Happy New Year!

I hope that everyone had a very restful and enjoyable time over the winter break. I think that the upcoming year will be even better than the last one! This month our fifth grade class is hosting the fundraiser to help pay for our Biz town field trip. The class decided that it would be fun and easy to serve spaghetti dinner, bread sticks, and salad. We asking parents to bring in two boxes of noodles each. We also want to sell desserts for extra money. Please bring in the pasta as soon as possible so we don't wait until the last moment. The event will be held on January 14. This is going to be held not this week but the following Thursday and yes, it is a mandatory meeting. I will be sending home a news letter so be sure to ask your child about it.

I would like to also let you know that we have recently added two new students to our classroom, Jared and Luis. We still have a few more seats, but good job a helping to spread the word about IA. Keep up the good work!

For our academics in class we are starting a new book called The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. It is a cool book about two children who run away to the Metropolitan museum. We are continuing to work on grammar and Wordly wise. These will be due at the end of each week. Our final drafts of our personal narrative are due this Friday as well.

In math we our continuing to work on geometry and shapes. We are going to be creating models of houses made out of cardboard using the shapes that we have been working on. Students will be required to draw scale drawings and find the perimeter and area of their models. We will be making a play structure for the kindergartners so we will need wood donated when we are ready to start.

In science we are going to be starting a project "What is the Matter?" We are going to be studying the periodic table and exploring how Humans have used their knowledge of the elements to shape our world.