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AMAZING WORK! GOOD TIMES!

Families, I am my doing my best to keep everyone updated on all our awesome.  In the midst of field trip planning and end of the year stuff and our amazing Ecoschoolhouse project, I may miss something!  Please don’t hesitate to ask about anything.

ESD:  Our projects are really taking shape now.  Most of our math work, some of our reading, and all of our science and writing is integrated into this work.  Our math focus has been on geometry, multiplying decimals, solving multistep problems within our projects. Next week, we will likely finish laying our 100 chart patio, refurbishing the stream table, set up the sundial structure, and almost finishing the water feature.  We are about 30% finished with our sights set on the Open House on May 20! THank you all who have donated time and money. If you have any powers over the weather…

MO Organism Calendar: We are making a F’ake Gnu (Fake News) Missouri Organism Calendar.  Each student is creating a slide and art project about a real MO Organism and a Fake Mo Organism.  Each month, readers will have to decide, is the organism fake or real. This work has been super fantastic and we are excited about our final product.  This is intended to be a fun way to talk about misleading information in this world of Fake News.

SS: This week we spent a few days covering many major Westward Expansion events.  Then we moved on to Civil War, starting with a background in Slavery in America. The Civil War will be our SS focus the rest of the year.  This will include class lessons and the really special Civil War Day. The assessment for this unit is each student will draft an authentic Civil War journal letter.  There is more information on Civil War Day in the Friday Folder.

Assessments:  I am behind on assessing some fantastic student work in each subject.  Our work is so fantastic because we conference and I use formative assessment to help kids do their best.  It is the final grading piece I am behind on. My plan is to go over all the work this weekend and then also conference with students on the work before sending it home.  In terms of district assessments, we will have the STAR reading and STAR math test at the end of May. I will let you know dates for these and any other district assessments we may take.

5TH GRADE IMPORTANT DATES SPRING 2019

MAY 6:HANNIBAL ALL DAY (ARRIVE 7:30-7:55, RETURN 4:30)

MAY 9: FUNESTA 5:00-7:00

MAY 14: CIVIL WAR DAY ALL DAY

MAY 20:5th Grade Community Project Reveal

MAY 21 (tentative): Shakespeare's field trip (Read a Thon award)

MAY 22: Graduation

MAY 23: 5th Grade Field Day/End of Year Party

MAY 24: Grant School Field Day

MAY 28: Last Day of School