Maude Moore Wood Elementary
September Warrior News
Dear Parents,
Thank you for your partnership to ensure a successful start of the school year! Amazing things are happening around campus and students have already adjusted to their new routine. We are thrilled to get to work together and watch them grow this school year. I look forward to celebrating all the great successes.
Thank you for your patience and flexibility as we work to dismiss all students in a safe and timely manner.
Arrival and Dismissal Valet drive through reminders:
- Please stay in your car-This is for safety purposes and to keep the line moving.
- Dismissal:
- You must have your car rider number visible in the front windshield. If you do not have the car rider number you will need to park and walk up to pick up with ID.
- Please do not arrive before 3:00 if you are picking up 2nd-5th grade students. We want to reserve the 2:45 - 3:00 time for our PK-1st grade students dismissal.
As teachers and students learn the car rider numbers, this process gets a lot faster. Remember to always have ID available. Any changes to the pick up information must be done by coming into the front office. Thank you for your positivity! We appreciate you!!
In the event that your child arrives at school after the 7:30 tardy bell, please park in the parking lot, walk them in to sign in at the front office. This will help keep all students accounted for and safe each morning.
Progress reports will be sent home in the Tuesday folder on September 17th. Please carefully review the contents and return the folder to school the following school day. We strive to have open and frequent communication with all of our families. We highly encourage all families to sign up for Home Access Center to monitor your child's grades.
I look forward to a wonderful school year!
Proud to be a MMW Warrior,
Amber Dibble
Students will engage in universal assessments during the month of September (3rd-20th). Parent support and talking with children about the importance of these assessments is important. Family reports of the testing results will be sent home with the 1st 9 weeks report card (K-5) or during the 1st 9 weeks parent conference (PK).
*PreK students will take the CIRCLE assessment.
* Kindergarten through 5th grade students will take the MAP test.
*Please be sure your child arrives on time and is at school for the duration for the school day.*
In PreK we are learning rules and routines. Our big Question is: What is our school like?
We are counting to 5 with objects and to 30 with words.
We are learning to differentiate between pictures, words, and letters in a book.
Every day is a new adventure as we learn and grow! Thank you for all your support on our journey.
Kindergarten has been working hard to learn rules, routines, and procedures as we get settled into the new school year. Daily folders will begin going home after labor day. In these folders you will find a name tracing template, alphabet linking chart, 100s chart, and sight words. We would like your help by having students practice writing their names and identifying the letters that make their names, identifying letters A-Z by letter name, identifying letter sounds, counting forward and backward from 10, writing numbers to 10, identifying numbers to 10, and reviewing colors. We are working hard on these skills. Working at home for 20 minutes a night will help reinforce learning.
Our team appreciates all your support!
We look forward to a wonderful year and can’t wait to see our Warriors grow!
First grade students have been hard at work. These nine weeks, your first grader will be learning the following skills in various subjects:
- Social Studies: It is all about being a member of a home, school, and local community while identifying rules and laws. We will celebrate Freedom Week. More information to come in the Tuesday folder.
- Science: Our little scientists will be learning about changes in matter, to include heating and cooling. Then we will investigate pushes and pulls and how objects move.
- Benchmark Phonics will be all about identifying short vowels and writing CVC words.
- Reading: Our genre is nonfiction, focusing on text features to help us understand the information we read.
- Writing: We will make connections to our nonfiction genre to help us write stories or personal narratives.
- Math: We are learning to add and subtract with automaticity to ten. This includes missing addend and subtrahend. How you can help at home: Play addition dominoes. Add the pips! Example: 3 + 2 = 5
Reminders: Tuesday folders go home on Tuesday and must be returned on Wednesday.
Thank you, parents, for all of your support. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any concerns about your child’s academic goals.
Thank you, parents for a wonderful start to the school year!
- In ELAR, we are reading realistic fiction and focusing on setting and character traits.
- In Math, we have been practicing addition strategies and will move into subtraction strategies.
- In Science, we are learning about matter and how to classify matter by their unique properties.
- In Social Studies, we are learning about truthfulness, equality, justice, and respect, emphasizing the importance of these values in creating a supportive and cohesive community.
3rd grade will continue to be hard at work this month.
- In Math, we are building on our learning of place value as we add and subtract whole numbers.
- In Science, we are conducting lab studies of the physical properties of matter.
- In Social Studies, we are digging deeper into how communities function and run.
- In Reading and Language Arts, we are learning about text features and evidence found in informational text versus descriptive language found in traditional tales such as myths.
Fourth grade is in full swing, and our students are learning so much.
- In Math we have been learning place value, up to one billion, including decimal places to the tenths and hundredths. We are getting ready to begin adding and subtracting decimals.
- In Science, we are busy classifying matter based on its physical properties. The students have enjoyed being scientists, by experimenting with various tools such as, balances, magnets, and thermometers.
- In Literacy, we have been learning about informational texts, focusing on biographies and autobiographies. We are also continuing to work on short constructed responses. Don’t forget to have your students read nightly.
- In Social Studies we have been learning about Geography. We are currently learning about the various types of maps and how to read them.
This is going to be a busy and rigorous school year, so please encourage your child to put forth their best effort.
We are excited to begin our 5th grade journey for the 2025 school year. This year we will aim high and dream big. Here is what we are looking forward to learning in the first nine weeks:
- In Reading, students are learning about informational text and the genre’s characteristics.
- In Writing, students are constructing a personal narrative and constructing responses to text.
- In Math, students are adding and subtracting positive rational numbers fluently.
- In Science, students are exploring properties of matter through hands on activities.
- In Social Studies, students are learning about characteristics of our nation.
As a reminder, please ensure students arrive before the 7:30 tardy bell and stay for duration of the day.
We have made it to September. This month in PE we will be working on our fundamental movement concepts along with catching and throwing skills. Fundamental Movement is what helps us move from one spot to another, for example spatial awareness (personal space and general space) with locomotor skills like skipping, hopping, jumping, crawling, walking, side-stepping, galloping while we do our cooperative games. Remember to drink a lot of water and wear closed toed shoes to PE.
The PE Coaches
It is an exciting time in music classes as we begin a new year at Maude Moore Wood. Our youngest students are busy with learning new songs, rhymes and dances and understanding how our music classroom procedures work. Ask them what their favorite song in music is. Our older students are reviewing previously learned concepts and beginning to compose their own parts of songs and chants. All our students are learning about the wonderful multi-cultural aspects of music. From ancient recorder music to Big Band Jazz, they are listening and moving to music from around the world. Our great Maude Moore Wood Warrior choir will be starting up soon for the fall semester. The choir is open to any 4th and 5th grader who loves to sing and can be a stellar example for our campus. More details to follow.
VIsion & Mission
Vision: Ignite a passion for learning so that students become lifelong learners and contributing members of the community.
Mission: Through continuous reflection and refinement, we will ensure that all students are challenged and engaged in a rigorous curriculum and provided with learning opportunities in a safe and nurturing environment that will prepare our students for the future