Projects and Christmas Craft

Welcome to the last week before Christmas break.  This is a fun week at school, one filled with learning experiences in the classroom.

Fifth graders this week will present both their Earth’s Systems projects to the lower and upper grade classes and their Cereal Box book reports later in the week.  The only thing your child needs from home is a prize for their cereal box before Wednesday.

On Thursday, we will do a fun winter craft.  I have all the materials except for each student will need a decorative pair of socks, either a matching pair or mismatched.  We are making a little rice-filled snowman out of a white tube sock.  The decorative sock will be used to make a sweater and a hat for the snowman.  If you want the sweater and hat to match, get a matching pair of printed socks.  I made one and used two mismatched socks that both had red and green, so that is fine too.  The socks for the sweater and hat should be colorful.  Please send the socks in this week, so we can do this on Thursday afternoon.  If you have extras at home, you can send those in too in case we need a few extras.  

Please email me if you have any questions.  

Thanks and have a great week!



Also, I wrote this but never posted from last week:
Sorry for the lack of contact!
Blog post 12/9

Welcome to another busy school week.  Here’s a few important items to keep in mind.  

We will work on Cereal Box Book Reports in reading every day this week.  Your child should have finished his or her book.  Each student needs a cereal box and a prize, the rest will be done in class.  

In Writing we are learning rules for comma usage.  There are a ton of rules, some with several exceptions.  We will practice that and look for examples of comma usage in other texts.  We are working on writing complex sentences, using subordinate conjunctions.  

In Projects, this is a work week for our Earth Science triads.  They will be putting the finishing touches on their presentations and displays.

We are at the end of the quarter, so even though kids are excited for christmas and other festivities, we have quite a bit of work to do still that counts for grades.  Please help your child maintain focus and keep up the hard work these next two weeks.

Christmas Party Info and Projects

Christmas Party:  We are having a great Christmas party this year.  The Fallon Theater is having an exclusive showing of the Disney movie Frozen for our school. The fifth graders, along with the 4th, 6th, and 7th graders, will walk to the theater on Thursday, Dec. 12.  We will have lunch a little early that day to get there in time for our movie at noon.  The cost is $6.00 for the movie and a popcorn and drink.  

Please send in the $6.00 with your student this week if possible.  I'll be gone a few days next week and I'd rather not leave that for a sub to worry about.

As for the academic part of school, here's what's coming up:

Reading:  Cereal Box book report, each student needs an empty cereal box by Monday Dec. 9.  Books should be read, if not, have your student finish by Dec. 9.  The work for this project will be done in class, except for getting the box and the prize.

Projects:  We are currently working on an Earth science project about rocks, weathering, and erosion.   This project does not require many supplies, but a few students volunteered to bring in tri-fold display boards for their group.  Thank you for providing these!  Our Earth science presentations are scheduled for Monday, Dec. 16.  We will have seven groups in our class, each with information about one part of Earth's systems that shape the landscape.  Each fifth grade team is working with a fourth grade team and they will have information about what is happening with the landscape, why it is happening, and where you can go to see a real world example of their focus area.   We hope you can come see their presentations.  We love having an audience!  Time and location to follow.