"Your mind is like a parachute, it only works when it's open." 

Saint Vincent de Paul Food Pantry Collection
All items due by 11/25. Thank you for your generosity! 

November Insights:
12:15 dismissals are scheduled on 11/12 and 11/25.

Scholastic Orders: due 11/15. Our class code is: GMMFP.

Virtual Week: 11/30-12/4.

Don't forget to check Class Dojo to see and comment on your child's portfolio work! 

Please remember SBS is nut free this year and no foods containing nuts are permitted for lunch or snack times. Thank you!

ELA:
We are starting our next class novel together, Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli. I am excited to get started! There are many notable characters who possess excellent traits to study, as well as very powerful themes. Students continue to read nightly and stretch their thinking by using text evidence to support their ideas. Additionally, your fifth grader has been working hard to revise their personal narrarives. Students are working through the Writer's Workshop process, currently finishing up peer editing and publishing.  

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Science:
Your fifth grader has been fully immersed in learning about Matter. Students have a good sense of solids, liquids, and gases after the Root Beer Float experiment! Also, the students had a ball while we celebrated our Outdoor Learning Day creating Oobleck! Students had the opportunity to explore this non-Newtonian fluid and decide if it is a solid or a liquid. Our unit test on Matter will be Friday, 11/13. Students are also finishing up their energy tip for the 14th Annual NJ Gas Poster Contest. Please email completed projects by 11/11. Then, students should bring their posters to school so they can present their work. Lastly, we will be in the garden for our second round of planting. Ask your fifth grader why it's important to plant this time of year! 

STEM - Monday

GYM & Current Events - Tuesday

SPANISH - Wednesday

Art & Character Education - Thursday 

Music - Friday