Keep Working Hard!

I am very proud of your hard work this week preparing for the ISAT tests. Next week is our big week! Our tests will be on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The good news is your homework load will be very light to rest your brains! Select a good book over the weekend to bring to school. You will be getting more free reading time.

Yikes!

Help!!! We are almost out of notebook paper. Would you please bring in 1 pack of WIDE RULED notebook paper for the rest of the year. Thank you!!!

Try This!

Check Out This Optical Illusion!

Your eyes are making them move. To test this, stare at one spot in each picture for a few seconds and everything will stop moving; OR look at the black center of each circle in the first picture, and it will stop moving; but when you move your eyes to the next black center, the previous one will move after you take your eyes away from it.

Cute Animals!

Earn a Ticket and a Bean!

Tell me who the Senator from Illinois is. Place your answer in the blog bin and earn a ticket!

Great Job 5th Graders!

Wow! What a fantastic job you did at the Wax Museum! I had so many teachers, students and parents come up to me and tell me what a wonderful evening they had and how interesting your speeches were! You should be so proud of yourselves! I'm sure you have memorized your speeches easily by now and hopefully learned a lot about the famous person you researched. Congratulations on a great job!!!

Mrs. Polito

Happy Valentine's Day

Puzzling Books

Try out these new books in the LMC that Mrs. Mika would like to recommend. They sure are PUZZLING!

FEG Poems for Intelligent Children

The Mysterious Benedict Society

The Westing Game

The Wright 3

Chasing Vermeer

Happy Chinese New Year!

• 2008 is known as the Year of the Rat!

• This year is the year of Wu Zi.

• The current year is Year 4705 by the Chinese calendar.

See You Tomorrow

I hope you had a good day today. I'm beginning to feel better, so I'm sure I will see you tomorrow. I hope you earned your beans! Be prepared to tell me what you learned during the Internet Safety talk.

Don't forget about Slipper Day!

5th Grade Parents!

Your child brought home a letter inviting you to attend one of the Principals' Breakfasts. There has been a change of date that you need to know about. Ivy Hill (parents only) is invited on Tuesday, Feb. 26th at 9:15 am. RSVP to the Thomas office at (847)398-4260. This is an important opportunity to learn more about Thomas Middle School.

Math Challenge

Calculate the following math problem, show your work, and place it in the blog bin for a ticket. Good luck!

(345 + 647) - (100/4 + 21) + (47 x 3) = ?????????????

Snow Research

I would like you to figure out a way to find out how much snow we got today. Use your strategy to record the amount of inches on a piece of paper and the strategy used. Place it in the blog bin for a ticket and I will read off the papers on Friday.

Happy Snow Day!

I hope you are having a nice snow day AGAIN!! I'm at home reading in bed with a bad cold. I think I caught the bug that has been going around our classroom. If I don't come to school on Thursday, I will plan a nice day for you. Don't forget, it will be double bean day!

Strange Facts!

If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.

Too Good For Drugs Homework!

Create your own vanity license plate telling us something positive about your personality. Decorate it! Due next Tuesday. I will be hanging them up, so do your best.

This Week's Update

Here is a brief schedule for the week:

TUESDAY
• Brain activities due
• Last week's DLR due
• Biography selected for the Wax Museum
• TFK worksheet from last week due
• Big Ending sheet due
• Too Good For Drugs
• Art
• Blog drawing
• Last day to submit a story for Celebrate Writing

THURSDAY
• Spelling due
• Spelling test
• January STARs lunch

FRIDAY
• Pictures for the cover of the yearbook are due - optional contest

Bean in the Jar!

Place a bean in the jar if you wanted the Giants to win!!!

Super Bowl Winner!

Did your team win the Super Bowl?
WOW!!!!

Click here!

SENSES CHALLENGE!

Click on this website and complete the challenge. Place your score in the blog bin and earn a ticket! It's lots of fun!

Happy Snow Day!