Pam Hammond

  WELCOME TO THE HAMMOND CLASS PAGE!

My name is Pam Hammond,and I am looking forward to the next two years with this new group.This is my twenty-eighth year to be teaching, and it's my fifth year at GUES.  Before coming to GUES, I taught at Winona Junior High School and Winona Elementary in Winona, MS, and Tie Plant Elementary here in Grenada.  I graduated from Winona High School in 1978, then attended and graduated from Holmes Junior College in Goodman, MS.  I then obtained my bachelor's and master's degrees from Mississippi State University.  I received my national board teacher certification in 2000, and I am presently working on renewing my certification.  I married my high school sweetheart, Ronald Hammond, and we've been married for twenty-six years.  My husband teaches American government and economics to seniors at Grenada High School.  We have one son, David Louis Hammond, age twenty-two.  My mother, Betty Brower, is also a very important person in my life!  We have a black and tan minature daschsund named Deuce.

Contact Information:

Grenada Upper Elementary School phone number:  226-2818 (My conference time is from 11:50-12:35 daily.  I am also happy to meet with parents before school at 7:00am any day as well as any Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday after 3:00.  I will even schedule conferences as late as 5:00 on those afternoons if it is what is needed for us to help the students.)  It is important to have open communication between parents and teachers!Please call to set up a conference. 

My home phone number: 283-4701

My email address:  pamhammond@yahoo.com

I am available for my students and their parents.  I want to hear from you!

Our Daily Schedule:

(I begin teaching at 7:40, so please try your best to have your children here on time.  They miss things when they're late.)

                            7:30-7:40       Entering Room and Getting Ready for the Day 

                            7:40-9:25       Reading / Language             

                            9:25               First Restroom Break                                    

                            9:35-10:30     Math 

                          10:30-10:45     Recess

                          10:50-11:10     Writing / Tutoring

                          11:15-11:40      Lunch

                          11:50-12:35      Activity                     

                                                  Monday- Music

                                                  Tuesday – Library

                                                  Wednesday– PE

                                                  Thursday – Computer Lab

                                                   Friday – PE

                            11:40-1:40      Science

                              1:45-2:25      Social Studies / Health    

                              2:25-2:35     Ending our day with important reminders and tidying our classroom

                              2:35             Dismissal

Classroom Philosophy and Goals:

My classroom goals and philosophy are quite simple:  I believe if the teacher, the students, and the parents all work hard and do their best to be sure that learning is happening, then success will be achieved.  My main goal is preparing my students so that when they reach middle school, they will be READY for sixth grade skills and work that they will be required to do.                                                                                 

Homework: Homework can have many benefits for young children. It can improve remembering and understanding of schoolwork. Homework can help students develop study skills that will be of value, even after they leave school. It can teach them that learning takes place anywhere, not just in the classroom. Homework can benefit children in more general ways as well. It can foster positive character traits, such as independence and responsibility. Homework can teach children how to manage time. It is important that students realize that just because there isn't always something to be written for homework, they still have the responsibility to read in their AR books for at least thirty minutes and to review the notes in their binders so that they can prepare daily for upcoming tests.Be sure to check your child's homework sheet to see daily assignments and notes from the teacher. It is your child's responsibility to have you sign his or her homework sheet each night.If your child doesn't know his or her basic addition,subtraction,multiplication, and division facts, please work daily so that he or she will have them memorized.  This is imperative for success and improvement in math fluency.                                     

TIME TO READ

Encourage your child to read for at least 30 minutes outside of class each day.

These students have reached the 25 point AR goal. 

WAY TO GO!

Klarissa McMechan	Shelby Moorman	Taylor Wortham
Jake Manuele	Rickeira Bowens	Jared Biggers
Dalton Brown	John Digby	Shivani Kumar
JaKayla Kuykendall	Adrian Martin	Zakiriah Sizemore

Grades:

Students will bring home folders with papers to be signed by parents every Tuesday.  Students that bring their folders back on Wednesday receive stickers for their sticker books.

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MULTIPLICATION MASTERS

These students have proven they have mastered their multiplication facts by making 95% or higher on 100 problems on a five minute test.  I want all of my students to be on this list soon!

PRINCIPAL'S BREAKFAST

Each month one student from our classroom will be nominated by me or any other staff member at GUES to participate in the Principal's Breakfast.  This will be a reward for a student who displays outstanding academic achievement and / or exceptional citizenship in our classroom and throughout GUES. Students chosen will be served breakfast in the cafeteria with Dr. Jackson and Mrs. Tharpe from 7:15 - 7:45am.  There will be reserved seating, and the students chosen will be allowed to invite two adult guests (no small children) who will need to pay for their breakfast at the conclusion of the breakfast.  Adult breakfast price is $1.75.

Congratulations to these students for being chosen to represent our class at the Principals' Breakfast!

                AUGUST 2009 - Rickeira Bowens                      

 SEPTEMBER 2009 - Klarissa McMechan

OCTOBER 2009 -

 PLEASE SAVE THESE ITEMS FOR GUES: Please help us earn money for our school by saving these items and sending them to school: Campbell Soup labelsBox Tops for EducationNestle Splash water labelsWe are also collecting pop tops from canned drinks to donate to St. Jude Children's Hospital.  This will help with their Ronald McDonald House.

Thank you, parents, for all you do for us!

THE HAMMOND TEAM 

2007-2009