Dear Fifth Grade Families,
The Kingdom of Halloween festival was a delight to experience! Thank you all for your efforts as we brought to life our magical festival once again!!
Our next school event is Tuesday, November 8. Our class will play ukulele for the kindergarten classes as they enjoy their lantern walk through the woods. Please have your child at the school at 5:30 pm to tune up and warm up. The lantern walk should last 45-60 minutes. On Wednesday, November 9th, grades 1-3 will hold their evening lantern walk at 6:30. The 4th-grade students will play ukulele for the younger grades with the support of 5th-grade siblings (and any fifth-grader who wishes to come again). Siblings, please be on campus around 6:00 to tune up and get ready. We are looking forward to these special evenings! The fifth-grade class will make lanterns in class and will use them as lovely decorations around them as they play for our school. Additionally, as part of our school's efforts to help others, we will collect gently used coats both at the lantern walk and at drop-off and pick-up that week. The school will donate the coats to One Warm Coat, which provides coats for those who need them during the coming cold.
In class, we moved from the world of Botany to Ancient Persia. We began this block learning about how Persia's climate and geography differed from that of India, thus affecting how the culture met and honored the spiritual and how they progressed from hunters and gatherers to becoming herders and farmers. We also continued with our morning math, weekly dictations, and fraction work and enjoyed many activities in our specialty classes along the way.
Reminders:
Nov. 8: NO school, teacher in-service day, Kindy Lantern Walk–Fifth grade plays ukulele
Nov. 9: Grades 1-3 Lantern Walk (5th-grade siblings will play the ukulele with 4th grade)
Nov. 7-11: Coat drive for One Warm Coat
Nov. 14-18: Non Perishable food drive for Never Alone food pantry
Nov. 18: Half Day dismissal (12:15-30) - Thanksgiving Luncheon
Nov. 21-25 Thanksgiving Break (No School)
With gratitude,
Melissa
