March Reading Month – Georgetown is celebrating reading for the month of March. We continue our school-wide western theme of Saddle Up & Read this week!
- A Daily/Weekly Reading Goal calendar will be sent home with the students. As a parent, you will sign the log agreeing that your child read for the 5th-grade weekly goal. Goal for 5th grade is 30 minutes a day or 150 minutes per week. If they reach this goal their name will be put in a weekly drawing. Students are to turn in their reading logs on Monday.
- We will have dress-up days each Friday in March. Our next dress-up day is Friday, March 19. We welcome students to wear a shirt with a word or saying on it.
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- We’ve been spending some extra time reading this week!
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- Whenever Mr. Cooley says, “Drop everything thing and read,” in true dramatic fashion, students drop everything and read.
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- On Wednesdays, the PTC provides a snack. This week, it was “hay bails!”
Class Chromebooks – Our Chromebooks have arrived! If your child wants to bring in a pair of wired headphones, we encourage them to keep their headphones in a labeled ziplock bag.
Math:
- We will be assessing Unit 5: Division with Whole Numbers and Decimals early this week.
ELA:
- We are wrapping up our literary essay about the theme found in our book club books.
- Since we’re asking students to spend a few extra minutes reading to complete the reading month calendar, we will not have our normal weekly reading homework sheet for the month of March.
Social Studies:
- We are learning about the first events of the Revolutionary War.
Technology Fun – For March is Reading Month, we had a door decoration contest as a building. We had fun putting together our “Text Tavern.” Students input themselves into a western theme picture and practiced layering images. They incorporated their favorite book they read so far this year!
