Mrs. Hale's Homeroom: December 2017

Friday, December 22, 2017

Newsletter, December 21st

A Peek At What We are Doing in Fifth Grade

It’s finally here. Winter Break. I hope you and your family have a very Merry Christmas and enjoy time relaxing with family.

Your child has picked his or her top choice for Wax Museum. When we return in January, I will have a biography ready for your child to read and take notes. As we had a few overlaps in the fifth grade, I have asked a few students to locate biographies on their own. We’ll have plenty of time to do our research when we return so there is no need to do any work over the break.

We’ll be taking Winter Maps at the end of January during Math and Reading class. Students will take their Block 2 Maps test on Monday, January 22nd and their Block 1 Maps test on Tuesday, January 23rd. To give each students plenty of time, students will not have their other block on the days we Maps test.

Our Classroom blog is https://khalesclass.blogspot.com and our class twitter @HalesHomeroom.

Dates to Remember:
School Starts Back - Monday, January 8th

Preston Middle School Open House - Tuesday, January 9th from 6:00 to 8:00

Spelling Bee - Wednesday, January 10th - around 1:30

Kinard Middle School - Wednesday, January 10th from 6:00 to 8:30

Fort Collins Symphony field trip - Thursday, January 18th - 11:00 am

School of Choice deadline - Friday, January 19th.

Middle School Visit at Zach on Wednesday, February 14th at 1:30

Wax Museum presentation night - Thursday, February 15th from 6:00 to 7:00

Friday, December 15, 2017

Fossil Ridge High School Stem Experiments

Newsletter, Dec. 15th

A Peek at What We are Doing in Fifth Grade

Our blog – Our Written Word – with our completed informational books is ready for you, our audience. We’d love for you to read our work, learn something new about Westward Expansion in the United States and leave us positive comments. The link to access it is https://ourwrittenwordhale.blogspot.com/.

On Thursday we started one of the big projects that students do in fifth grade, Wax Museum. If you have older children who completed the project at Zach in previous years, you’ll notice some changes. One big change is the timing. We’ll have our presentation night Thursday, February 15th from 6:00 to 7:00. Please mark your calendar. A letter about the project came home on Thursday.

Since Thursday is our last day before the winter break, we are going to have a “cozy” afternoon. The students can wear their Pjs to school and bring a pillow and a blanket from home. After lunch, we’ll decorate and eat some cookies, enjoy some punch, and watch Home Alone.

We had some visitors from Fossil Ridge High School to teach us about STEM and share some fun experiments with us. I included a few pictures from the afternoon on our blog.

We also celebrate Arda and Nathan’s birthday this week. You can find their “who knews” on our classroom blog.

Our Classroom blog is https://khalesclass.blogspot.com and our class twitter @HalesHomeroom.

Dates to Remember:

Winter Break - Friday, December 22 - Sunday, January 7th