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5th GRADE ROCKS!
gOt tAlEnT? sHaRe iT! 2012 Monday, May 7 6:30 PM We are excitedly preparing! Performers are free and sit in the audience for the show. The masters of ceremonies call them up when it's time.We have about 30 acts, and the 5th graders will be writing their intros next week! Admission: $5 at the door Free popcorn and lemonade for all! 5th Grade Parents: We do need two volunteers to assist the students with selling seats. We'll help the 5th graders with making lemonade and bagging popcorn in the afternoon ~ They'll be in charge of keeping it stocked on the counter. We're aiming for keeping it simple and fun. We hope all 5th can make it! Let us know if your child can't be there. All hands on deck for gOt tAlEnT? sHaRe iT! Kanuga ~ MTOS (Mountain Trail Outdoor School) UPDATE Our trip is coming together. We travel by chartered bus, spend 3 nights in Hendersonville, NC, and learn from the experienced outdoor instructors at MTOS. We conclude on Friday, May 25, with a white water rafting trip down the French Broad River, in boats of 5-7 with professional guides. Parents are welcome to meet us and enjoy this grand finale. The French Broad is a free flowing river, and because we've had enough rain this year, we get to do a full day rafting trip, including lunch on the river, for $60 per person. 5th graders' rafting charges are covered from their fundraising.You need to book a hotel room for the night before OR drive that morning (about 3 hours) to arrive that morning at the raft site in the Hot Springs area. Parents of alumni can give you suggestions; don't be afraid to ask.WE WILL DEPART ON TUESDAY, MAY 22, at 7 AM. Be at school by 6:45 AM. Visit www.kanuga.org and go to the Mountain Trail Outdoor School link. You can also visit www.noc.org to find out about rafting the French Broad from the NOC Marshall, NC site. We just found out that we are staying in the Harold House at Kanuga. We used to stay there before they built the cabins for MTOS. The cabins are full, so we get the Harold House! (We've attended MTOS longer than any other school, and it's our 20th anniversary.) This is a beautiful mountain home that will accomodate all of us under one roof. It is rarely used for students now, usually adult retreats. We are so fortunate ~ it is surrounded by playing fields, obstacle course, horizontal climbing wall, pond, and trails that wind around Kanuga Lake. A quick path takes us to basketball, volleyball, and tetherball courts. The dining hall is right off those courts. Check out the map of Kanuga, and you can see it all. Our "classrooms" will be on the trails you see on the map. This is a school without desks; we all learn something new every year! The forms and the websites should answer all questions, but do not hesitate if you have a question. Ask. No question is too small. Lookout Mountain Hike ~ after 8 miles, we reached POINT PARK on a perfect Fall day in Chattanooga ~ 10/14/11
~ Toby and the 5th grade girls starting Rifle Pits Trail to Cravens House ~ Visit our Rivers Wing website for more updated photos pertaining to our classes, posted by Mrs. Maounis. http://stpetersrivers45.blogspot.com/ Field trips completed:
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LOOP: September: Allison, Nick, Mason, October: Coleton E, Kristopher, Hayden, November: Jackson W, Cole J, Riley W, December: Skylar, Walter, John, January: Sydney, Alexis, Colt, February: Max, Gillian, Tessa March: Carolyn, Emma, Jackson S, April: Matt, Coleton, Riley, May: Kristopher, Carolyn, Skylar MORNING ANNOUNCERS: Kristopher (Aug. 23...), Carolyn (Sept. 7...), Emma (Sept. 19...), Sydney (Oct. 3...), Nick (Oct. 17...), Max (Oct. 31...), Skylar (Nov. 7...), Hayden (Nov 21...), Jackson W (Dec. 12), Jackson S (Jan 16), Tessa (Jan 25), Walter (Feb. 2), Alexis (Feb 17), Ryker (March 1), Mason (March 12), Colt (March 26), Matt B (April 11), Cole (April 18), Allison (April 27), Riley (May 3), Mat O (May 10), John (May 17) CHAPEL READERS: Aug 30: Tessa, Coleton, Sept. 13: Nick, Sept. 20: Matt B., Sept. 27: Carolyn, Oct. 4: Skylar, Oct. 11: John, Oct. 18: Mason, Oct. 25: Kristopher, Nov. 1: Sydney, Nov. 15: Walter, Nov. 22: Jackson W, Nov. 29: Emma, Dec. 6: Alexis, Dec. 13: Jackson S., Jan 10: Max, Jan. 24: Riley, Mat, Ryker, Jan. 31: Kristopher, Mrs. Lockrow, Feb. 22:Allison, Cole, Feb 28: Carolyn, Hayden, March 6: Caid, Colt ***For information on Language Arts and Art for ALL 5th, come here. For information on Math and Social Studies (1st, 2nd qtrs) and Science (3rd, 4th qtrs) for ALL 5th, go to "5th grade ~ Maounis." We will each post general information for the whole grade. 