Miscellaneous:

• Field day is Tuesday, June 4 at the Eagle Stadium. Your child will need:
  • Clothing appropriate to the weather. We will be outside all day.
  • Fifth grade girls should wear pink shirts, and boys should wear orange.
  • Water bottle
  • Sunscreen
  • Sack lunch
• Friday, June 7th last day of school. Dismissed at 12:15.

Miscellaneous:

Craigs Cruisers Details

• Friday, May 24th.
• Gone from Georgetown…10:00-2:00.
• Students will eat lunch at Craig’s Cruisers
• It would be fun for the 5th graders to wear their 5th grade t-shirts! 🙂 Not required, but optional!

Important Dates:

The end of fifth grade is full of exciting events. For your convenience, we’ve created a list of important dates. We’ve linked it to each of our blogs; you can view it here.

Camp News:

Thanks for attending the camp meeting last night!  As a reminder, 5th grade camp is Thursday, May 16- Friday, 17!  Please review with your child the contents of the 2019 Camp Handbook. Inside the handbook, you will find a packing list and other valuable information that will help prepare your camper. Below are a few additional links for you to share with your child to help make preparations for our camping experience.

• Activity Groups
• Cabin Assignments
• 2019 Camp Handbook
• Camp Henry website
• Camp Henry Waiver (for visiting adults)

Two important documents were sent home with students today. These need to be filled out and returned by Friday, May 10.

• Camp Henry waiver (for students and chaperones)
• Medication form

Important Dates:

The end of fifth grade is full of exciting events. For your convenience, we’ve created a list of important dates. We’ve linked it to each of our blogs; you can view it here.

Hello Parents!  Wow! Today, we had a great conversation with seventeen-year-old Drew Formsma, author of, Everyday Generosity!  Students did a great job reading their prepared questions and absorbing much of Drew’s knowledge and wisdom.  We asked questions about his work that inspires young people to be generous and how that give others, and ourselves, so much joy!  We also focused questions to help us understand how Drew interprets having a growth mindset, a theme we’ve been exploring at Georgetown and in our classroom this year.  He shared stories from his childhood and practical advice for us as students begin their transition towards middle school.  I hope students got as much as I did today and discovered that we can connect with, and learn from people we hear about and admire!

Hello, parents!  What a relief it is to be back into routine and starting some new things once again!  A couple things to let you in on as a class:

We’ve been talking all year about reaching out to people we admire or read about and connecting with them so that we can learn a little bit more about what they’re doing and why they chose to speak about or write about their passions.  Also, we want to the opportunity to ask some growth mindset questions in the form of an interview to see

how these people overcome obstacles. We had the opportunity to connect with Drew Formsma, a sixteen-year-old who travels the country with his father, Brad, to speak about giving and generosity.  We first heard about Drew through playing a podcast snippet of him describing the obstacles he had when launching his first business at 9-years-old (yes, you read that correctly!).

After listening, we checked out his website and found out that there was a link to connect with him.  We sent an email and he responded!  To prepare for our conversation, we have been researching a little more about him and his father’s book, websites, and other materials available online.

• https://www.ilikegiving.com/
• https://www.bradformsma.com/drew-formsma

We pulled out our growth mindset workbooks today and looked through the interview questions and created a list of some things that we could ask during our time with him.  I will post again about how things go!

Check out some further happenings below!

Miscellaneous:

Camp News:

• Parent meeting for fifth grade camp will be on Wednesday, May 8, at 6:00 PM.
• A brief meeting for chaperones will immediately follow.
• Students do NOT need to attend this meeting; we will meet with students separately during the day.

Important Dates:

• The end of fifth grade is full of exciting events. For your convenience, we’ve created a list of important dates. We’ve linked it to each of our blogs; you can view it here.

Math:

• We are wrapping up Unit 7: Algera, Patterns, and Coordinate Graphs and will be beginning Unit 8: Measurement and Geometry

ELA:

• We are continuing to learn how to create an argument and advocacy writing piece.

Science:

• We are launching our third unit: To Infinity and Beyond! We will explore forces and motion using a theme of a hot air balloon journey around the world!

Social Studies:

• We are in our final social studies unit: A New Nation. We’ll learn about how the United States formed its government.