Thank you so so much for the sweet gifts, messages, cards, and hugs for my birthday and for Christmas!  I am so blessed and grateful for you all!  Your heartfelt gifts of appreciation were amazing.  I am so grateful to be your child's teacher. 

Thank you to our sweet volunteers who are coming into our classroom! If you would like to volunteer, please let me know! I would love to have volunteers during our center times from 10:00-11:30 daily. Please let the office know if you would like to volunteer at any capacity on our campus. They will give you a background check first, and then will let me know when you can come into our classroom to volunteer!  Thank you so much for your sweet offers to help our class already! 

EVENT PARKING: 

If you pick up your student at the end of the school day in the event parking lot (on the north side of the gym) please promptly pick up your child by 3:10pm. 

Morning Routines: 

Students may be dropped off at school 7:45am and after to have a nice recess time with friends on the playground before coming to school. 

CALENDAR OF EVENTS COMING UP: 

JANUARY 5-9: No Hot Lunch Available

JANUARY 7:  Preorder pizza for pizza day

JANUARY 9:  Pizza lunch day

JANUARY 12: Continuous Enrollment Begins for K-8, Preschool Early Bird Enrollment Begins

JANUARY 14: Preschool-5th grade chapel at 9:00- please feel free to join us;  End of quarter and dismissal at 1:30 pm

JANUARY 19: No School: Martin Luther King Jr. Day

JANUARY 21: Preorder pizza for Pizza Day

JANUARY 23: Pizza Day

JANUARY 26:  Last day to submit online re-enrollment for K-8th families for the 2026-2027 school year  (re-enrollment must be complete to ensure a spot for 2026-2027)

JANUARY 30: Warrior Rally 

HOT LUNCH  (No Hot Lunch Available from January 5-9)

Your child is able to order Hot Lunch, and White Milk or Chocolate Milk.  Please don't forget to email me when your child is having Hot Lunch and their milk preference before 8:15am.  Thank you! 

Your FACTS account will be charged for your child's hot lunch orders. 

DRESS CODE

Please check the HCS handbook for the dress code rules.  Your child will be talked to with an administrator if they are not in dress code. 

Please be mindful of the dress code at our school. A full explanation of the dress code is found on P. 9 in the Parent/Student Handbook. Before your child leaves for school, please check that their shorts (6' inseam for 3rd and up) or skirt (for girls) are not too short, their shirts have sleeves and are not too short to show the midriff if their hand is raised, and that they have close toed shoes on. Leggings/bike shorts are only permitted for K-4th grade if the shirt is long enough to cover the bottom. Thanks for your help! 

EVENT PARKING: 

If you pick up your student at the end of the school day in the event parking lot (on the north side of the gym) please promptly pick up your child by 3:10pm. 

ICE CREAM: 

Every Friday, our HCS 5th Graders will sell ice cream for 1 dollar. This is a fundraiser for their Hume Lake trip that they will participate in!  Thank you for your willingness to support them! 

SPIRIT WEAR: On Fridays, your students are encouraged to wear their HCS shirts and outfits!  When your child wears their spirit shirt, they will get entered into a school-wide raffle for a prize.  

Letters Uu and Hh:
We will be learning how to form the letters Uu and Hh in class, and will continue to learn all about this letter this week. I would love to partner with you to help you work at home with your child on this letter writing.  

MATH FACTS: 0+1, 0+2, 0+3, 0+4, 0+5, 1+1, 1+2, 1+3, 1+4, 2+1, 2+2, 2+3, 3+1, 3+2, 4+1, 3+0, 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, 4-3, 3-3, 3-2, 3-1, 5-4, 4-4, 4-3, 4-2, 4-1  (A test will be given with these Math Facts that is timed for 3 minutes.) 

*During the week, we will be practicing these Math Facts that are mixed addition and subtraction. On Monday, I will send home a practice sheet. Please practice with your child. These Math Facts are facts we have already learned. A timed test of 3 minutes on these Math Facts will be on January 9. 

Please help your student learn these facts by memory by showing them items from home that they can add together. For example, 5 cheerios, and then subtract 4 on the plate, and 5-4=1.  Other items that can be used are M&Ms and toys as well.  Please practice these facts orally and physically daily to help your child remember them. 4 is a number that is very important in Math.  The subtraction song we sing: Place hands in front of you, and then say "Subtraction is when you have this, and then you take away this (placing one hand behind you, while one hand is in front of you), and you have this left over."  

NUMBERS 0-10:  Please continue to practice these numbers. These numbers all start at the Strawberry Line and I would love to partner with you to help your child write these numbers from the top of the line.  Please let me know if you have any questions about this.  Our songs:   

1: Come right down and that is all to make the number 1.

2: Curve around and slide to the right to make the number 2. 

3: Curve in and around again to make the number 3. 

4: Down, over, down some more to make the number 4. 

5: Down, around, put on a hat, to make the number 5.  

6. Curve around and curl it up to make the number 6. 

7. Slide to the right and slant it down to make the number 7. 

8. Make an S and close the gate to make the number 8. 

9. Make a circle and then a line to make the number 9. 

10.  Make a one and then a zero to make the number 10! 

HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS:  us, cut, but, full 

Our test on these words will be on Friday, January 9.  The students will be asked to orally read out loud these words for a grade in the Gradebook.  Please email me if you have any questions about this and I would love to partner with you!  One fun idea is to have your child find these words in the church bulletin, and circle them and read them aloud.  Another idea is to have your child go on a Hide and Seek hunt for these words in the living room. They can be on flashcards, and your child can find them and say the word aloud as they find them in your house. These are words we have already learned and this will be a test to see if your student knows them long term, and can recognize them in sentences. 

Penmanship: A penmanship rubric for our daily handwriting in Kindergarten through 2nd grades was sent out. This rubric will be used from now on, and your child will receive their penmanship grade in their folder on Mondays for the previous week. This will create a standardized penmanship grade that the students can understand clearly and achieve well.  Please let me know if you have any questions about this penmanship grade. 

*SHOW AND TELL:  On Friday, January 9, bring in an item that explains how you enjoyed your Christmas break.  You can ask your parents to email a picture to me and I can show it on the screen, or you can bring in an item that shows how you love to celebrate! This will create a fun class family sharing time for us to learn about each other's celebrations. 

OPTIONAL IDEAS TO CREATE A HOME AND SCHOOL CONNECTION: 

Daily Mail: Please write a sentence (with the guidance at home that I talked about during conferences) to me, illustrate it, and then share in front of the class. (We have a nice mailbox in our classroom where the students love to place their mail. They can tell you all about it!)

Daily Reading: Please bring one of the books back that I sent, after reading it with your parents, and then your child will read it in front of our class. 

Our specials this week are:  (Week of January 5-9)

Monday: Music, Spanish, PE: Please have your students bring tennis shoes for PE without black bottoms on the shoes to protect the gym floor.

Tuesday:  Library (Art will be next week) 

Wednesday: Computers! 

Thursday: PE: Please have your students bring tennis shoes for PE without black bottoms on the shoes to protect the gym floor.  

Friday: None 

Your students are such a blessing to me, and to their classmates!  We are loving every minute of time in class together! 

In Christ's love, 

Mrs. Morse

email: bmorse@hanfordchristian.org

Office Hours: 7:00am - 4:00pm  *  I will respond to emails within 24 hours, during my office hours.