Tomorrow will be RAD day(read all day day) in our class. The students may bring a special drink (no caffeine please..they are wild enough! ;) They may also bring a beach towel, SMALL pillow and several books or magazines to read. Thanks!!
CRCT is finally over!! Yea! The students were so awesome during testing! A HUGE thank you to the parents of the following students:
Kayleigh, Alli, Emma, Carly, Nicholas M., Lindsey, Alex M., Ashlyn, Kristin S., Dylan, Eileen, Kristin H., and Sammy
These parents were generous enough to provide wonderful snacks for all the students during testing! The students enjoyed it so much! Thanks again!
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT********
Stop by the Media Center on Wednesday, April 29th from 2:30 until 5:30, for Tritt's first one of a kind shoe fundraiser! An Aerosoles sales specialist will attend the party with shoes along with the knowledge of the season's hottest trends.
You will receive the following exclusive discount:
Buy one pair-get 50% off every additional shoe purchased!!! Please invite family and friends as Tritt will get back 10% of total sales! I have looked at the catalog and there are some very cute styles!
Disability Awareness week was celebrated this past week at Tritt. We had two special visitors in our classroom. Mr. Weintraub, Kayleigh's dad, shared a Powerpoint with us about learning disabilities. He did a fabulous job! Then Will, a local young man, shared with our class about his personal experience with blindness. We certainly enjoyed both of these speakers!
Pictures came home today in your child's Friday packet. Please either send back the pictures or payment for the pictures next week. Thanks!
The Week Ahead~
Math-We will be starting our unit on Multiplication and Division using larger numbers.
Reading-We will continue with Literature Circles and fiction text.
Language-Verbs-action and helping verbs
Social Studies-We will begin our study of Lyndon B. Johnson.
Science-We will begin our study of heat.
C.R.C.T. is right around the corner! I hope that are letting your child take the practice test online. I will be sending home a snack schedule in a couple of weeks for those of you who volunteered to send them in for C.R.C.T.
The Book Fair begins next week.
The hours for students are:
Have a wonderful weekend!
John Douglass is planting trees on the large playground tomorrow, Thursday, and would like help from parents who can come over at 8:00 - 9:00 and at 1:00 - 2:00. Keep Cobb Beautiful has donated the trees and John is our Environmental Chairman for the PTA. The fifth grade students will take on the responsibility of the upkeep of the trees. Please come out to help if you can.
Just a reminder that the CRCT practice packet is coming home in the students' Friday Packets today. It is due on Thursday, 3/5. If they finish it early and want to bring it back, I will have a folder in the classroom that they can place it in.
Also, they have the online CRCT instructions, password and ID in their packet as well. Please put it in a safe place.
Have a wonderful rainy weekend!!
*Don't forget that Thursday, February 26th at 6:00 is Technology Night!
*Early Release Day will be on Tuesday, March 3rd. Dismissal will be at 12:30PM.
*The CRCT practice packets that we discussed at conferences will start coming home this week. You will find a packet in your child's Friday Packet along with a bubble sheet. Please do not let your child write on the test packet. They should put their answers on the bubble sheet only. This will be due back on Thursday mornings. If they finish early they may bring the packet and the bubble sheet back and put it in a folder in my classroom until we check them together on Thursday morning. If you should have any questions, please email me.
*The Tritt counselors are conducting a program called Tarday Busters. The classes with the least amount of tardies win a clock for the week. Please make sure that your child gets to school on time each day. Being prompt and excellent attendance are such important things to instill in our children. It sends them a message that school is important and is a priority. Thanks so much for your help!
A few things....
1. I gave you the wrong information on the pictures. You do not have to prepay for any of the pictures this year. Sorry about that!
2. The Science test has been changed to Wednesday, Feb. 18th.
3. Wear a Tritt tshirt on the Performing Arts field trip tomorrow if possible. Thanks!
Happy Valentine's Day! Thank you so much for all the cards, candy, flowers and gifts for Valentine's Day and Teacher Appreciation week! It was so thoughtful of all of you! I certainly feel appreciated and loved!
Monday, Feb. 16th is a student holiday! Enjoy!
As the note that came home earlier this week said, we will be attending a Performing Arts play on Tuesday, Feb. 17th at the Cobb Civic Center. We will eat lunch when we return. This performance and transportation is paid for through the Performing Arts donations you made earlier this year.
Class pictures will be taken on Wednesday, Feb. 18th. The class picture is prepay only. Individual pictures will also be taken that day. Order forms for class pictures are in the students' Friday packet. The Tritt Arts Extravaganza will be on Friday, Feb. 20th. This unique experience will provide an opportunity for the students to spend a day exploring the world of art in various forms. Youngest and only have an orange note in their Friday packet about this special day.
Happy February! Where did January go?
Thanks so much for attending your child's conference! I certainly enjoyed visiting with each of you!
Please remember that the students will begin presenting their Living Biographies on Mon., February 9th. Each student was assigned a specific day to present.
Early Dismissal will be this Wednesday, Feb. 4th.
I would love to see several of the students participate in the "Heroes" essay contest. These are due by 2/18.
Focus this week:
Language-Adjectives and Persuasive writing
Math-Decimals
Reading-Literature Circles with fiction text
S.S.-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Science-Georgia habitats
Thanks so much to Mr. Borko and Mrs. Clark for chaperoning our field trip on Monday to the State Capitol! We could not have done it without you!
We made paper mache maracas on Tuesday as you probably know from the flour that came home on your children's clothes that day! What a job! Mrs. Hibbert and Mrs. Reynolds were kind enough to come help me with that! The students loved doing it, and I was soooo thankful for those parents' help! We will paint them at our holiday party.
A flyer is coming home today for a special hat day tomorrow. As some of you already know, South Cobb High School Band has been invited to play in the Inauguration Parade in Washington DC on Jan. 20th. What an honor! They have to raise $70,000 in order to go. We would like to help, so Tritt is asking for every child to donate at least a dollar in order to wear a hat to school on Friday. All the money will be given to the band to help them reach their goal.
Teachers will be selling Chick-fil-A bisquits in the lobby on Tuesday morning, December 16th for $2.50 to raise money for Relay for Life.
