Mrs. O’Hare, 5th grade teacher
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2 Fifth Grade Newsletter 9.4.15
Dear Fifth Grade Families:
Our school year if off to a great start! Thank you very much for sending in all of your
forms keeping in touch via Class Dojo, notes in our home-to-school folders, emails and telephone calls. Communication is the key to making sure that we are doing our best to make it a great year for your fifth graders.
Here’s a list of some of the great things that your students have been doing in the first weeks of school:
- ★ Harvesting and eating fresh vegetables from the gardens
- ★ Planning and writing skillful paragraphs about summer adventures
- ★ Practicing multiplication facts and getting back into the math groove
- ★ Learning the classroom procedures and expectations
- ★ Taking exciting new books out of the library and reading at Quiet Time
- ★ Setting up new binders, notebooks, writing journal and cubbies
- ★ Practicing how to be a student in the classroom again and showing how to be caring andcooperative with classmates
- ★ Taking exercise breaks with GoNoodle (website) or outside team-building games
- ★ Getting used to handing in red home-to-school folders every morning and doing MorningWork as the first task of the day
- ★ Reviewing reading strategies while enjoying a favorite novel, Charlotte’s Web.
- ★ Meeting Scott Paulson, our Steel Drums teacher!We look forward to a fun-filled year of learning. Please feel free to call or write if you have an questions or concerns. Have a nice long-weekend!All the best, Mrs. O’Hare