DATES:
Monday March 3rd..............BRAINSTORMERS ASSEMBLY
Monday March 3rd..............Conferences
Tuesday March 4TH............Conferences
Friday March 7th.................NO SCHOOL

Friday March 21st....................11:40 dismissal
Friday March 21st...................PTO Fun Night


FIELD TRIPS: As I mentioned in an earlier email, these are trips that may be attended by all parents IF you have a WISH volunteer form completed.


May 8 or 9 will be Track and Field Day- PE teacher will let us know and I will communicate this to you at that time.

June 2nd is the Dunes Field Trip

April 25th will be a school day, NOT a day off.
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CONFERENCES:
 You may bring you 5th grader with you if you wish. Students are welcome to attend!


Middle School paperwork:
If you have not returned this packet of information, please do so by March 10th.


Puberty Lessons:
We are hoping to hand out parent permission forms at conferences for these lessons. These will need to be returned by the date that will be on form. There will be an opportunity for parents to view materials soon. (March)






HOMEWORK:  Reading Homework - if Section7 and the comprehension page of book club books were not finished Friday, this was to be homework for Monday.
                                
MATH:  Check out the Math Tab for fraction tutorials!!
   We took the Multiplying and Dividing Fractions unit test on Friday. Some students will need to complete this on Monday. I will share these at conferences. We will begin our unit on Multiplying whole numbers and decimals next week. We have already spent time on this since the first month of school.

READING -   
Click on the "Reading" tab for practice comprehension passages
  Students continue working in their book clubs. It is taking longer with all of these days off. We have also been working with nonfiction texts as well. We should wrap up this book club round this week.

WRITING:                    
  Students chose a person from history to research and write a biography. Students are reading a book about their person of choice. Additionally they will research a website as a source. They have a notes outline to use as well as a checklist of standards we are focusing on. One of these is sentence fluency. We practiced with a couple activities focusing on sentence fluency and the students have a graphic organizer to refer to as they incorporate this into their writing. Most students have begun drafting and these are due on Wednesday.

SCIENCE:   
We reviewed recent concepts and learned about the tides. Next week we will play a jeopardy review game and take a quiz over moon phases, tides, eclipses, and seasons.
 
SPELLING:
  Students took the lesson 21 test on Friday. List 22 will go home Monday. You can also find it under the spelling tab. The skill is adding suffixes.

If your child wants to play games/do practice tests, go to: Spelling City