Science Fair Research

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and got to spend time with your families.

Please remember we have Science Fair Research and Bibliography due on Monday morning. This should be about 2 typed pages (14 font) Stuents need to have science fair turned in ON TIME to go to Fabulous Friday. We will have another small science fair project this upcoming week, so try hard not to get behind.

Thanks for coming to conferences! I was able to meet with everyone and enjoyed talking to all of you.

Conferences

Today I am sending home a schedule for your conferences. Conferences are next Thursday and Friday (the 20th and 21st). Please have your child bring this back to me as soon as possible. If the suggested time doesn't work for you, leave a phone number where I can reach you or put some times on there that do work for you and I will see what I can work in.

I look forward to meeting with all of you next week!

Science Fair

The time has come to begin science fair. I love science fair and put a lot of time and effort into getting students ready to begin their projects. I will send home a time line and many more details on Monday, November 10th.

Each week, students will have an assignment due, that is part of their science fair project journal. I will send home a half sheet of paper explaining each assignment and I will go over each weekly assignment in class, with the students, in great detail. These will usually be due on Thursdays and must be turned in to go to Fabulous Friday. These must be typed. If students can't type it at home, there will be computers available at school that they can use. I will also have some adult help that will help type these, if needed.


Due Nov 13th:
1. Bring a 1" three-ring binder with 8 tabs for your journal. The eight tabs should be: purpose, research, hypothesis, experiment, analysis, bibliography, due dates and notes. Let me know if you cannot provide a binder for your child and I will take care of them.

2. Get parent's signature on the packet slip.

3. Write a proposal on an project you would like to complete (do NOT start the project yet, I need to approve these and will walk students through this process, step-by-step).

Book Report - Historical Fiction

Our next book report genre is historical fiction. A historical fiction book is a book about times in our history and stories that take place in those times. The times are real, but the stories are partly made-up or completely made-up. Some of the people in the book may have been real, but the author used his or her imagination to tell the story.

This book report is due November 26th.

Please remember these books need to be AT LEAST 100 pages and need to be on the student's reading level. There are numerous great historical fiction books and many that are also award winners. Please make sure students have their books and are reading.

Thank you for your help and support with book reports!

Presidential Fitness

Our new presidential Fitness activity is going to be push ups. Here are the requirements for students:

Boys 10 years old: presidential - 22 national - 14
Boys 11 years old: presidential- 27 national - 15
Girls 10 years old: presidential - 20 national - 13
Girls 11 years old: presidential - 19 national - 11

Their chance to pass off push ups will be December 5th.

Welcome Back!

Just a reminder to parents that we come back on Monday, November 10th! Students need to remember to bring back their reading minutes and they must be SIGNED by a parent. They can't be turned in late so please remind them to bring their minutes!