Summer is Here!

LAST...LAST CHANCE FOR YEARBOOKS!

Our extra supply of yearbooks sold out in a record 10 minutes this morning. Due to popular demand, we will be ordering some more.  If you would like a yearbook-you must buy ONLINE tonight (Monday, May 21, 2018).  The link WILL ONLY BE OPEN UNTIL TOMORROW MORNING  and we will not be able to add to the order after that.  The books will need to be picked up at the end of next week at the front office.

Please use this link: http://www.teasleytigers.com/yearbook

Perfect Attendance

4th Nine Weeks
The following students came to school everyday, on time.  Due to this spectacular show of commitment to school, they will be allowed to dress down tomorrow, Friday, May 17, 2018.  Congratulations to these seven students!

• Mekhi
• Daniel
• Morgan
• Christian
• Taylor
• Anyah
• Annalise

Whole Year

In addition to this, the following students have had perfect attendance for the WHOLE YEAR!  I am so incredible proud of these two for coming to school everyday!  Congrats to Anyah and Annalise!  They will have the opportunity to take part in a fun activity tomorrow as well!

5th Grade Events Update

Fifth grade families,

As our school year comes to a close, we wanted to send a quick reminder of the remaining events for the school year.

Thursday, May 16^th – 5^th Grade Day

Students will participate in a variety of fun activities throughout the day to commemorate the last few days of 5^th grade. Lunch will be provided to all. Students should wear a Teasley spirit shirt or standard attire shirt and school appropriate bottoms. **The activities are scheduled to take place outdoors weather permitting. Your child may bring a change of clothes to change at the end of the day if necessary.**

Monday, May 21^st 5th Grade Luncheon

Students will be treated to Chick-Fil-A during their normal lunch period. Due to limited space, parents are not invited to attend.  Because this is a potential retest day for the GA Milestone Assessment, there will be no visitors in the school until after 12:00.  

Tuesday, May 22^nd 5th Grade Promotion Ceremony (8:15AM in the Teasley Cafe)

All 5^th grade students will be recognized at this special ceremony. Students should dress to impress. Dresses, dress pants, blazers, suits, and ties are encouraged. NO JEANS PLEASE! Parents are invited to attend a brief reception in the café immediately following the ceremony. Teachers will have sign out sheets at the reception. You are welcome to sign your child out for the remainder of the day following the promotion ceremony. Please remember, Tuesday is an early release day.  In addition, it is a voting day and Teasley is a polling precinct. For this reason, all activities will be limited to the cafeteria.  

Wednesday, May 23^rd 5th Grade Walk (12:05 PM through the halls of Teasley)

Students will make their final walk through Teasley as we send them on to middle school. The walk will begin at 12:05 and dismissal will begin promptly at 12:20. Students are encouraged to wear their class shirt and standard attire bottoms. If you are taking your child with you following the walk, please sign your child out with your teacher.  Thank you! 

Thank you for a wonderful year! We look forward to seeing you as we close out the school year next week.

Report Card Envelope

Dear Teasley Families:

It’s that time of year again!!  

In order to ensure you receive your child’s report card and other important information please send an 8 ½ x 11, self- addressed envelope with four (4) stamps attached by May 18.

If your child has outstanding balances for ASP, the media center, or the cafeteria, their report card will be held until the balances are paid by May 18th.

(click below for flyer)

Rescheduled 5th Grade Downerball Tournament

Due to thunderstorms and rainfall which is predicted for Wednesday, May 16th, we will be having our Downerball Tournament Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 15th. 

Please remind your child to:

• wear sunscreen
• wear a hat (optional)
• wear their field day t-shirt
• wear comfortable, school appropriate shorts
• wear sneakers for running (no flip flops or sandals)
• bring $2-$5 for Kona Ice (10:00-11:00)

Additionally, for tomorrow, students will either buy a cafeteria lunch or will need to bring their own.  The teachers are not providing lunch tomorrow.

5th Grade Fun Day Note: The event will still take place on Thursday, May 17, but activities may change slightly due to thunderstorms and rain.  Please be on the lookout for additional information tomorrow or Wednesday.

Upcoming Fifth Grade Events and Information

Upcoming Fifth Grade Events

Friday, May 11th

Field Day

• Field Day Volunteering 
• Parents will not be allowed to walk around with classes this year.  However, if you are able to volunteer, you will be positioned at a station on Field Day to assist students and teachers.  If you'd like to volunteer for the Secondary Field Day Friday May 11th, please sign up on this link. http://signup.com/go/WGbgWAe

• Field Day Attire
• Students will be getting wet, so they need to dress appropriately.
• Field Day T-shirts (they are aqua-teal blue, and were distributed last week)
• Athletic shorts
• Close toed sneakers that can get wet.
• Put sunscreen on BEFORE arriving to school. They will not be able to apply it during field day.
• What to Bring on Field Day
• Water bottle with their NAME ON IT
• Towel for the end of the day
• Extra close toed shoes in case they want to change out of their wet ones (I can not promise that they will not all have time to change their clothes at the end of their day)
• Small bag to stay in the classroom with extra shoes/clothing, backpack not needed.

