April 16th-22nd

CRT Testing will begin on Tues. April 17th. We will be doing the Language Arts part of the test on Tues..., and Wed. We will do the other parts of the test at a later date. Please make sure that your student has a good breakfast and gets a good nights sleep.

Writing
A moment of reflecting
Mrs. Thomson

Recently I found a diary that I myself kept when I was in 5th Grade. I shared some of the verses from my “well written” diary with the students. We had a good laugh. I have included one excerpt from this “priceless” document. I hope you find as much humor in the spelling and grammatical errors, as well as the irony of a horrible report card, as I did.

Tuse. February 1, 1977
Dear Diary
Today I wet to school and I got my reportcard it was horible! Tarra came over and she babbysat me we wacht mash, Happy days, levern and sherly. My mom came home at 10:00.

Apparently,
TV was my
life!
I told the students before, and I wanted to reiterate again, that all the students in 5th grade this year are remarkable writers. I could have never written an essay when I was in 5th grade, as evidenced by my diary. Not only are all the students able to write essays, they use interesting words to express themselves, and they are able to write sentences that entertain, persuade and subsequently inform. I cannot say enough about how remarkable your students are doing in writing.

I wish I could post all the essays students have written this year for your enjoyment, but it would take up volumes of space and I would be afraid that I left someone out. All the essays are excellent. I would encourage you to log on to utahwrite.com and read some of your child’s essays, even print them to keep; then one day, in 36 years, you and your child will enjoy the writing all over again with a new generation.

Social Studies

In the next few weeks in Social Studies we will be studying about the Civil War.

On Monday all of the students will receive a new Voc. list. find it here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5AXrOzbjjbk6s97hs8rkcgSHRd-epgiJQBGULCY1nI/edit
Their test will be on Fri. April 27th.

English and Science
We are still studying about electrical circuits in science this week.

Spelling will resume this week. Spelling packets are due Thursday and a spelling test will given the same day.