Happy Holiday and Happy New Year

I hope that you and your family have a great break and Happy New Year!
See you in 2016!

Sci-Tech

Our learning was taken out-of-the-world today thanks to Sci-Tech Discovery Center.

Winning Pumpkin

Our class choose the Spider-Man pumpkin as the winner.

Field Day was moved to the Spring.

Please mark your calendars for November 20th for our Engineering Expo.

The students will be designing a Rude Goldberg machine.

Hope to see you at the Expo!

Bummer

 

All,

Due to the forecast calling for heavy rain tomorrow, field day will be postponed until next Friday. Unfortunately, at this time, it looks like it may rain next week as well. If it rains heavily starting on Wednesday of next week, we will once again postpone field day until May. We want to thank you all so much for your understanding – fingers crossed we have a sunny week next week!

Change

I hope that you enjoyed looking at the pumpkins last week.  The students had a blast making them and voting on them.
I wanted to let you know that we will be shifting our schedule around a little bit beginning in November.  Please read the details below.  I hope you have a great weekend.

Dear Christie Families, 

We want to thank you for your flexibility as we moved to a blocked specials schedule for the first part of the school year. The instructional planning time gained by teachers during the blocked schedule was used to plan ahead and review the larger picture of the school year. As the first nine weeks has come to an end, we are excited to share that beginning November 1st, we will be returning to the traditional schedule where specials takes place each day. 

As always, thank you for your continued support!

Christie Elementary 

We will have specials everyday at 12-12:50- yeah!!!!!
New specials rotation-
Monday-PE

Tuesday- Fitness/Music

Wednesday- PE

Thursday- Art

Friday- Music/Fitness

Pumpkin design challenge

Blueprints

Pumpkin characters

The students had a blast making the characters.

We will vote on the one pumpkin to enter into the challenge.

All pumpkins will be displayed throughout the week in our classroom.

Creating pumpkin character

Challenge

This week we will have our first design challenge for the year.
I am looking forward to seeing the amazing ideas that my students come up with.
Check back throughout the week to see the process and the final design.

Week after camp

This week has been jammed packed.
We have reviewed  all the exciting things that happened at camp and created a TFK magazine highlighting some of the activities that we did at camp.
Please continue to check your child's agenda for important dates.
I look forward to meeting with you at conferences on Monday.

Check out Osmo

Check out this cool tool to engage all learners!

https://www.playosmo.com/?r=4958752310558720

Week three down

This week we were busy.

Your student has been learning about standing up for what you believe in, and reading examples of this trait in Social Studies and reading.

In Science, we are working with asking  good testable questions.

We are excited about the field trip that we will be taking on the 18th.

Please fill out both permission slips and return to school.

Have a great weekend.

Yeah, We have made through two weeks

I hope that your child has come home telling you all about the exciting things that we have been able to do the first two weeks of school.  I have enjoyed getting to know your child and have them be apart of my classroom. I know that this year will be amazing. 
Please mark your calendars for these upcoming events:
- September 11- last day to turn in paperwork and to pay for camp
-September 18-  Field Trip- premission slip will be sent home
-September 28-30 Camp
Have a great three day weekend:)

Welcome to Fifth Grade

I am so excited about this year.  I have enjoyed getting to know why child and grow our classroom family.
 I hope see you all at camp night next Tuesday in the cafeteria.  Please be looking for a letter from me to tell you a little bit about me and a request for you to tell me about your child.
Mrs. Jones

Last week of school

Graduation at CMS at 6:00.

Please return any library books that your child has out, if you are unable to locate the book/s please pay for the book.

Last day is an early release and will get out at noon.

Have a great summer!

A hard week

I hope that you will be able to join us for the Engineering Expo on the 21st. My class has been working hard on testing, failing, not giving up (sometimes getting mad), and trying again. They are seeing that working with circuits is challenging and that you really do have to keep trying until it works.

Hard at work

Our class has been hard at work on their Engineering project.

Check out these blueprints and our posting wall.

Learning in action

Exploring with engineering

Stop-motion

This week has ended our study of space.  As a culminating activity the students create a stop-motion animation to discus their knowledge.  check out their project on Twitter and Kidblog.
In math, we are continuing to work on measurement using customary and metric systems.
I am looking forward to another great week as we are preparing for Open House and the end of the nine weeks.
K.Jones

Engineering Expo

Please join our class on Thursday May 21, 2015 for the Engineering Expo.  Your child will be going throught the design process and creating a prototype.  Stay turned for pictures of examples along the way.  Also look for pictures posted to #christielearns on Twitter.

STAAR Week is over

Please hug your child tonight and let him/her know how proud you are of them.  This has been a very stressful week for them. 
I am very proud of each one of them. 
We are in the home stretch.  Over the next few weeks we will be preparing for our Engineering Fair that will be on May 21, 2015.  Your child will be working through the enigeering process to prove that if you can dream it, you can create it. 
I look foward to sharing with you some of the amazing creations that will come from the fair.
 

Where “if you can imagine it, you can create it”.

 

Where “if you can imagine it, you can create it”.

Where “if you can imagine it, you can create it”.

Spring Fever

I hope that you and your family are having a great week.  Your students have been working hard as we review key concepts that we have learned in Math and Science.  In a few weeks your child will be taking the Math and Science STAAR test.  I know that each one will show what they have learned this year and do well.
Please talk to your child about the importance of staying focused and finishing strong.  This is a very exciting time of year for Fifth Graders.  Most are looking forward to middle school and saying good-bye to elementary school.  While we have many exciting events and activities planned, we still have about two more months of school left and we are not finished yet.
Than you for your continued support,
Mrs. Jones

STAAR Week

I hope that you are looking forward to spending the day with your child on Friday.  I know that we could all use a day off.  

I hope that your child has given you their report card so that you can see their progress.  I have also send home a photo with them of their graduation picture.  If you would like to order them, please fill out the envelope and I will send the pictures home with your child.  

Have a great rest of your week.

Mrs. Jones

Back to school after the snow

I hope that you stayed warm while the kids were off.  I wanted to let you know that our kidblog site is up and has some videos posted.  Please check out the presentation that we had and stop-motion videos of the day and night cycle.  
Don't forget that we have graduation pictures on Monday March 2, Open  House on Thursday and Spirit Assemblies on Friday.  
Spring Break will be the following week.  
Stay warm 
K. Jones

February 16th

We have had a full week.  Today we had a cool presentation about Shakespeare.  Check out our video on Twitter or at Kidblog.

We are back!!!

The beginning of the year has been amazing.  Your children have been multiplying and dividing fractions, finding the area and perimeter of shapes and exploring with geometry.  I hope that your child has told you about some of the interesting topics that we have discussed in science and during our research time.
We are going to start a Kidblog site, so stay turned in for that address.  Your child will have a password that they will need to use to be able to see the site.  Also check out some photos of our classroom on Twitter.