Greenwood Cemetery Photographs

Thanksgiving Celebration

The fifth grade classes will be celebrating Thanksgiving in their classrooms on Wednesday, November 25th. We are looking for families who can bring in one or more of the following:

1. 1/4 lb sliced turkey (one per family)
2. mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes
3. 2 bottles apple or cranberry juice
4. 20 plates or forks or napkins
5. Corn (enough for 20 students)
6. Cups for juice (20)

Please let us know if you can help out, and Thanks so much!

Rock Stars!

305 and 307 were treated to a Rock Show on November 5th when Matthew and Steven Scafuri shared their musical talent and funny banter during Parents as Enrichment Partners. You were awesome!

Elizabeth Mann

Author Elizabeth Mann visited Classes 5-305, 5-306 and 5-307 on November 5th. She shared her inspirations, her writing notebook, and original illustrations from her book The Brooklyn Bridge.
She also answered lots of questions from our current and future story writers. Please check out the photos below, and learn more about Elizabeth Mann HERE!

Scenes from a Play

Please peruse some photographs of the AIS presentation of the Norse Myth "Loki and the Magic Hammer" from Friday, November 13th. The students worked hard to not only get into their roles, put to produce the props as well.

Greenwood Cemetery

Class 5-305, 5-306 and 5-307 will be traveling to the Greenwood Cemetery for a tour of some of their most historic monuments as well as a lesson in memorial symbolism. The trip forms should have come home - please join us if you're available. Click on the Google Calendar to see when your class goes.

To learn more about Greenwood Cemetery, click here.

Social Studies Test

Next Monday and Tuesday, November 16th and 17th, the 5th grade students will take the 5th Grade Social Studies Test, which asks multiple choice and document-based questions about social studies content from grades 3 and 4, as well as asks students to write a document based essay. We have been reviewing the test in class, but you can also review at home using the SS test prep links on the right hand side of this page (scroll down to the bottom!). Please make sure students get proper rest and breakfast for the testing days.

Parent Teacher Conferences

Yes, already! The parent-teacher conferences will be held next Tuesday, November 9th, from 1 pm - 3 pm and 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm. You will be receiving a form this week to sign up. Please let us know if your student has younger brothers or sisters, and we schedule their times close together.

Parents as Enrichment Partners

November's Parents as Enrichment Partners will be this Friday, November 6th, from 8:45 - 9:25 am. We will be playing Math games, and have special guests Steven and Matthew to sing for Mrs. Theodorakis and Ms. Fought's classes. It will be fantastic, so please join us!

Book Fair!

The Scholastic Book Fair is being held in the MMR beginning this Thursday, November 5th through next Thursday, November 12th. You can find all kinds of great books, crafts,posters, bookmarks, pens and erasers and more. Find out when your class will be visiting from your teacher.