February 8, 2010    

                             Parents and Students:  

Students building global communities!

Be sure to click on the calendar link above, to see what else is happening in the month of February!

Mrs. Burke and Mrs. Klich

 HOMEWORK BULLETIN BOARD 

SUBJECT	ASSIGNMENTS AND UPCOMING TESTS
Reading	Read 20 minutes, record on your log sheet.  Finish paragraph about dogs by Thursday, if you need to
Wordly Wise	No Wordly Wise OR Spelling this week....(vacation came early for WW!!!!)
Spelling	None
Math	Input Output tables due Thursday.  Math book pages 134-135 Do Practice # 5-17  Notebook check on Thursday
Science	Finish classwork: Make AT LEAST 5 observations and one picture for the Telephone cup investigation.
Social Studies	Write AT LEAST 7 definitions or questions out of all the ones you wrote down from the board. You may choose and 7 you would like to do tonight.
Writing
Other	If you plan to participate: Get pledges for Read-a-thon and start reading books!    www.scholastic.com/bookclubs class username is : sundayburke    password: books

SUBJECT	Mr. Smith's Assignments
Math/ Language Arts
SUBJECT	Mrs. Bartolomeo's Assignments
Reading

Spelling Words this Week: 

Afterschool Math Dates: 

Times: 3:10-4:15

Must have note from parent giving permission to stay AND must have a ride home.

 
 Thursday, Jan. 28th    Thursday, February 4th        Wednesday, Feb. 10th         Wednesday, Feb. 24th

Mrs. Burke's Class Page

     Welcome to our class page.

This is the place to be if you would like to view your homework, find out about upcoming events, practice vocabulary, or hear about the "Great News" coming from room three!

     Share this page with your family and friends. Be sure to click on the links to go to other great websites!

Thanks for Visiting!

  Mrs. Burke 

More Great News from Room 3 

Congratulations go out to our two PeaceBuilder classmates:

Caitlin K. and Sarah F.

Caitlin K. received a special PeaceBuilder award because she saw a friend getting bullied and she sought out an advisor to help her stop it.  We all need to follow Caitlin's example and NEVER stand by while someone else is being bullied. It is everyone's responsibility to keep Norris School a safe environment. Congratulations and thank you, Caitlin!!!!!

Sarah F. also received a Peacebuilder Award for her fundraising efforts for Pennies for Peace. Sarah held a bake sale and raised $42.00 to help build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It is said that education is the best way to fight terrorism, because children who are educated can see a bright future. Thank you, Sarah, for helping to "build" peace!

 Ben F. from Mrs. Heath's homeroom had a GREAT idea. He asked his extended family to gather their pennies and bring them to the next family party. He explained to them about the fundraising efforts of our 5th grade student council and about the Pennies for Peace campaign. Ben's family filled a LARGE container (that Mrs. Burke could hardly lift) with approximately 6,000 pennies!

Thank you, Ben, for your BRILLIANT idea!

Another Awesome Idea came from Collin T. in Mr. Moynihan's room. Collin raked his neighbors leaves with a friend and he decided to give his portion of their earnings to Pennies for Peace. He added $28.00 to our collection!

Thank you, Collin, for all your hard work and your dedication to help students in other countries!

See a clip of the 5th grade on Channel 3's weather report! 

http://www.cbs3springfield.com/weather/classroom/schoolvisits/70680097.html

(if that didn't work, copy and paste the link into your browser)

                                                                

   Trivia Question!

     Join in the (optional) weekly trivia contest.

You will receive a  trivia question each week, which will be due on Thursday. If you get the correct answer, your name will be added to the  drawing. One name (from each class) will be chosen, per week, to  receive a prize from the prize drawer. Everyone who attempts to answer at least five questions will receive extra credit.

Last week's trivia winners:

Mrs. Burke's Homeroom: Meaghan R.     Mrs. Heath's Homeroom:

Mr. Moynihan's Room: Megan H., Collin T.

 Mrs. Sullivan's Homeroom: Paige L., Nathan S., Amanda L., Meghan D. 

CONGRATULATIONS to all those who participated!

        This week's trivia question :

Kayleigh is thinking of 2 positive, whole numbers. The sum of the two numbers is 693. If she takes 297 away from the larger number, then the two numbers would be the same. What are the two numbers that Kayleigh is thinking of?

A BIG thank you to the first Norris School 5th grade student council representatives. You did an excellent job raising money for the Central Asia Institute using the Pennies for Peace campaign! We appreciate all you efforts and enthusiasm!

The new student council has decided to raise money for the earthquake victims in Haiti. With the help of Ms. Keefe and Mrs. Salomao, the 5th grade will sponsor a school-wide Read-a-thon during the month of February. Students will seek pledges during the first week, then read their books and collect their pledges for the remainder of the month. Parents, please encourage your children to participate in this worthy cause!

  How Organized Are Your Notebooks?

Below are your notebook indexes. You can check to see if you have everything written down, numbered, and your pages are in order. If one of the classes has not yet received a page in the notebook, it will be written in a different color.

MATH		LANGUAGE ARTS
1- Math Graph	*	1- What do you know about Pakistan   Afghanistan              QW
2-A & B Exponent Papers	*	2-Chain of Events: Chapters 1-5
3- Multiplication patterns (R/P2-1)	*	3- Paragraph on travel
4-Mental Math: Distributive Property (R/P2-3)	*	4- Memoir Web
5- Mental Math: Dist. Property Probl. Solve        (PS2-3)	*	5- Chapter Grid
6-  Estimating Products (R/P 2-2)	*	6 -
7-	*	7-
8 -	*	8-
9-	*	9-
10-	*	10-
11-	*	11-
12-	*	12-
13-	*	13-
14-	*	14-
15-	*	15-