Newsletter, November 16th

A Peek At What We are Doing in Fifth Grade

Report cards came home today. Please take some time and discuss it with your child. I’d recommend that you start with the Personal Development areas. These skills are just as essential, some would even argue that they are even more essential than the academic areas, to being successful in life. Ask your child what they are most proud of and why then what they think they need to do to improve in. Whether it’s “take my time on my work” or “ask questions when I am stuck,” I find students often know what they need to do. They just need encouragement to do it.

If after reviewing your child’s report, you and your child are concerned about a subject, please contact me or his or her subject area teacher. I’ve posted each of our emails below.

Mrs. Actor - lactor@psdschools.org
Mrs. Eberle - leberle@psdschools.org
Mrs. Hale - kellieh@psdsschools.org
Mr. Kenna - jkenna@psdschools.org
Mrs. Oster - jeoster@psdschools.org

We’ll have our first ROAR reward day on Tuesday, November 20th. Students have been saving their ROAR tickets so that they can purchase different ways to spend their afternoon. Some of the options are additional recess or a snack, snuggle, and read. Each opportunity has a different value so the more tickets they’ve earned the better their choices. Students who have not saved their tickets may spend their time reading or working on school work in study hall.

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

Dates to Remember:
Wednesday, November 21st - Friday, November 23rd - Thanksgiving Break
Wednesday, December 5th - Kinard Information Meeting at Zach - 6:30 to 7:30
Thursday, November 29th, Thursday, December 6th, Monday, December 1oth - Preston Middle School Incoming 6th Grade Walk & Talk - 4:15 to 5:15
Tuesday, January 8th - Preston Open House - 6:30 to 8:00
Wednesday, January 9th - Kinard Middle School Open House - 6:30 to 8:30
Friday, January 18th - School of Choice Application deadline to attend Kinard.
Thursday, February 21st - 6:00 to 7:00 - Wax Museum Night

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, Lily!

Newsletter, November 2nd

A Peek At What We are Doing in Fifth Grade

Congratulations to all our fifth graders who were recognized for their “Fifth Grade Awesomeness.”



Thank you to everyone who helped with the Halloween party by either donating supplies, helping to set up, clean up, or running a game. The kids had a good time.

The students don’t have school on Monday, November 12th to allow the teachers time to get report cards completed. Your child’s report card will come home on Friday, November 16th.

Please check out our personal narratives at https://ourwrittenwordhale.blogspot.com/. We'd love for you to read our work and leave us a comment.
We’ll have our first ROAR reward day on Tuesday, November 20th. Students have been saving their ROAR tickets so that they can purchase different ways to spend their afternoon. Some of the options are additional recess or a snack, snuggle, and read. Each opportunity has a different value so the more tickets they’ve earned the better their choices. Students who have not saved their tickets may spend their time reading or working on school work in study hall.

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

Dates to Remember:
Friday, November 9th - End of the Trimester
Monday, November 12th - No School - Teacher Work Day
Friday, November 16th - Report Cards come home
Wednesday, November 21st - Friday, November 23rd - Thanksgiving Break
Thursday, February 21st - 6:00 to 7:00 - Wax Museum Night

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday, Donovan!

Newsletter, October 26

A Peek At What We are Doing in Fifth Grade

On Halloween, Zach Elementary celebrates with an all-school costume parade that starts at 2:15. After the parade, the fifth graders will head to the cafeteria for an all-fifth grade Halloween party.

Please keep the following in mind when thinking of a costume. Costumes must be elementary - age appropriate - we have young children viewing the parade. Masks are acceptable for the parade only. This means that masks cannot be worn before/after the parade in the school. Students need to be able to dress in the costume independently; makeup and hair can be done prior to school. No toy weapons (follow the student code of conduct).

If you volunteered to donate supplies for the Halloween party, we would appreciate it if you could bring them in on Tuesday.

You can find all the newsletters for the year on our classroom blog http://khalesclass.blogspot.com/.

Dates to Remember:
Wednesday, October 31 - Costume Parade and Halloween Party
Friday, November 2nd - Civil War presentation from students at Rocky Mountain High School
Friday, November 9th - End of the Trimester
Monday, November 12th - No School - Teacher Work Day
Friday, November 16th - Report Cards come home
Wednesday, November 21st - Friday, November 23rd - Thanksgiving Break
Thursday, February 21st - 6:00 to 7:00 - Wax Museum Night

Newsletter, October 17th

A Peek At What We Are Doing In Fifth Grade

The students did an amazing job leading their conferences. They were reflective of their learning and seemed to be very honest in how they viewed their work and effort this school year. I hope you found the time meaningful.

We have completed our first writing unit, personal narratives. To start the unit, we learned how to generate ideas. To raise the level of our writing, we used the technique of “Dream the Dream” and bringing forth what our story was really about. 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 hope you enjoy reading them.

On Halloween, Zach Elementary celebrates with an all-school costume parade that starts at 2:15. After the parade, the fifth graders will head to the cafeteria for an all-fifth grade Halloween party.

Please keep the following in mind when thinking of a costume. Costumes must be elementary - age appropriate - we have young children viewing the parade. Masks are acceptable for the parade only. This means that masks cannot be worn before/after the parade in the school. Students need to be able to dress in the costume independently; makeup and hair can be done prior to school. No toy weapons (follow the student code of conduct).

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


Dates to Remember:
Friday, November 9th - End of the Trimester
Monday, November 12th - No School - Teacher Work Day
Wednesday, November 21st - Friday, November 23rd - Thanksgiving Break
Thursday, February 21st - 6:00 to 7:00 - Wax Museum Night

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Byung-A and Luke.