Last 3 Days of School

June 1, 2 and 3 are the LAST three days of school. Our schedule is going to be a little crazy, so I wanted to let you know of the IMPORTANT events coming up, and the ones you are invitied to :)

Wednesday, June 1:

• Year books are available for pick up and last minute purchases, they will be signed during specials. For students who choose not to purchase a year book, we have 5th Grade Memory packets available to for signatures.
• 5th Grade Completion Ceremony is at 9:15 to about 10:15 in the Cafeteria. Please feel free to come watch your child complete 5th grade!
• Classroom Awards are from 10:15-11:00. Your student can share these with you when they get home :)

Thursday, June 2:

• Movie and popcorn in the classroom. We will be watching Horton Hears a Who and eating popcorn starting at 9:15.
• We will also be cleaning out our desks and cubbies on this day, so expect EVERYTHING to be coming home!
• 5th Grade Party at 2:00 in the Cafeteria. Please feel free to come!

Friday, June 3:

• Please don't send ANYTHING other than a game with your child this day, they can bring a backpack with their game in it, because they will get report cards, but NO SCHOOL SUPPLIES!
• Play games from home 9:00-10:30!
• Report cards and TAKS results go home!
• 5th Grade Walk of Fame at 1:40. Please feel free to come watch. (Parents can stand near the entrance to the Cafeteria).
• Celebration of Learning grades 3-5 at 2:00 in the Cafeteria. Parents are welcomed.
• 3:00-Your student is officially a 6th Grader...and yes...I cried while I typed that. :)

Field Day!

We had a great time at Field Day last week! The weather was BEAUTIFUL! Thank you to all the parents and volunteers who came and spent the day with us. I know the students had a great time!

Here are some pictures from our day:

Bridge Project

In Math and Science we are becomming bridge designers! The students are planning, designing and building bridges out of nothing but white glue and popsicle sticks. They seem to be really enjoying this project! We will test our bridges next week to see how strong they are.

Here are some pictures of our architects at work:

Field Day Help!

Hello Parents...THIS BLOG IS FOR YOU!

Thank you schooldiscoveryeducation.com

Friday, May 13th (THIS FRIDAY!) is Robertson Field Day. PTA is asking that each class try to get 2 parent volunteers to help with Field Day. I know this is a little bit of late notice, but if you are available to help it would be GREATLY appreciated! Field Day starts for 5th grade at 11:30 and will go til about the end of the day. Please, please, please think about Volunteering. If you can, please email me back PRONTO!

Thank you!!!

Fifth Grade T-Shirt

Today is THE LAST DAY to order the 5th Grade T-Shirt! We have sent home a few flyers but I thought it might be easier if you were able to just click it.

The shirt looks like this:

It has all the names of our Fifth Grade class of 2011!

The shirts are $5 and can ONLY BE ORDERED ONLINE! We were hoping that the students would order them and then wear them to the 5th Grade Party in June and then be able to wear them as we did our Celebration march around the school on the last day!

Here is the link to go order them: http://www.takeprideapparel.com/content-categories/cat-380_389/robertson_elementary.html

Please order one! :)

This Week

Thursday is Science TAKS! The students have been studying really hard for this for a LONG time. Please make sure that your student gets a good amount of sleep on Wednesday night and eats a healthy breakfast on Thursday. We will have muffins and orange juice at school...but you may want to feed them before.

As always, no cell phones, backpacks or visitors at school on TAKS days. 

Update on the Finch Nest!

This is on 4.22.11:



This is on 4.25.11:

FIVE eggs now! We will have our hands full!



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Finch Nest Update

Well, the original egg is no where to be found. However, the birds have made ANOTHER nest in ANOTHER hanging basket...our class will continue to watch this nest.

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4.21.11





Finch Nest

This weekend, Mr. Douglas and I made a discovery in one of our hanging plants.

I had noticed some beautiful song birds chriping at all hours of night coming from my front porch, so I assumed they were hanging out there. In the morning, when I went to check it out I noticed two birds were flying around the basket, sitting on the chain and zooming in and out of my plant. The dad looked like this:

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When the birds were away from the plant I took a peak inside and this is what I saw!

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The parents have been bringing little seeds and parts of plants to surround the egg with. I will keep you up to date with the progress of our egg! Our class is going to assume this egg as a class pet, so we will shortly be naming the egg and watching it closely through pictures I take while at home.

UPDATE: Our class had decided to name our little egg...Leonardo De'FINCHY!!
But Finchy for short.

Keep track with us!

Boosterthon on Friday!

Our class will run in the Boosterthon Fun Run THIS Friday, April 15 at 11:15 in the morning! Please come support your runner. You just need to sign in at the front office and they will tell you where to go!

Tonight is the LAST night to get donations so, if your student is going to participate, now is the time!

As of yesterday, our class was FIRST in the SCHOOL! Today we were THIRD!

Help us catch those other classes!

Another Update: Our school managed to get donations from ALL 50 STATES! That means Mr. I will be dressing up as JUSTIN BIEBER! Personally, I CAN'T WAIT!  :)

Now he looks like THIS:



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Soon he will look like THIS:



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Baskin Robbins Night!



Thanks intuitive.com and Baskin Robbins for the pic!

Tomorrow is Baskin Robbins Night! Support Robertson Elementary by taking your family for a yummy snack!

Boosterthon

Robertson is participating in the school's first Boosterthon!

