What's Happening This Week:

Thank you to everyone who donated to our amazing Oh the Places You'll Go Basket! I couldn't do it without all of you! Big thank you to Roxanne Kramer for assembling and dropping it off! Our basket sold for $450!

Important Upcoming Dates:

March 11th - Class Picture Day

March 13th - Pie Day (we will celebrate with the Intermediate Team on Friday before Spring Break. Teachers will provide the pies.)

March 17th - 5th & MS Field Trip to Colorado Symphony Performance

March 18th - 5th Grade to WCHS for Career Fair (am only)

March 21st - Spring Musical

March 24-27 - Relay for Life Spirit Week

March 27th - Mini Relay for Life

March 31-April 4th - Spring Break

This week:

We will continue with Chapter 9 - Multiplying Fractions as well as combining with Chapter 10 - Dividing Decimals. I teach these two chapters together because if you can multiply fractions you can divide them!

We will continue to work in small groups with Mrs. Herman to work on volume as well as Coordinate Plane. In order for that to happen, students need to be able to focus during instructional time. Concepts worked on in small group will *NOT* be homework, unless students cannot stay on task.

Students will wrap up their Figurehead Silhouette Project in class as well as finish the written summary tomorrow. The figurehead is due tomorrow! Due to the internet outage on Friday, I will give students tomorrow to work on their written summaries if necessary. They will be due first thing in the morning on Wednesday, March 11th.

We will start our Poetry unit Wednesday. This will take us through Spring Break and end as we start End of Year testing.

We will be starting our Wonder Novel Study this week. This is one of my favorite books. We often have amazing conversations throughout the book. It is quite long so it will take us through March and into April. I hope to be able to watch the movie at the end.

*Ask your child what their March Precept (motto) was. They had to create their own in response to the one in the book. "If you had to choose between being right and being kind, ALWAYS choose kind."

We are working our way through the Investigating Matter science unit. We have been able to complete a few experiments and demonstrations, however, some students are struggling with paying attention and staying on task. This makes it very difficult for me do facilitate the experiments while managing behaviors and off-task students.

Please talk with your student about staying on task so we can continue learning and not being disruptive.

We will take our March Orthographic this week and will use part of Riggs time for extra Grammar practice. Reviewing what we know and what we might see for CMAS after Spring Break.

New lists are current content based across subjects. Lists will only have 3 words. Students will be required to write each word with markings 4 times each, look up each word in the dictionary (writing down part of speech, page number and proper definition), and writing a sentence using each word correctly.

New lists will be posted to Parent Square.

We will wrap up the Figurehead Summary to go with our Golden Age Figurehead Silhouette's tomorrow.

We will work on our writing skills within the Poetry unit as well.

We won't have another major essay due until after CMAS/NWEA testing when we complete our final End of Year writing assessment with our Civil War Research Project. More info to come.

March 11th - Class Picture Day

March 13th - Pie Day

March 17th - 5th & MS Field Trip to Colorado Symphony Performance

March 18th - 5th Grade to WCHS for Career Fair (am only)