Important Thursday Folder Coming Home Today!

Hello all...there is a Thursday folder coming home tonight that has a lot of fifth grade specific and assignment specific information. Please find the science fair information packet (coming up in November), a conference time confirnation sheet, Outdoor School transportation information, school picture information (it is on October 19th) and a variety of other information. If you and your child are planning on joining the free Run for the Roses benefitting the Lance Armstrong Foundation as a part of our schools pilot program, the registration sheets sent home yesterday needs to come back to school tomorrow. Today students prepared their conference information for conferences on Monday as well as handwriting, grammar practice and an activity about salt in regard to mixtures and solutions. It was a reflective activity that followed the hands-on portion of the lesson from yesterday. In History Alive students did research for two of thier current major projects, the group social studies assignment on traveling with a group around the United States and the writing project of a travel journal in which one of the seven entries will be developed into a narrative realistic fiction story. This writing project will take us until the end of the first nine weeks and will be worth several different grades. More information to follow as we go through the process!

Outdoor School Meeting Tonight!

Tonight is our Outdoor School parent meeting at 7pm. We are hoping to see all of our students' parents here tonight! In math today we continued our study of multiplication and the use of multiple towers. We have also been reading travel type journals during reading and have been working on a travel journal as a whole class to help students prepare for their individual writing project involving the writing of a travel journal and a realistic fiction narrative. We are doing this writing project in conjunction with the project that students are working on in groups in social studies in which they are to travel to a region and locate interesting places to visit in those regions. In science today, students had to illustrate some writing that they had done before. The students also discussed the upcoming science fair which is in November this year...not far away at all. Our morning was very exciting as a balloon pilot brought a hot-air balloon and demonstrated both outside and inside. Ask your children about it. Thanks to our PTA for sponsoring this event. It came at such a nice time because all classrooms at Gullett have been working on physical science these first nine weeks and what a connection to the study of the states of matter!