Students have been asked to participate by getting family members, friends and community members to donate by pledging a certain dollar amount for each lap the student will run. The Fun Run will take place on April 15th. 5th grade will run from 11:15-12:15 during the day. You are more than welcomed to come watch your student run! There are prizes that each student can win based on their donations.

Our class will be deciding on a team name, and as a team will be trying to raise the most funding in the school! Help your student by getting them in contact with as many potential sponsors as possible!

AND if we get donations from EVERY STATE in the U.S. Mr I. will dress up like Justin Bieber!

Thanks Justinbieberblog!

Here is a link for more information on the Robertson Boosterthon Fun Run: http://www.boosterthoninfo.com/robertsonelementary/

We are raising funds to supplement PTA's budget and enhance student learning!

Round Up on Friday

Our class will be performing at Robertson Round Up THIS Friday at 2:00! Come see your student perform! Make sure to check in at the front office and then head into the Cafeteria! Performance should start right around 2:05-2:10! 

See you there!

Thanks to gastage.com!

TAKS Prep

Last week we spent time doing our final TAKS prep. In groups we analyzed previous TAKS questions and sorted them based on the type of questions they were. We also discussed the different strategies we know for answering each type of question. Here are some pictures of our students at work! Enjoy!

Skye, Courtney and Peyton



Gage, Tyler, Noah, Billy and Anapaula



Michael, Emmanuel, Caleb and Nate

Kayla, Daniel, Alexis and Zoya



Brian, Aubrey, McKensey and Tre

Scott, Collin, Lyric and Zach

Live U-Stream of Bald Eagle Nest

Live TV : Ustream

 If the above video is not working, here is the link:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/3064708

Today we looked at this in class for a few minutes. This is a live stream of a bald eagle nest. The eggs are supposed to hatch on April 1st! I posted this so you could keep an eye on the mamma and her babies!

Thanks. Mrs. Sonkin (our tech faciliator) for showing me this!

Hope you enjoy!

Chik-Fil-A!!!!!

 Robertson Elementary

Spirit Night

       Dine In or Drive Thru

    Wednesday March 30, 2011

 Social Time 5:00pm-8:00pm 

Visit Chick-fil-A, @ El Dorado and Toll road,

between 6:00am and 10:00pm, on our Spirit Night &

you will receive credit for your purchases.

    15% of our ticketed sales will be donated

       by Chick-fil-A to Robertson Elementary.

Please let our cashier know that you are with Robertson Elementary and we will put your ticket in our Chick-fil-A box.

Food Drive

This week, Robertson Elementary is participating in a food drive for Frisco Family Services. Our class has started a competition with Mrs. Westhoff's class to see which class can bring the most items. Please help us and the families of Frisco Family Services by donating whatever you can.

The following items are great things to donate:

Thank you shareforus.com!

• Canned goods
• Hygiene items
• Rice and Pasta
• Ramen Noodles
• Macaroni
• Boxed meals
• Hamburger Helper

The food drive ends THIS FRIDAY, April 3. Please send all items with your student to school before then!

The current score:

Mrs. Westhoff's class: 0      Mrs. Douglas's class: 17

Thank you!

Sensory Language

The week before we left for the break we studied how authors use sensory language (language that applies to the 5 senses) to help us make connections and inferences with their work. Here are some fun pictures we took while doing an activity to practice identifying sensory languages and which sense it applied to.

Enjoy!

Back to School!

I hope everyone had a MARVELOUS Spring Break! I know I had a great one. I spent my break going camping, hiking, four wheeling, planting flowers and relaxing. I missed all my students though so it's great to be back...even if I am still adjusting to getting up early after a week of sleeping in!

Only 2 more months until summer! I can't believe how fast it is all going!

Thanks farm1staticflikr!

Open House Tonight!

Don't forget! Open House is tonight from 6:00-7:30!!

This Week

Tuesday:



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Book Fair at 10:30!

Make sure you send money with your student!

NO AFTERSCHOOL TUTORING!

We will resume tutoring after spring break!

Wednesday:

Guidance at 10:30 with Mrs. O'Hearn!

She will teach us all about the Cool Rules!

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Lunch with a Loved One @12:30-1:30

Come enjoy the Book Fair and Lunch with your student.

Either send me an email or return the Lunch with a Loved One Permission form.

Thursday:

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Math CBA #8

Make sure your student knows all of the Geometry terms!

NO AFTERSCHOOL TUTORING!

We will resume tutoring after Spring Break!

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Open House at 6:00-7:30

Come check out what we have been doing at Robertson!

Friday:

"Change" Talk at 2:00

Make sure you have returned the Perimission slip!

Next Week:

SPRING BREAK! 

Wish List

Attention Parents!

Our class is running out of some DESPERATELY needed supplies. If you are able, or feel so inclined, we would greatly appreciate it if you would donate the following items:

• Glue Sticks
• Construction Paper
• Black Dry Erase Markers
• Kleenex

Thank you so much!

Vocabulary

This week we are starting something new for our 5th graders.

In addition to Spelling once a week, we are now introducing Vocabulary! Each week our spelling list will have a corresponding Vocabulary list. This list will consist of EIGHT words that your student will learn on Monday, have a practice assignment due on Friday and then take a quiz over on Friday.

The Vocabulary word list is made of the EIGHT words on the Spelling list that have the Greek or Latin root. That way the student is working with the same set of words.

This week, our Vocabulary consists of Geometry words to help introduce our new Geometry Vocabulary in Math Class.

Please help your student study these words at home over the week. They can make flashcards, you can quiz them...or come up with your own creative way to study!

Our first Vocab quiz will be THIS Friday!