Winderful Weather, Huh?!

Hey, 5B,
Did you get a piece of that wind this weekend?  My goodness, the wind was strong!  But I love the warm temperatures that was being blown in with it.  Hopefully you got a chance to be outside at some point this weekend.

I don't know if you realize it, but your 3rd quarter report cards come home on Monday!  They'll be sitting at your spot when you come in on Monday morning.  I was so pleased to see so many improved grades from 2nd quarter.  I'm also pretty sure effort grades went up in several subjects.  What a fantastic quarter, 5B!  Let's see if we can keep it going or even improve things even more for the LAST QUARTER of 5th GRADE!!!  Isn't that crazy to think?  My babies.... you're all growing up so fast... :(

A few heads up for this week...
Monday, March 12 - Uh...nothing...
Tuesday, March 13 - Cadets for a Cause Kick-Off Assembly - in gym at 2:35
Tuesday, March 13 - Tech and Literacy Night from 5 - 7 p.m.
Tuesday, March 13 - Used Book Drive and Labels to Donate (Boxtops, Milk Moola, Campbells, Etc.)
Wednesday, March 14 - 3-Hour Early Out

Thursday, March 15 - If you bring in $1 to donate to the PTO, you can wear a hat in celebration of "Spring Break".
Thursday, March 15 - If you bring in $1 to donate for Cadets for a Cause, you can get a shamrock stamp on you to celebrate St. Patrick's Day (sold at lunch time and recess)
Friday, March 16 and next Monday, March 20 - NO SCHOOL for Spring Break

As you can see, our week will be filled with extras on top of all of our normal subjects.  You'll be getting another Parent-Partner Vocabulary homework sheet on Monday that will be due on Thursday, along with a spelling test and a weekly assessment!  Yikes!

Another big topic to bring up is Iowa Tests of Basic Skills.  They are now called Iowa Assessments.  We'll be doing "practice tests" these week since they've changed since last year.  Your REAL ones will take place after we come back from Spring Break!  I just thought you'd like to know:)

Wow, this was a long post, huh?! Well, I guess I should let you go then.  Your proof for knowing you check to the blog is to go back through this post and figure out what the hidden message is.  It's 2 words.  The first one is red.  The second one is purple.  Write it down, put your name on it and give it to me as you come in on Monday!