Important Information:

• We will be having a field trip on Thursday, 11/9, to Fremont High School to see the play Cinderella. Please be sure to be on time that day. The bus will be leaving Quest at 8:45. We will return to the school by noon for lunch. 

• We are still doing the canned food drive, so don’t forget to bring those cans in this week. This will be the last week to do this. 

• Parent-teacher conferences are next Tuesday and Thursday. You should have received an email with a link to the sign-up sheet. If you need me to send it again, please let me know. 

• Our STEM project this month involves growing plants. If you could save your egg cartons and bring them in this week, that would be great! Thanks in advance!

• Second Annual Rudolph the Reindeer Run –  Here is the link to register: https://secureinstantpayments.com/sip/cart/event.php?EID=2925 Runners and “Breakfast Eaters” can register and pay right on this website! We are so excited about this! Please share this with your classes, families, friends and neighbors!

• Yearbook Cover Contest:

Spelling 11/6 – 11/10 

1. dentist

2. jogger

3. fifteen

4. flatter

5. submit

6. mustang

7. absent

8. hollow

9. empire

10. blizzard

11. culture

12. goggles

13. summon

14. excite

15. kennel

16. valley

17. fragment

18. gallop

19. vulture

20. pigment

Vocabulary  11/6 – 11/10

1. ambitious – having a strong desire to succeed at something

2. memorized – learned by heart

3. satisfaction – the condition of being satisfied

4. shuddered – trembled suddenly from fear or cold

5. free verse – shares ideas and feelings with no set rhyming pattern or rhythm; has no set line length

6. narrative – tells a story; has characters and dialogue; can rhyme

7. repetition –  the repeating of words, phrases, or lines in a poem

8. rhyme – lines that end with the same sound

Dear Parents:

   The fifth grade will be beginning their after school club soon.  Our first club session will be STEM Challenges with Mrs. Jaques and Mrs. Trujillo.  Students will be given a different challenge each week and will have to complete the challenge within the time allotted.

   The club will be held every Tuesday afternoons from 3:10 – 3:40 pm. It will be held November 14th and 28th, and December 5th and 12th. All sessions need to be attended.  Students will be required to be picked up promptly at 3:40.  This is a fifth grade club only,  no siblings allowed. 

   Students will be selected by random drawing, and there are limited spots available.  If you are interested in attending the club, print the form, and return it completed to Mrs. Jaques or Mrs. Trujillo by November 6th.  A fifth grade teacher will then notify you by the 8th if your student was selected. There is a cost of $3 per students, to help cover the cost of materials.

    Please note that this is not required, but an extracurricular activity that students can participate in.  Students who are not following school and classroom rules and who are choosing not to participate in the club will be asked to leave the club.  If you have any questions please contact your fifth grade student’s teacher.

STEM Club Form 

 –       5th Grade Team

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*Due to Halloween and school out on Wednesday, Nov. 1st, we will not have any homework this week. 

Spelling:

1. you’ve

2. she’d

3. that’s

4. what’s

5. doesn’t

6. there’s

7. you’re

8. wasn’t

9. we’ll

10. we’ve

11. we’re

12. couldn’t

13. I’ve

14. didn’t

15. they’re

16. shouldn’t

17. wouldn’t

18. he’d

19. don’t

20. isn’t

Vocabulary:

1. assuring – stating positively; making certain or sure

2. detected – found out or noticed; discovered

3. emerging – coming out or into view

4. gratitude – a feeling of gratefulness

5. guidance – the act or process of guiding; leadership; direction

6. outcome – a result, end, or consequence

7. previous – coming before; earlier

8. pursuit – the act of pursuing or chasing

Spelling Words:

1. jogging

2. dripping

3. skimmed

4. accepted

5. amusing

6. easing

7. regretted

8. forbidding

9. referred

10. injured

11. deserved

12. applied

13. relied

14. renewing

15. complicated

16. qualified

17. threatening

18. gnarled

19. envied

20. fascinated

Vocabulary Words:

1. behaviors – ways of behaving or acting

2. disappearance – the act or fact of vanishing or going out of sight

3. energetic – full of strength, eagerness, or energy

4. flurry – a sudden movement of many things at once

5. migrate – to move from one place to another

6. observation – the act or power of noticing

7. theory – an opinion based on some evidence but not proved

8. transformed – changed in shape, form, or appearance 

Here are some pictures from our STEM project this month, the Balloon Car Challenge. Students researched and sketched balloon powered cars. They worked in teams to try to create a car that would travel 5 ft. and go further than their opponents’ cars. Each team needed to delegate roles and responsibilities, manage time and materials, share ideas, combine knowledge and skills, communicate effectively, as well as test, evaluate, and revise their design. Thank you to everyone who donated supplies! 

Parents & students,

Our field trip to Discovery Gateway in Salt Lake City is next Tuesday, October 24th. Every student will need to bring a sack lunch for the field trip. We will all be meeting at the Roy Frontrunner station in the morning. The address is S, 4155 Sandridge Dr, Roy. I have contacted the first six parent volunteers. If you wold like to go, but you were not one of the first six, you may still come with us and pay the fee to ride the Frontrunner. We are happy to have extra chaperones! Please let me know if you will be coming. You will be assigned a group. Students are expected to remain with their assigned groups at all times. Students should bring a sack lunch and dress appropriately for the weather. Bring a book bag to keep your lunch in so you won’t have to hold it. 

*Please drop your child off at the Roy Frontrunner Station by 8:30am.  We will arrive at the Roy Station at 2:45pm for pick up.

Amazing parents & students,

We will not have homework next week because it is a short week and it will be busy, busy, busy! Please remember to bring a large poster board to class on Monday, for our book report, as well as materials for the balloon powered cars that we will be building for our STEM project. For more information and a grading rubric for the book report, click here -> Movie Book Report 

Don’t forget to pay $6 to the office, part of which is for the Sub Zero presentation that is happening on Wednesday from 9:30am – 10:30am. 

Also, we have had students taking home name badges and forgetting them. It is school policy that the name badges be worn at all times during the school day. They should be left in the classroom. If you have lost your name badge, you may purchase a new one for $5 through the office. 

Parent-teacher conferences will be held on November 7th & 9th. We will have sign-ups soon, so be watching for that. 

Thank you! (I have THE BEST fifth grade class!)

-Mrs. Marten

Donations Needed for STEM Project

We will be studying Industrial Engineering this month with our STEM Project. We will be talking about the various responsibilities these men and women encounter on a daily basis. We are asking for parent donations of the following items to create a Balloon Powered Car. If you have any of the following items at home, and are willing to donate them, please have your child bring the items to school this week.

These are the items we are needing to collect:

• Cardboard
• Plastic water bottles
• Juice boxes (not plastic)
• Cereal boxes
• Water bottle caps
• Old CDs or DVDs
• Wooden skewers

Thank you for your support in making this STEM Project successful!