On September 7th Hamilton Branch 3 opened its doors to welcome back teachers and students. It was interesting to see how our returning students have grown and matured. We are pleased to announce we have a new second grade teacher Mrs. Rhoda Crenshaw from Ford Br. In room 204 we have the same face but a new name. Miss Aubertin is now Mrs. Aubertin Smith. We are all having a difficult time remembering to use the new name. We were privileged to have four apprentices from Harris Teachers College join us the first day of school. They immediately went into classrooms and began working with children. We feel they are right at home with teachers and students and are doing a lovely job.
We are happy to report we have already received several telephone calls and visits from parents who have indicated they are willing to come to our school and assist teachers in classrooms or in anyway they can.
Thank you, we certainly welcome your help because we proved together last year how parent involvement really helps our children. We would like to welcome any other parents or friends to contact the school if you have any time or energy to contribute because with your help we are striving to give all our children a better education.
Our school has gotten off to a fast start of extending lessons to make them more meaningful and fun for everyone.
After hearing the story, Cheese, Peas and Chocolate Pudding the kindergarteners with the help of their teachers Mrs. Magraw and Mrs. Stephenson actually made chocolate pudding which they immediately ate. We think they all really like that book now. Mrs. Aubertin Smith and her class of third graders are collecting soda bottle caps. They are aiming for at least a thousand and would welcome any contributions. They want to have a visible concrete example of just how many a thousand really is and how long it takes to count them.
Many smells have lingered in our school as a result of Mrs. Koch’s lessons on Sniffs and Smells. Some of the more pleasant ones come from popping popcorn and making cinnamon bread. I’m sure the children enjoyed the other part of the lessons too—the taste.
Mrs. Billups’ third graders after reading a poem about popcorn popping thought it would be fun not only to pop it but to eat it. A lot of fun was had thinking how lucky it was to have that poem come along while eating the popcorn.
By now probably everyone knows that we have a new principal at Hamilton Branch 3. Her name is Mrs. Doris Jones and she came from Cook Br. She is a very nice person and certainly concerned and willing to work with all of us to make Hamilton Br. 3 a great place to go to school and work to our greatest potential.
Mrs. Deavens, our former principal, is now the Inservice Coordinator for staff development for the magnet schools. She finds the new position very interesting and challenging. We all are affectionately appreciative of the great job she did while at Hamilton Br. 3. We hope she will be very happy and certainly keep in touch with us.
She left confident that Mrs. Jones was the perfect person to continue to lead Hamilton Br. 3 toward better parent and community involvement in the school and quality education for all our children.
We are looking forward to a good year even better than last year. We hope to work closely with you to insure that children will be gaining their best progress.
Originally published in The Paper, October 1976.
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