Mrs. Hickson's Class

The math tests have been moved to Monday October 26th.  You should have your binder at home with you today so you can study!  I will be checking desks for binders tomorrow night.  You will earn two points if it is at home with you.  You will earn zero points if it is in your desk!!!

Don’t forget that both your literacy binder and content area binder can go home every single day!!  Please help your parents keep up with what is going on in the room.  You can show them what you did each day by sharing the notes in your binder with them!!  Also, go over your planner and tell them what we did in each area and what you learned.

Fifth graders-don’t forget pumpkin carving and strings are happening tomorrow afternoon!!

Also,  please remember to tell your parents that this blog IS the note.  I will not be sending home paper notes.  All the information will be on my blog!!  Tell them to subscribe to make keeping informed even easier!

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Fourth grade-

estimate, phrase, parade, became, education, geography, region, direction, transportation, landform

Fifth grade-

subtraction, reluctant, substance, valuable, education, estimate, product, difference,  newton, reaction

Please click on the link to sign up to bring something to our Halloween Celebration on Oct. 30th at 2:00.

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0d45aeaf22a20-mrs2

Don’t forget the ShopAround fundraiser items and the Boo Grams are due tomorrow, Friday 10/16!

Also, don’t forget that tomorrow is a half day.

Tonight is Buffalo Wild Wings Night!!  Don’t forget to go with your family and support Lindbergh School!

*****Boo Grams are due on Friday!!  Send one to a friend, a sibling, or yourself!!!  Don’t miss out on the fun!!

Fifth graders-

Don’t forget that you have the District Common Assessment in Social Studies tomorrow!!  You have had the study guide and test date for weeks so I’m confident that you have been studying and you are ready for the test!!

Also, share with your parents the fact that we are now on Unit 2 in math.  You can be practicing skills like estimation, place value of very large numbers, expanded notation, multi-digit addition, subtraction, and multiplication as well as solving number stories every night at home to prepare for the post test.  The post date test is Oct. 23rd.

Please continue to look for real life examples and experiments involving Newton’s Three Laws of Motion.  The test will be the Nov. 5th.

Remember that your materials and binders can come home with you everyday so you can review and study!!!!!  Don’t wait until the last minute!!

Spelling words-test 10/16

blossom, problematic, comedy, compact, introduction, energy, direction, acceleration, inertia, velocity

Fourth graders-

I know you are taking your binders home so that you can study and review all the work we have been doing on regions in the U.S.  It is quite a bit of information and you need to study for more than one night!  Make sure your study guide is filled out-it will be a big help to you.  Remember the test is on Oct. 29th.  Don’t wait until the last minute!

While you have your binders at home you can also  study your material on heat energy, electricity, and magnets for science.  The test is scheduled for Nov. 5th.  Look for real life examples and interesting experiments relating to the concepts we have discussed.

Make sure you are practicing multi-digit addition and subtraction and number stories, as well as graphing and landmarks each night.  The post-test date is Oct. 23rd.

Spelling words-test 10/16

compose, notice, compromise, vocal, whole, battery, insulator, conductor, electricity, circuit

Don’t forget to bring your parents to Open House on

Thursday Sept. 17.  Our classroom will be open and I will be available to meet your parents from 6:00 – 7:30 pm.  I can’t wait to meet your family!!  Remind your family that this is not parent-teacher conference night but the sign-ups for parent-teacher conferences will be out!  First come first served!

Tomorrow is the last day for the Book Fair!!!!!  It will be open from 8:30 – 4:00 and during Open House!!

We will be taking the language NWEA tomorrow and the science NWEA on Friday!!

The reading NWEA will be given on Monday September 21 and the math NWEA will be given on Tuesday September 22.  Please get plenty of sleep and eat a good breakfast so you can be ready to do your best!

Hi all,

If you are reading this you are probably one of the students in my class this year!  If you are an adult reading this alone please go get your student so they can read my blog with you!  This blog will be addressed to the students, for the most part, all year.

Welcome to my class!!  I am very excited about the upcoming school year!  We will have a learning community of both fifth and fourth graders, which I have never done before, so we will all be learning new things this year!

The supplies you will need:

*The usual pencils, pens, and highlighters.  You will use black, blue, and red pens this year.

*A small personal pencil sharpener. It saves time and I think sometimes that the sharpener in my room has a pencil eating troll living in it. 😀

*Loose leaf paper. Wide-ruled is probably best.  It gives you more room to write neatly and besides…I have older eyes than you.

*You will need a couple of folders.  I have plain ones, but if you want folders with Frozen, Star Wars (YAY), One Direction or something else on them you will      need to go shopping.  The same goes for a couple of spiral notebooks.

*You will use binders this year to stay organized.  They should be 1″ binders so they fit in your desk easily.  One should be white and will be used for your Leadership Binder.  You probably already have one from last year.  The second one will be used for literacy.  The third one will be used for the content areas (Math, Science, and SS.)  I do not care what these two binders have on them…kittens, Red Wings, Star Wars (YAY again)…whatever.  They can be soft side or hard side.

*You will need a couple packs of dividers to be used inside the binders.

*You also will be using crayons, markers, and colored pencils throughout the year.  I have some, but if you want the colors in the 128 box you will need to bring them in.

*Dry erase markers are a must!!  They don’t have to be fancy colors.  Also, if you want to erase with something other than the squares I cut from the dollar store baby blanket that I have you will need to bring that in too.

*We also always need lots of classroom size boxes of facial tissue and classroom size bottles of hand sanitizer.

*Head phones for the computer..we will be doing a lot of computer work this year.  Also, please bring in a flash drive.  These items do not have to be the most expensive ones.  (But I guess that’s up to your parents.)

***Please note that we WILL be having time for a snack on Tuesday.  Your snacks need to be healthy ones such as fruit, veggies, cheese & crackers etc.  Please don’t bring in cookies, candy, pop, chips or other junk food for snacks.  This is the rule for snacks for the whole year.  Also, please avoid bringing nuts on the first day.  I don’t know yet if this will need to be a rule for the year or just the first few days.  I will let you know as soon as I find out.

******If you are a morning safety please meet me in the cafeteria at 8:20 on Tuesday.  Bus safeties please work your bus posts.  Afternoon safeties I will talk to you and give you your belts during the morning on Tuesday.  Please tell your safety friends in the other classes!!

***************I can’t wait to see all of you on Tuesday!!!  This is going to be a great year!!!!  I am very excited and I hope all of you are too!!!!!*************

We still have lots of items you can sign up for to make our ice cream party a success!

We will be having an ice cream party on Wednesday June 10th after we attend the fifth grade promotion ceremony.   We will need a couple of parents to help that morning as the room moms will be serving cake to the fifth graders.

We will need plenty of goodies to put on our ice cream!!!

Please sign up below.

Bowls-  1.  Ethan

Spoons-  1. Ethan and Nayla

Water-  1.  Brenna                2.

Crushed cookie topping-  1.                                2.

Sprinkles- 1.   Nayla                        2.                           3.

M & Ms or other candy-  1. Avery            2.  Owen                                          3.

Chocolate chips-  1. Nayla

Chocolate sauce-  1.

Cut up strawberries-  1.                               2.

Whipped Cream (spray)- 1.  Charlie

Other-  1.                               2.                                            3.