Mrs. Pfister's Weekly Update
5th Grade Ireland Elementary
Feb. 21, 2020
Classroom Learning
Spelling
Spelling Unit 4.4
More Figurative Language
Science
Next week students will compete an escape room with chemical and physical reactions.
Social Studies
Next week we will start Chapter 9 and continue learning about the American Revolution.
Writing
We will be completing a Student Treasures project. Students will start drafting a book for the publishing project. This will take us a few weeks and we must hit our April 10 deadline. More information will be coming home soon.
St. Patrick Day Parade
Ireland Elementary is starting a new tradition of walking in the Ireland St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Since it is the final year for our 5th grade students to be at Ireland, we would like to give them the honor to walk in the parade with Ireland Elementary staff members.
The parade is on Sunday, March 15. Your child will need to be dropped off at 12:30pm in St. Mary’s Church parking lot. You will not be able to park in the parking lot. Please have your child wear his/her green Ireland Elementary shirt. There will be a letter sent home to those students who will be walking in the parade on Friday, March 13 with our parade number. Please sign and return the permission slip if your child is interested in walking. A paper copy of the permission slip was sent home on 2/21/2020.
Headphones
R is for Revolution with Adobe Spark
DARE Essay
All students participating in DARE are required to write a DARE essay. Officer Knies assigned the DARE essay on Feb. 20 and gave the class a couple of weeks to complete the essay. He has given them all the guidelines and requirements. Essays are due March 31. The students will not have class time set aside for them to write their essay. I do encourage them to use free time (time after tests) or the late bus students to work on the essay at the end of the day. Please ask your child about their essay.
On February 27 Officer Knies will be bringing Jasper High School peer mentors to Ireland to speak to the fifth grade.
Ancestor Reports
On March 4, students will need to have all ancestor notes at school. The notes need to be completed by the student in their handwriting. In the past, some students, for example, just handed the the outline to "grandma" and made her complete the outline. We want to the note collecting process to be researching, interview, meeting with family and simply talking. The student needs to take ownership of this! We will write the report at school. As the presentations get closer, I will make a tentative schedule for presentations, so that if parents or family members want to attend, they can. Please let me know if you have any questions. This has been a long tradition at Ireland Elementary and a memorable experience for students.
Irish Program
The Irish Program is Thursday, March 5. Students will wear the Ireland Elementary shirt that PTO provided. If you haven't seen that shirt in awhile, please START looking for it! Please put the shirt in your child's backpack Wednesday night (March 4) so that the shirt is at school for the 1:00 dress rehearsal on Thursday. Students will need to be at school at 6:00 Thursday night. If you have family members that can't make it to the evening performance, the public is welcome to attend the dress rehearsal at 1:00 on Thursday.
Pink Shirt Day
Wednesday, February 26th is
PINK SHIRT DAY!
It’s a campaign to help stop bullying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjmf3I1_ZhU
To show our support of this campaign
we’re asking our staff and students to
WEAR PINK ON WEDNESDAY.
Better yet, we’d love for you to join in
and wear pink Wednesday too! Spread the word!
Congratulations to our spelling bee participants and winner!
Important Dates:
Feb. 21 School Spelling Bee
Feb. 24 Band Testing
Feb. 26 Pink Shirt Day
Feb. 27 JHS Peer Mentors visit
Mar. 4 Ancestor notes due
Mar. 5 Irish Program for Grades 1, 2, 5; 1:00pm and 6:30pm (DATE CHANGE!)
Mar. 9 Class Picture Day at 8:40
Mar. 13 Band Instrument try outs in morning
Mar. 18-20 Ancestor Report Presentations
Mar. 18 End of 3rd Quarter
Mar. 23-27 Spring Break
Mar. 31 DARE Essay Due
April 6 Fun Run Kick Off
April 10 Snow Make-Up Day - No School
April 10 Book Publishing Date
April 13 5th Grade Trip to JHS for Band Introduction
April 14 JCAC Program Magic of Science
April 15 5th Grade to Toyota
April 16 Fun Run at School
April 20 -May 15 ILEARN Testing
May 14 JMS Tour 8:30-10:30
May 21 I Day
May 22 End of Fourth Quarter and Second Semester