Newsletter, March 29th

A Peek At What We are Doing in Fifth Grade

A calendar of our testing schedule along with the theme for each day is in your child’s planner. You can help ensure that your child’s testing experience is a positive one by making sure your child gets plenty of rest and a good breakfast each morning. I’ve told the students that they can bring a small baggie with hard candy and/or gum along with a snack for testing.

I know it seems a long way away, but your child has started working on his or her slide for graduation. Your student needs two (2) pictures. - a little kid picture and a current picture of him or her doing something you enjoy!! Bring pictures in to be scanned or on a flash drive or email them to Mrs. Roberson anytime - rroberso@psdschools.org (no “N” in her address).

Friday, April 12th is set aside for parent/teacher conferences. Please know that if I had any concerns about your child’s progress, I would have already contacted you about meeting. If you would like to take this opportunity to conference with me, please send me an email with a date and time that work for you. I am available Thursday, April 11th at 7:50 am, 8:10 am, and 3:40 pm and Friday, April 12th after 1:00. If none of these times work, please email me with a date and time and will do my best to make it work.

You can find all the newsletters for the year and other fun pictures at our classroom blog http://khalesclass.blogspot.com/.

School Pictures (All-fifth grade picture) - Wednesday, April 10th afternoon
No School - Friday, April 12th
Friday, May 10th - Visit the Middle School
No School - Friday, May 17th
Human Growth and Development Week - Monday, May 20th - Thursday, May 23rd
Memorial Day - No School - Monday, May 27th
Graduation - Wednesday, May 29th at 10:30
Field Days - Wednesday, May 29th from 1:15 to 3:30
Last Day of school/ ½ day - Thursday, May 30th

Newsletter, March 22nd

A Peek At What We are Doing in Fifth Grade

How was your Spring Break? I hope everyone enjoyed time relaxing with family.

It’s not too late to purchase an Elementary Yearbook, but it soon will be. The ONLINE price is $20.00. To order please go to:

• Commpe.pictavo.com and enter the school code 79287 and click “Shop My School”.

There will not be any yearbooks available for purchase in the Zach office at the end of the year.

After Spring Break, we will begin CMAS testing. Students in fifth grade take ELA (Reading and Writing), Science, and Math. Students will be taking ...

the ELA test - Tues., April 2nd - Thurs., April 4th,

the Science test - Tues., April 9th & Wed., April 10th, and

the Math test - Tues., April 16th - Thurs., April 17th.

We test in the mornings from 10:15 to 12:40. If at all possible, please avoid appoints on these days which might require your child to be absent. It is also important that students not leave during the test, as students must finish the test the day they start. Unfortunately, this is a lot of testing that we as teachers are required to administer. As a team, we do our best to keep as much instruction time intact without overwhelming the students.

You can find all the newsletters for the year and other fun pictures including a video of Aubrey's “Who Knew” at our classroom blog http://khalesclass.blogspot.com/.

Dates to Remember
School Pictures (All-fifth grade picture) - Wednesday, April 10th afternoon
No School - Friday, April 12th
Friday, May 10th - Visit the Middle School
No School - Friday, May 17th
Human Growth and Development Week - Monday, May 20th - Thursday, May 23rd
Memorial Day - No School - Monday, May 27th
Graduation - Wednesday, May 29th at 10:30
Field Days - Wednesday, May 29th from 1:15 to 3:30


Last Day of school/ ½ day - Thursday, May 30th

Animal Interviews

As part of our Animal Life Cycles and Reproduction unit in Science, we also picked an animal from one of the five kingdoms to research for Writing.  After researching different aspects of our animal we wrote interviews and created sock puppets to help us in our presentations.

Here are a few pictures of us with our puppets.

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, Aubrey!

Working with our writing partners

Newsletter, March 8th

A Peek At What We are Doing in Fifth Grade

I have one quick apology. I realize that I said that report cards were coming home last Friday. Sorry, I was getting ahead of myself. Report cards are coming home today.

