I hope you had an amazing Thanksgiving break! I know I did. Today a lady came around to talk to the kids about doing health careers. This is an after school program that takes 10 kids from 5th grade to go to the hospital and do activities such as touring the hospital. They will also be paired with one of the volunteers from the hospital. Once the children are selected it will start in January and be on the 3rd Thursday every month. If you have questions please contact Donna Zornes.
Progress reports were due back today! If your child has not brought their signed report back they can do so tomorrow. Spelling pretest started today. Some students were testing and will take it tomorrow.
Testing has started this week and will finish up next week for MTSS. This test measures their fluency and accuracy while reading. So far everyone that has been tested is making progress compared to the fall scores.
Book orders are due on Friday. I will be out of the building Friday morning for a Dr. Apt. I will be back at lunch. So I will send in the book order after school. Please remember that if you are wanting it to be a surprise for your child to let me know!
In science/social studies labs your child is starting a big colony project. They just finished social studies with me and should have completed their "fakebook" page about their explorer. Ask your child about it.
Students need to bring a paint shirt to keep in their locker by Friday.
Spelling Words!
1. human
2. exact
3. award
4. behave
5. credit
6. basic
7. vivid
8. evil
9. modern
10. nation
11. robot
12. panic
13. select
14. cousin
15. item
16. police
17. prefer
18. menu
19. novel
20. deserve
Challenge
autumn
nuisance
logic
column
laser
Monday, November 28, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
November 14th
Good evening,
Wow has it been a crazy couple of weeks! There is spelling this week!!! And we DO have school on Friday!
**Spelling list will be at the bottom of this post and it will be added to spelling city.
**There are several things going on over the next few weeks please make sure to check everything.
**Over the weekend 5th grade teachers sent home a huge paper turkey feather. Here is the letter that accompanied it.
Dear Families,
As we approach our Thanksgiving season, we will be discussing the many things we have to be thankful for in our lives. As a display of our thanks, I have given each student a feather to decorate with all of the people and things they are grateful for. Please make sure their name is written LARGE somewhere on the feather for everyone to see. Please copy and cut pictures of family and friends, draw items, use stickers (and any other craft items)- whatever you and your child would like to use to decorate. This will be their personalized feather of thanks. next week we will add each feather to the fifth grade turkey to show the school how much we have to appreciate. Please enjoy some time with your child over the next few days to reflect on how much good we really do have in our lives. The feathers should be finished and brought back to school on Monday NOVEMBER 14th. Thank you so much for your involvement and support!
**Only 8 students turned in their feather today! Please help your child finish their turkey feather and bring it in to school tomorrow!
**The 4th and 5th grade musical is this Thursday. The dress rehearsal for Garfield will be at 2:30pm. The public performance will be at 6:30 PM that night! Please have your child in costume and in the gym at 6:20pm that night!! I look forward to seeing you there.
**I am sending a packet home tonight that is due on Friday! It includes math and reading practice. The point of this packet is to help prepare them for state assessments in the spring. It was a joint 5th grade decision to send them home. They have all week to complete the assignments. We want to give every advantage to our students to allow them to be successful during state assessments.
**Last week we started using new classroom money. The students have a log on for learningearnings.com They can earn class paper money for different various things during the day. I can also send them a direct deposit. Students earn $5 for having a no tally day, $20 for being entered into the student of the week drawing, $10 for every A that is put in the gradebook, $5 for every B. Students have also applied for jobs and earn $5 a day for their job. I encourage you to have your child log into their account and show you all the cool prizes they can buy and how it works. They can even earn money for playing the educational games on the website. :)
**In class we have been talking about respect. I have talked with the kids about how I am going to have to really be strict until they prove they can handle some freedom. This may mean that one minute we are a little laid back and another we have to tighten up our rules. I have discussed with the students that sometimes life is not fair and I do not want to hear them shout out that that isn't fair. IT will be an automatic tally if I hear them say it isn't fair. So far we have been much better since I have become more strict. I do not like to be so strict, but it seems to be working for now. If after Thanksgiving break they seem to still have themselves under control I will start giving them back some of their freedoms.
Spelling words
1. bargain
2. journey
3. pattern
4. arrive
5. object
6. suppose
7. shoulder
8. permit
9. sorrow
10. tunnel
11. subject
12. custom
13. suggest
14. perhaps
15. lawyer
16. timber
17. common
18. publish
19. burden
20. scissors
Challenge
narrate
mentor
attempt
collide
ignore
Wow has it been a crazy couple of weeks! There is spelling this week!!! And we DO have school on Friday!
**Spelling list will be at the bottom of this post and it will be added to spelling city.
**There are several things going on over the next few weeks please make sure to check everything.
**Over the weekend 5th grade teachers sent home a huge paper turkey feather. Here is the letter that accompanied it.
Dear Families,
As we approach our Thanksgiving season, we will be discussing the many things we have to be thankful for in our lives. As a display of our thanks, I have given each student a feather to decorate with all of the people and things they are grateful for. Please make sure their name is written LARGE somewhere on the feather for everyone to see. Please copy and cut pictures of family and friends, draw items, use stickers (and any other craft items)- whatever you and your child would like to use to decorate. This will be their personalized feather of thanks. next week we will add each feather to the fifth grade turkey to show the school how much we have to appreciate. Please enjoy some time with your child over the next few days to reflect on how much good we really do have in our lives. The feathers should be finished and brought back to school on Monday NOVEMBER 14th. Thank you so much for your involvement and support!
**Only 8 students turned in their feather today! Please help your child finish their turkey feather and bring it in to school tomorrow!
**The 4th and 5th grade musical is this Thursday. The dress rehearsal for Garfield will be at 2:30pm. The public performance will be at 6:30 PM that night! Please have your child in costume and in the gym at 6:20pm that night!! I look forward to seeing you there.
**I am sending a packet home tonight that is due on Friday! It includes math and reading practice. The point of this packet is to help prepare them for state assessments in the spring. It was a joint 5th grade decision to send them home. They have all week to complete the assignments. We want to give every advantage to our students to allow them to be successful during state assessments.
**Last week we started using new classroom money. The students have a log on for learningearnings.com They can earn class paper money for different various things during the day. I can also send them a direct deposit. Students earn $5 for having a no tally day, $20 for being entered into the student of the week drawing, $10 for every A that is put in the gradebook, $5 for every B. Students have also applied for jobs and earn $5 a day for their job. I encourage you to have your child log into their account and show you all the cool prizes they can buy and how it works. They can even earn money for playing the educational games on the website. :)
**In class we have been talking about respect. I have talked with the kids about how I am going to have to really be strict until they prove they can handle some freedom. This may mean that one minute we are a little laid back and another we have to tighten up our rules. I have discussed with the students that sometimes life is not fair and I do not want to hear them shout out that that isn't fair. IT will be an automatic tally if I hear them say it isn't fair. So far we have been much better since I have become more strict. I do not like to be so strict, but it seems to be working for now. If after Thanksgiving break they seem to still have themselves under control I will start giving them back some of their freedoms.
Spelling words
1. bargain
2. journey
3. pattern
4. arrive
5. object
6. suppose
7. shoulder
8. permit
9. sorrow
10. tunnel
11. subject
12. custom
13. suggest
14. perhaps
15. lawyer
16. timber
17. common
18. publish
19. burden
20. scissors
Challenge
narrate
mentor
attempt
collide
ignore
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