Hutchison Elementary Students Focus On Their Futures

This summer, Hutchison Elementary is hosting 6 different summer school programs, all designed to provide help to students at different grade levels.  Under the direction of Rochelle Proctor, Summer School Principal, the programs for rising first through sixth graders focus on reading and math. 

In the program designed by Cindy Mathers, approximately 40 rising kindergartners are getting a jump on kindergarten routines, are learning how to get along with classmates, are learning things like how to write their names, patterns, numbers, and colors. 

The program for rising first through third graders, Camp Hutchison, is a partnership program with Floris United Methodist Church. 

We have a number of rising fourth graders who are participating in the Jumpstart program.  This program falls under the Readers Are Leaders umbrella begun by Wendell Byrd.  Readers Are Leaders is an organization that trains high school athletes and partners them with weaker, elementary readers.  The Jumpstart portion of Readers Are Leaders is a pilot program that takes first grade students and partners those students with teachers as mentors.  This mentorship continues year round vs. the normal Readers Are Leaders program which mentors students only during specific periods of the year when the athletes are available.  The Jumpstart program will follow those first graders throughout elementary school.

Some of our rising second graders are spending their time in a small group setting being mentored in a reading and math program, Rising Stars, designed by Lucy Passos and Abbey Falkey.

There are two Young Scholars programs:  one for rising third and fourth graders, being taught by Melinda Markfelder; one for rising fifth and sixth graders, taught by Brianna Proctor.  On July 26, all of these students had a great time at Mount Vernon.

The program for rising fourth through sixth graders, Dare To Dream, not only focuses on reading and math, but also highlights the various career opportunities available to students.  On July 25, these students traveled to the Loudoun campus of NOVA where they were encouraged to go after their dreams, including how to pay for them.  In their individual classrooms, some of our students are reading and writing about different countries and states, creating a cultural museum and a zoo mock-up, reading and doing projects about The Indian in the Cupboard, and learning about measurement.  In their STEM lab rotation, students are learning about and planting a Community Vegetable Garden that will eventually be turned over to and maintained by parents in the school, thus expanding the Hutchison community.  These students also have specials rotations in P.E., STEM, art, and library.

Congratulations to all of our students for working hard on their dreams.