Paw Prints
Mound City Elementary and Middle School
November 2025
Mark your calendar!
- November 10: Teacher in-service; no school for students
- November 11: Veteran's Day
- November 25: Panther Families during school; MS Friendsgiving in multi-room; PK-1 Thanksgiving Feast in lower elementary hallway
- November 26-28: Thanksgiving Break
Reminders
- Dress your child appropriately for current weather conditions. Students will be kept inside when the temperature or wind chill is in the low to middle teens. Please dress students appropriately for the weather as they will be taken outside to recess if at all possible.
- Please do not linger in the hallways after 8:00 AM. All classes (PK-12) begin promptly at 8:00 AM.
- Please share an active email address on the enrollment form and with your child's teacher for easy communication.
Character Trait of the Month
Gratitude
Gratitude is 1 of 3 traits we will focus on throughout the year that helps students Be Well. Across grade levels, students will be developing skills like emotion regulation, positive self-talk, and stress-management.
Counselor's Corner
Check out the information below about healthy friendships!
Title Talk
Reading
Each Friday the 2nd - 4th graders fill my classroom for "Free Read Friday." I am amazed at what I see - kids reading, laughing out-loud, and so many asking to read a part to me. As your children become independent readers, don't forget how important it is to listen to them read, read to them and read together. Some of my favorite books are the ones I read with Maggie when she was in middle school.
Math
K- working on counting, learning to recognize the group that is greater or the group that is less, and number recognition 1-12
1st-working on addition facts to twenty and subtraction facts to twenty, addition and subtraction equations
2nd-working on subtraction facts, subtracting two digit numbers from two digit numbers. Learning to go to the 10's neighbor and borrow a ten to add to the ones.
3rd-memorizing multiplications facts for 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, and learning to divide using multiplication facts,
4th-working on multiplication facts and learning to multiply a two digit number by a two digit number
Students are doing well in math, progress monitoring shows steady improvement. GREAT JOB!
😄 Here's a joke to make "sum" of you chuckle: Why was the equal sign so humble?😄
Because he knew he was not less than or greater than anyone else!
Mrs. Osburn
Title 1 Reading
Mrs. Ashford
Title 1 Reading
Mrs. Asher
Title 1 Math