Upcoming Events in 5th Grade during January!

Monday, Jan 16th: 12:35 Dismissal, that morning students will be participating in a service project by bagging soup for Upper Des Moines

Tuesday, Jan 17th-Friday, January 20th: Breakfast of Champions for guardians to attend breakfast on one of those mornings to discuss students' Iowa Assessments (ITBS) goals

January 23-27: Iowa Assessments (formerly Iowa Tests of Basic Skills)

Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2012! It's hard to believe that the year is half over! We're looking forward to a great second semester in 5th grade!

1st Quarter

   We've had a busy 1st quarter in 5th Grade! The students were able to take the MAPs test (measures of academic progress) in the areas of Math, Reading and Social Studies.  These test results were shared with parents at conferences last week.  The students set a goal in each area to work towards. They will take the tests again in the Spring so that we can see their growth!
   In September we had the opportunity to visit the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha.  The students were able to make connections while viewing biomes that they learned about in Science class.  We even got compliments from the ladies at the gift shop about how well behaved and nice our students were!  Good job 5th graders!  That's the SLMS Way!
    October brought conferences.  The conferences were student-led.  We appreciate all of the parents taking time out of your busy schedules to come and support their child's learning.  We received many positive comments and feedback on the evaluations that the parents did.  Hopefully your child was able to blog with you about their conference so you could see the blogging that we're doing in Language Arts classes.  The students are really enjoying it!  We blog approximately twice a week on average during Language Arts.  Students are always welcome to blog at home as well.
     UPCOMING EVENTS:
*Mon. Nov. 7: Assembly in the morning
*Thurs. Nov.10: Attend musical rehearsal of The Music Man
*Fri. Nov.11: 12:35 Dismissal for professional development
*Wed. Nov. 23: 1:50 Dismissal
*Thurs. Nov.24 & Fri. Nov. 25: NO SCHOOL
   

Conferences!

Parent-Teacher conferences are underway! They continue today, March 31 from 1-7:30 and are also being held tomorrow, Fri, April 1st from 8-10:30 A.M.  Students do NOT have school on Friday due to conferences. Thank you to all of the parents that have come to show their support in their child's education. 

William Durbin is Coming to SLMS on March 3!

We are fortunate to have author, William Durbin, visit and eat lunch with students tomorrow! He will give a presentation to the students, have lunch and do a book signing! Students and teachers have been reading some of his books in preparation for his visit! He will also be visiting the Storm Lake Public Library Thursday night.

4 Day Weekend!

I hope everyone enjoys the upcoming 4 day weekend! Happy President's Day on Monday!  See everyone Tuesday, Feb. 22!

We started blogging!