Parents - Track out & Email

I hope you treasure these three weeks with your child. I will be spending much of the vacation out of state, out of town, and just enjoying my family. Therefore, will not be checking email regularly. I will be at BES on 10/14 and 10/15 for parent conferences, meetings, and planning our 2nd quarter together, and I will check email then. If something comes up and you cannot make your conference, please let me know and we can schedule one after we track back in on the 19th. Have a wonderful track out!

Secret Word

Can you find it in a message? If so, keep it to yourself and write it on your Latin & Greek spelling test on Friday. Shhhhhh...

Guest Teacher

A special thank you to Mr. Blankenship for teaching our class! Mr. Blankenship came in to teach us about germs and what we can do to prevent the spread of germs. Clean! We swiped our desks, the lightswitch, a computer mouse, the drinking fountain handle and sink handle, and the telephone and will view the germ growth later this week. Yuck! Mr. Blankenship also taught us the importance of washing up properly, and why using only water to wash our hands actually feeds the germs instead of washing them away. We look forward to learning more when Mr. Blankenship returns to show us our germ growth!

Stay healthy!

Wow! We have so many of our classmates out sick. Thank you parents for picking up your child when they are not feeling well. With track-out just right around the corner, we need to stay healthy and feeling well. Students, please remember to wash our baseball hands often!

Buy Books Online!

An account has been established online at www.scholastic.com/bookclubs to purchase books! And there's a bonus ~ every time a parent orders online, our class earns a free book for our classroom library. Yippee!
Our Class user name: KellyTaylorsClass
Password: buy books
Our first order MUST be placed by this coming Tuesday, Sept. 15th.
Happy Reading!

Writing Night Success

Thank you to all the students and parents who came tonight! You wrote beautiful persuasive essays. I appreciate your thoughts and opinions on homework and school uniforms. Check out all these great essays - they're published and posted in the 5th grade hallway. For those who couldn't come, I'd be happy to email you what we did tonight, and you can have your child teach you what we are writing in class.