I hope everyone had a super Easter holiday.  Everyone was deserving of a nice break.  This week is a short week!  Three full days.  It will fly by. The time has finally come that I can see the research projects that my students have completed for the Middle Ages.  I am very excited to see their first attempt at something so large.  Hopefully it wasn't too overwhelming for them as we will be starting into Ancient Egypt right after these are finished trying to get through all our units in such a limited amount of time. Don't forget that there is no school on Friday for Parent-Teacher interviews.  If you haven't already sent in your child's sheet requesting a time, please do so ASAP!  Enjoy your short week!  

Congrats to Dylan Wood as he won the title of this years Grade 5 Spelling Champ!  Way to go Dylan!  As well, congratulations goes out to Ben Stairs for coming second place and Abigail Smith for coming third.  Way to work boys and girls. Thank you to all of those who donated to help fund our end of the year trip as well!

March 1st?  Really?  March 1st!  Crazy!!!!  It is March Break in one week.  What is on your agenda for the week?  We have to get this busy week in first. I have a surprise in store for Monday!  Gretna Green and Croft are coming to visit with us and we have a ton of Medieval projects in store, like looking at the St. Mary's church and seeing what middle ages aspects still exist.  Then we are going to do stain glass projects, and to finish it off, if we have time we are going to try and build a snow castle, with the bailey, the moat, and as many true to life castle features as possible. Tuesday is our popcorn ordering day and the last night to seek pledges for the Spellathon.  Remember this is our fundraiser for our class trip.  Please try and raise as much money as you possibly can because the more money we raise the more we can do and buy.  I want to make this the best year yet. The Spellathon test will be done in class on Wednesday in the morning.  In the afernoon we have a magician coming who will be doing it in french and english.  I can't wait to see how much you can understand in french. Thursday we will be working hard on the Science Fair.  Please come prepared to do so, because Friday is full of winter activities as this is our annual winter activity day.  As I said earlier...very, very busy week.  I hope you enjoy it and get well rested over the break to come prepared to work hard! Have a great week and great break!

As I sat down to write this message, I had to do a double take on what week we were in.  I couldn't believe that we were this close to the end of February!  Wow!  Scary!  On a brighter note, only 28 more days until spring! What a way to start off our week...a snow day!  Yay!  I hope you took the time to read even though it was a day off. Tuesday, we will be having a visitor from Croft join us and observe our class.  She is a new teacher and would like to see how the Daily Five and Social Studies run together at this grade level.  We will show her how smart and lovely our class is!  Wednesday is our day of French, which I love to return to once a week.  We can't lose all the hard work that we did over the last 4 months.  Who would like to go skating on Thursday?  I hope all of you, because Mr. Flynn will be taking the class to the rink in the morning before recess.  This will be our last tiime, so please come prepared for the day!  Finally it will be Friday and that brings our time to finish anything that we haven't finished over our week and work on our Science Fair projects.  Hopefully everyone remembers to bring in their white project boards! Enjoy the fresh fallen snow, and remember to always ask good questions!