 Greetings from the 5th grade.
I am Phil Arnold the 5th grade and Drivers Ed. teacher here at Garden Valley Schools. I have taught 3rd,4th,5th and 6th grades here at Garden Valley since 1990. I graduated from Rogers High School in Puyallup Washington in 1981. I then served for 3 years in the United States Army in Germany. I graduated from Central Washington University with a degree in Elementary Education in 1987. My first two years of teaching were at Howe Idaho where I taught 5th and 6th grades. Then I came to Garden Valley where I have been ever since. I have a wife Lori who teaches Kindergarten here and two teenage daughters, Angie and Carolyn. I am very happy to be living here and teaching at our school. Policies you should be aware of: (1) Students should be in class and ready to work on time. (2) Students must follow rules and dirctions. (3) Bullying or putdowns is never acceptable behavior (4) Your child may correct and turn back in any papers that have mistakes in them. I will give them the higher grade if they have done the work again correctly. (5) Your 5th grader will do a report EVERY month. These reports are started at the 1st of the month and are due at the end of the month. By the middle of the month the students should have a rough draft done for me to edit. The final draft is to be done in ink. The topics vary. The report must have at least 5 written pages and 2 pages of pictures. Grading is done with a school computer program which uses the following perameters: 90% and above is an A grade 80-90% is a B grade 70-80% is a C grade 60-70% is a D grade Below 60% is failing Each week's assignments will be sent home on Monday in a newsletter. They will also be added to this website under the "Newsletter" heading. Drivers Ed. Drivers Ed. starts around May 15th. It runs for 6 weeks until about July 1st. The class is limited to the 27 OLDEST students in the school who wish to take the class. We run only one class each year. The class cost runs approximately $100.00. More information will be available in the spring. Supply List: At the beginning of the year each 5th grader will need: A Box of pencils, 2 pens, box of crayons or markers, 2 boxes of Kleenex, 2 containers of hand sanitizer, 1 desk size dictionary, glue, scissors, ruler, 1 pair of P.E shoes several reems of lined school paper, 2 folders and anything else the student might need personally. |
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