1. You will be notified in August which teacher your child has for next school year. Please rest assured that I and the four fifth grade teachers for next year gave our utmost thought and care into balancing each class so each child will experience success and continue to grow.
2. Schoolwork & Homework tonight: There is a lot on the day planner due tomorrow. All of a sudden the end of the year crept up on us. I don't want any student to be stressed out tonight about finishing schoolwork. I had to make "Notable Oregonian" and "Oregon Business" due tomorrow simply because there's no more time. We've had some major work sessions the past two days and the students are at different states of doneness. If they only walk in the door tomorrow with three things done they should have their Word Wednesday, Letter to Dad, Farewell Letter to Class, and Book Club Packet (actually due Thursday). We'll have time tomorrow to finish some things we've started, but not all. Furthermore, we had talked about using Thursday as a partial work day to finish up some of these projects, but after giving it some thought we going to use Thursday for their last Book Club meeting, reading Farewell letters, cleaning, and putting some last things in their coffee table books.
3. Summer Work: The students should be coming home tomorrow with some summer work for those of you who have expressed interest. They will have volume 2 of their Math Journal with tons of stuff left to keep them busy. They will also have a math unit 8 worksheet packet, a pink math/reading packet, and three historical fiction reading packets related to our study of US western expansion.
4. Report Cards: These will be mailed out from school on Friday as opposed to going to home with the kids.
Sorry this was so longwinded, but I hope it clears some things up for you. Thanks for a wonderful year.
