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What do you like about the winter season and why?

What did you do over the 4 day break that we had from school?

December Newsletter

Stuck on Good Behavior

Students reached their goal and filled the poster man with tape. In return stuck Ms. G to the wall.
Next goal is to fill the man to get the opportunity to play in a giant bubble and have a movie afternoon.

Encouragement

Encourage your students to read. With practice students become more fluent readers and their language skill will improve.
Encourage your students to study spelling words or even math facts at night for even just ten minutes a night to help improve scores.

Congratulations

Congratulations to our class for earning a movie, popcorn, and extra recess for getting back the parent surveys.
Congratulations to 7 and 11, our Carnival King and Queen. Also a big thanks to the parents and students who helped us collect the pennies to vote.

Upcoming Events

Dec. 12 Music Concert 7p.m.
Dec. 20 End of 1st Semester
Dec. 20 Early out 12:30 p.m.
Dec. 20 Holiday Party at school
Dec. 21-Jan.2 No School
Dec.22 16 & 17's Birthday

Thank You

Thank you to 1 and 10 for the beautiful bulletin board for November.
The carnival was a while ago, but thank you to all the parents and students that helped out in our spooky classroom.

Long Division

D M S B r

Dad's job is to divide
Mom's job is to multiply
Sister's job is to bring down
Brother's job is to bring down
sometime Rover comes around as a remainder

*remember to look back at your notes

Happy Thanksgiving

Don't forget no school Wednesday- Friday this week.

Tuesday we will have class as normal until recess. We earned 30mins of extra recess and we get to watch a movie in the afternoon. Popcorn provided by Mrs. Riley.

Sticky Situation

Two full rolls of duct

tape, 35minutes later, and I have a brand-new outfit!

All Filled

Stuck on Good Behavior is completed. Ms. G gets to be tapped to the wall Wednesday!







Our next goal is to fill the bubbles so we can play in a giant bubble and watch a movie!

Family Tree Project

5th Grade Family Tree Project

What does your family look like?

Start Date November 14, 2006 +2 weeks = assignment due November 28, 2006

Create your family tree. (doesn’t have to look like a tree)

Must Have:
Start with your name at the bottom, top, or one side.
Have a key example : female pink writing, male blue writing
Title to your project
Names of people (try to get first and last names)
Creative Presentation (how are you going to show all your information)


Optional:
Write down details about the person
Where they are from/ lived
Date of birth- death
Pictures

What can I make it on?
Poster board
Computers (PowerPoint, word programs)
Large paper
Card board
Mobile hanging downward
Construction paper
Other

Other information:
Will be looking at organization of information and neatness, as well as how much was completed using the source available to you like your family members.

This project is wroth 50points towards your reading grade.

There will be some class time spent on this project, but very little.

This project is about looking at your history and communication within your family. Use all the resources available to you.

If you need material to create your project please talk to Ms. Gray

Count Down

http://home.valornet.com/sabruf2/countchr.html

Guess that arm?

Arm A (white shirt)

Arm B (red shirt)

Links

POEMS
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/

http://www.gigglepoetry.com/

HEALTH
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/pyramid.html

WORDS
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/

ART/ENGLISH
http://www.stephen.com/enigma/enigma.html

http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/

READING
http://www.starfall.com/

MATH
http://coolmath4kids.com/

Carnival Night

Congradulations to our King and Queen and to our class for raising the most votes by collecting pennies.

Thank you to all of the students and parents for participating in the haunted classroom. Also thank for everything that was donated.

Red Ribbon Week

Congratulations to the cap winner DP and to TE for winning the pennant contest for Red Ribbon Week.

Stuck on Good Behavior

New Class Member

We have a new addition to our class thanks to RF and TE.


5 lined female, young Skink

Sally

For extra credit in science you can tell the class another fact about our new class pet.

November Newsletter

Fall

With fall here and winter approaching temperatures are dropping. Please make sure your students have the proper clothing and shoes to wear outside. We have been fortunate to not have many students out with colds this past quarter.

Thank You

Thank you to RF and TP for the creative faces on window painted pumpkins. Also for a very spooky bulliten board in the hall.

Learning Cornner

Science: We just finished with the planets and working on wonderful PowerPoints that were created by each student. We are going to begin the topic of water, weather and the watercycle,

Math: We are working in Chapter 3 with geometry the study of shapes and figures. We will also continue working on our multiplication facts.

English: Currently we are working on verbs and several parts of speech. We are going to be working also on several forms of letter writing.

Reading: Almost finished with literature circles, we will begin working in centers once again. The next set of literature books will be chosen by the student.s. What book they choose will indicates the group they will work in.

Upcoming Events

Nov. 3 6-9pm Carnival
Nov. 3 Book orders due
Nov. 4 15’s Birthday
Nov. 10 6’s Birthday
Nov. 11 Veteran’s Day
Nov. 17 Mid Quarter
Nov. 22-24 Thanksgiving Break: No School
Nov. 24 Ms. G's Birthday

PowerPoint

What do we like most about PowerPoints
check the comments for what the 5th grade thinks!!

(please don't put your name or the names of your classmates)

6th Grade Links

Crystal Links
http://www.crystalinks.com/astronomy.html

DustBunny
http://www.dustbunny.com/afk/constellations/

The Constellations and their Stars
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/extra/constellations.html

October News Letter

Stuck on Good Behavior
The class has been showing such good behavior, The month of Sept. they have managed to fill up both arms and are working on filling the head. They seem to be following directions and working hard on making good choices and demonstrating good behavior in the classroom.
Right now when we get all assingments in on time we get 5min of extra recess.


Frog Folders
The Frog Folders are looking good. Everyone has been taking them home. I have had several parents writing notes to me.



PTO Carnival
The PTO is sponsoring a carnival November 3rd. Each class is responsible for creating a booth. I have chosen to do our classroom as a spook- house. I’m open to any ideas on how to make our classroom scary and fun. I’m also going to be sending home a list of items to donate and asking for times to volunteer. I would appreciate all the help we can get!



King and Queen?
We are starting early in collecting pennies. Each penny represents one vote. The 5th-8th grade is in one division. Half the money raised for our class representatives will go to the PTO and the other half directly to our class to help provide for books and other materials. The class representatives with the most coins wins the title king and queen. Our class took a vote and A.N. and K.E. will represent our class.

Congratulations


Upcoming Events
Tuesday, Oct. 3rd J.L. Birthday
Thursday, Oct. 5th Book Orders Due
Friday, Oct. 6th No School
Friday, Oct. 20th End of 1st Quarter
Wednesday, Oct. 25th Conferences 3-7pm
Thursday, Oct. 26th Early Out 12:30pm
Conferences 1-5pm
Friday, Oct 27th No School