December update

Welcome to the Chaos of December!

First…. All 4th and 5th grade students will be at the high school auditorium tomorrow morning from 9:45 – 11:30 for our final program practice. Unless of course your child has a speaking part… then they have to board to bus as soon as they get here and they’ll practice their lines until the rest of us get there.
Performance is at 7:00 on Tuesday night. Kids need to be at the high school choir room between 6:30 and 6:45. We’ll do a warm up, get the kids on stage and then the show will begin!
Dress….. red, green or white tops and black pants. If they don’t have black pants, then clean, non-holey jeans are fine.

Sadowski's class only below:

On Wednesday ( December 7th) Sadowski's will be walking to “Generous Hands” next to Subway in Vicksburg for our community service project. Originally, we were going on the 21st…. but there was a mix-up with times at the generous hands center, so we took Mrs. Vandermei’s slot for this Wednesday as she has training that day and it probably wouldn’t be a great idea to have a sub haul kids all the way across town. Please make sure that the kids dress or bring appropriate clothes for Wednesday’s walk. It’s about 3 miles there and back. We’ll be hoofing it, but if their fingers and heads are covered, I’m sure they’ll be much happier on the walk!

Schedule books have not been done for the last week…. If your child was awesome and did them on their own ( as they will be expected to do next year) then fantastic! The reason they are not done, is that they had music practice every day at 3:00 – 3:30 last week….. so by the time they got their things and got dressed to go there was no time for us to do it formally. Today went the same way….. so tomorrow I’m going to try to have them do it in the morning.

Groups 1 and 2 got new spelling lists this week. Groups #3 still has the second half of their packet to finish, and their list for this week is inside of it. We did NOT have time to go over spelling lists or meanings today due to again….. lines practice which had half of my kids out of my room at 20 minutes intervals all afternoon…. And then music practice for all kids again was from 2:30 – 3:30. We WILL be going over their list tomorrow morning , but I did hand them out so they could study.

Listsfor Sadowski's class for the week of December 5th are as follows:

List 1

beginning humming dropped setting slipping joggers grabbing bobbing tripped padded skimming scrubbing winners outfitted wrapped clapping dragging chatting quitter trimmer

List 2

transport transfer increase disgrace uncovered discontinue uncooked discovered include inhale disturb incomplete unjust transplant unusual unselfish insecure distance inspire inexpensive

List 3

responsible charitable curable livable portable amiable compatible habitable notable disposable attainable communicable intelligible permissible quotable available consumable legible pitiable reliable

Friday Field Trip - November 18th

5th grade will be traveling to the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts and the Kalamazoo Valley museum Friday, November 18th. Any student who did not sign up for a sack lunch will need to remember to pack a completely disposable sack lunch.

Monday November 21st @ 2:45

4th and 5th grade boys will attend an assembly in the cafeteria where they will learn about the Vicksburg wrestling program. Flyers will most likely come home after that meeting.

November 22nd - last day of school before Thanksgiving break. School closed on Wednesday.

December 2nd - Used book sale during school hours, Sunset Lake Elementary

December 6th - Holiday Musical for 4th and 5th graders at the P.A.C.

Students need to arrive no later than 6:30, for a warmup to their performance.

December 8th - Holiday gift shopping for Sunset Lake Students.

December 21st - Sadowski's Class Only- Visit to Generous hands to pack backpacks.

** Kids will need to dress in layers as we will be walking there! Snowpants, headbands, hats, gloves, boots, the works! Unless its a blizzard, we will be going!

December 22nd - 5th grade holiday skating party - Long Lake Roller Rink

More details to follow as time gets closer.

February 17th - 5th grade ski trip to Timber Ridge

Sadowski Conference Schedule for November 10th

5:30 Jon P.

5:45 Josh S.

6:00 Vic. S.

6:15 Lil V.

6:30 Bren B.

6:45 Matt M.

7:00 Jared H.

7:15 Em H.

7:45 Lee W.

8:00 Lin M.

Sadowski Conference Schedule for November 15th

5:45 Em T.

6:00 Lucas C.

6:15 Nic H.

6:30 Terr. L.

6:45 Hay P.

7:00 Ryan S.

7:30 Mia M.

7:45 Dak R.

8:00 Ais. B.

8:15 Terr. C.

Upcoming Events

The following events are upcoming for 5th grade students:

10/19 75% day for A.R.

10/20 Funeral procession for fallen Vicksburg soldier Drew Russell. 5th grade students will line the streets for 10:30 procession. Feel free to join us. Dress for the weather and bring a flag.

