DUNES FIELD TRIP IS MONDAY, JUNE 4th.

Unfortunately the weather is uncooperative and not looking great for tomorrow at all. 80% chance of rain and not even 60 degrees.

We are going to go on our Dunes field trip on Monday, June 4th, the scheduled rain date.

If you are unable to go on this date, please contact us.

If you still have donated items to bring, please send them tomorrow.

Thank you,
5th Grade teachers

WEEK OF MAY 21-MAY 25

DATES:
June 1st .............................. Dunes Field Trip
June 5th at 2:00............................. 5th Grade graduation ("What's in Your Box?")

Above are two of the dates we suggested that you mark on your calendar. We look forward to seeing you at these events.

Middle School: You may want to bookmark the Middle School blog: http://hamiltonmiddleschool.blogspot.com/


Middle School Principal Visit:  Mr. Feig came to visit 5th grade classrooms today. They introduced themselves and answered student questions.

AUCTION:

A reminder that if you choose to donate desirable goods for fifth grade boys and girls to our classroom auction, please have all donations in by Friday, June 1^st

  I am interested in things like king-sized candy bars, gum, books, trading cards, games, small gift certificates for ice cream, movies, beach and other outdoor fun items, etc. (feel free to add to this list).  These goods can be obtained through donation from local businesses, garage sales, or from the goodness of your heart!  I would like for these donated items to be kept a secret so that the auction is a surprise for all students, so please send them to school in a sealed brown paper bag. I have begun purchasing items for the auction as well.

Any help that you may be able to offer would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks to all of you who have already donated!

Math:  
   We are reviewing ratios and percent lessons. The test over this will be next Thursday, May 31st. We have been reviewing past concepts. Wednesday students took the 5th grade Delta math test- this tests students over concepts they are expected to enter 5th grade knowing. We planned to take the 6th grade Delta (concepts students should enter 6th grade knowing) but found that this was inadvertently not loaded onto the program during our scheduled time. We will take this next week.

Reading:  
   Students have been given several options for presenting information about their books. They are working on posters, commercials, book jackets, book cubes, collages, and presenting scenes while  incorporating the important elements of their novels.

Writing:  
  We began presenting Pourquois for those who wanted to do so. Most students have finished their Middle School Prompt. These will be placed in their file for their 6th grade teachers to view.

Science:  
We adopted out all our pets. Thank you!! Now we need to clean cages! We have been talking about fossils and looking at a variety of them. Students also completed a fossil webquest searching for information about fossils. We will be discussing plants and more on how systems work together. We will continue reviewing as well. The test will be June 5th.


Spelling:
This week's skill was el, al, le, or, ar, and er spellings.
Have a great weekend!

Week of May 14th - May 18th

DATES:
June 1st .............................. Dunes Field Trip
June 4th ............................. Dunes rain date

 
Middle School: You may want to bookmark the Middle School blog: http://hamiltonmiddleschool.blogspot.com/


Middle School 6th grade Parent Orientation:
 The 6th Grade Parent Orientation will take place on May 22nd. Two options are available for parents. Please see details below:

• What: 6th Grade Parent Orientation (Incoming 5th graders for the 2012-13 school year)
• When: May 22nd
• Who: Parents of current 5th grade students entering 6th grade in the 2012-13 school year.
• Location: Middle School Library
• Time: 9:00am-10:00am or 6:00pm - 7:00pm

**Students are welcome to attend the 6:00pm orientation, however, they are not required.

Penny War:  
Our class won the Penny War! A sincere thank you to all who participated in this!

Pizza Party!  The AWIM volunteers brought cookies, pizza, and pop for our class on Friday to celebrate our win in the Jet Toy competition in February. Congratulations kids! Thank you to JCI!


Math:  
   We began our Ratios and Percents unit this week. We have been working with ratios and equal ratios and when we would use them in "real life".  We continue to review concepts we have worked on this year.

Reading:  
 Book Club continues. Students have been having great discussions with their groups. I have enjoyed listening to them ask and respond to each others' questions. We are practicing using our skills to summarize orally and in written form what has been read as well as using text information to respond to questions.

