Welcome to Fifth Grade with Mrs. O'Shea  

                 Welcome to Fifth Grade with Mrs. O'Shea

Monday, June 11 

 Calendar items: 

• June 12 is our Science Symposium at 9:45 in the cafeteria.  We will host the Symposium for an hour. 
• Our end of year breakfast party will take place on Thursday morning, June 14th. I will show the kids the movie I've made (still making) for them with pictures from our entire year together. 
• June 18 is Field Day. Mr. Peles is the parent volunteer who will travel with our class and lead us in the activities. I see that rain may be in the forcast but we can move things indoors with some minor adjustments.
• June 19th at 7:00 p.m. is fifth grade Moving On Ceremony in our gym. 

     I have to start the process of cleaning and organizing the classroom for next year's fifth graders.  Would families take a close look around their homes and look for any of my classroom library books that students borrowed this year?  Thank you so much!  We will begin the process of cleaning out desks a little bit each day...some items I know we won't be needing during the next week and a half.

     We are still working on finishing all of our writing pieces of the year, taking a last look at them before they are printed and sent off to the Middle School teachers.  Reading and writing will take up most of our instructional time for the remainder of the year...with some fun things thrown in, too.  And the obligatory reading assessments that are almost done!

     After our dress rehearsal for our Science Symposium on Friday, some children may wish to add to their slide shows or notes that they wish to speak from.  They will have a little bit of time at school, but they may wish to tweek them at home Monday evening.

     We also have one last Health unit to cover, now that Growing to Maturity is completed.  It is a short lesson on HIV/Aids that is blended with general instruction about communicable diseases. That will take place this week. 

As usual, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to call or e-mail and ask me... 

Our Science Symposium today:          

Link for keyboarding games:  http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games.html

 A link for Scholastic books:  https://orders.scholastic.com/L9BKY  

(Our class activation code is L9BKY)