5th Grade 101
Mrs. Harris' Newsletter for the Week of 10/12
What We Did Last Week
In Science we finished up our Organisms and Ecosystems unit by revisiting our vermicomposting worm ecosystems and examined how events can cause changes to ecosystem- either man-made changes or natural changes. We also used Brain Pop and Jeopardy to review for our first unit test. Grades will be recorded and shared by Monday. Overall students did an AMAZING job analyzing and making inferences with the test situations given.
What We are Doing This Week
In Science we will begin our next unit on Matter by beginning with a detailed look at how we did on our unit test and discuss what it means to make goals as we begin our next unit. To kick off a SUPER fun unit, we will have a couple of labs focused on properties of matter, specifically with phases of matter, descriptive properties, and relative density. This is one of my FAVORITE units because it is soooo much fun!
Neon Circus!
What: 2015 Neon Circus
When: October 23rd from 6-10 PM
Where: Cy-Fair Exhibit Center
Wristband & Ticket Pre-Sale ends on Tuesday 10/13.
Raffle tickets: Sales are going great! Remember to send your stubs and payment to the front office. Send a note to the front office if you need more raffle tickets. If you have extra tickets that will not be sold, please send those to the office. All tickets and payments are due no later than Oct. 21. Please visit the HES Facebook or PTO page for more information and updates.
Upcoming Events:
Monday is Parent Conference Day. I look forward to meeting with you all to discuss our progress. This will be a student holiday, so it's the parents' turn to go to school! The kiddos all thought that that was the BEST IDEA EVER!
Friday: Spirit Day! 7:45 Choir Practice; 8:00 AM StuCo Mtg. for Reps/Officers. BTW...I want to send a special SHOUT OUT to our officers and reps for this school year. Congratualtions go out to EVERYONE who was brave enough to stand up in front of everyone and give their AMAZING speeches. A special congrats goes out to our reps this year: President Bella, Vice President Tyler, CEO Amy Kate Harris class reps Braden and Ziana, and Whittington class reps Ava and Kara. I am so happy and proud of everyone. I am very impressed and have honestly have not seen anything like it since I've been at Hamilton.
Homework This Week
Science: Week 8 (5 questions per day as usual)
We will be discussing Monday's homework Tuesday morning as usual even though students are not in class on Monday. I discussed this with them on Friday.