Mr. Cummings Class Newsletter Class Newsletter August 2009 Edition

            V.I.P

By:Siobhan

       Being a V.I.P is very important for the students in room 6. V.I.P stands for Very Important Person. Picking a V.I.P is very simple. One week it is a girl’s turn and one week it is a boy’s. The students will pick 3 people to nominate. We either have 3 boys or 3 girls. Then the class members can choose one of the 3 people. After the people who wanted to vote have voted, Mr. Cummings counts up all the votes and sees who the V.I.P is for the week.

          When being a V.I.P you get certain privileges. One privilege is getting to work on Mr. Cummings’ desk. Another privilege is getting to wear Mr. Cummings blue vest. The best privilege is getting to go to lunch 5 minutes early.     

                           Progress Reports

By:Sukhmon

   Every week you get something called a progress report. That has your grades. If you get it signed by your parents you get to go to lunch 5 minutes early. If you don’t get it signed by your parents you do not go to lunch early. Progress reports are very important. It is kind of like a report card. Progress reports are due on Friday or the next Monday. If there are blank spots on your progress reports it means that you did not complete your assignment. If you want an A or B you have to do all your work. A blank spot is a D. if you have a question of the grade report you write it down below the report. Progress reports tell your parents how well you are doing in school.

Spelling Bee

By:Sukhmon

       Every year a Spelling Bee is held at Wanda Hirsch Elementary School. The Wanda Hirsch Spelling Bee is on October 14 to go in the District Spelling you have to be 1^st or 2^nd place in the School Spelling Bee. If you go in the District Spelling Bee the judges can take words from other references. The District Spelling Bee words are a lot harder then the School Spelling Bee words. In the District the people from the other T.U.S.D schools come in the District Spelling Bee also only 4 people go in the county spelling bee. You have to be 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd or 4^th place to go in the county Spelling bee. The county Spelling bee words are going to be very hard. If you want to win the county Spelling bee you have to study extra hard.   

Jobs         

By:Siobhan

          In room 6 Mr. Cummings assigns us a class job on Monday until the end of the week. We have 11 jobs, so not everyone will be able to have a job every week. The jobs we have are cleaning up the class library, picking up the cones and tetherballs from outside, a messenger who takes notes and messages to the office or other classrooms, a person who reminds Mr. Cummings. We also have a person who turns on the computers, a person who subs for any student absent, a person who answers the phone, a person who tears out paper. We have lots of jobs in the classroom, the other ones are who checks out the bouncy and basketballs to people, passing back the corrected work, someone who puts together the progress reports, a person who writes down the people who get warnings, and we have a person who tallies down the pencils and dry erase markers

D.A.R.E

By:Shelby

            D.A.R.E is a program about drugs, tobacco, and more for 5^th graders. Officer Abercrombie comes to Hirsch every Tuesday to tell us about making good choices and about drugs or alcohol. D.A.R.E stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education. Mr. Cummings picks three kids to have a stuffed Daren the lion each day. Darin the lion is the D.A.R.E mascot. If Mr. Cummings does pick you, you only get Daren for that class time. D.A.R.E was made to teach kids about making healthy decisions in life. Every class, at the beginning we yell “D.A.R.E DAY!” to get ourselves motivated. For each class we are given 2 homework assignments to do about what we talked about in the class. These assignments are due by the next class. You can get points for important volunteer work that you do around Tracy. If you get 150 or 250 points, you will get a prize. A list has gone home for children telling them ways to earn points. Wanda Hirsch is competing against other schools that have the D.A.R.E program. We are competing to see which school gets the most community service points. Last year, Hirsch got second place, so try to make that first place this year!

                 Noon Sports

By:Shelby

Each day at lunch recess, Mr. Cummings referees a sport for 4^th, 5^th, and 3^rd graders. 3^rd graders are separated from the 4^th and 5^th graders. Third graders play Thursdays and Fridays, and 4th graders and fifth graders play all week long. Each season is either Kickball, Soccer, Whiffleball, or Flag football. This season’s game is Kickball. Kickball is played like baseball, but you kick the bouncy ball. To be on a team, on sign-up day you go up on the outside stage. Mr. Cummings then picks out 6 captains. (3 fourth graders and three fifth graders or 6 third graders) Captains later pick out kids on the stage to be on their team. After that, the captain makes up a name for that team. If you want to play, and your team doesn’t play that day, you stay behind the back-up line. If teams do not have enough players, he will pick out kids to be substitute players. For many kids at Wanda Hirsch, Noon Sports is the highlight of their day.  

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