March News Letter

Thank You

Thank you to 11 and 14 for making a very loving bulletin board.

Club Zone

Keep up the good work 5th graders who are working hard to get into a club.
Congratulations to 19 and 18 for making it into 3 clubs, 13, 8, and 3 for making it into 2 clubs and to 11 and 9 who have made it on to one.

Mr. Anderson

Mr. Anderson is the new 6th grade teacher. He will be teaching the 5th grade in social studies and will be taking over their literature circles on Wednesdays.

Upcoming Events

Thursday, March 1st No School Trout Day

Friday, March 2nd 19’s ½ Birthday

Friday, March 9th End of the 3rd Quarter
Book Orders Due

Sunday, March 11th Daylight Saving
Time Begins
Tuesday, March 13th Spring Pictures

Thursday, March 15th Food Power Presentation
Conferences 3-7

Friday, March 16th Conferences 1-5
Early-out 12: 30
Saturday, March 17th 22’s Birthday
St. Patrick’s Day

MAP TESTING COMING SOON

check with your participating student
on his/her basketball game schedule

Native American Research Papers

The research has been complete and we will now begin to revise our papers. We will also be learning how to create a bibliography using all the sources collected from research. After revising our rough drafts we will be typing them on the computer and working on developing skills of typing, but later turning them into a PowerPoint.

Thanks to the High School FFA

We got to visit some of the animals that would be found on a farm here at school during the National FFA week. We extend our thanks to all the FFA members.

Leaning Corner

Math:We just finished up the chapter on how we can changes percents, decimals, and fractions. Unit 6 will be on using data and adding and subtracting fractions.

Reading: The past unit we studied autobiographies and had a chance to write our own. This new unit we are starting will be based on animal encounters. We are also reading literature books that have a little mystery in them. Please ask your child about the book they are reading. Literature Circles meet on Wednesday morning to discuss their book.

Snow (ice) Days

We are beginning to make up the days that we have missed so please pay attention to the change of parent teacher conferences and that we now have school on Friday, March 16th , and Monday, March 19th.

Native American Reseach Links

• These are some sites that will be helpful.
• Don't forget to write down the sites that you use.
• How do you cut and paste information that is important and save for later?
• Hi-lite the words you want on the keyboard hold (ctrl c ) then go to where you want to put it in your Word document and hold (ctrl p) all else fails right click and hit the words or go to Edit on the top of the Word program.
• Remember when we rewrite we do not plagiarize .
• Stay on TASK.....do NOT go to sites that are not on this list while at school.

Native American History
http://www.nativeamericans.com/
Scroll to the bottom for helpful links! Make sure you aren’t going to another search engine

http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/native.html

http://www.ability.org.uk/native_american_history.html

http://www.historynet.com/culture/native_american_history

http://www.americanindiantribe.com/greene/ait_FAQ.htm

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/native_american.html

http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmai/start.htm

http://www.historycentral.com/

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/

History of Cherokee
http://cherokeehistory.com/

http://www.smokymtnmall.com/mall/cindians.html


Religion
http://www.religioustolerance.org/nataspir.htm

http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/naspirit.html

http://www.native-languages.org/religion.htm

http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/naspirit_old.html

Languages
http://www.native-languages.org/

http://www.bartleby.com/65/na/NatvAmlang.html

WIISINIWAN -- Food Recipes
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/food/recipes.html

Food and more
http://www.indians.org/articles/native-american-food.html


Fighting Styles/ Weapons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_fighting_styles

http://www.cclranchdecor.com/SouthwestSection.html

http://www.snowwowl.com/naarttomahawk.html

http://www.ancient-weapons.com/

http://hands-around-the-world.com/native-american-indian-weapons.html

Hunting

http://www.indians.org/articles/bear-hunting.html

http://ncseonline.org/NAE/hunting.html

Music
http://parlorsongs.com/insearch/amerindian/amerindian0.asp

Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Native%20American%20History

Weapons (if you click on the bolded words it will tell you what they are made of)
http://nativeway.safewebshop.com/finished_weaponry.html

French and Indian War

http://www.philaprintshop.com/frchintx.html

http://web.syr.edu/~laroux/

http://www.historycentral.com/Revolt/French.html

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/frenchandindianwar1.htm

******Online Encyclopedia*********
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.bartleby.com/65/

February Newsletter

The time is always right to do what is right. ~Martin Luther King Jr.

Thank You

Thank you to 17 and 20 for January’s bulletin board of New Year bells.

Learning Cornner

SCIENCE: Water Cycle Project turned out wonderful. Every student had a little something different on each project. We are going to continue working on our weather.

MATH: Fractions are giving us all a little trouble. There will be a test at the end of the month. Please help your students work on converting fractions in to decimals and percents.

READING: We just finished our literature circle and for the next 2 weeks we will be doing centers. Students will have a book that they will need to read aloud to you.
Centers: Fluency, Computer, Guided Reading, Readers’ Theatre, Making Words, Spelling Practice

LANGUAGE ARTS: Students will be starting a research project on Native Americans. We will be taking this project one step at a time. For the first few weeks we will be gathering information and learning how to put it in to paragraphs and recording our sources.

Upcoming Events

Feb. 9 BOOK ORDERS DUE
Feb. 12-23 K-6 Cookie Dough Fundraiser
Feb. 13 4’s ½ Birthday
Feb. 13-16 Homecoming Week (dress up is optional)
Monday 12 Under the Sea
Tuesday 13 Fisherman/Fish Day
Wednesday 14 Switch Day (girls dress up as boys and boys as girls)
Valentine's Day: Party at 2pm
Thursday 15 Pirates of Exeter *no weapons

Friday 16 Red and Black School Spirit
Feb. 16 We have school School HOMECOMING Game
Feb. 19 11’s Birthday
Feb. 19 No School (may change)
Feb. 22 Author Dave Sargent comes to visit
Feb. 23 3’s Birthday
Feb. 24 12’s ½ Birthday
Feb. 30 13’s and 14’s ½ Birthday

Congradulations

Congratulation to all of the students who studied hard for the class spelling bee and the school spelling bee.

Valentine’s Day Party

We will be having a party on February 14th at 2 p.m. We will be decorating bags in class. Students may bring their Valentines cards to school that day to pass out. I ask that they have enough for everyone in the class so nobody is left out. We will be playing games and passing out cards that afternoon.