Dear Families,
While December has been a month filled with holiday excitement, events, and the warmth of the season, we are looking ahead with anticipation as we enter the new year. The coming months hold so much promise, and we are eager to continue partnering with all of you to ensure our students’ continued growth and success.
Each day in our classrooms, so many exciting activities are happening to support the growth of our students, academically, socially, and emotionally. Over the past two years, we have focused on helping students improve their math fact automaticity, which was identified as an area for growth after reviewing data.
In today’s world, where children have calculators at their fingertips and AI tools are just a click away, it is still critical for students to have a solid grasp of their addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. This foundation of automaticity is still very important to learning and understanding math.
To support this, last year some amazing staff members in our building launched a project to create an interactive math hallway. Thanks to the incredible fundraising efforts from all of you and the support of our PTSA, we are able to continue developing this project. Look for pictures of our progress in upcoming newsletters! This hallway will provide a quick and easy way for students to practice facts while simply walking through the hallway or waiting to use the restroom.
As parents, one key way you can continue to support your child’s math growth is by practicing math facts at home. Just like reading, the more children practice, the quicker they gain fluency and automaticity. This ultimately frees up their focus to dive deeper into understanding why math strategies work and how to apply them.
Thank you for all of your support!
Molly Dehlinger
UPES Administrator
mdehlinger@hcsdk12.org
716-646-3280, option 1
Shannon Cavanaugh
UPES Administrator
scavanaugh@hcsdk12.org
716-646-3280, option 1
