Week of September 19th-23rd

Progress Reports will be sent home on Monday!  Please sign and return.  Reminder we are available for conferences in the mornings from 7:55-8:25 with the exception of Wednesday mornings.




Girls on the Run will begin this week for any girls participating!  We will meet in Ms. Simpson's room on the Red Hallway at 3:15 so all patrols can finish post and have time to get changed.



Join the PTA on Wednesday evening for an open PTA meeting, where a special guest our regional superintendent, Kim Bayes will speak briefly.  The meeting will take place at 6:00 pm in the cafeteria.



Fall pictures will be taken on Thursday, September 22nd!  Bring your smile! :) 



Volunteer Opportunity:

It is Book Fair time at Bartram Springs Elementary!  The students and teachers at Bartram Springs love coming to the book fair.  

Volunteers are needed to help the students (especially Kindergarten and 1^st grade) make out their wish lists, select books, and just help the students that come.

The book fair is from September 26 to September 30. The family night at the book fair is Thursday, September, 29 from 5 to 7.

Please see the link to the sign up for times and dates available.

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0c4daba62ea1fe3-fall

Our first field trip will be on October 7th or 8th!  We will go to the Marine Science Center near Mayport.  This is a required field trip for all 5th grade students in Duval County, it is also a FREE field trip!  More information to follow...

Academics:

ELA:
This week we will begin our novel study of Esperanza Rising which goes right along with our Human Rights Study. It is a wonderful book!
We only have class sets of the book so you may want to purchase one for your child to read at home as well. Scholastic has copies for $2.00!  You can also find them at Amazon. 

We will not have a new Social Studies ticket this week but we will have another RRJ, an Achieve and a Vocabulary.  Here are the words to be tested on Friday! Grades were much better on this week's test. 

Bin of Happiness Winners were Ai and Cayla! This week's secret phrase is below:
                            
                                        
Polite Pig Earners this week were: Alexandra, Alejandra, Aaron, Raina, Ai, and Brooke.  Keep up the Politeness! 

Math: Our module 1 assessment will take place on Tuesday of this week!  We have spent time reviewing and I feel the students are ready to complete this assessment.  We will begin Module 2 which covers multiplication and dealing with the order of operations.



Science: We will continue to discuss changes in matter.  We will complete a lab on Monday in the science lab dealing with physical and chemical change we will discuss the differences.  



Resources:
Monday- Music
Wednesday- P.E. (wear tennis shoes)
Thursday- Art

That's a wrap on the superhero PTA membership contest!  Thank you to all the families who joined the PTA!