sorting mini stories, creating parallelism in lists, and organizing and drafting, and freewriting Fridays.

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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 TestsMath Test 11/12Spelling Test 11/14Idioms/ Analogies Quiz 11/14Vocab Test 11/14

No SchoolNovember 11thVeteran’s Day

Spelling/ Word Knowledge Focus

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

Math Focus

We will be classifying animals.

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

Reading Focus

Writing Focus

Science Focus