Harlan Elementary
August 19-23, 2024

August 19-23 Events:
⭐️ CORRECTION: PICTURE DAY is SEPTEMBER 19th!!
⭐️FHS Homecoming Shirt Orders due Monday!
⭐️Look for PTO Spirit Store form on Tues & return on Thurs!
⭐️ Scroll down for grade level news!
⭐️Persnicketies Ticket Sales for Florence Education Foundation--SCROLL DOWN
⭐️Florence Falcon Spirit Ribbon Sale Dates - First one is Aug. 30th (see below)
Mark Your Calendar:
⭐️August 26-30 BOOK FAIR
⭐️ August 27th - Open House & Shop Book Fair 5:00-5:45pm
⭐️September 2nd Labor Day NO SCHOOL for STUDENTS
⭐️September 3rd Florence City Professional Learning Day NO SCHOOL for STUDENTS
Goodnight Harlan is BACK! Check out this week's video below:
Homecoming shirt orders were sent home last week - orders due Monday 8/19!
Florence Falcon Football Spirit Ribbons - $1 During Drop-Off - Dates Below
Spirit ribbons on sale during drop off on 8/30, 9/6, 9/13, 10/4, 10/18, 11/1
Drop Off & Dismissal Reminders:
Please Make Sure Your Child/Your Child's Teacher Knows How They're Getting Home!
Bus Routes & Information:
Congratulations to these outstanding students:
🌟Back to School Means Back to Healing Hearts🌟
🩵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.
- EDEP will begin on the 1st day of school.
- 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 will be sent home with the students the first week as well.
With Integrity We Will Live Out the F.A.L.C.O.N. Way Here at HES!
August Core Value of the Month: FAMILY - We Are Kind
Mark your calendar for Fall Picture Day - SEPTEMBER 19th!
Join Harlan PTO! It's only $5 and it goes directly to our school!
August 19-23
GRADE LEVEL NEWS:
Kindergarten
Reading: Letters Aa-Hh, Writing first name
Math: Count and Write to 5
- Please remember to check your child's FALCON folder every day.
- Send a snack and water bottle every day.
1st Grade
Open Court Reading: Unit 1 Lesson 1: Test next Thursday
- Phonics:
- •/s/ spelled s; /m/ spelled m; /a/ spelled a; and /t/ spelled t and tt
- Comprehension: Making Connections; Compare and Contrast
- Penmanship: Lowercase Letters l and t
- Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics: Letter, Word, Sentence,Writing Left to Right, Top to Bottom
Math Lesson 1:
Test on Counting on to Add: Thursday, August 22nd
Reminders:
-Check blue folder each night
-Practice writing lowercase and uppercase letters
-Practice writing first and last names
-Practice writing numbers 1-20
-Read stapled decodable reader
-Study newsletters each night!
-Study sight words on back of blue folder
-Review behavior sheet in blue folder
2nd Grade
Reading:
- Vocabulary: Lesson 2 words
- Spelling words: Lesson 1 and 2 combined words (same as last week)
- Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns; Action Verbs
- Comprehension: Informational Text
Math:
- Mental Math Strategies for Addition and Subtraction
3rd Grade
-Reading Skills: Fact/Opinion, Setting, and Making Inferences
-Math: Adding 3 Digit Numbers
-Please make sure your child brings a water bottle each day for PE and recess.
-Students need tennis shoes for PE every day.
-Graded papers will come home every Monday. Please sign and return them on Tuesday!
-Be sure to check their newsletter that comes home each week for upcoming tests and important dates.
4th Grade
Math: We will begin lesson 2 (comparing numbers) Monday and lesson 3 (rounding whole numbers) Thursday. The test for these lessons will tentatively be given on August 27.
5th Grade
Reading:
- Monday: Finish Unit 1 Lesson 1 (independent comprehension passage for daily grade)
- Tuesday-Friday: Unit 1 Lesson 2
- review and spell words with the Latin Roots loc and flect.
- review words with the Greek Roots cycl and phon.
- build oral language skills.
- Read "Queen of the Track" in our student anthology textbooks & apply reading strategies and skills for comprehension
- Grammar - action verbs and state of being verbs
- Please review Vocabulary and Spelling words every night with your child. 😊
- Unit 1 Lesson 2 Comprehension/Vocab test - August 26th
- Unit 1 Lesson 2 Spelling, Word Analysis, & Grammar assessments - August 27th
Math:
8/19- Review for Volume Test
- 8/20- Test on Volume
- 8/21- Lesson 3- Session 1- Finding Volume using Formulas
- 8/22- Lesson 3- Session 2- Finding Volume using Formulas
- 8/23- Lesson 3- Session 3-Breaking apart Figures to Find Volume
All Florence City students are provided breakfast and lunch free of charge!
Communication is Crucial! Keep Scrolling for the Many Ways to Engage with HES:
Be Sure to Follow Harlan on Social Media & Online!
Make sure your phone # & email are up to date in PowerSchool to receive callouts
Download the Florence City Schools App
Contact Us Anytime!
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