Tuesday, October 6th

Wow! We've been crazy busy over the last week!

Homework this week went home on Friday. A social studies sheet as well as a Math sheet should have come home with Friday mail. I had a substitute on Friday and I totally forgot to lay a literacy sheet out for her to stick in their mailboxes, so no literacy sheet this week.

New spelling lists went home yesterday. Please make sure they are bringing their spelling journals home to study their words.

Science term card test over sets 5 - 8 for groups B and D is on Friday. Groups A and C will have their test Monday.

Friday October 16th, all fifth grade students will be heading out to the OEC for the day. A letter will come home with students tomorrow detailing appropriate outdoor attire etc. Students will either need to pack a lunch, or sign up to have a lunch made for them from the cafeteria.

We will also be working on a project that will require the use of a digital camera. Students will be divided into groups of 3 or 4 students and each group needs to have a digital camera to take pictures of various things at the OEC. If you choose to allow your child to bring a camera, they will be the only ones in their group allowed to use it. Cameras need to have their name written on a piece of tape and stuck to the camera so that in case it is put down we know who each camera belongs to. Phones that take pictures won't work as they don't have a removable disk that can be easily downloaded.

Cameras will be left with Mrs. VanderMei for the weekend and she will download the photos into a file that can be accessed by all of the students in the group.

Meaps start next week on the 13th! Please make sure that your child has no dentist, or doctor's appts. on any Tuesday and Thursday for the next 3 weeks of testing. The state is very rigid on the exact days and times for testing. A healthy breakfast on these days is a MUST!

Thanks! Hope you all have a great week!