Tuesday Express Newsletter #8
October 25, 2011
Flight Four Forum
5th & 6th Grade Families,
It is hard to believe, but welcome to
the second quarter!
Congratulations to Sean Devlin,
Celine Audin, Jesse Burns, Dominic
Limone, Ikechi Elendu, Shyliea Clark,
Teagan Figenser, Kelsie Johnson, Caleb
Scroggs, Tearna North, and Peyton Short
for achieving their reading goals. We
ended the quarter with fifty-one (out of
fifty-nine) Flight Four students on the
AR wall.
Parent/teacher conferences are this
Thursday, October 27th and next
Tuesday, November 1st.
Halloween Parties are next Monday,
starting at 2:30. Students can wear their
costumes to school. We have already
planned the parties and what to bring.
Fifth grade’s party is in the gym and
sixth grade’s party is in the pit.
We found out the Friday before break
that the 6th Grade Fall Knowledge Bowl
is going to be Tuesday, November 1st in
Hotchkiss. We’ll select our teams based
on a past Knowledge Bowl test (that we
gave today) and send out permission
slips this week.
The 6th grade Denver Museum of
Nature and Science Camp-In is Friday
and Saturday, November 4-5. Please fill
out both sides of the museum’s release
forms and return them by Thursday
October 27th. Additionally, for those
who haven’t yet paid, please pay the $12
for t-shirts by Thursday.
The district’s Math Counts competition is
Tuesday, the 22nd of November (the day before
Thanksgiving break) at Delta Center for the
Performing Arts (next to Delta Middle
School).
Below are the highlights of what we “plan”
to do over the next week.
Reading & Vocabulary/Spelling:
- 5th: Spelling test Thursday
- 6th: Greek Root Words
- McCall-Crabbs Reading Quiz Friday
- 5th Read Aloud: Where the Red Fern Grows
- 6th Read Aloud: The Odyssey
- Independent reading & testing (AR)
Writing - Diagramming test Wednesday
- Grammar (DOL) test Friday
- 5th: Persuasive Writing
- 6th: Persuasive Writing
Math - Math pretest Thursday, test Friday
Social Studies - 5th: The Reformation, the
Golden Age, & the English Revolution
- 6th: Ancient Greece
Science - 5th: Energy Unit
- 6th: What is Science? Unit
Check the school website for past copies of
this letter: http://pes.deltaschools.com/.
If you need to get in touch with any of us,
we encourage you to please give us a call, or
email us anytime. Most of our homework is
math, and Mr. Bushta encourages students to
call him at home (anytime before 10PM) for
help.
Mrs. Pizey Mrs. Stewart Mr. Bushta
527-4657
527-3639
527-5370
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