Fintastic Fifth

Halfway through the week, and things are going great!  Today, we had our PBS Tour of the school to re-familiarize students, both old and new, with the expectations we have of our fifth grades around school.  They are the role models that other students will be looking up to, and we set the bar high!  Thank you for your ongoing support in making this their most memorable one yet!

Parents, please don't forget to send in your child's baby picture with them soon.  We will be using them for our annual end of the year yearbook collage.  Students will also need to bring in a recent picture to use for our "Guess Who" activity that students are completing independently for us to display to show off our AMAZING students!

In terms of curriculum, we've begun the year learning more about division, and today we talked about the Divisibility Rules and how we can use them.  We'll then be learning how to identify prime and composite numbers and prime factorization.  Homework assignments will reflect what is covered in class.  In science, students engaged in a group activity entitled, "Silly Science," where students were given every items where they had to classify them based upon the observations they made together.  We'll continue our unit on "Thinking Like a Scientist" by going in depth about what is involved with the scientific method through hands on activities.

Don't forget that Fridays are school spirit days at Beachland!  Students are encouraged to wear their Beachland t-shirts.  If they wear their Beachland t-shirts, they may also wear denim bottoms.