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Teacher Julie Smith - Fifth Grade  (Send e-mail)

ABC Countdown continues....
Monday-Letter Day
Tuesday-Music Day
Wednesday-No Homework Day
Thursday-Outside Day
Friday-Pajama Day

Field Day -Thursday, May 30th
Students will be challenged at a variety of stations with team building activities.


Isle a la Cache Field Trip
We will be going on the field trip on Wednesday, May 22. We are also asking that your child brings a waste free lunch for the field trip. We will be able to bring back containers and lunch boxes to support the waste free lunch.

Scholastic Summer Challenge is featuring "Read for the World Record." It begins on May 6th. Please download the form for more information.

"Chelsea United" -Each class is collecting pop tops. We will then be sending them to Hickory Creek. Hickory Creek will be donating the pop tabs to the Ronald McDonald House in Cole Cunningham's name. Thank you for your support!

Drug Abuse Resistance Education-Officer Pazera from the Frankfort Police Station will be instructing the D.A.R.E. classes.There will be a D.A.R.E. party with a pizza lunch provided by the police department on Tuesday, May 28th.

Hickory Creek Middle School Proudly Presents The Wizard of Oz
All ticket orders should be turned in to Mrs. Walton.
The shows are Friday, May 17th through Sunday, May 19th. The Chorus Booster currently has a fundraiser. Raffle tickets are $5.00 each or $20.00 for 5 tickets. You can be the winner of an IPAD mini or a Kindle Fire!

Tuesday, May 21st -Music Class-Share your musical talents! Your child will have the opportunity to share their talents within the field of music-singing/rapping, dancing, and/or playing an instrument. A letter is being sent home on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Please notify the music teacher by email at dzito@fsd157c.org if your child is interested or if you have any questions.

Literacy in Social Studies: Students' Rights Unit
The students will be learning about three rights that they could possibly have at school. We will be watching video clips, reading texts, and using graphic organizers to write opinion pieces. Students will be supporting a point of view with reasons and text support. This week we will be learning about whether students should get paid for good grades.

Colonial Market Project

Language Arts-Students will be working on proofreading sentences using Daily Oral Language.

Science-Weather

Social Studies-Colonial Market

Math-Two Dimensional Shapes
 
 

This week in class

Monday
Social Studies-Continue to research and take notes for artisan report. Rough draft is due next Tuesday, May 14
A good website is colonialwilliamsburg.org




Tuesday
Social Studies-graphic organizer needed for artisan report by tomorrow and an example of product due Thursday

Math
Mrs. Smith- Workbook 8-4 and 8-5
Mrs. Pitsoulakis-Hold Everything Worksheet
Mrs. Meade-NONE


*Posterboard/tag board needed by tomorrow
*Shoe box needed by Thursday



Wednesday
N-day
No Homework Day

(However, you have known for two weeks to have your product sample ready to show me by tomorrow! We are also working on dioramas tomorrow. You need to have your group's shoebox in school.)

Thursday
Social Studies-Final copy of artisan report on colonial paper due tomorrow!

Please RSVP for Colonial Market by next Wednesday, May 22.

Friday
Reading/Social Studies-Graphic Organizer/checklist for students choosing teachers needs to be finished by Monday

Math
Mrs. Smith-TEST on Monday

 
 

Important Dates

5/10/2013
Spirit Day-Dress Like Your Teacher Day

 
 

Downloads List

157C_Save_the_Date_Borchure_1-29-2013.pdf [2/4/2013]
Birthday Book Club [3/25/2013]
BOGO Book Fair letter [4/18/2013]
Earth Day Week of Activities [4/16/2013]
Scholastic Summer Challenge [4/16/2013]

 
 

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