Week of 12/15 Newsletter

Dear 4th & 5th Grade Families,

Winter break is right around the corner! I wish you all a very happy holiday season! 

Just a reminder, there will be no school this Friday, 12/18. On Thursday, parents and family are welcome to join us for the Holiday Sing at 11AM to enjoy the songs and ukulele playing by our students! 

We will be celebrating the November and December birthdays at the end of the day, Thursday, with hot cocoa and a treat or two. If you're able to donate a box of hot cocoa, please do so by Wednesday morning. 

This week we will be finishing up Sign of the Beaver and (hopefully) writing a book review. We will also be launching Accelerated Reader (please see the attached letter here with details).

In math, we finished up a unit on pre-algebra called "Changes in Quantities." It was very challenging and everyone worked very hard to understand it. I am so impressed by the perseverance and dedication to problem solving in our class! We will begin to work with fraction this week to prepare for a fractions unit in January. Please check out the standards if you are curious about what your child will be learning (4th Grade Standards or 5th Grade Standards). I hope to make it fun and hands on, as much as possible, to give your child a solid foundation in understanding and computing with fractions.

Thank you, as always, for your support both in class and at home! The weekly parent volunteers and incredibly invaluable and I truly appreciate the time taken to work with our students! If you have any questions or concerns, please email me at rhonig@mountainesd.org.

Warmly,

Mrs. Honig

PS: My husband and I are very excited to share with you that we will be expecting a baby boy in early June, 2015! More details will follow in the coming months regarding this happy news.