REMINDER Term 2 Grades Cut off March 5th

All grades and Assignments for term 2 will be accepted until March 5th. All extra credit must be in by them or it will be applied to the third term.


Multiple notices on Missing work and Grade Sheets were sent home.

Thank you!

Young Authors Class Poem Winners

There were 6 students that submitted poems for the Young Author's contest. The class voted anonymously and the two winners are Jaidev and Rachel. Congratulations. Their poems are as follows:

“Elements”
By Jaidev

The grass is brown
because it’s sick
and needs a nice big kick.
The sea is blue
because its pickin’
a fight with the night.
The sun is bright
like fire’s light
and needs a bucket of water.
The wind is chilly
because it has to chill
and needs some chill repellent . . . hot chocolate.

Wind

By Rachel
The wind whispers in my ear as it hurries by.
Sometimes it’s quick
Sometimes it’s slow
That depends if it is shy.
It Kicks up the leaves when it’s mad,
and rustles the tree’s when it’s sad
When you go out in the wind you drift away.
Reality has gone to play
Out in the wind it’s easy to say,
You love the wind, and you want it to stay.

Once again congratulations! They will be going to Skagit Valley College to the Young Authors Contest towards the end of March.

Valentines Day is on a Saturday this year.

If you child would like to pass out valentines to classmates, a class list will be sent home so that all can be included. Students can make Valentine containers on their own time. Thursday, Feb. 12 Early Release Day we will pass them out at the 12:25-12:55 time. Thank you.

Homework for the week of Feb. 2-6

Homework:
RAH
Fluency Practice from SFA teacher
Missing Work and Grades signed Returned by Tuesday (Both Graded in Responsibilities)
Math Class Finish Unit 3 in the math book
Memo due Friday about the progress of what you have done in play groups this week.
Practice test in the back of your script that everyone has. (Real Test will be on Feb.11th in the AM before the Cast and Crew Party.)
Extra Credit that can be done this week and next to bring up these grades

This is our general schedule for Feb. 2-Feb. 11th.

8:55 First Bell
9:00 Tardy Bell Attendance and homework Turn in, Announcements
9:12 Pledge and leave for SFA Reading Classes around the school
10:45 Play Groups instead of Math (Sets Crew is working on math all day while creating the Mock Set or Scale Model. We have conversions from 1 foot in the auditorium to 1 inch in our scale model. It is fun and challenging.
11:55 Sets Crew goes to lunch
12:10 Recess
12:25 Play groups
1:10 Recess
1:25 Playgroups
2:55 Dismissal

Tech Crew, Cast and Costume and Make-up have similar AM schedules but their lunch times are earlier and need a sack lunch so that they can prep for the shows.

This week's shows are:

Tues. & Wed. Earlier times Tech. and Dress Rehearsals Including the band
2/3, 2/4
Thursday Same but not the full band(?)
2/5
Friday 12:30 and 7pm shows
2/6
If your child in not in Sets Crew with me, please direct all questions to the teacher in charge of your child's play group. If you still need to buy tickets or t-shirts please contact Michael Guelker-Cone or PR Crew. Thank you.

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