Harlan Elementary
April 7-11, 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
April Events:
🌷 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
🌷 SEE IMPORTANT REMINDERS ABOUT ACAP TESTING BELOW
🌷 Friday, April 25 - NO SCHOOL (FCS Professional Learning Day)
ACAP Begins THIS Week - Attendance is Important!
IMPORTANT ACAP REMINDERS:
April FALCON Way Focus:
We Serve Others
Show Choir on Tuesdays--Please make arrangements for pick up at 4:15
Robotics meets on Wednesdays - please arrange for pick up!
Supplies needed for Robotics!
Robotics students, remember to bring items from home if you have them!
If you have any of these items at home, please consider donating them to us!
Legos
Seeds
Tape
Rolls of masking tape
Lego tires x4
4 toy size wheels
Toilet paper rolls
Sharpie
Cardboard
Black rubber bands
Tinfoil
Bucket
Paper
Popsicle Sticks
Batteries
Rubber Bands
Paint--blue, purple, yellow, and pink
Plastic water bottles
Mini Screws
Round half foam ball
Fake grass
Hot glue gun
Hot glue
2 bowls
String
Fake animal
Goodnight Harlan
Throwback video Mrs. Miller read for us during Read Across America Week!
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!
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.
All Florence City students are provided breakfast and lunch free of charge!
Grade Level News
Kindergarten
Reading:
- Letters Yy and Vv.
- Reviewing High Frequency Words- 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 High Frequency Words: was, were
Math:
- Lesson 26- Understand teen numbers.
Reminders:
- Your child needs a water bottle and snack every day.
- Check their red FALCON folder every night.
- Practice letters and sounds, going over High Frequency Words, writing first name, letters, and numbers every night.
- Children's Museum & Deibert Park Field Trip April 29th. Please turn in form and money by April 25th. Thank you!
1st Grade
Math: Test on Lesson 25-Thursday
- Lesson 25 : Add and Subtract Tens
- Lesson 26: Understand 10 more and 10 less
Reading: Test on Unit 7 Lesson 3-Friday
- Open Court Unit 7- Lesson 3: Roots and Seeds
Phonics:
•/ōō/ spelled oo, /ōō/ spelled u, /ōō/ spelled _ue
Grammar:
Adjectives and Adverbs in Sentence Expansion
Spelling:
too, tools, shoots, soon, hoop, scoops, loose, moose, boots, zoo
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/ELA:
- Story: United States Citizenship
- Grammar: Verb Tenses
Math:
- Lesson 30: Partitioning Rectangles
Tests:
- Reading/ELA: (Reading ACAP Tuesday and Wednesday)
- Math: Friday (Lesson 29-30 Test)
3rd Grade
3rd Grade ACAP reading will be on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday, we will begin Unit 5 Lesson 2. Those skills are listed below:
Reading:
-Compare/Contrast
-Main Idea
-Prefixes
Math:
-Geometry
*We will assess on Lesson 30 (Geometry) on Tuesday. However, this will be counted as a DAILY GRADE!
4th Grade
Reading:
- ACAP Tuesday & Wednesday!
- Unit 5 Lesson 1: Paul Revere's Ride
Math:
We will be working on characteristics and classifying 2D shapes.
Students have been given study packets.
Here is a copy of it for you would like to help them study! https://quizlet.com/1026244255/2d-shapes-flash-cards/?i=2harvs&x=1jqt
- The test on this lesson is tentatively scheduled on April 18.
- Don’t forget about our Montgomery field trip! Payments are to be paid in full by April 23!
5th Grade
- Reading
- Skills practice and review
- Reading ACAP Tuesday & Wednesday!
- Open Court: Unit 4 Lesson 4-Why is the World Green
- Writing: Narrative Writing
- Math
- Lessons 31 & 32:
- Understand the Coordinate Plane
- Represent Problems in the Coordinate Plane
- Comprehension Check on these lessons this week!
Communication is Crucial! Keep Scrolling for the Many Ways to Engage with HES:
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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