May 2, 2014

Dear Families,

We have had a great week after our April vacation.  There are many events/happenings that are coming up.  The end of the year is usually fast paced and comes before we know it. 

Dates to Remember:

Friday May 9, 2014:   Photos to Laurie Mekkelsen who is creating the 6^th grade graduation slide show. 

Friday May 9, 2014:  Middle Ages Culture Box due.  Students painted a box in school this week.  They will use this box to hold items they have collected or made that reflects the life of a person from the Middle Ages.  Students will adopt the identity of a person in the Middle Ages.  Included in this assignment, is a written piece explaining the life of their person and how the items in their box relate to that person’s life.  Students have been given a rubric that will be used for scoring their work.

***Wednesday May 21, 2014:   This is the NEW date that the Castle Project is due.  The kids will have a few more days to put the final touches on their castles!

Friday May 23, 2014:  Unity Day for 6^th Graders.  We will travel to U32 for a day of team building with all the other 6^th graders in the district.  Permission slips will be coming home soon.

Thursday June 5. 2014   Emes Band Concert for those students in band and chorus.

Tuesday June 10, 2014 Move-up Day for 6^th Graders:  We will travel to U32 for the day and learn what core groups students are in and learn about how a day at U32 is structured.  Permission slips will be coming home soon.

Friday June 13, 2014 Grade 6 Trip to Ogunquit, Maine to study oceans and sustainability.  Our final science unit of the year is oceans and sustainability.  As a culminating activity, we will travel to the beach to conduct science experiments related to this topic.  We will leave early in the morning and return around 9:00pm.  We apologize profusely to those families that have a conflict with the U32 graduation but this was the only day we could arrange a bus to take us.  More information on this trip will be coming home next week. 

Wednesday June 18, 2014  6^th Grade Graduation.  More info coming later.

Wednesday June 18, 2014  Tentative 6^th Grade trip to Lake Limehurst.  I am firming up arrangements at this time. 

Thursday June 19, 2014  Last day of school.  Students are dismissed at 12:30pm.

In the classroom, it is business as usual.  In literacy, we are working on our research based argument papers.  In math, we are continuing our work on geometry. In social studies, we are learning about the middle ages. 

Have a great weekend,  Ellen