Good Evening!  I have a couple of announcements for this week.

-Hat day is Thursday January 27th.  Your child will be able to wear a hat if they donate a dollar towards the the fifth grade camp trip.

-There is NO SCHOOL this Friday January 28th. Therefore home work will be due Thursday and there will be a spelling test that day as well.

-We will be taking our second round of NWEA testing on Tuesday February 1, 2011 in the afternoon.  Please pack a brain healthy lunch so your child is ready for the test.

Valentine's day is coming quickly!  We will have our Valentine's day party on Monday February 14, 2011.  I will be sending a list of names of the class.  We will be giving valentine cards to students in the class.  The only rule that I have is that students must give a valentine's card to everyone so no one feels left out.
As a homework project, I will be asking students to make their Valentine's boxes/bags at home and bring in the Friday before.  There will be information sent home regarding this activity.

We have had an exciting week in math.  We have already discussed multiplication and division.  We have begun to investigate ways to show these two operations in math.  This is the first of many opportunities for you child to begin to understand these concepts.  If your child is having trouble remember to ask them to draw a picture to help you understand how they got their answer.

February is Black History Month.  We have learned many interesting facts about Martin Luther King Jr. through biographies written about him.  As a class we wrote a report on him.  In the next week your child will be partnered up with another student in the class and read a biography about an African American who has influenced our lives.  Together, they will write a report on the person that I have given to them.

We started our Science unit on motion.  Today we had our first exciting experiment.  Ask your child what the Objects in Motion experiment was about!

Keep checking in to see what you child is doing in class!
Stay warm.