Field Day Information

HELP!  We are still in need of volunteers to run events at our annual Field Day.   We will have to cancel some events, or even shorten the day for our students if we don’t get more help. 

Here is some information about the day:

IF IT IS RAINING ON FIELD DAY, SEND A LUNCH WITH YOUR CHILD.  FOOD SERVICE CANNOT PROVIDE LUNCHES ON SHORT NOTICE.

1.        Wear your new Field Day t-shirt.  These have been supplied by the PTA free of charge!

2.        Wear sunscreen, tennis shoes and bring a hat.

3.        Bring a towel to sit on during lunch.

4.       Bring a water bottle with your name on it.

5.       Volunteers for the morning will meet by the big oak tree on the playground at 10:10am.   Afternoon volunteers will meet there at 1:00pm.

6.       Healthy desserts may be brought to school before 10:30

Questions?????  Contact:

Mrs. Patty Wilson

Physical Education Teacher

Walled Lake Elementary

(248) 956-4300

Stand4change

Stand4Change Day 2013

Dear Parents,
Today your child’s school took part in Defeat the Label’s annual Stand4Change Day. The purpose of this day is to raise the national visibility of bullying and provide a call to action for schools and students to take a stand against bullying. In taking this stand, they stood in solidarity with over 2.7 million students around the world signifying that bullying behavior will not be tolerated.

As part of the activities today, your child took an anti bullying pledge in the classroom. We also encourage you to visit www.defeatthelabel.com with them to review and take the pledge together in addition to learning more about how your child can get involved in Defeat the Label’s programming in schools and communities.

Finding Volume

The learning target for math today: If I know two dimensions and the total volume, I can figure out the missing volume.  Students worked together to find the missing dimension by using manipulatives, drawing, and investigating different rectangular prisms.

Field Day 2013

Hi fifth grade parents!  Field day is May 22nd and we need parent volunteers.  If you'd like to participate, please sign up by clicking on the link below.  If you've never signed up for field day and you'd like to give it a try, sign up for the sponge relay.  It's my event and we have a lot of fun!

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/409044AADAE238-field1

Understanding Volume

Today we learned about Volume and investigated this concept using manipulates.  Our goal was for students to build a model from dimensions to prove volume.  Eventually students learned that by multiplying the length, width, and height of the rectangular prism they found the volume.
Students used cm cubes to think about volume of an object.

Kindergarten book project

The 5th graders were surprised when I explained that we would be making books for Kindergarteners based on the informational essays that were just finished.  Their first thought...this is going to be so simple.  They couldn't have been more wrong.  We investigated what Kindergarten books looked like and the intricacies of them.  Fifth graders had to make many decisions based on their audience, such as: what kind of sentence pattern will I choose? which words and layout work best for my readers? and MUCH more. These were just some of the many decision, revisions, and editing my students worked through to make these authentic books.  Of course, the best was sharing them with Mrs. Miller's class.

Seed quiz

Take a look at the 5 seeds below.  Can you identify all 5?  If you can't ask your child about them today!

 

 

1. Corn

2. Pea

3. Radish

4. Barley

5. Clover

 

How did you do?  Leave a comment below.