Week of February 27-March 2

It's almost March!  With the spring weather approaching, so is testing and this week we will have a testing scrimmage on Tuesday and Wednesday.  Please make every effort to send your child to school well-rested and prepared for practice testing.  This is only practice, but we are going to take the scrimmage tests and spend lots of time going over them and reviewing test taking skills for the K-PREP which is coming up in May.

Tuck Everlasting
This past week we finished reading aloud Tuck Everlasting and the kids LOVED it!  Therefore, we will be celebrating the book and their efforts on the scrimmage test Friday afternoon by viewing the movie.

District BOB Team
Recently several students throughout 5th grade took the district BOB test for placement on the school team that will be going to the district competition on March 13th.  A big congratulations goes out to Lindsay from our class for her awesome effort in the BOB competition and her selection for the team competing at district!  Go Lindsay!

Progress Reports and Conferences
Progress Reports go home on Wednesday and conferences will be after school this Thursday, March 1 and next Tuesday, March 6.  Please call the office to schedule your conference at your earliest convenience.  Slots are filling up.

Word Study Quiz
This week we will have a quiz over synonyms.

This Week We'll be Learning...

• All about the Bill of Rights in social studies!
• How to add and subtract mixed numbers in math!
• How to identify synonyms and antonyms in word study!
• How to write to an On Demand prompt in writing!
• ...and all about the elements and structures of poetry in reading!