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5th Grade Gazette ------Mt. Laurel 682 - 7230 February 27, 2017 [email protected] Planning Time: 1:30 – 2:00 [email protected] ------

Dear Parents – Sam Scott & Rebecca Newman Calendar Our Read-a-Thon has We Will Be Working on begun!!! Please make sure your These Areas This Week February 27th child is reading, getting Reading Read-A-Thon Starts donations, and logging their time. Point of View Please encourage your child to Class Read: Bridge to Terabithia February 28th READ, READ, READ!!! Aspire Interim 4 (Science) Phonics / English Language Arts We will be teaming up with Words with Prefixes some students from the high Conventions and Commas March 1st school to participate in “Pi Day” Reading / Writing Focus Words Aspire Interim 4 (Math) th 1. rearrange 6. reconfigure this year (March 16 ). We are 2. unaware 7. unfamiliar Kona Ice super excited about this – it is 3. indefinite 8. incomplete ($3.00) going to be a lot of fun!!! The 4. disappear 9. dishonest 5. irregular 10. impossible high school students will be March 2nd preparing lessons for our kids Reading Vocabulary CMS Counselors Visit MLES to that involve working with pi. I 1. reluctant 4. garish Discuss Course Selections 2. vile 5. wheedling Aspire Interim 4 (Reading) think it is going to be a great 3. complacent 6. genuine Math experience for everyone. As part rd of our celebration, we are going Unit 6 Decimals March 3 Monday: Complete Unit 6 Study Guide Spring Pictures to do a couple of activities with Tuesday: Real World Problem Wednesday: ACT Aspire Interim PIE. We sent out a Signup th Thursday: Morning Work Quiz / /Real March 9 Genius last week. Thank you so World Problem Read-a-Thon Wrap-up and much to all of you that signed up Friday: Review Unit 6 Free Family Movie Night 5:30 – to send a pie. Homework Monday: Finish/Study Unit 6 Study Guide 8:00 Our math study guide for Unit Tuesday: Study for Unit 6 Test 6 should be coming home today. Wednesday: Study for Unit 6 Test March 10th It is LONG, but it should be Thursday: Study for Unit 6 Test Friday: Study for Unit 6 Test Teacher Workday pretty easy. Our test will be At Least 1 Hour on Moby Max **No School** sometime next week. The test (Monday – Sunday) Unit 6 Summative Test: th will probably take 2 separate Tuesday, March 7th March 15 days (it’s kind of long too). I’m American Village thinking it will probably be next Science Field Trip Tuesday and Thursday. I will let Ecosystems / Cleaning up an Oil Spill Google Classroom Assignment th you know for sure once I see how Letter to Mayor Higgins -- Due: Friday, March 16 they feel about the study guide. March 3rd Pi Day Please encourage them to Social Studies th practice the problems on the Winning the Revolution March 17 study guide and make others that Domain Vocabulary Knightingales leave for Dollywood 1. Second Continental Congress Report Cards Go Home are similar too. This will be their 2. Olive Branch Petition last big grade before the end of 3. Thomas Paine March 27th – 31st the 9 weeks. 4. Thomas Jefferson 5. Declaration of Independence Spring Break

Have a spectacular week!!! Thank you to the Diamond family, Lucado family, Bridgeman family, and the Sanders family for adopting our classrooms this year!