WELCOME TO THE HAMMOND CLASS PAGE!
Our Class Roll
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About Mrs. Hammond:
My name is Pam Hammond,and I am looking forward to the next two years with this new group.This is my thirtieth year to be teaching, and it's my eighth 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 obtained my bachelor's and master's degrees from Mississippi State University. I received my national board teacher certification in 2000, and I successfully renewed my certification in 2009. I married my high school sweetheart, Ronald Hammond, and we will be celebrating our thirtieth wedding anniverary in March! My husband teaches American government and economics to seniors at Grenada High School. We have one son, David Louis Hammond, age twenty-four. 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
7:40-8:00 First Work of the Day (Journal Writing and Skills Review)
8:00-9:00 Reading/Language
9:00-9:30 AmeriCorps Intervention
Accelerated Reading/Accelerated Math
9:30 First Restroom Break
9:35-9:55 Grammar/Finishing Reading and Language
9:55-10:55 Math
11:00-11:25 Lunch
11:30-11:45 Recess
11:50-12:35 Activity
Monday-Library
Tuesday-PE
Wednesday-Computer Lab
Thursday-Health/Fitness
Friday-Music
12:40-1:40 Science
1:45-2:25 Social Studies/Health
2:25-2:35 Ending our day with important reminders and tidying our classroom
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. Athletes are successful because they practice, and successful readers need practice too!
Accelerated Reading
The students have an AR goal of 25 points for each nine weeks. These points accumulate to a yearly goal of 100 points. If the students read as they should, and if they listen and read their class books, they should have no problem reaching this goal. AR is also an indicator of good responsibility and taking care of an independent assignment.
These students have met their twenty-five point goal with a comprehension average of 80 or higher for the first nine weeks.
WAY TO GO, STUDENTS!
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 sheet.
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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 at 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 $2.00
Congratulations to these students for being chosen to attend the Principal's Breakfast!
We are proud to have these students representing our class in the school play:
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!
Past Classes
2007-2009
2009-2010
2010-2011
(If you are one of my past students, I'd love to hear from you.
Send me an email @ pamhammond@yahoo.com.)
