November 15-19

After coming back from a wonderful three-day weekend, we're all feeling a little more revived and ready to head into a full five-day week!

Tuesday: Veteran's Day word search is due and Yankee Candle pick up at Harris Center from 4-8p

Wednesday: Spelling test--no packet will be due this week. The list went home with students in their "Friday Papers" on Thursday. It's also the second day to pick up Yankee Candles from 4-8p.

Friday: Vocabulary test-the list will go home today with students

Other assignments might come up throughout the week. These will be written in your child's assignment notebook.

We Support our Bburg Families by December 3

Each year the Brownsburg Cheer Committee provides help for many families in our Brownsburg community. All Brownsburg schools support the Cheer Committee with donations from the students and their families. Our school began collecting items today. Friday, December 3, will be the last day for the collection of items. Student Council has set a goal of collecting 1,000 items and our class would enjoy helping them with this collection to support our three Student Council members. If our school meets this goal, there will be a special reward!
Watch for the details of the reward in the next Brown Barker.


Items Assigned to Brown


Baby Cereal

Baby Food

Cake/Brownie Mix

Canned Fruit

Cereal

Pasta/Rice

Peanut Butter/Jelly

Pop Tarts

Soup

Toothpaste

Important Links

If you're looking for a specific website either that you've worked on in class or that I've mentioned with your parents this week, please take a look at the bottom of this blog for our 5th grade links!

11/9 Update

No math homework tonight, however we worked on changing improper fractions to a mixed number. Example: 7/2 = 2 1/2. We also play "Fraction Top-It" in small groups to work on equivalent fractions. The Everyday Math online games offers opportunities to practice these basic skills. Triple A Math website does, too. See the links to these at the bottom of the blog.

Spelling packet and test on Thursday this week. Spelling list went home on Thursday.

Chic Fil A day/night tomorrow! A portion of the proceeds goes directly to Brown! Just mention us for lunch or dinner!

Tonight's Homework

Math: Study Link 5.1 due Tuesday--the answers to this assignment came home with the family letter via email and/or paper copy. Feel free to guide your child in getting the correct answers. The better they understand today's/tonight's skill, the better off they'll be! We did, however, work on this same skill during math this morning, so it should just be more practice.

Spelling: The spelling test will be on Thursday this week. The spelling packet is also due on Thursday. We will NOT have time to complete any portion of the packet at school this week, so please plan to work on the packet at home this week.

Reading/Writing: Countdown summaries for the remainder of the book are due on December 3. The instruction sheet came home with the fifth graders on Thursday.

No school on Friday!!! Enjoy another three-day weekend!

Island Celebration: Thursday

We will celebrate the culmination of our Island of the Blue Dolphin unit on Thursday by watching the video to compare and contrast it to the novel. We also plan to dress in our island gear (flip flops, sunglasses, hawaiian shirts, shorts, etc) for that day. Remember, however, that if you plan to wear flip flops, you MUST wear your regular shoes to and from school.

We will also plan to enjoy some snacks during our movie. I will provide the popcorn, but if you have any ideas and wish to donate something fun for the event, please contact Mrs. Hill!

We're counting down to the end of Countdown!

Everyone turned in their Countdown novel summaries this week! This is cause for a celebration!  We will be enjoying POPCORN this afternoon to celebrate all of our acheivements for the first nine weeks!

I'm anxious, as many of the kids are now, to begin reading past Chapter 12 and into the end of the book! We will NOT have weekly book club summaries due each week until after we finish this novel. However, all students will bring home a summary assignment sheet again today that is due December 3. The goal is for each student to read through the book to the end and write a five paragraph summary over Chapters 13 through 28, as they did for the first 12 chapters.

Please read through the summary assignment with your child and encourage him or her to ask any questions that might come up!