10/31 Halloween party. Parade at 2:15. 5th grade party to follow in Sunset Lake Cafeteria. Email details to follow.

11/7 Ned reward assembly for 100% reward for A.R.

11/11/11 Veterans day observance in town at 11:00. ( 5th graders) Dress for weather.

11/18 Kalamazoo Institute of Arts trip/Kalamazoo Valley museum trip.

(Chaperones welcome... but due to limited bus space must drive separate)

December 6th - Tentative date.... 5th grade program at the P.A.C.

Other 5th grade news

Groups B /D have Science this week and for the next three weeks.

Groups A/C have Social Studies

All students (regardless whether they have science or social studies) should be studying those term cards.

Science this week - Meap test Wednesday - Motion and forces unit next three weeks.

Review : What is a force? How can you tell if something is moving? What is a point of reference? What is velocity? What is speed? What is the differnence between a balanced and unbalanced force? Who is Newton and what are his three laws of motion?

Congratulations to Victoria Simmons for making it around the world with term cards! She and

2 - 3 fifth grade friends of their choice will receive a pizza lunch on Friday of this week. Way to go Victoria!

1st Quarter A.R. Goals

50% Day - October 4th

75% Day - October 19th

100% Day - November 3rd

Please ask your child frequently where they are in meeting their goal. Goals were set based on the fact that ALL students should be reading a 1/2 hour a night or 2 + hours per week at home.

Students who are sginificantly behind in their goal will be kept in for opportunity to catch up. Parents will also receive an email home notifying of them of their student's progress.

OEC

OEC is this Monday, October 3rd. If you were prepared to send a digital camera with your child last week, please make sure those come in on Monday instead. Students will still need to dress in layers as well as pack a lunch. All students who had signed up for a lunch from the cafeteria last time, will receive a sack lunch this time.

M.E.A.P.

Meap testing starts on October 11th. We ask that you PLEASE make every effort to ensure that your child is here on testing days. If you know now that you have dentist or dr.'s appointments scheduled for test days, please try to reschedule them so that they don't have to make up any part of their testing.

Testing dates for 5th grade are:

October 11th - Reading Day 1

October 12 - Reading Day 2

October 18th - Math

October 19th - Science

OEC!

Friday September 23rd the Sunset Lake 5th graders will be spending all day at the OEC.

Students have been asked to: Dress in layers for warm or cold weather.

Pack a lunch/bring school lunch

Students have also been asked to bring a charged digital camera for an activity that we will be doing with them. If you will allow them to bring a camera of yours, it must be a camera, and not a phone or D.S. Please label each camera with your name with a small piece of tape. Only your student will be allowed to use your camera. Students will be put into groups of three for this activity so if you don't want your child to bring your camera, there is usually enough available for each group to have one.

Please make sure your student knows how to use your camera!

Please make sure cameras are charged or have extra batteries with them. If they're camera can't take pictures they will be unable to complete their writing assignments the following week.

September 12th - 16th

This week starts our first full week of switch. Groups A and C will have science for the next four weeks. Groups B and D will have Social studies.

The signed field trip permission slips for Mrs. Sadowski's class have been copied and are in your student's mailboxes today (9/13) ready to go home. Keep them handy so that as field trips and outings progress you can review what lunch choices were chosen for each event.

A HUGE thank you to all the families who donated gift certficates to the 5th grade teachers for the book fair. We each got some GREAT new books for our classrooms and most are already checked out by your students and being read as I type this!

Thank you also for the much needed tissue and clorox wipe donations! Once we shut those windows and the fresh circulating air goes away, we NEED those to wipe away the germs daily!

This week in science students are doing some review for the upcoming M.E.A.P. as well as working on their science term cards. If you have a student in A and C, or if your student is in Mrs. Sadowski's class, they should have their 1st - 2nd set almost done and be working on memorizing them for the games we play with them. Too fun!

OEC date for fall coming soon......

Teacher Cadet

This year in Mrs. Sadowski's class we have a teacher cadet named "Joran Avila". Jordan is a Senior at Vicksburg highschool and is aspiring to be a teacher. Known as "Miss A" to the students, J0rdan will be in our classroom helping out, and learning classroom management skills Wednesday through Friday. Jordan was a student in my class in 2004 - 2005, and she is already enjoying being back in familiar surroundings. This week is her first week with us, and she will be writing a letter of introduction to you to send home with your students sometime this or next week.

Have a great week! Don't forget to ask to see those schedule books each night!