Welcome Parents!Welcome Parents!Welcome Parents!Welcome Parents!Please find a seat.Please find a seat.

Mrs. FrittonExperience:• 12th year at Wilson – all core subjects• Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education• Master of Arts in Educational Leadership• Research experience with NSF and with NASA• Principal Certification

My Teaching Goals:• Maintain a safe, well-managed, nurturing and organized classroom• Inspire students to become life-long, inquisitive learners• Prepare all students for 7th grade by meeting state standards and teaching

them responsibility• Differentiate instruction to meet the needs and learning styles of all students

(challenge/modify)• Maintain honest and productive communication with all parents

• Agenda PacketsStudents are expected to write their homework in their agendas on a daily basis– Great tool for being

organized– Prepares them for their

future– Parent signatures garner

extra credit!

• Communication– Email preferred

tfritton@amphi.com – Classroom phone

696-5861 (Please no transportation messages!)

• Website– Forms/Handouts– Classroom procedures– Weekly homework forecast

Science • Inquiry (throughout the year)• Weather/Energy (weather patterns and climate)• Water (freshwater systems and oceans)• Biology (cells, microscopes, human body,

dissection)• Expository and informational reading and writing,

test taking and study skills, gain interest in and appreciation of science

• Guest speakers?

Science Assignments• Textbook reading assignments, organizers,

and worksheets• Projects / Labs• Interactive Student Notebook• Periodic quizzes and tests• Science in the News• Science Fair / Robotics Club

Help Needed!• Give “Fundraisers” the boot (not fundraising).

Each family is encouraged to make a donation to PTO (this is not a tax credit donation, but is still a tax deductible donation).

• Chili cook-off volunteer needed (Thursday, September 19)

• Field trip coordinators wanted!

Thanks for coming Thanks for coming this evening!this evening!

Thanks for coming Thanks for coming this evening!this evening!