Reading Groups will be pulled daily
7:45 - 8:20 Meet with students one-on-one for tutoring
8:20 - 9:00 3rd Grade (Smith)
9:10 - 9:50 4th Grade (Mangum)
9:55 - 10:35 1st Grade (Sever)
10:40 - 11:20 3rd Grade (Hill/Bolt)
11:25 - 11:45 Lunch
11:45 - 12:20 1st Grade (Gordon)
12:25 - 1:15 Planning
1:20 - 1:55 2nd Grade (Cannon)
2:00 - 2:50 Daycare/Van Duty
School Mascot: The Simpsonville Seal "Lu-Seal"
Color: Blue and White
Theme: "Academics + Fitness "SEAL" Our Success!"
Enrollment: 820 students
Grades: Kindergarten-5th Grade
We are…
Successful citizens
Empowered with 21st century skills
Academic achievers
Leaders and life-long learners
Simpsonville Strong
The vision of Simpsonville Elementary is to prepare students to be productive, respectful, and responsible.
To create in all students the desire to learn.
To strive to meet the mental, emotional, physical and social needs of all students.
To provide academic opportunities that will prepare students to be productive in a changing world.
To help students develop good health habits, physical fitness, and proper nutrition.
To help students appreciate art, music and literature.
To encourage appropriate student behavior by creating and environment that promotes positive self-esteem and self-control.
To help students develop good citizenship habits through an understanding of family, community, state and country.
To foster an appreciation for differing values and cultural norms.
To encourage the active involvement of parents in their child's education.
Literacy Instruction
Teachers will use instructional approaches, materials, and an integrated, comprehensive, systematic and scientifically based curriculum to support student learning in reading and writing. (Reading Horizons)
Teachers will also create a literate environment that fosters reading and writing by providing space for differentiated instructional practices, integrating foundational knowledge, and using appropriate instructional practices and materials to support readers and writers. Additionally, teachers will use a range of ongoing formal and informal assessment tools and practices to plan, progress monitor, and evaluate student learning in reading and writing instruction. (Amira)
Foundations of Reading
Research has proven that reading is a process requiring mastery of five foundational reading skills, which together, allow us to be successful, confident readers.
Phonemic awareness - The ability to hear, decipher, and manipulate sounds in the English language. Phonemic awareness focuses on sounds only.
Phonics - Deals with the sound - symbol relationship. Students understand that each letter is a symbol that represents a sound. Phonics focuses on letters and sounds.
Fluency - Oral reading fluency is the ability to read with accuracy, speed, and proper expression.
Vocabulary - Refers to words known to communicate effectively.
Comprehension - Reading is built on the ability for students to understand what they read
If you need to contact me my email is: clemus@greenville.k12.sc.us