October 12th-16th 

General Announcements:	It is truly hard to believe we started our 2nd nine weeks of school today! The first nine weeks seem to have flown by. We look forward to continuing to challenge our students to go deeper in their thinking and learning each and every day! TOMORROW-Wednesday, October 14th, Report Cards come home. Please sign and return one copy and keep the other copy. Remember to frequently check your child’s grades in iNow. Picture orders are due this Friday, October 16th. We appreciate your support of the BOX TOPS for Education program. This is a wonderful way to help raise money for our classrooms! Please be on the lookout for BOX TOPS and send them with your child! We have enjoyed meeting and conferencing with many of you! If you would still like to schedule a conference, please send us an email and we will try to schedule something soon. GEMS is the name of a new club about to start at BGIS! GEMS= Girls in Engineering, Math, and Science! We plan to have several groups of fifth and sixth graders. If your daughter is interested, please have her apply at tinyurl.com/BGISGEMS by October 14th.  Mrs. Ponder will be helping with one of the 5th grade groups! Earthsavers Science club is collecting gently used shoes during the month of October. Please help by sending in shoes you would like to donate!
Language Arts:	Thank you for sending the most delicious "Southern Foods" last Thursday! The students had a great time  testing the different southern dishes.  This week we will be doing a project on Notable Americans. They were each assigned a person to research. We will do most of it in class, but if they don't finish in class they will need to complete the research at home. Look for the details about the part they will do at home later this week!  We will have no comprehension or vocabulary quizzes this week:) The reading log will be due Wednesday.
Social Studies:	We are continuing our study of colonial America this week. We will be comparing the Wampanoag Indians with the Pilgrims, talking about the Salem witch trials, and beginning to look at each of the 13 original colonies this week.
Math:	We took our Pre-Assessment for our Volume unit today!  We will be working on our study of Volume for the next couple of weeks! Math Cumulative Review came home today and is due Thursday! We will have a short quiz on Friday.  New IXL activities were assigned; we are using time at school to get started on these activities. IXL contract is not due until NEXT Tuesday.
Science:	Your children did the most amazing job on their Earth Spheres Interactions projects! Their 3 D dioramas are AWESOME!  We will spend a couple of days sharing our Google slide presentations during class this week.  We will also begin our short study of Earth's distribution of Water. No Tests or quizzes this week. Grades will be taken on class work this week.