5th Grade News!: 1-22-16

1-22-16

Yearbooks are now on sale. Flyers were sent home today. You can fill out the order form and send it back to school with your child or order on-line www.balfour.com. There is a processing fee if you order on-line. All yearbook orders are due Feb. 19th unless you are ordering on-line. On-line orders are due before March 11th.

"Father Daughter Dance is SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6TH, 6:00-8:00 pm. Parent volunteers and snack donations are needed. Please visit our event link for a list of needs: http://tinyurl.com/lcnd9tf

Second Childhood, a consignment store in the Carillion Centre on South Westnedge, is working with our school to help our girls in need of a dress for the dance. Please consider donating any of your clean, gently worn dresses to the FREE rack- just mention it is for Lake Center. Our Lake Center girls in need, accompanied by a parent, may choose a dress from the FREE rack, when they mention “Lake Center’s Father Daughter Dance”, now until February 6th

Presale ticket order forms should have gone home this week to each family. The front office will take the order forms and $5 payments which are due Friday, Jan 22nd. You will receive dance tickets the following to go home by Wednesday for the dance.

Please feel free to contact me anytime with concerns or questions: Maggie Piotter at maggie.piotter@yahoo.com

This should be a lot of fun! Thank you for helping me share the information with our families!

Record's Day

Next Friday, January 29th is record's day so there will not be any school for students. This gives teachers a day to get caught on on grading for report cards that will be sent home in February. We are exactly half way through the school year.

A lot of our social studies and language arts this week focused on the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. I used this as an introduction to other famous Americans so we could get a couple of informative writings done. We all completed a informative writing on MLK's life. I then had the children break into small groups to pick another famous American to learn about. We still need a little more time to complete those writings.

We also completed all reading assessments needed for Unit 3.