This Week in Room 33! Feb. 8-12

Friday, February 12 will be our Valentine's Day celebration! We will be having Jump Rope for Heart from 11-12. Following Jump Rope, we will have our class Valentine exchange and then lunch. After lunch we will share a friendship trail mix and watch a movie to celebrate!

If you would like your child to exchange Valentines, please see the class list below. We have 23 students.

If you would like to donate a small snack for the friendship trail mix, we would greatly appreciate it. As a reminder, we do have a nut allergy in the room.

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Thank you so much!

Jon, Paulina, Sam, Ben, Charlie, Miles, Tyler H., Rylee, Jordan, Kamryn, Tyler M., Zoe, Erin, Eli, Olivia, Sammie, Gus, Aidan, Lila, Emma, Jeremy, Sydney, Izaiah

Candy Grams-"Garden Love"

We will be selling Candy Grams this week during the lunch hour on Tuesday –Thursday for $0.25 each.  Students and teachers can choose to buy just one or to buy one for each member of the class.  Funds raised will go to the garden.

Here's what to expect this week in 5th grade-

Science- This week we are starting our study of chapter 11 on Forces and Motion. We will begin with lesson 1 stations exploring the question, "What are forces?"

*Reminder- For those who are working on PRISM, projects are due NEXT Tue., Feb. 16th! 
Concord's Makers' Fair/Science Night is Thurs. Feb. 18th- EVERYONE is welcome! Please see the below link to sign up your 5th grader to volunteer- we still have some empty time slots! Thank you to those that will be helping out!

Calling all 5th Graders! Concord needs YOU! 

Is your 5th grader looking for service hours? We need 5th grade volunteers to help out at Concord's Maker's Fair/Science Night on Feb. 18th from 3:15-4:15, 4:15-5:15, and 5:15-6:15. Check out the sign-up genius below to sign up for a time slot. 

www.SignUpGenius.com/go/60B0B4AA9A92DAB9-concord

Writing- We are finishing up our memoir unit this week and will be celebrating on Wednesday (memoirs are due on Wed. for the celebration). Writing portfolios will go home on Wed. and will be due back on Friday. Please celebrate the newest memoir your student has produced at home! I am so proud of their hard work! Next up, persuasive argument essays!

Math- We are busy working on multiplying and dividing fractions this week! Students are not just learning the steps, they are learning how to show visually with models in order to truly understand the algorithm. I couldn't be prouder of the math discussions we have each day! See the below video we watched in class to really understand fraction multiplication! Our Fractions Unit Test covering ch. 8-10 will be Friday, Feb. 19th.

Reading- This week we are wrapping up our author studies. We are finding parts of our books that truly spoke to us and writing about our thoughts and making connections across texts by the same author. We will share these thoughts and ideas in a new blog coming soon!

Reminders-
Early Release is Wed!
Thurs.- Group photos for yearbook- We will be photographing the following groups:

·       Concord Flyer Choir

·       Strings

·       Chess Club

·       Girls on the Run

·       Running Club

·       Read, Right, Run

·       Girl Scouts (Juniors, Brownies, Daisies)

·       Boy Scouts (Webelos II, Webelos I, Bears, Wolves, Tigers)

Friday- Jump Rope for Heart and Valentine's Day
Mon. 2/15- No School
2/18- Science Night
2/19- Spring Picture Day