Thanks for sending in kleenex! We will be needing that this winter!

TURKEY TROT:
This is an event put on by the Fuel-Up program that Mr. VanHekken and Mr. Sikma lead with student members. Tuesday afternoon students and teachers will participate in a walk/run outside to get moving and be healthy. Dress appropriately. If it looks like it will be poor weather, the event will be inside.
 
CHRISTMAS GIFT GIVING:  
Your child brought home a note about there being NO CHRISTMAS GIFT EXCHANGE IN 5TH GRADE. We will instead be gifting a charitable organization. Details are in the note but in case you didn't get it:
     In place of gifts, teachers, students, and parents will be able to purchase a ticket(s) and mini candy-cane(s) for a teacher or friend (or themselves!) Each ticket/candy-cane combination is $1. The ticket with the gift receiver's name on it will go into a bowl, the candy cane to the receiver, and the dollar set aside for the charity. (Each teacher will buy a ticket for every student in his/her homeroom so each child has their name in the drawing.) 
     All 5th grade students will research a charity and write a persuasive speech persuading others to choose their charity as one of the charities we will donate to. We will then have the top 3 charities chosen. On the last day before Christmas Break, a ticket will be drawn. The person whose name is on the ticket gets to choose which of the charities the donation will go to. 
    We will let you know when tickets will be able to be purchased in December. If you have questions, please contact me or Mrs. Maxson as we have experience with this event.

  *Homework this weekend- WRITING.  (NO MATH)
Students should complete their drafts, edit and revise their "Turkey" story. If they want to type the draft in google docs I will look it over this weekend.  

Students should be reading each day in their book for their book project. * November Book Project: It is due December 1st.

There are 4 choices for this month's project. 

MATH: 

  We continue with multiplying whole numbers and fractions. We added in multiplying fractions by fractions and continue to review fractions as division as well as work on problem solving with fractions.

LANGUAGE ARTS  
  Falling a little behind in A Long Way from Chicago with the 2 snow days. We continue with this novel and working on reading comprehension strategies. Students have grades in for their 2nd compare and contrast. After practice with a first one, reviewing what is needed, and what the standards say, I saw improvement with this second one. 
  We began working on a short story about a turkey that needs to disguise itself in order not to become Thanksgiving dinner. Students have a page of directions, a planing page and the rubric that they will be graded with ahead of time as always. We have reviewed these and I am reminding them to continue to look at these as they write.

SCIENCE 

We have been studying magnetism as a non-contact force and done some investigations with this concept. We will discuss electricity as a non-contact force next week.

Spelling: We took the skill and proofreading tests Friday. This will come home Monday. Students typically have a lesson, homework page (which often gets completed in class) 

No Spelling Test next week.