Miss Alyssa Hoeschen is a 2023 graduate of Winona State University. She enjoys teaching the fourth graders all about the United States! In her free time she enjoys canoeing, paddleboarding, swimming, spending time with family and friends, reading, and going on the boat. She is also always up for an adventure! She loves to travel and hopes to make it to all of the 50 states one day. She also has a passion for synchronized swimming and is an assistant coach for the sync team in Melrose.
ABOUT THE CLASSROOM
- Reading: comprehension strategies in fiction and nonfiction selections, story structure, and writing strategies taught with Benchmark and novel units.
- Math: multiplication, division, fractions, place value with decimals, area, perimeter, missing numbers, order of operations, and word problems.
- English: parts of speech (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives), prefixes, suffixes, proofreading, and editing.
- Social Studies: map skills, communities, government, historical/cultural differences, goods and services, regions and states of the USA
- Science: energy, heat, motion, electricity, plants, animals, ecosystems, and Earth’s resources.
- Religion: parts of the Mass, types of prayer, memorization of the Ten Commandments and the Rosary, and taking part in the Mass
- Handwriting: cursive
- OTHER THINGS TO KNOW
- We are transitioning into the intermediate grades now. We develop and take pride in our independence!
- Planners and google docs are resources your child should know how to use.
- We learn how to be Top 20 students in class and in the real world.
- We acquire self-motivation to achieve educational and personal goals.
- Students have the chance to break out of their comfort zone and learn how to play guitar and serve at the weekly masses.
- We have small groups for Language Arts and Math. This helps us get more direct attention and instruction. These groups are not final and can/will change throughout the year.
- We take monthly STAR Math and Reading tests. This helps us recognize if we are continuously learning or if there is an area we should study more thoroughly.
- We try to incorporate moving into our learning, as well as visual models. We truly understand that everyone learns differently and sometimes needs to move, see, or hear it again.