Have a great summer!

What an amazing school year! Thank you to all of my students and families for making this year so much fun. I am proud of the growth the children made, and I know they each have bright futures head of them! Don't forget the importance of reading over the summer to help get ready for third grade. Check out the county library summer reading program. Students can earn prizes just for reading!

We had a great last couple of days together with the highlight being the Long's Got Talent talent show. We also had a paper airplane contest, enjoyed popsicles and play on the field, and finished our read aloud of Charlotte's Web.

Have a safe and relaxing summer break!

Class Update 5/19/18

Important Reminders:

Long's Got Talent! - The student talent show will take place from 9:00 - 11:00 on Monday.

Overdue library book notices will be sent home with students Monday. If your child owes a book, please have them return it Tuesday.

Long Library will have summer hours for students to check out books and be creative in the Makerspace. The dates and times are below:

• June 12     10:00 - 12:00
• June 28     10:00 - 12:00
• July 11      1:00 - 3:00 
• August 6   10:00 - 12:00

The end of the year Awards Assembly will be on Wednesday from 9:00 - 10:00. This assembly celebrates attendance and service awards, as well as special awards for 5th grade students.

Wednesday is the last day of school and it is a half day. No lunch will be served, and dismissal will take place at 11:50.

Class Updates:

Lego Challenges - students worked in partners in two challenges. In the first challenge they needed to use Legos to create the specified structure of "Mr. Learnie". Then, students were allowed to use the set set of Legos to plan and design a creation of their choice in a set amount of time. The creativity was fantastic, as the children creative everything from helicopters to DJ stands complete with turn tables!

Science Experiment - Students learned about surface tension by predicting and testing how many drops of water could fit on a penny. Our highest amount was 56 drops!

National School of Character - Our Long Leaders found out on Friday at a confetti-filled assembly that we earned the distinction of National School of Character again! 

Field Day - Even though it rained, we had a great field day indoors. Students participated in fun activities like "Bucket Head", completed STEM activities, and enjoyed snow cones. Thank you to all of the parent volunteers and Coaches Luna and Parker!

Class Update 5/13/18

Important Reminders:

If your child is participating in the Talent Show, there will be a quick rehearsal on Wednesday, May 16th from 3:30 - 4:30 to practice the order and go through any last minute adjustments. Students will not be expected to do their act this day. Please arrange for your child to be picked up at 4:30 p.m. Please direct all talent show questions to Mrs. Mach or Mrs. Welch.

Mrs. Mach (allisonmach@lindberghschools.ws) 

Mrs. Welch (laurenwelch@lindberghschools.ws)

Field Day will take place on Friday, May 18th. Please make sure your child dresses for the weather and wears tennis shoes that day. The cafe will only offer a hot dog sack lunch that day. Please note, your child can bring their lunch or order the sack lunch.

Class Updates:

Students have been learning about two and three-dimensional shapes in math. We had fun making our own rectangular prisms! We will finish the remaining lessons this week, and our last math test on Chapter 12 will take place on Thursday. Students received a study sheet (see below) on Friday that reviews 3-D shapes. They will also bring home additional review pages from their books on Wednesday.

We are wrapping up our book clubs in reading. All groups will finish up their chapter books this week and will share out their favorite parts. Our Scholastic News this week focused on wacky fruit and vegetable plants, which tied in nicely to what we have been learning about in science!

In writing, we had our poetry celebration last week. Each student picked a favorite poem to share with the class. Students created books of their poems, and each child learned how to publish a poem on Google docs or sheets. All spelling tests are now finished. We will spend the remaining time this year finishing our cursive writing lessons on forming capital letters in cursive.

We are wrapping up our science unit on plants. The children learned that different plants need different amounts of water and sunlight depending on where they live. We checked in our on "grass heads" and many of them are starting to sprout a lot of "hair"! Students checked to see if their predictions about how the grass would grow came true or not.

We finished up our Junior Achievement lessons last week. The children participated in an activity to practice the voting process and learned how the money they spend travels around a community. Thank you so much to Mrs. McRae for teaching the lessons!