Putting Old Heads On Young Shoulders

There is a lot going on right now in 5-1!

• We have a field trip this Thursday to the planetarium. I'm sending home a permission slip with your child today, but if they made a paper airplane on the bus or use it as a makeshift kleenex, you can always cut and paste from that abomination in the post from Friday.
• The kids' rough drafts are due on Friday for their research paper. Again, this is just the body of the paper, not including the bibliography, title page, or even the introduction and conclusion. I'm going to try this year having them write both of those after they've finished everything else.
  
• The Spelling list this week is very odd. It's made up entirely out of abbreviations. This sounds really easy, but I want everyone to understand that some of the abbreviations (and why is that such a long word, anyway?) have a period after them and some don't. Also, some of them are capitalized and some aren't. This is part of the spelling of those terms, so that will probably be the most challenging part. Because they are so short, I put fourteen words on this list instead of just twelve.
• Page 55 in their Social Studies white pages is due tomorrow.
• The kids have a very simple project involving prepositions which I made due on Friday. The extended time would seem to indicate that this "project" is more complicated than it really is, because all they have to do is come up with illustrations for any eight prepositions and color them. I showed them how I wanted them to fold the paper and everything.
  
• There is a Caesar's English test NEXT Tuesday, March 15. They received their lists today.
• COLONIAL DAYS is next Friday, March 18! Not this Friday, but the next one. Don't panic--yet!
• Oh yeah, and last but not least, the book report is still due on Thursday, as it has been for the last month. Sorry for the constant reminders! Most of the kids have already turned these in, so thank you for the early arrivals!
  
• Have a great week, everybody. Something tells me this one will fly by like they all do.