General Announcements:
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- Please ASK your child if they have pencils. We still have a few weeks of learning :-)
- Our end of the year ice cream party is May 23rd. Please click here to sign up if you want to send in an item!
- Hoover City Schools Middle School transition night is TONIGHT- May 9th from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Bumpus, Simmons, and Berry. Students and parents can visit any of our Hoover middle schools and get an overview of classes and activities available to students.We will not be visiting Bumpus at a separate time this school year (*The rezoning is pending court approval). For more information click on the following: Hoover Middle
- A note from BGIS Music teacher, Mrs. Vines:
Fifth grade parents,
It's time for your students to return their recorder books to the music room. We've had great success this year with letting students take these books home but they do have to be returned by the end of the school year. If they have been lost or irreparably damaged they need to be paid for as soon as possible.
Medications are NOT held in the Health Room from one school year to the next. Students are not allowed to carry their own medications as policy states by the State Department of Education. Therefore, an adult will need to pick up your child’s medication by noon on May 26. Any medication that is left in the Health Room will be discarded after noon on May 26, 2016
- Schedule for the last week of school:Normal days on Monday and Tuesday (23rd and 24th), dismissal at 12:45 on Wednesday (25th), and dismissal at 11:00 on Thursday (26th). School's out for summer!
BGIS First Priority
will be collecting items to help stock a local food bank that helps Hoover students and families.
The food bank needs the following items:
Jelly
peanut butter
canned meat: tuna, chicken, spam, ...
Peanut butter crackers
Donations may be dropped off in the boxes
each morning in the front lobby
or in Room 324
Thanks for your support!
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Language Arts:
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- The students need to read "Researchers use drones to control fires" on Tween Tribune this week. There will be a spotlight reader on Friday, May 13th! Please make sure your child has a chapter book to be reading at home.
- We are writing narratives this week! The kids will be brainstorming ideas for a story The kids will have a Greek and Latin Roots quiz Friday, May 13th.
- We have a Grammar IXL contract this week that covers skills TT.9, AAA.2, EEE.1, HHH.1, HHH.2, and III.3 (Level G). It is due Friday, May 13th.
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Social Studies:
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- We are in our unit on the Civil War. This week we will talk about the life of a soldiers, important battles, and how the war ended. We are creating a booklet with all the Civil War information.
- We will have a Civil War Test on Tuesday, May 17th. A study guide will come home today for students to start to look over. The Civil War book will be taken up for a test grade on Monday, May 16th.
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Math:
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- We are still working on our multiplication and dividing decimals unit. We are also doing lots of problem solving as a review of just about everything we have learned this school year. Let me say that your child's math toolbox should be overflowing with Math knowledge.
- NO Cumulative Review tonight. I plan to send home a decimals study guide as a review for our last Unit test which will be next week.
- IXL activities will are due THIS Thursday, May 12th, by the end of the day. Class time has been given EVERY morning to work on these activities.
Level G- J2, Y1, Y4, Y8, Y9, Y10, and Z31.
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Science:
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- We are enjoying our new unit called Earth's Place in the Universe.
- We are learning about different sizes of stars, their apparent, and absolute brightness. We are learning how one factor (relative distance from Earth) determines the apparent brightness of the sun compared to other stars.
- Grade will be taken on activities done in class.
- There will be a Science Test next week or this week, if we finish in time.
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