Welcome back to school! The first week went off without a hitch.  The students were polite and seemed excited (nervous?) for 5th grade.  They have great personalities and I look forward to teaching them this year! 

We are still waiting for math workbooks and planners.  As soon as they are delivered, I will give them out to the students.  I will make copies from another workbook I have for the students' homework this week.

Since the weather is still hot, I will allow the students to keep water bottles in the classroom.  Keep them a normal size (16.9 oz and under) and only one bottle is allowed.  The students can fill them up at lunch time.  The students can keep their water bottles until the end of September, when the weather is significantly cooler.

The Common Core unit we are working on is Inventive Thinking.  We will read about and discuss inventors and inventions that changed the world.  We will read about this in all subject areas and I will have the students research and write a report on an inventor or invention that changed the world.  I will also have the students write up plans for their own inventions.