5th grade WRITING PEP RALLY!

WHAT TIME IS IT?

WRITING TIME!

Please join us for the 5th grade writing pep rally
to get our students

PUMPED UP
for the WRITING EXAM on March 4th!

WHEN: Tuesday, March 3rd

TIME: 3:45 – 4:30
(students must be picked up promptly at 4:30!)

WHERE: BYRON AND ROBERTS ROOMS

STUDENTS MUST TURN IN PERMISSION SLIP TO STAY AFTER SCHOOL!!

ALL STUDENTS MUST BE PICKED UP BY 4:30!

Week of 2/27!

All MYP students created centipede text feature organizers. These organizers were created by the students to allow them a more visual and constructivist approach in learning textbook features. The MYP students also participated in a textbook feature scavenger hunt.

All MYP students began presenting their Barack Obama Biography Web Projects this week. These projects were based off the biography "Yes We Can" and the students created poster biography webs listing facts about six categories of Barack Obama's life.

MEN DO READ VOLUNTEER DAY!

I would like to say a very special thank you to our

MEN DO READ VOLUNTEERS!

Mr. Ashante Roberts
Mr. Bryan Buckner
Rev. Rayford Nance

The girls thoroughly enjoyed their readings.

This Week 2/6!

This week we finished with Organizational Structure - the last structure was Categorizing. I'm excited as now we moved into Informational Text Features Unit. This is a very important unit - more than half of the questions from the CRCT will be based on Text Features and Graphic Features. We started defining the text features using a special book in which provides examples of each feature. We then started on our first Informational textbook "Searching for Lost Tombs" this book has a chapter on the Chinese Terracotta Army which we have a field trip quickly approaching! With this prior knowledge walking in the door, it will help enhance the educational experience of our field trip and the students should be able to ask thought provoking questions to the guides and answer some of their questions as well!

MEN DO READ VOLUNTEER DAY!

Dear Parents,

Our school is sponsoring MEN DO READ DAY - which is a day in which we have men come in and read works from African American authors. I'm asking for volunteers for the entire day which is on February 10th. Please feel free to email me with your time and I will have the selections ready for you!

If you would like to see more information please visit http://www.ncte.org/action/aari for information.

This is a perfect way to get your volunteer hours!