Newsletter

April 26, 2004

Dear Parents,

Hello! I'm glad you have found our class webpage! I hope you will find this useful during these last two months of school. Having this webpage should be a great resource to future fifth graders in my class. As I mentioned, please check out all of the links on this page and use it for a few weeks at home. After you have used this webpage, I would really appreciate it if you could fill out a questionnaire and return it to me. Your feedback will be helpful to me when making changes to the webpage.

There are just seven weeks left of school! This is a busy time for fifth graders. In school, your child is studying many topics. Currently, we are studying the circulatory and respiratory systems in science. Students are creating five paragraph essays on the circulatory system using the laptops. In math, we are studying fractions, decimals, and percents. Please point out any fractions, decimals, or percents you see at home to your child, concepts are best understood when a connection from school and home is made. We will be starting a new book today in Language Arts. Your child will be reading The Cay in literature circles. I plan to structure the circles differently for this book. Students will meet each day in their book circles with me and they will each have a turn in leading the book talk. We will read some chapters together in school and other chapters will be assigned for homework. In social studies, we have finished studying Columbus and the impact of his explorations. We will now begin to learn about other explorers.

Please continue to check this website for more updates on fifth grade events. In June we will have fifth grade graduation, fifth grade fun day, the fifth grade talent show, and other exciting things to look forward to.

I have really enjoyed the spring conferences so far! Having your children present at our conference has been really wonderful. I look forward to seeing the rest of you at our spring conference time!

Sincerely,
Katie Zettl