February 7th - 10th

          UPCOMING EVENTS:

- February 16: Marshall Music Visits

- February 17: Lit Kits Due

- February 18: $5.00 Due for Field Trip

- February 22: AWIM 2 - 3:30

- February 23: Symphony Field Trip

Box Tops Competition!

The 5th grade class needs your help!  We are having a school wide competition to see which grade can collect the most box tops.  The winning grade will get a pizza party.  So let's start collecting!  The competition will go from February 7 through March 4. 

Reading - Lit Kits

The lit kit information was sent home Thursday- we have gone over it a few times and I showed the class an example on Thursday as well.  I sent home a yellow page that explains what they should work on this weekend. Tuesday and Wednesday they'll have some time to work on their summaries and for me to look the drafts over. Your child should begin to start collecting materials for their lit kit and have a container ready.  Please note that their chosen book should be finished by Tuesday, February 15.  I am planning on having the lit kit presentations begin on Thursday, February 17.  

 Math

We have just started chapter 7, all about FRACTIONS!   Some of the topics that we have covered so far are improper fractions and mixed numbers, equivalent fractions,  finding the greatest common factor, and reducing to simplest form.We are doing a lot of review of concepts daily even as we add new concepts.

Science

We continue to work through our forces of motion unit.  The class did very well on their quiz of lessons 5-9. We will begin lesson 10 on Wednesday which is about simple machines such as levers.

Can you think of any everyday tools we use that are examples of a lever?  

AWIM: Students continue to develop there balloon powered cars by testing how far they are able to go, if they are able to go straight, and adding weight to them.

Writing

  Students have completed the research of their chosen president. This has been a good experience in how to google specific information, how it is important to use more than one source, and how we should not trust the information on every site searched. Students practiced skimming for information and realized they couldn't just skim to find everything they needed! We will finish drafts, revising and editing by Thursday. Reports will be due on Monday, February 21st. 

  We also practiced memorizing the presidents in order from the beginning to end. Most students are able to get all the way through! Trevor Blood from our class is ale to say them all backwards!

Ask your child to recite them for you!