One more week....

Dear families,

Thank you ALL for the help and donations for our winter party! Being on the e-mail chain and seeing all the quick responses was simply amazing! You are such a caring and generous group of families. I see it in things like this and in your children's actions each day.

Next week, we have some fun things to look forward to. On Tuesday, we will be wearing our ugliest holiday sweaters. On Wednesday, we will be wearing our craziest socks. On Thursday, we will be wearing our jammies. And finally on Friday, we will wear our bling for the holiday sing!

I've been asked to let you all know about some public forum meetings regarding the boundary changes as well. On January 6th, there will be a meeting at Gentry from 6-8 p.m. and on January 7th, there will be a meeting at Smithton from 6-8 p.m.

Next week, we will have PE on Monday, Music on Tuesday, Art on Wednesday, Media and Library Check-out on Thursday, and PE on Friday.

Read below for a quick review of our week by Tamia!

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Dear Parents,

This week we learn are times 11, 7, and 12. This week we did a door decoration. We did a tiger.  Then we are reading Frindle. This week we went to a 5^th grade quar with   Mr. Witter. We had a fire drill after recess. We did a review over our times facts that we learned. In cursive in we learned B, P, R.

sincerely

Tamia

LOTS of NEWS!

Whew! A very busy five day week after a two day week... Two more very busy five day weeks before our winter break.

Please check your child's Friday Folder for some important papers including one final book order before winter break. I am asking for a very FAST turnaround on the book order to ensure delivery before break. Scholastic has verified that all orders placed before the 12th will be delivered by the 19th. I am asking for book orders to be returned by WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10th just to be on the safe side. There is a coupon for one free book valued at $5 when $10 or more is spent for each family! You can claim this offer either by sending in your order and a check made to Scholastic with your child to school OR online at www.scholastic.com using our class code (L922Y). Books make GREAT Christmas gifts! ;) Just send me a quick e-mail and let me know if your order is intended as a gift. I can wrap them up in paper, place them in a grocery sack, and send them home with your student discreetly or you can come get them from school when the order arrives.

On Monday, our class will be shopping at Cody's Snowball Shop. It is filled with little gifts for students to purchase for their loved ones. An envelope was sent home awhile ago, but feel free to use any old envelope to send money with your student IF you wish for them to shop. The students had a chance to preview the shop today and are bringing home a price list in their blue take home folders.

Just a friendly reminder that students should not arrive at school before 8:05, but should be here by 8:20 when the starting bell rings.

Our student council is currently sponsoring a hat, glove, scarf tree in the office for donations of those items to go to those in need.

Boxtops! We are collecting them. Please check your packages for them, cut them out, and send them in with your student.

We've been working hard on multiplication. I will be sending home a packet of fun multiplication games for students to play over winter break to help reinforce the concept and the facts. For writing, we have  been working on informational writing and examining the features of nonfiction writing and books. We are not publishing yet, but will be after winter break! To go along with that and science, we are starting a "genius hour" project. Each student has selected an area they are interested in, and have begun asking questions they would like to know the answer to. We will spend a little time each week researching and learning about our self-chosen topics. Here is a little more information (that I copy and pasted from my good friend Ms. McClelland) about genius hour and WHY we're doing it! She says it better than I could... :)

"Genius Hour is designed to engage kids in learning, then share that learning with others.  As my friend Mr. Villasana puts it, "It's all about teaching the processes of quality research driven by their natural interests."   .... Here are a few things I hope the students get out of Genius Hour:

• A chance to pursue their own passion
• Learn to ask and answer questions
• Become self-motivated
• Use 21st Century research skills (and I don't just mean Google)
• Become confident about a topic so they can teach others
• Start to become better, deeper thinkers"

I think that's about it. Please feel free to email or call with any questions! Keep reading for specials for next week and a student wrap up of our week written by Tess!

Specials next week: 

Monday: Media and Library Check Out

Tuesday: PE

Wednesday: Music

Thursday: Art
Friday: Media and Library Check Out

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Dear Family’s                                                                                                           12-5-2014

This week we has been a very busy but we made it. Monday we went to KMIZ thank you to all the parents who helped we rely enjoyed going we learned and had a ton of fun. Today we watched our 4^th and 5^th grade friends do the spelling B. Abby the 5^th grader won the spelling B we hope she does her best! Miss Baxter made us new pillows with her new sowing machine.

Book orders came have fun with those books. We did multiplied 3, 4,6,8,9.  In gunis hour we are doing What do we wonder? This week we started a book called Frindle it is good so far. Morgan was couprating cougar this week YEA Morgan.

Sincerely

Tess