Elementary Yearbooks are now on sale ONLINE ONLY!!! The cost will be $16.00 for the full-color book. After March the 22nd the ONLINE prices will increase to $20.00 while supplies last. To order please go to:

• Commpe.pictavo.com and enter the school code 79287 and click “Shop My School”.

Don’t delay as there will only a limited supply after 3/22/19. All yearbooks will need to be ORDERED ONLINE. There will not be any yearbooks available for purchase in the Zach office at the end of the year. This is the first opportunity to purchase a Zach yearbook. If you think that you have already ordered one it was probably for your Middle or High School student. Reminder fliers were sent home in Friday Folders on February the 22nd.

After Spring Break, we will begin CMAS testing. Students in fifth grade take ELA (Reading and Writing), Science, and Math. Students will be taking ...

the ELA test - Tues., April 2nd - Thurs., April 4th,
the Science test - Tues., April 9th & Wed., April 10th, and
the Math test - Tues., April 16th - Thurs., April 17th.

We test in the mornings from 10:15 to 12:40. If at all possible, please avoid appoints on these days which might require your child to be absent. It is also important that students not leave during the test, as students must finish the test the day they start. Unfortunately, this is a lot of testing that we as teachers are required to administer. As a team, we do our best to keep as much instruction time intact without overwhelming the students.

You can find all the newsletters for the year and other fun pictures at our classroom blog http://khalesclass.blogspot.com/.

Dates to Remember
Zach Elementary Science Fair - March 12th
Spring Break - Monday, March 18th - Friday, March 22nd
School Pictures (All-fifth grade picture) - Wednesday, April 10th afternoon
No School - Friday, April 12th
No School - Friday, May 17th
Human Growth and Development Week - Monday, May 20th - Thursday, May 23rd
Memorial Day - No School - Monday, May 27th
Last Day of school/ ½ day - Thursday, May 30th

Engineer Visit

We had some engineers visit our classroom.  They told us about the different engineering careers as well as taught us how to make rockets.

Newsletter, March 1st

A Peek At What We are Doing in Fifth Grade

Elementary Yearbooks are now on sale ONLINE ONLY!!! The cost will be $16.00 for the full-color book. After March the 22nd the ONLINE prices will increase to $20.00 while supplies last. To order please go to:

• Commpe.pictavo.com and enter the school code 79287 and click “Shop My School”.

Don’t delay as there will only a limited supply after 3/22/19. All yearbooks will need to be ORDERED ONLINE. There will not be any yearbooks available for purchase in the Zach office at the end of the year. This is the first opportunity to purchase a Zach yearbook. If you think that you have already ordered one it was probably for your Middle or High School student. Reminder fliers were sent home in Friday Folders on February the 22nd.

This week we started our next writing task - Animal Interviews. We’ll be doing the research and writing during class. For homework, your child needs to create a puppet for their presentation. We’ll begin practicing our presentations on Monday, March 11th so students need to have their puppets with them that day.

After Spring Break, we will begin CMAS testing. Students in fifth grade take ELA (Reading and Writing), Science, and Math. Students will be taking ...

the ELA test - Tues., April 2nd - Thurs., April 4th,
the Science test - Tues., April 9th & Wed., April 10th, and
the Math test - Tues., April 16th - Thurs., April 17th.

We test in the mornings from 10:15 to 12:40. If at all possible, please avoid appoints on these days which might require your child to be absent. It is also important that students not leave during the test, as students must finish the test the day they start. Unfortunately, this is a lot of testing that we as teachers are required to administer. As a team, we do our best to keep as much instruction time intact without overwhelming the students.

Report Cards for the second trimester came home today. If you have any questions, please contact me or the subject area teacher.

You can find all the newsletters for the year and other fun pictures including a video of Annabelle’s “Who Knew” at our classroom blog http://khalesclass.blogspot.com/.

Dates to Remember

No School - Teacher Work Day - Monday, March 4th
Zach Elementary Science Fair - March 12th
Spring Break - Monday, March 18th - Friday, March 22nd
School Pictures - Wednesday, April 10th afternoon

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, Annabelle!