Monday, October 20, 2014

HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING....

HALLOWEEN..... festivities will be celebrated on Friday, 10/31!!!
The Parade will begin at 1:15 and our classroom parties will begin after the parade is finished!
Please remember to simplify costumes for school and that we change in the classrooms so complete costume changes are a bit difficult.... We do arrange a boy room for changing and a girl room for changing but time is "minimal".  Also, please remember no weapons of any kind are allowed.

Thank you Mrs, Scheck and Mrs. Topp for being great CLASSROOM  PARTY COORDINATORS!
The party volunteers attending the classroom party, running games and serving treats:
~Mrs. Huang, Mrs. Szutowicz, and Mrs. Antiporek
The parents sending in treats are: Mrs Mostafa and Mrs. O'Connor
The parent sending in beverages is Mrs. Szutowicz and Mrs. Vlassakeva is sending in paper goods.

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU for ALL YOUR HELP!!!!

NATIONAL BUS DRIVER APPRECIATION DAY - THURSDAY..... Your child began a letter or card in class for their bus driver that we will present in person on Thursday.  If you would like to send anything "extra" with the card/letter that is an individual decision. The bus drivers always love the notes the students write. We hope to make their day extra special!!!

PARENT - TEACHER CONFERENCES.....
The Week of October 27th is the opportunity to review your child's progress in 5th grade and also testing data.
Please sign up if you haven't already!
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f4aa4af22a5f85-fall12

SPELLING:
Work is due on Thursday and final test on Friday.  "Word of the Week" and definition = bonus point!

ENGLISH: Unit 1 Sentences
Your child should be able to separate a complete subject and complete predicate and identify the simple subject and simple predicate.  Look at workbook page 9 which they had to do all of the above!
Next, we learn about subjects in imperative sentences and conjunctions.  Yes....we will be singing along with SCHOOL HOUSE ROCKS....Conjunction Junction, What's your Function?

READING:
We will be doing some research on the internet to gain background knowledge on the Sioux Native Americans and then begin a selection......
A BOY CALLED SLOW - word work, gaining stamina with reading, identifying character traits at various stages of Slow's life and citing evidence of those traits from the text as "proof" of each trait".

SOCIAL STUDIES:
We will be sharing our theories on what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke....

SCIENCE:
The students chose a weather topic that they wanted to learn more about to research and we have started to "dig in" and find information.
Take a look at their topic and which specific "disaster" they picked to research....
Mrs. Foellmer, our classroom technologist, is assisting us with this project!

A LOT OF GREAT LEARNING IS HAPPENING IN OUR CLASSROOM...............