Parent News March 14-18

Classroom news Fifth Grade

March 14-18

The wearing of the green will get you a treat thursday!

Looking forward to spending time with ya’ll at Auction this week!  Our art piece is amazing!  It is truly lovely.  I will put a photo of it on the website once it gets its final styling.

 Our class parent-led project is also amazing and full of summer fun goodness!

I will be leading a day trip to Mt. Saint helens this summer for my teacher excursion.  Space is limited to four, so sign up early at auction.

CLASS PICTURES NEXT WEEK-- Wednesday March 23.

Your student may inform you of our new blessing-- Megan Quentin will be joining us for a few hours on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday through a work study program at her college.  She will be assisting us in Math and Language Arts as well as popping into my middle school science class to work with a few students.  She loves kids and her dad is Keith Quentin, retired teacher, volunteer, and frequent sub at our school. I’m really thankful for her capable and willing spirit, whether she’s sorting papers, assisting with a makeup assignment or making copies.

Bible Memory Verse

Acts 17:25  We read about Paul’s speech to the Athenians last week and this verse was tied into how God meets our needs-- he doesn’t have to interact with us and doesn’t need us, but oh, how he loves us!

Reading/Language Art

We just started “From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler” and there are lots of giggles as we follow the misadventures of Jamie and Claudia Kincaid. While technology changes, siblings and children do not and the vocabulary is excellent in this book.  

We should finish this before Spring Break.  We will then write a paper comparing and contrasting Number the Stars with Mixed Up Files.   Several kiddos are still finishing up the work from Number the Stars.

Spelling Lesson 25 Due Friday

We worked on it quite a bit this morning; it should free up time for other projects or just the best thing, reading.

Social Studies

The Revolution!

State timeline due Thursday

States and Capitals 31-36 from list; quiz Friday

(TN,AL,MS,WV,VA,NC)

Science

More magnetism and electricity.  I just ordered a kit to play with different types of circuits and observations about electricity.  This isn’t really a topic we get into in middle school; when the science curriculum was evaluated this past summer we noticed a hole here.  Kids do magnets early on but not electricity.  I’m pleased with the engineering we’ve done this year as well.