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