Hello Parents,

We’ve now been back from our winter break for a couple of weeks, and we’ve spent our time together productively! The kids came back healthy and ready to learn. We were also very lucky to have welcomed our new student teacher, Mrs. Shannon Everts, to our classroom (more info. below). She’s doing a phenomenal job and the students are really enjoying her teaching style.

We just finished our units on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals and started our first fractions unit yesterday. During this unit, students will extend their knowledge of fractions by learning to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators. 

We’re going to be wrapping up our Don Quixote unit in language arts soon. This unit lends itself well to writing an opinion essay, so we’re currently reviewing that process as a class. Once we’ve reviewed opinion writing as a class, students will write their own opinion essay.   

    The students are currently researching/reading information on the bald eagle and how it came to be our national bird (Did you know that some people wanted the turkey to be our national bird?  ).  They’re also researching/reading about turkeys to form an opinion about which bird they would have chosen.

We’ll soon begin our unit on the Renaissance. During this unit, students will learn about many of the great influencers of that time.  Though out this unit we will weave in concepts to help students produce an informational essay.

In science we recently began exploring static electricity. This unit should be very fun for the students as they explore and learn about static and electric currents.

Mrs. Evarts has prepared some very engaging activities to get the students excited to learn about the Revolutionary War. She has included some writing activities along with art and research projects. 

Upcoming…

1-18 No school--Martin Luther King Day

1-22 Cedar Middle school visit

1-25 SEP appointments sent home

1-27 SEP appointment confirmations due 

2-1 First quarter 3 book report due

2-1 thru 2-5 SEP week. School is out at 2:30 daily

1/14/2021

Dear Parents and guardians of Mrs. Sherratt’s class, 

My name is Shannon Evarts I’m so excited to be working with your student for the next 10 weeks as a student-teacher. I grew up in Alaska, this is where I met my husband and had four wonderful children. Our family moved to Cedar City 3½ years ago and I decided to return to school and finish up my teaching degree. This will be my last semester at SUU and I’m very lucky to be assigned to South Elementary. Under Mrs. Sherratt’s direction, I will be teaching the students and hope to give them a positive and educational experience. In the last two weeks, I’ve had the chance to observe in the classroom and began to get to know these amazing kids. I’m so grateful for this opportunity to work with your student and I hope to meet you soon!

Sincerely,

Shannon Evarts