Fifth Grade Newsletter

Dear Families, It is hard for us to believe we are in our last weeks of school. We have been truly blessed to work with your children this year. We are always amazed at the accomplishments of these young people, and like you, we are excited to see them continue to grow in middle school next year. We hope that you can join us for one or all of the events to culminate your child’s first 6 years of schooling. Please know that the Swansboro Elementary School staff sends your child out into this world with high hopes and high expectations, but is always here with welcoming smiles and hugs whenever students return to share their stories. Thank you for your support over the years. We have truly been partners in your child’s education. Sincerely, Andrea Lawrence, Sharron Mohr, Jessica Price, Rachel Croasdaile & Ann Cole End of year information: Important events for the next 2 weeks: Tuesday, June 2 nd : With testing later in the year, we are still finishing our end of year assessments. If your child has a P.E.P. (Personal Education Plan),  Science EOG students (morning) your child’s teacher will contact you to discuss end of the year progress. Wednesday, June 3 rd :  Science EOG students (morning) EOG Breakfasts:

Students will be taking the Reading and Math EOGs the last week of Monday, June 8th: school. We would love to have some high energy snacks available for  Math/Reading EOG (morning) them on Monday and Tuesday morning. Please, if you are able, send in fruit, trail mix, granola bars, cheese sticks, Go-gurt sticks, muffins Tuesday, June 9th: or another healthy breakfast item. This will help these excellent  Math/Reading EOG(morning) students maintain their energy level for these very long assessments. Thank you! We know these students will do their best no matter Make up test days will be the days after testing. Please what, but we would love to give them a “head start” with a healthy try to make sure your child is here on testing days! snack! Friday, June 12 th : Dress for Fun and Success  5th Grade Field Day We will be having our 5th grade Field Day on Friday, June 12th.  Pizza Lunch/Snacks Students need to apply sunscreen at home and dress for outside activities, (girls, please avoid spaghetti straps) and remember to wear Thursday, June 11 th : good active shoes. However, we want students to dress a little  Celebration of Success at 11:00 in the multi- differently on Thursday, June 11th. Our Celebration of Success will be a more serious event and we expect students to “dress for purpose room success” on Thursday. Students are welcomed to bring a change of  Behavior Celebration (appropriate electronic clothes, but we would like all fifth graders to be well-dressed for devices allowed) Thursday’s event (collared shirts for boys and nice pants, skirts or HELP… dresses for the ladies and no flip flops.) Thank you for your help Friday, June 12th is our fifth grade field day and lunch. with this. We are in need of the following items: Plates, juice boxes, water bottles, bags of chips, veggie trays, fruit EACH 5 TH GRADE CLASS WILL TIE DYE T-SHIRTS. THE COST IS $5.00 trays, desserts. PER STUDENT (PURCHASE OF SHIRT AND DYE). PLEASE SEND IN THE We will be ordering pizza this day also, so please allow your child MONEY BY WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 TH , TO YOUR CHILD’S TEACHER. to bring in $2 to offset the cost. Thanks! Don’t forget the $5.00 We will be having pizza on the last day of school. The cost is $2.00 for the tie dye shirts. (Cash only please). per student for pizza. Please send in cash only for the shirt and th pizza money ($7.00 total). If you can send in your items by Wednesday, June 10 so we can assess what items are still needed, that would be great!