Harlan Elementary
March 10-14, 2025

When your child is absent, please send an excuse note within 3 school days.
Make sure your phone # & email are up to date in PowerSchool to receive callouts
March Events:
🍀 Kindergarten Tours - March 3rd, 3:30-5:00pm
🍀 Read Across America Week - March 3rd - 7th
🍀 Book Parade - March 3rd
🍀 Spring Picture Day - March 7th
🍀 Parent Involvement Meeting - March 10th
🍀 School Dances - March 8th (boys) & 15th (girls) SEE FLYER BELOW
🍀 March 14 - End of the 3rd Nine Weeks
🍀 March 18th - Social Media for Families presented by Laud. Co. Chief ADA
🍀 March 21st - NO SCHOOL for STUDENTS (FCS Data Analysis Day)
🍀 March 24th - 28th - SPRING BREAK, NO SCHOOL
Looking Ahead:
🌷 April 1st - Colbert & Laud. Co. CPC Family Fun Fair - see flyer below
🌷 April 8 & 9 - ACAP Reading State Testing - ATTENDANCE IS IMPORTANT
🌷 April 17 - ACAP Science State Testing (4th gr only)- ATTENDANCE IS IMPORTANT
🌷 April 21 - ACAP Math State Testing - ATTENDANCE IS IMPORTANT
Harlan Parent Engagement Meeting at 3:00 in the gym Monday, 3/10
Blast Into the Past 90's Dances in March
Please note the deadlines for payment!
click image below for more info
Show Choir on Tuesdays--Please make arrangements for pick up at 4:15
Robotics on Wednesdays - Please make arrangements for pick-up at 4:00
Colbert & Laud. Counties Family Fun Fair - Mark Your Calendar!
Congratulations to these outstanding students:
Parent Portal Login Instructions were sent home in folders.
Look for those instructions so you can check your child's grades!
IMPORTANT ACAP REMINDERS:
Please Make Sure Your Child/Your Child's Teacher Knows How They're Getting Home!
Bus Routes & Information:
🌟Healing Hearts is Available Anytime🌟
🩵Healing Hearts Group is Harlan's in-school grief support program offered to all children attending schools in Lauderdale, Colbert, and Franklin counties that we serve/have preexisting groups.
🩵Healing Hearts Group meets once per month and explores emotions, experiences, and responses surrounding grief in a safe environment with children that are already familiar with each other from school.
🩵Healing Hearts group is coordinated by a Healing Place counselor and Ms. Green.
🩵By filling out this form you are signing up your child to attend the group once per month. Healing Hearts meets at the discretion of the Healing Place and the school administration. By signing up you are not committing your child to attend every group if there is an absence, conflict, or important school event happening on the day that the group meets.
🩵If your child has attended Healing Hearts in previous years they will need to be registered again this school year! Participation requires a new form every year!
Register now: https://forms.gle/3parov5tr5czUEM58 - Click Here or Click/Scan the QR code
Extended Day Enrichment Program - EDEP After School Program
The pictures below provide information on our after school program.
- To enroll call 256-768-2700 and leave your name, number and student name for the director to return your call.
- The form to sign up for EdEP are available in the office.
With Integrity We Will Live Out the F.A.L.C.O.N. Way Here at HES!
Join Harlan PTO! It's only $5 and it goes directly to our school!
All Florence City students are provided breakfast and lunch free of charge!
Grade Level News
Kindergarten
Reading: Letters Kk and Ww.
Reviewing HFW- for, has. and, in, we, of, to, is, the, all, up, girl, I, have, his, it, him, as, am, had, see, on, but, did, a, can, go, he, at, you.
Adding HFW: look, with
Math: Lesson 23- Subtract within 10.
Your child needs a water bottle and snack every day.
Check their red FALCON folder every night.
Practice letters and sounds, going over HFW, writing first name, letters, and numbers every night.
1st Grade
Math: Measurement
Benchmark Test 3/11
Reading:
- Unit 7 Lesson 1- Lots of changes beginning this week! Information will be sent home Monday! The newsletters, stapled readers, and rapid reads are keys to achieving high scores.
- Beginning with Unit 7 Lesson 1, there will be 3 TEST grades and 1 Daily grade.
- Testing for Unit 7 Lesson 1 begins 3/17
High Frequency Word Test 3/12
Unit 7 Fluency Grading Scale
Words per Minute
A = 55 words & above
B = 48-54 words
C = 38-47 words
D = 29-37 words
F = 28 words & below
2nd Grade
Reading:
- Comprehension: Story: The Green Grass Grew All Around
- Grammar: possessive nouns and pronouns
Math:
- Lesson 27: Line plots
Tests:
- Reading/ELA: Comprehension and vocabulary (Monday, March 10th);
- Reading Benchmark (Wednesday)
- Math: Benchmark (Tuesday); Lesson 25 and 26 test (Wednesday)
3rd Grade
Assessments:
- Math Benchmark: Tuesday
- Reading Benchmark: Wednesday
- Reading: Unit 4 Lesson 5 Test Friday
Reading:
- Unit 4 Lesson 5
- Main Idea & Details
- Fact/Opinion
Grammar:
- Commas in a Series with Yes/No
Math:
- Lesson 27
- Test Friday
4th Grade
Reading:
- Unit 4 Lesson 3: "Masters of Illusion"
- Reading Benchmark: Wednesday, March 12th
Math:
- We will continue our studies on angles.
- Math Benchmark: Tuesday, March 11
- We will have our next test on March 13.
Don’t forget about our Montgomery field trip! Payments are to be paid in full by April 23!
5th Grade
- Reading
- Tests on Unit 4 Lesson 2 "John Muir: America's Naturalist"
- Reading Benchmark: Wednesday March 12
- Math Lessons 28 & 29 (watch for Family Letter about the skills)
- Lesson 28: Understand Categories of Two-Dimensional Figures
- Lesson 29: Classify Two-Dimensional Figures
Communication is Crucial! Keep Scrolling for the Many Ways to Engage with HES:
Be Sure to Follow Harlan on Social Media & Online!
Download the Florence City Schools App
Contact Us Anytime!
School Secretary: Mrs. Yolanda Johnson Email: yjohnson@florencek12.org
Principal: Dr. Thomas Casteel Email: tcasteel@florencek12.org
Assistant Principal: Mr. Julian Smith Email: jsmith@florencek12.org
Location: 2233 Mc Burney Dr, Florence, AL 35630
Phone: (256)768-2700