Fantastic Friday!

After some issues that were occurring outside of class last week and a serious class discussion, I am quite pleased to say that 5B showed all teachers what they are capable of on Friday. After a few volunteers sang us their best rendition, we sang and danced to the song, Respect. Even though it was a goofy day with a late start and an emotional day with September 11th, 5B received compliments from all teachers about their behaviors and respect. See, I told you guys!! Don't give up on yourselves so easily! What a great day we had.

Hopefully you noticed the slideshow of pictures to the right of this post. These are pictures from the first day of school through this past Friday, September 11th. The slideshow inlcudes 5B homeroom time and all sections of literacy class. I'll try to keep it updated after I get a good number of photos. Parents, if you signed a paper saying you didn't want your child's photos to be on the Internet, and you happen to see one, PLEASE let me know. I tried to be careful about which students were shown and not shown. Thanks! I appreicate your help.

I thought I'd give you a little heads up for the upcoming events the next 2 weeks. This Wednesday is a 3-hour early out with a bus evacuation drill in the morning. Thursday and Friday will be goofy because 5th graders will begin MISIC testing. 5B has their first test for MISIC (math) on Friday, but the schedule will be goofy Thursday because another 5th grade section begins their testing. The following week will continue to be confusing with more MISIC testing and a field trip to the Norman Borlaug Farm on Friday, September 25th. I'll send a note home with the kids early this week as a reminder of these events.

Often times with schedule changes, students get a little out of whack (as do the teachers!!). So, we'll do what we can to help them out, but 5B will need to do their best to stay focused and continue the respectful attitudes they demonstrated last week. Have a great rest of the weekend! Thanks for being such fun, excited learners, 5B! Your proof that you checked the blog this weekend is to tell me who won the long awaited Cy-Hawk battle on Saturday!!