Writing:  
Pourquois are completed. Students have the option to present these next week. Meanwhile we have been working on Middle School prompt. Student are choosing to write about anxieties and/or what they look forward to in middle school. Lockers is a biggie! Nervousness about the combination lock and excited because they are so much larger!

Science:  
We continue to observe our animals. We talked about external and internal cues in addition to other topics we have covered. It's been fun having the animals, but 'm glad they will all be adopted out next week!!


Spelling:
This week's skill was synonyms.
Have a great weekend!

DATES:

DATES:

Penny War Fundraiser is over on Monday! Who will win the war? We'll know Monday!
Dunes Field Trip....................... June 1st - (Rain date- June 4th)




Track and Field Day - Thanks to all volunteers and to parents that could come out and enjoy the day with their 5th
grader. A beautiful day! A big thank you goes to Mrs. Peterson and Mr.  Petroelje who coordinate and run this very fun event for our 5th graders!  Since everyone is all over the place and I work an event, I know I missed some people. Monday we'll take pictures of relay teams, etc. since kids are bringing shirts back to be signed- I need another group picture with 3 absent and a couple who didn't come for the photo! To be posted it later!
                

Preparing for the mile

Jessilynn and Heather

Hannah running the mile

Karina ready for 400 M run

Isaac and Taylor- mile run

Peyton running the mile

Will and Brayden - 400 M run

Heather, Rylin, and Sydney- jump rope trio!

Dylan, Brayden, and Elijah jump rope trio

Riley- 50 M dash!

First time eating at the MS cafeteria..

...and the food's good!

The signing of the shirts!

                              

   
Math:
  We completed Chapter 5 graphing and statistics on Wednesday with the test. Students did quite well. We have only one unit left- Ratios and Percents. We have been and will continue to review concepts we have worked on this year.



Reading:  
 Book Club continues. Some students need to complete their section 3 reading and response activity for homework. Others may begin section 4 if they choose.

Writing:  
Pourquois are completed. Students had the option to make a slideshow, iMovie, etc. They should be putting those on their web pages in InfoTech. We began discussion and planning of our 5th grade Middle School prompt. Students will continue pre-writing and begin drafting.

Science:  
We have been discussing inherited traits and learned behaviors as well as continuing to care for and observe our animals. There will be a quiz Thursday over concepts we have been discussing in class. We have been reviewing daily.


Spelling:
This week's skill was apostrophes. The tests will be next Monday.
Have a great weekend!

DATES:

DATES:

May 11....................................Track and Field Day


Charlton Park Field Trip: The warmest day I've ever been on this trip! The kids were able to see what life was like in the pioneer days. The school is always a place that interests them. They were able to help make vegetable soup and some kids were able to churn butter (which we ate later) until it was too far done to continue. They used the iron and hand-washed some dishes- Looking at the pile of dishes, one of my girls asked, "How do you do this?" Thank goodness for the dishwasher!
I'll post pictures to the blog this weekend.

   
Math:
We have been working in Chapter 5 on graphing. Students finished their surveys and data tables. They then created their graphs online. We will also learned about mean, mode, range and median. We played a dice game and worked on three interactive activities on the laptops. We have been reviewing and will have the test on Tuesday.
We have been doing quite a lot of review along with our current unit.
HW: Students do have math homework due on Monday.


Reading: We began Book Clubs on Tuesday. Students had some options to choose from for novels and will be meeting with their group regularly for discussion as well as completing various comprehension activities.

Writing:  
Pourquois will be due on Wednesday. Students will have options as to how they want to present their final drafts of this- some are typing, doing iMovies, powerpoint books, and other ideas they have come up with. They will put these on their web pages.

Science:  
We're all parents to crabs and tree frogs! We will be observing our animals as part of our systems unit. Students will also be responsible for the care of them each day. We are working on being good observers, looking at behavioral and physical characteristics that help them survive.
 
Spelling:
This week's skill was double letters in words. Next week's skill is apostrophes.

1.	areas
2.	They're
3.	whole
4.	their
5.	temperatures
6.	always
7.	cover
8.	their
9.	won't
10.	Besides
11.	weather
12.	general
13.	it's
14.	wait
15.	until
16.	it's
17.	Because
18.	reasons
19.	difficult
20.	information
21.	there
22.	differences
23.	course
24.	fact
25.	its
26.	tail