Thank you all so much for the generous and thoughtful gifts. I am so blessed to work with all your students, and am looking forward to the next few months with them. We have lots planned!
Tuesday, students will bring home forms to fill out for their science fair project ideas. We will explore some websites in class that can help them with ideas they may choose to explore, but we are asking that they find a project that fits in one of the areas we study in fifth grade science: Earth’s surfaces, Chemistry, Genetics, Electricity or Magnetism.They may work alone or with one partner, who can be in any of the fifth grade classes. The forms with their proposals need to be turned in by Friday so that they will have time complete the project. The school science fair will be Monday, Jan. 27, and parents are welcome to come view the projects from 10-11 in the school gym.
Students will also be bringing home permission slips for Hope of America on Tuesday. We will be performing on Wednesday, May 6. If you plan to have your student participate, you will need to register then online at Hopeofamerica.org.
We are beginning our work with fractions this week in math, and electricity in science. There is big excitement about the musical we are going to be working on to go along with history. Students got their parts and the scripts today, and I will be emailing them copies of their songs to practice at home. We will also be reading Sophia’s War by Avi to go along with our study of the American Revolution. Our vocabulary assignments are going to be a bit different going forward, with assignments due daily instead of on Friday, to ensure students are getting daily chances to actually work with using the words and understanding their meanings. Lastly, we are writing an opinion piece about whether teachers should assign homework on snow days. We are jumping right back into things this week!
Please let me know if you have any questions!