Welcome Back to School

Dear Parents and Students,

I am so excited for the upcoming year! We are going to have a great year together and I can't wait for September.  I hope you have done some back to school shopping for all the supplies we are going to need this year.  School supply shopping is one of my favorite things to do. If you need the list, you can click here: School Supplies Grade 5.  You should open everything at home and label all notebooks and folders with your name.

Our first day of school is September 6 and you should be at school by 8:40.  I will be outside to meet you.

I hope you have been reading, practicing your math facts, and have gotten plenty of rest and relaxation!

See you in a few weeks,
Mrs. Boucher

Save Baby

Save Baby is a project that our class has been working on for a few days now.  The students had to save water bottles, design a boat that would keep baby safe and dry while floating in a pool of water.   Here are some pictures of the journey so far.  Final pictures will be up once we finish our boats!

Concord Field Trip Tomorrow

Just a reminder that tomorrow we will be visiting the Concord Museum and Old North Bridge.  Please dress for the weather and walking.  All cell phones must stay at school in backpacks.  Please remember a bag lunch and pack things that can be thrown away.  Also, please be on time.  The busses will leave promptly at 8:50.

Thank you!

PARCC Testing Starts this week

Welcome back! I hope everyone had a restful and relaxing vacation.

Beginning Tuesday, we will take the first of three English Language Arts PARCC tests.  Please be sure your child is well rested, has a healthy breakfast, and brings a healthy snack.  Your child should also have a book to read should they finish the test early, though I don't anticipate many finishing early. We have many testing days ahead of us so wish us luck!

Family Recipes

Before Thanksgiving I had the idea of collecting family recipes from my students. For homework students were asked to bring in a copy of the recipe, as well as a picture.

Using google docs, students wrote the recipes and then copied them into the app Book Creator.

 This led to the creation of a class family recipe book.

You can also find these recipes on the students' kidblog pages. 

They would love it if you visited and left them a comment.

Click on the image below for the ibook version of their recipe book which is accessible on an iPad in either book creator or ibooks.

Click on the image below for the PDF version.

Tech Tip:

When opening the digital book on your device you will get this message.

Choose either Open in iBooks or Book Creator. 

The Hour of Code

The goal for Hour of Code is for tens of millions of students to try an hour of coding during December 7-13, in celebration of Computer Science Education Week.  This opportunity gives every student a chance to learn computer science skills.  It helps teach problem-solving skills and creativity.  We are all very lucky to be part of this wonderful celebrations!

Below are the students working hard solving problems and creating computer games.

Preparing for SGT DelGuidice

Today we started our letters to SGT DelGuidice.  He will be visiting our class on Friday, December 18, 2015.  SGT DelGuidice is a former Masco graduate and is currently serving in the US Army.  He has written to my class for 3 years now and is very excited to meet this year's class.  Last year while he was in Kuwait, my class sent care packages to his squad and wrote letters to the soldiers.  They sent us pictures and wrote back to the class.  It was exciting for the students!  Having SGT DelGuidice visit will be a special treat.  We will have a special day planned for him.  Stay tuned!

Writing a letter to SGT DelGuidice.

Writing a letter to SGT DelGuidice.

Hard at work writing a letter.

Hard at work writing a letter.

SGT DelGuidice and his squad