Newsletter, October 13th

A Peek at What We are Doing in Fifth Grade

We have completed our first writing unit, personal narratives.  To start the unit, we learned how to generate ideas then moved into drafting and finished with revising and editing our best draft.  I’ll send out an email to you next week with a link to “Our Written Word” blog where you will find our final pieces.  We would love for you to read our pieces then leave a comment.

Our upcoming conferences will be student-led.  The students will spend a little time next week preparing for this time by evaluating their progress so far this year and determining their goals for the rest of the year.  

Wow!  Parents, you are wonderful.  Thank you to those parents that attended our All-Fifth Grade Halloween planning meeting and for all the parents that signed-up to donate supplies or run games at the party.  You are the best.

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

Dates to Remember:

Parent/Teacher Conference Days - Thursday, October 19th and Friday, October 20th - No School

Halloween - Parade starts at about 2:15.  The All-Fifth Grade Halloween party will take place in the cafeteria immediately following.

No School - Friday, November 17th.

Newsletter, October 6th

A Peek At What We are Doing in Fifth Grade

ECO Week was a blast. Although it started out snowy, we had some beautiful weather on Tuesday and Wednesday and the kids had a great time. We have a few items that were left behind at Eco Week that we have put out in Mrs. Odom’s modular.  If you think your child is missing something, please encourage your child to ask to go over and look or feel free to stop anytime before or during during conferences.    

Next Wednesday at 3:45, we will have an all-fifth grade Halloween Party planning meeting in Mr. Kenna’s room.  If you are available to help plan, please attend.  If you’d like to volunteer to put can’t attend the meeting and you signed up to help through our parent volunteer form, a signup genius link will be send out to you following the meeting.  If you’d like to help, but didn’t have an opportunity to complete the parent volunteer form you can access it at this link -  https://tinyurl.com/zach5vol.  

Fall conferences start Thursday, October 19th.   Conferences are 20 minutes long so please arrive on time. Please remember these are student led conferences – so students need to attend!  If we find we have more to discuss than the 20 minutes will allow, we will schedule another time to meet so I can honor everyone’s time.    

Our Classroom blog is https://khalesclass.blogspot.com and our class twitter @HalesHomeroom.  I’ve posted a few Eco Week pictures there for you.  

Dates to Remember:

All-Fifth Grade Halloween Party Planning Meeting - Wednesday, October 11th at 3:45 in Mr. Kenna’s room

Parent/Teacher Conference Days - Thursday, October 19th and Friday, October 20th - No School

A Look at Eco Week

Newsletter, September 28

A Peek At What We are Doing in Fifth Grade

Monday is the big day, ECO WEEK!  I hope everyone is at least half as excited as I am.  

Please plan to arrive about 9:00 on Monday.  With everyone else inside the school, we’ll have plenty of room to get everyone in the right place.

Your child should have a backpack/ daypack with gloves, jacket, hat, lunch, snack, 2 water bottles, and lip balm.  Everything else should be in his or her luggage.

When you arrive, please remember to have your child carry his or her luggage from the car.  Your first stop will be to put a tag on your luggage (Boys - Green & Girls - Yellow) and put the luggage in line for the luggage bus.  After we get the luggage bus loaded, we’ll have the kids get on the other buses.  The kids ride on the bus with their Eco Week group - bears, wolves, and moose are each on their own bus.  The pika group is split onto one of the three buses.  The kids should know which bus that they are on.  If your child is unsure which bus is his or hers, please ask a staff member.  Buses usually head out about 9:30.  Keep in mind that a quick kiss and a hug goodbye is sometimes best, but you are welcome to hang around and wave goodbye as we leave.   

If something comes up over the weekend or you have any questions, please email me.  Have a wonderful 3-day weekend.

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

Dates to Remember:

Eco Week - Monday, October 2nd - Wednesday, October 4th

All-Fifth Grade Halloween Party Planning Meeting - Wednesday, October 11th at 3:45 in Mr. Kenna’s room

Parent/Teacher Conference Days - Thursday, October 19th and Friday, October 20th - No School

Newsletter, September 22

A Peek At What We are Doing in Fifth Grade

Eco Week is in less than a week away.  If you haven’t returned your forms, please do so on Monday.  If you haven’t started, begin encouraging your child to drink extra water each day and start wearing his or her hiking boots.  Just in case you need it, I’ve posted the packing list on my homeroom blog.

Next Thursday, September 28th, we will have a mock ECO day.  Your student will be with his or her ECO group and spend the day learning about Colorado Biomes, hiking, and asking/answering last minute questions. Please help us by making sure your student is prepared by bring only his or her backpack with hat, gloves, light jacket, rain poncho, lip balm, lunch, snack, and filled water bottles.  Please wear hiking boots.  

I hope everyone was able to find a good date and time for student-led conference.  If you haven’t signed up, you can visit this link to do it - http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4da9ad2da4fc1-studentled.  If you are unable to get a spot that works for you, please send me an email and I’ll we find a day and time that does.

We celebrated another birthday today.  You can find Owen’s “Who Knew” on our homeroom blog.

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

Dates to Remember:

Collaboration Day - No School - Friday, September 29th  

Eco Week - Monday, October 2nd - Wednesday, October 4th

All-Fifth Grade Halloween Party Planning Meeting - Wednesday, October 11th at 3:45 in Mr. Kenna’s room

Parent/Teacher Conference Days - Thursday, October 19th and Friday, October 20th - No School

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, Owen!

The 5th Grade

First week of school fun!