January 27, 2012: The next literature response will take place soon; the signup for these will be on Friday of next week. Remember that the responses are to be either a biography or autobiography.

As a fifth-grade team, we’ve scheduled the day for the Late-Nighter on Friday the 24th. I’ll be sending home a packet in the next week or so explaining what will take place. If you, as a parent, would like to attend it, you are more than welcome to do so.

This week the class learned about a lot of things. We have been dividing whole numbers and decimals in math, and we learned all about pronouns and antecedents. Our class wasn’t permitted to use pronouns for an hour of the school day and we learned just how important they are in our daily speech.

On a final note, your child should have brought home their standards report attached to their weekly evaluation.

January 27, 2012: The next literature response will take place the week of the 13th. This response’s genre will be biography (students are allowed to read autobiography books as well). Students were also informed that if they choose to read a biography of someone who is a hero to them for this literature response, then this book’s information would then be useful in the American Hero projects that we’ll be starting at the end of April. Bear in mind that your child’s ‘hero’ must be an American. Also, boys are to have boys as their hero, and girls are to have girls as they’ll be required to dress up as their hero for the wax museum. Your child might want to start thinking about how they’d like to do this for their project now.

Next month we will be having the 5th Grade Late-Nighter. A packet of information (as well as a permission form) will be coming home sometime in the next few weeks outlining the event. This is a fun activity that the 5th graders look forward to each year.

We’ve been working on multiplying whole numbers and fractions—as well as multiplying fractions with fractions. We will continue this into next week.

The Super Activity will go tonight as outlined on the permission form—the one change I’d like to make is on the meeting place; we will instead meet at the school’s east parking lot at 4:50 to make sure that everyone has a ride to the event, we will then leave at 4:55. If your child would like to bring along some money to buy something at the concession stand, they are more than welcome to do so.