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Rockin’
Hawks
HAWKS!
5th Grade
Newsletter
October 2007
UPCOMING EVENTS
OCTOBER
I’ll trade you one cracker for...
Late Start
10
Picture Retakes
11
No School-Inservice
Red Ribbon Week
to get all the ingredients
they needed to make mini
pizza snacks.
Students were
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Site Council Meeting
22
Late Start
24
9 Week Celebration
26
Grade Cards
25
No School-Halloween
31
By Mrs. Charles
In history class,
students got a “taste” of
economics and geography
when regions traded their
goods with other regions.
The purpose in trading was
Fun Facts
• Did you know pumpkins are a
fruit? They were also once
recommended for removing
freckles and curing snake bites.
Find more pumpkin fun facts
at http://farmbureaukids.com/
leader/
pdfs/200210_pumpkin_funfacts
.pdf
divided
into the
breadbasket region
(crackers),
the fertile
valley region (pizza
sauce), the
dairy belt
region
(cheese), the cattle ranching
(pepperoni), and the timber/lumber paper region
(paper plates, cups, spoons,
napkins).
It was a lot of fun
to see the students negotiating and problem-solving
to get the right amounts of
each product traded so that
they could
have an
afternoon
snack!
Finish Those Math Sets!
• Check out this month’s brainteaser. The first person to
correctly answer it gets a
really cool prize. Last month,
there were no winners, so
come on and test your wit!
•The students in Mrs.
Smith's Math classes are working hard on their math standards and multiplication sets.
An important job they have
taken on
is filling
out practice
sheets for
their math
sets and
taking timed tests on their
letter. Everyone shares the
same goal of trying to get to
the last letter of the math sets,
which is "W", by December.
In December the students will
have an opportunity to spend
their "money" from their
checkbooks. Most students
have a sizable amount of
money at this time, but will
receive an additional $50 for
completing their math sets in
multiplication. They will also
receive a party from Mrs.
Smith and Mrs. Bangert if everyone can reach this goal.
Keep up
the hard
work!
Each month a new brain teaser or puzzle will be
shown here. If you are the first to correctly
report the answer to the teacher listed, you will
Hiawatha
receive an awesome prize! Put those thinking caps on!
Middle School
307 South Morrill
Hiawatha, KS 66434
Phone: 785.742.4172
Fax: 785.742.1744
Homework Hotline:
785.742.4172 after 4:30 p.m.
In the word Halloween, all of the
letters are equal to a prime number. If the "H" equals 7, the "L"
equals 5, and the "E" equals 11,
GO HAWKS!
what do the A, O, W and N equal to
Mrs. Charles: [email protected]
Mrs. McNally: [email protected]
Mrs. Smith: [email protected]
Mrs. Wischropp:
[email protected]
get a sum of 86? Hint: You are simply finding the missing prime numbers.
If you think you know the answer, see Mrs. Smith. The first student to correctly
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answer the question wins an awesome prize!
C-E-L-L-O
By Mrs. Wischropp
5th grade Science students
have just started learning about the
cells and it’s parts. To reinforce the
organelles and their specific jobs, we
put together a “cell” made of different
Twizzler strand: chromosome
Green grape: choloroplast
Cinnamon jelly bean:
mitochonrida
PLANT
CELL
Bubble wrap: vacuole
Some of the items were
only used on the plant
cell, so be sure to ask
your child which ones
those would be.
items. Below is a description of each
item and what organelle it represents.
Square container: cell wall
Plastic wrap: cell membrane
ANIMAL
CELL
We will be comparing animal and plant
cells, as well as discussing how the cell
works in the various body systems.
The cell test is coming up on October
16th. Be sure and study your organelles!
Yellow jello: cytoplasm
Plum: nucleus
Check out the color version online at http://www.hiawathaschools.org .