Welcome to the Second Trimester!  I hope that you enjoyed a healthy and happy Thanksgiving holiday with your friends and families.  I’m sure I can speak for us all when I say that I gave thanks for such wonderful Fifth Graders in our class this year during my Thanksgiving vacation.  Your kiddos have been working hard all November long and should be very proud of their accomplishments. Let’s take a peek at what they’ve been cooking up!

During the month of November, our class spearheaded their first service project of the year, our school wide canned food drive. The St. Leander community came out to support our main service project this month and we were able to collect over 500 food items to share with families in need!  This project held special meaning to our class, as we have been working hard on understanding how we can live all our Student Learning Expectations. We were also hard at work during our Reading time, finishing up our second class novel Sign of the Beaver.  This heartwarming story of friendship developing between two boys from different cultures is a wonderful and appropriately timed theme.

In Math, we have been living in a world of decimals! We spent most of our month focusing on different ways to utilize decimals: writing them in different forms, adding/subtracting them, comparing, ordering, and even multiplying them!  We will find more decimals in our December stockings, as we deepen our understanding of multiplying decimals and tackle decimal division as well. Social Studies has been busy for us as well, as the kids have been learning about life in colonial New England, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies. We are cruising along towards Ms. T’s favorite chapter, where we’ll learn all about the causes of the American Revolution and witness how our great nation began!

Looking ahead to our final month of 2018, we have a jam-packed schedule of events. Please write these dates down on your family calendars to ensure maximum seasonal enjoyment!

12/2: Breakfast with Santa

12/4: PTG/School Board Christmas Potluck at 6:30pm

12/7: 12:00pm dismissal

(Staff Development)

12/17: 5th Grade Christmas Morning!

8:30-10:00

12/18: Christmas Program at 7pm

in the Church

12/19: Evacuation Drill

Dismissal begins at 10:45am

ALL STUDENTS MUST BE PICKED UP! NO SLED AVAILABLE!

12/20- 1/2: Christmas Break

1/3: School Resumes

May you all have a blest and holy Advent season with your families and loved ones!  I pray that this joyous season be with us all, and remain in our hearts well into the new year.

Continued blessing to you and yours,

Ms. Tiedemann

All students are expected to read for a minimum of 20 minutes nightly in addition to the assigned work listed below:
 

Monday: (Math) daily column, (LA) daily column, (Reading) daily column, (Spelling) 1-10 ten times each, (Social Studies) work on your state report, due 12/12

Tuesday: (Math) daily column, (LA) daily column, (Reading) daily column, (Spelling) 11-20 ten times each, (Social Studies) work on your state report, due 12/12; study for Ch. 6 test on Friday

Wednesday: (Math) daily column, (LA) daily column, (Reading) daily column, (Spelling) rainbow spelling, (Social Studies) study for Ch. 6 test on Friday

Thursday: (Math) daily column, (LA) daily column, (Reading) daily column, (Spelling) spelling practice test, (Social Studies) study for Ch. 6 test on Friday

(Weekly spelling/ vocab test each Friday)

State Reports passed out Tuesday, 11/13
due Wednesday 12/12
Ch. 6 Social Studies test on Friday, 12/14