5th Grade Newsletter  August 28, 2019

Dear Parents,

            We are so excited to be back in school!  We are loving your cute kids.  Attached to this letter is a progress report.   Please notice  any missing assignments.   This just shows category totals and missing work, but you can see all of the assignments when you log into Power School. The  Flag codes you may see when you look on Powerschool  are:  Mi=missing, La=late, Ab=absent, Ex=excused, In=incomplete, and Co=collected.   Students need to complete and return missing work right away.  We are working at using less paper and would like you go to Power School to check your child’s progress and read the newsletter on our class blogs.  To find our blogs just go to the South Elementary web page, click on teachers. Just click underneath your child’s teacher’s picture and the blog will be there.   Please sign the verification form stating that you have looked at grades and read the 5th grade newsletter.  We are sending a copy of our newsletter this time, but you will need to look at our web pages next time.  If you don’t have your Power School login information you will need to get one from Mrs. Griffith in the front office.  We still have quite a few parents who need to sign the electronic forms for Safe Schools and Computer Use.  Thanks to those who have already signed them. Again, if you are having trouble, please contact Mrs. Griffith. She can help with Power School and electronic signing.

We want to stress the importance of nightly reading, which is recorded on the bright green daily planner.  These need to be checked daily to help students be successful.  The planners need to be signed by a parent and returned each Monday.  Also, keep encouraging your child to work on Reading Revolution books. The first Reading Revolution book report  is due by Tuesday, September  10.   (All students should have two or three completed books soon, if they are working toward the higher goals in the Reading Revolution).  

 If you haven’t signed up for the PTA alerts by text or email, you will want to do that soon, so that you will receive the information about the many things the PTA does.  Also, please link your Smith’s shopping rewards card to South Elementary.   We’d love you to send in those box tops, as well and then start scanning the new box tops.   Please send Starving Students cards or the money back by Friday.  If you need more cards, we have them in the office. We would love it if each child could sell one, but if they can’t please send the card back.  We are very appreciative of our wonderful PTA, and are excited about the fact that our science teacher is paid for by them. If you are ordering a new school shirt, they need to be turned in by this Friday, August 30.  Also, If you want to sign up for Chinese Club on Wednesdays, please register in the office by Friday, They start next week.(1:40-2:30)

             Our orchestra teacher took a different job, and we are in the process of hiring a new teacher. We do need to know who is going to be in orchestra. If you have not turned in your bright blue orchestra registration, please send it back by Friday. We hope to start in the next week or so. We will let you know when, as soon as we know.

School Pictures will be on Thursday, September 26.  If you want to purchase pictures you must send the packet back by picture day.   All students will have their pictures taken, whether  you are buying them or not.

We are going on a field trip to Cedar Mountain on Tuesday, September 24.  We will be seeing a volcano, Mammoth Caves, and hiking the Alpine Loop at Cedar Breaks.  Students need to wear long pants and sturdy shoes.  They also need a flashlight or headlamp, because there is no light in the cave.  Bringing a jacket and water is also advised.  We leave right at 9:00 and return at 3:25 in time for the buses.  Parents are welcome to come with us. Please let us know if you want to come. We probably have room for 4 or 5 parents per class.

            The next newsletter(blog) and progress report verification slip will be sent home on Wednesday, September 11.  Our first Worker’s Holiday will follow soon after that.  You will get information about it in the September 11 newsletter.

                                                                                    Thank you for your support,

                                                                                    Mrs. Williams,  Mrs. Little, &  Mrs. Sherratt

julie.williams@ironmail.org

darcy.little@ironmail.org

beverly.sherratt@ironmail.org

3 options to sign up for PTA alerts:

1. APP:  download "Remind101" app and enter code: @southel

2. TEXT:  send a text to (435) 238-4868 with the message: @southel 

3.  EMAIL:  send a blank message to southel@mail.remind.com

****Parent Conferences will be during the week of Sept. 30-Oct. 4. Please let us know right away if a certain day is not good for you, or if you would like to conference in the morning before school (7:45, 8:00, 8:15).  

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I have read the August 28 newsletter and have gone over my child’s progress report with him/her. I am aware that my child has a field trip to Cedar Mountain on Tuesday, Sept. 24.

____________________________                                ______________________________

(child)                                                                          (parent signature)

_____My child needs a school lunch on Sept. 24.

_____My child will bring a home lunch on Sept. 24.

           

            _____I would like to go on the field trip to Cedar Mountain with my child.

            _____I would like a school lunch ($4.00)

            _____I will bring a home lunch