Halloween Party

It has been a pleasure to meet with so many of you for Parent Teacher conferences.  I appreciate the hard work your children are doing in the classroom.  It makes our classroom a great place to be.  I enjoy each day with them.

This week we have a few new things, we started a new project today about Native Americans and the European explorers.  This will be a shorter one, just three weeks, with a building component, so be prepared for the supply lists to come home on Wednesday of this week.  We also got new classroom jobs.  Ask your child if he or she applied for a job this quarter.  If they have not, it is not too late.  Get those applications in!

On Thursday, we will celebrate Halloween.  Please have your child wear his or her costume.  Make sure it follows the school guidelines for costumes.  Our class is having a nacho party at 1:30, with a Halloween game inside.  We will have drama at 2:30 - 3:15, then we will finish the day with pumpkin bowling outside from 3:15 - 4:00 when we dismiss.  Ask your child if you have a food assignment.  Those went home last Thursday.  Thanks for all you do!

Parent Teacher Conferences and Tuck Project

Parent teacher conferences are this Friday, 10/24, and next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.  I sent an email with specific times.  Please let me know when is the best time for us to meet.  Your student may come to the conference of you may come without him or her.  

This week in Reading, we are working on a Tuck Everlasting project in class.  Your student will need to gather 10 items from home that represent a character.  The items will come home after your child presents and should fit in a lunch bag.  Your student has chosen the character and is doing the writing in class.  

We have finished up auctions for the first quarter.  Thank you to all who sent in such great items!  It was a lot of fun to watch the students manage their money and make decisions about how much to spend on something.  Such great lessons for life outside the classroom!  

Have a great week!

End of Quarter Auctions

This is a big week in fifth grade.  We are ending the quarter, but we are also finishing up some major things in the classroom.  We finished our read aloud Wonder on Thursday.  We will finish Tuck Everlasting this week.  With both of these books, we will be discussing themes and how characters change during the course of the book.  These are two of my favorite books, both of them have great opportunities for discussion.  I highly recommend them, even to parents!

This week is our auction week.  Thank you to the parents who have already brought in auction items, Mrs. Wadsworth, Mrs. Baldwin, Mrs. Sorensen, and Mrs. Swan.  We will do auctions every day this week, so it's not too late to send in a treat or two.  I really appreciate it!

The Parent teacher conference schedule will be available soon!  I will hold some conferences on a Friday and some the following week, so I can accommodate everyone's schedules.  I am looking forward to meeting with everyone.  I will email you when the schedule is available for signing up.

Junior Acheivement, Bio Narrative, PE volunteer needed

In our economics project, we have been working with Washington Federal Bank to have the Junior Achievement program brought into our classroom.  This is a nationwide curriculum for 4th and 5th graders about economics.  They have trained presenters who have excellent materials that they share with us each week.  We played a game today with them, learning about different types of resources. It has been really helpful to learn with them and we appreciate having this program in our classroom.

This week, we are working on a biographical narrative in writing. We organized our narrative today and we will have it completed by Thursday.  Ask your child who they are writing about and why.

We have a wonderful Oasis PE parent, who is actually not a parent of any of our students, who takes our class each week Wednesdays from 3:15 - 4:00.  This person is not able to come for PE on Wed. 10/15 and Wed. 11/5.  If you can sub, please email me!  The students look forward to this all week.  It is a great way to enjoy this nice weather and play.  Can you help us out?  Let me know!