Happy February Break!

What an amazing end to the week. The students did a phenomenal job on their Shark Tank presentations! All should be incredibly proud of themselves! 

I hope you all have a fantastic week of rest and relaxation!  Here's a quick update about our week.

• The students completed unit 5 in math.  They now know all the operations of fractions.  We only have three more units!
• All week the Shark Tank groups worked diligently to write their script while also thinking like a design engineer.  In their scripts, the students needed to include a design specification as well as a PMI scale for their object.  (P= plusses, M = minuses and I = improvements).
• We read from The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963. 
• We had a whole school morning meeting to kick off Read Across America week!
• The Museum of Science presented to the whole fifth grade all about the states of matter!

We have a contest going on for the cover of the Grade 5 Memory Book!  Any 5th grader interested can design a cover on 8 1/2 by 11 paper.  It must include the following.

1. Has to have the wolf
2. SMS
3. The Final Howl
4. 2015-2016
5. Must be neat
6. Put your name on back (to keep the judging fair)

These cover illustrations are due on or before March 4th.

If your child wants to bring in headphones for the Smarter Balanced Assessment, he/she is welcome to.  We are noticing the school headphones are starting to break due to three years of use.  We also want your child to be comfortable during testing!  

See you on Leap Day, 2/29!  

Shannon