1. Design a lunch to bring to school and eat in the classroom.

2. Your lunch must have the following characteristics:

· Girls: Total calories less than 660

· Girls: Total calories from fat less than 198

· Boys: Total calories less than 780

· Boys: Total calories from fat less than 234

· It should be a “healthy” lunch and include at least one fruit or vegetable and some kind of protein in addition to carbohydrates.

3. You must show your calculations on the Lunch Work Sheet.

4. Get your data for the Lunch Work Sheet from the Nutritional Facts Label on the back of food packages.

5. If you want to eat something that doesn’t have a label, you can probably find the nutritional information on http://www.thecaloriecounter.com/Foods/900/Food.aspx or www.nutritiondata.com

6. So, you must:

· Bring in the lunch that you planned.

· Show your calculations on the Lunch Work Sheet.

· Turn in the Nutrition Facts label for each food.

If you want to go the extra mile for a 4, you may calculate the percentage of vitamins and minerals that are in your lunch, for example: 54% of Vitamin A, 62% of Vitamin C, etc.

To get a 3: Do all that is highlighted in yellow.

To get a 3+ do all that is highlighted in yellow and what is highlighted in blue.

To get a 4 do all highlighted in yellow, blue, and pink.

No Hats; No Play

Students will be required to wear their school hats for recess and PE starting on Thursday. The school is concerned about sun damage. Thanks for your cooperation.

Pictures Tuesday

Tuesday is picture day for 5th grade. Even though we have PE that day, please make sure that your child brings his/her white shirt with the new logo for the photo.

Thanks.

Thanks Mr. and Mrs. Varni

I'm pleased to announce that Mr. and Mrs. Varni are our room parents for this school year.

I understand that an e-mail went out with the mistaken news that I had lost a grandchild. (Believe me, if THAT had happened I would not be in the classroom. As it is, my almost 15-year-old nephew was hit by a car crossing the street against the signal.

Here is one of several news stories that ran on ABC news in Baltimore about his death. The man in the light blue t-shirt is my brother-in-law speaking about our nephew.

Thank you for your concern.

Social Studies Test Tomorrow Chapter 2

To go online and practice for your test:
Click on "Social Studies Alive Enrichment" in the sidebar of this blog (under social studies)
Click on "Social Studies America's Past"
Sign in as new user (write down your password so you don't forget it)
Select Chapter 2
Select Internet Tutorial
Select Internet Tutorial again
Select Chapter 2
Do "New Words", "Just the Facts,", and "Using Your Multiple Intelligence" to prepare for test.

If you don't have Internet, reread the chapter and study the vocabulary.

Math Test Monday (Unit 2)

To help your child study:

Go over pages in Math Journal where they didn't do well and help them understand.
Help them learn the needed vocabulary (marked in bold letters).

They will need to be able to:

1. Add and subtract whole numbers and decimals.
2. Use map scale.
3. Convert inches, feet, and miles.
4. Identify place value.
5. Find multiplication errors.
6. Multiply (using method of choice).
7. Make a magnitude estimate.
8. Explain why making an estimate is useful.
9. Describe probabilities in words and numbers. (Likely, unlikely, etc.)
10. Write numbers in expanded notation.
11. Find landmarks for a data set. (mean, median, mode, maximum, minimum, range)
    

Picture Days September 27th and 28th

This is a very important announcement...

Monday, September 27th and Tuesday, September 28th

The photographer is coming to take the pictures of all the grades. Individual pictures and class photos.

Please in those two days make sure that yourchildren come properly dressed with THE NEW IAA polo shirt and with a proper hair style for the pic.