Week of Jan. 19-23, 2009 Please Come and Help us in SETS Crew

No School Monday MLK, Jr. Day

Play groups start at 12:25 until the end of the day. There will still be homework due each AM. No Spelling.

WASL Practice Week: There will be no SFA until Monday Jan 26th.

Thursday, January 22, 2009 Is an early release, BUT.. . Sets Crew is having a work day from 12:55-4:30. If you are an adult that can come and help. Please do so. If you have an electric screw gun that is charged, please bring it too.

If you have anytime to help out with Sets Crew and the Wizard of Oz this week from 12:25 pm on in the auditorium this week would be great help!!! Cast is in the Auditorium on Friday; so sets crew needs to have most of the structures in place by this Friday, Jan. 23.

All the other crews are looking for help too. PR would love for your business to buy advertisements and for your family and friends to buy tickets. Also remember to buy your lovely black t-shirts that have the students' names in the cast and crews for this years show of the Wizard of Oz These notices were sent home at different times. If you did not get them please call PR in Mr. G.'s room at Lincoln.

Have a great week. I hope to see you this week volunteering at school.

Thanks for your support.

Math Students in Action

Using Place Value to find where numbers fit onto a 10,000 grid sheet.

We worked in groups of 4 students to place our five numbers each onto the grid.

• Setting benchmarks on the grid helped a lot.




• Talking about there being 100 squares in each line and each section of ten lines were a thousand.




• The whole page was broken into 10 larger sections 10 x 1,000 is 10, 000 total.

This was a really fun, challenging, and productive activity.

Welcome Back and Happy New Year!

Welcome back to school.

We will be trying to finish up what we needed to finish the last few days of Dec.

I hope you enjoyed your break and the snow. I also hope that you are ready for a new year and fresh start. I look forward to seeing you.

Here's to the second part of 5th grade.

Mrs. Johnston