5th grade students have a team of teachers involving them in all aspects of learning. Please contact the following if you have a question about a specialty class: PE: Blaes Schmissrauter, MUSIC, COMPUTER: Mark Tyson, SPANISH: Sarah Hernandez, FAITH: Kathleen Lanza, LIBRARY: Lisa Parsons Homework: Mrs. Maounis and I assign about 1 hour of homework for the average 5th grader, 1/2 hour from each of us. We know that some students work quickly and utilize every spare moment at school, going home with their homework completed. Some work slowly, are very distracted at home, or struggle with using their planner correctly. Whatever the case, if this is a problem, try setting aside a quiet space and allow 1 hour of concentrated homework. Ask to see what was completed. Help your child check off assignments as completed in the planner. We are putting estimated times on the homework board. The assignments are extensions of our work in class, reinforcing the skills taught. Leaving some of this reinforcement work for home enables us to spend more time teaching new skills and topics. Please contact us if you have tried the suggestions and are still struggling with homework completion. Go Green! Go Healthy Initiative - Snacks and Birthday Treats As we enter 2012, help us set the example for our Go Green, Go Healthy initiative at St. Peter's. It is making a difference in the children's health, attention, and fitness. Jaime Melton represented us at the White House several years ago for our efforts, and we would like to be honored again someday. Please help us keep our status! Healthy snacks...nutritious lunches...daily exercise...good rest. We will be talking to the children about the importance of sleep and charting our hours. It's always good to step back and evaluate how we are taking care of our bodies. Thanks for your support. We made a conscious effort several years ago to make St.Peter's a healthy haven for children - we switched to Greenlife for lunches, added the mid-morning walk, removed chips, cookies, and drinks with additives from the snack store, required healthy birthday treats, snacks, and lunches from home, and consciously set an example of fruits, vegetables, juices, and yogurts as fun "pick me ups." In the last two years, we've had healthy and creative treats for birthdays: homemade bread with jam, fruit kabobs, 100% juice popsicle sticks, fresh fruit, yogurt bars, yogurt sundaes, carrot and raisin muffins, apples with dips, veggies with dips...keep 'em comin'. We want a healthy attitude to food - it should be fun and make you feel good. Someday, these little ones will be teenagers, and we don't want them to be crash dieting or afraid of food. Starting now is the time. Language Arts News: This class meets twice a day and involves reading, writing, grammar, and spelling - the skills are connected and several activities revolve around the current read-aloud novel. For this class, the LA binder should be kept updated and organized - we refer to WRITING, NOVEL NOTES, TIPS (suggestions for writing improvement), SPELLING, and POETRY sections.
When writing, your support and suggestions are encouraged, but writing and typing must be entirely completed by the students. We will be focusing on many grammar skills this year, so errors will be circled and suggestions made. Please encourage your child to read all comments carefully and specifically work on those areas in the next paper. They should not be offended by errors marked and suggestions on their paper - we are learning to write and improve! I would rather they take risks, writing longer and more interesting sentences, making errors from time to time than limiting themselves! We started a writing portfolio with this class last year, and this year I'll be adding copies of several writing works, so at the end of the year, we can all see the progress.
To work on specific skills, the Word Studies, Vocabulary, and English Workshop books will all be used. Spelling tests are on Fridays, while Vocabulary tests are every other Wednesday. All grades from English Workshop are OPEN BOOK - they should learn to use this book as a great reference tool for writing. Encourage effective ways of locating information; with today's technological advances, this method is here to stay.
April 27-May 4 We are exploring a unit on Feudal Japan. We'll be using our reading skills with non-fiction and connecting art activities.
May 7-May 21 We will be continuing non-fiction by reading biographies in Literature Groups. In place of a book report, we'll write 5 paragraph essays on the biographies. A guide will be used to gather information, so at the conclusion of the book, the report will be ready to write.
Art News: Please visit our new gallery at the school featured in Warren Hall. It was a brainstorm of the St. Peter's faculty, and several volunteers pulled out paintbrushes and rollers in August, 2011. Year at a Glance for Language Arts and Art:
Kanuga ~ MTOS (Mountain Trail Outdoor School) in Hendersonville, NC: Mark your calendars! The 5th Grade Retreat will be May 22-25. This is a tradition for the graduating class at St. Peter's, begun in 1993. We travel by chartered bus, spend 3 nights in camp cabins, and learn from the experienced outdoor instructors at MTOS. We conclude on Friday with a white water rafting trip down the French Broad River, in boats of 5-7 with professional guides. Parents are welcome to meet us and enjoy this grand finale. You may want to book a hotel room soon for the night before if you don't want to make the drive that morning (about 3 hrs) to the Hot Springs area. Parents of alumni can give you suggestions; don't be afraid to ask. Also, I have booklets on MTOS, but the best way to get the most current information is to visit www.kanuga.org Keep your eye on the prize. Below is a picture of David, Ann, and Jamie tackling three rock climbing elements. ~ Kanuga ~ May, 2011 ~
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