Madison 2-3 Center
Second graders in Team 4 at Madison 2-3 Center are working hard. The year started off strong by introducing and reviewing the PAWS expectations at Madison.

The students learned about what recess equipment they have and how to use it properly, what a second grader looks like walking in the hallway, and the lunchtime routine.

In most academic areas they are working on building the stamina they need to build their second-grade brains. In reading, they are working on listening to a story and answering questions. They are also using short vowel sounds to read and write words. In writing, they are just starting with how to write a good sentence. They need to make sure they start with a capital letter, have spaces between words, end with the correct punctuation, and make sure it makes sense. Ask your child to teach you Mrs. S’s sentence chant.

In math, they are reviewing numbers to 120 and working on basic addition to 10. Knowing their basic facts will help them when they get to double digit addition and subtraction. We are looking forward to an excellent year with our new group of students.

Submitted by Holly Cundy; Alexis Scott and Rebekah Williams, second grade teachers

HHS Language Arts
The HHS newspaper, Tiger Stripes, is a 12-page monthly paper, where students learn on the job, creating the paper while studying the ins and outs of newspaper production: reporting, feature and opinion writing, interviewing, editing, headline and caption writing, photography, and graphic design. With each edition, the students learn and improve; so, too, does the paper.

The juniors and seniors who produce the Tiger Stripes like to put their own particular stamp on the paper, so each year the coverage is a little different, all reflecting the interesting mix of students who are publishing the paper.

There are a lot of returning students this year, and that means we can hit the ground running with a special State Fair edition. This edition is a first for the Tiger Stripes, and the students are excited to be able to highlight 4-H, FFA, and rodeo in addition to all the students who work, volunteer, and enjoy the Fair.

This edition will be published in the next week, and this paper (and all other editions) are always available for viewing on the district’s website.
Honors Language Arts 10 students have just begun reading “Fahrenheit 451,” by Ray Bradbury. The unit started with the short story “There Will Come Soft Rains,” also by Bradbury. This first unit focuses on fictional works — both short and long —and the many literary devices used in those works.

In the second quarter, students will complete a unit on literary and rhetorical devices, analyzing a section of Plato’s Republic, “The Allegory of the Cave,” Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech.

The culmination of that unit is an essay and poster-board presentation on famous speeches in history. Students will choose a speech, write an analytical essay on the speech, create a poster-board display to accompany their speech, and then teach the class a little about their chosen speeches through presentations.

Throughout both semesters, students in HLA10 will also review punctuation and grammar.

Next semester, students will write research papers, read the plays “Julius Caesar” and “Antigone,” and read two more novels.

Submitted by Sarah Rubish, ELA teacher