Wednesday, May 16th

5th Grade Kickball Tournament and Kona Ice

Students will play in a grade level kickball tournament.  The Kona Ice Truck will be her selling snow cones.  Please bring $2-$5 to buy Kona Ice.

Kona IceSizes and Prices

$2 Kiddie

$3 Klassic

$4 King

$5 Color Changing Souvenir Cup

Thursday, May 17th 

5th Grade Day

Students will participate in a day of fun-filled events and will be treated to a cookout lunch.

Monday, May 21st

5th Grade luncheon sponsored by PTA

Tuesday, May 22nd

5th Grade Promotion Ceremony (8:15AM in the Teasley Cafe)

Wednesday, May 23rd

5th Grade walk (12:00PM)

Students will make their final walk through Teasley as we send them on to middle school

Career Essay and Map Skills Webquest

Map Skills Webquest
http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=258906

Career Essay Resources
https://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip

GACollege411 (N/A)
www.gacollege411.org 
This is the primary source of information to complete the career research

Top 10 Careers Needed for the Future (1430L)
http://www.ehow.com/list_5481635_10-needed-jobs-future.html#page=0 
A current list of “hot” careers

25 Rewarding Careers (1100L)
http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-25-best-jobs 
This list from US News may surprise students. US News has selected careers with good growth potential, worker satisfaction, and social status. Each career is linked to a brief overview that will help students begin their research. If you use this resource, print copies of the articles about specific careers, but do not include the blog responses from readers.

The Best Job for You U.S. News & World Report (3/19/2007)—Nemko, Marty http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/070311/19intro.htm
This article introduces a section which describes career choice as the Internet becomes ubiquitous, and Americans seek richer, simpler lives. Among the careers that this section discusses are librarians, still needed in the digital age, website developers, management consultants and bi-lingual translators. Optometry is mentioned as it offers a career in medicine with a fairly predictable work schedule.

Georgia Department of Labor
www.dol.state.ga.us/ 
this website provides students with specific Georgia labor market information

Friday 5-4-18

Have students wear their grey  long sleeve once a tiger, always a tiger shirts to school friday for our 5th grade class picture.

Market Day

Market Day Documents Link.  complete ALL the directions on each page.  Be ready for our market day on Tuesday, May 15th!

Market Day Document

Fun Night and Jazz Research for Music

Permission slips for the fun night this Friday are due no later then Thursday 4/26/18. Permission slips turned in on Friday will NOT be accepted. Remember, 3 suspensions means no participation for your child.  Please email me any questions you might have.  

Thank you!

**Also, the timing is 6 pm till 10 pm sharp.  We truly appreciate you being on time and not being late.

Hello Parent’s,

5^th Grade students will be presenting their jazz research through a display of legendary jazz artist in the TJC (Teasley Jazz Café) this upcoming rotation.  The whole school and parents are invited to come by and see and hear 5^th grade presentations.  It’s sure to be a cool time.

Requirements for participation are easy.

-Students should present themselves as the artist in a very creative manner.

-Students can bring in instruments or make paper instruments.

-Students should pull something out of their closet such as a hat, glasses, long pants, fancy dress, hair accessories to create the look of the artist. Please don’t buy anything from the store unless you want to.  Students who come to school in standard school attire will not be allowed to present.

-Students need to memorize their script.

-Students only present on their assigned day.  See below.

Thursday Oliver/Haire

Friday NO ONE (I will not be at school)

Monday Kraftschik

Tuesday Thompson

Wednesday Braswell

Thursday Ogburn

Monday May 7^th Hillsman

HILLSMAN PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU KIDS KNOW NOT TO DRESS UP UNTIL MAY 7^TH.

Thanks

Testing Information

For testing please keep all cell phones and smart watches at home or on off inside your child's backpack.

We hope that all of our families had a great Spring Break!!  We look forward to seeing our students on Monday!!  A reminder that the GA Milestone Assessment begins for our 3rd, 4th and 5th graders on Tuesday, April 10th.  Because we will have multiple testing sessions going in the building and will be testing the majority of the day, we ask that we not have visitors for lunch on Tuesday through Thursday, April 10 - 12 as well as Monday & Tuesday, April 16th & 17th.  Our lunch and specials schedule is different on those days and we will have testing going on all around the building.  For that reason, we ask that we not have visitors on those days. Thank you for your understanding!!



For our state testing, I want to make sure that all students receive the opportunity to have a healthy breakfast.  For this reason, I would love for some parents to help donate a few items.  Each day I will have a fun note for the kids related to the snacks.   I will provide breakfast for the students on Tuesday April 10.  We have 21 students, so we will need enough for each child to receive a snack each day.  As always, I truly appreciate all of your help in making this year, the best one yet; 5th grade rocks!

Please sign up by clicking on the link below.

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094ca9ae22a0f94-testing

In addition to this, if you have completed the daily notes for your child (found inside the testing information envelope I sent home the Friday before break) please be sure to send them in to school tomorrow so that I can pass them out to your child when they get to school each day.

Thank you again for everything that you do!

Milestone Review Websites

Reading
Brain Pop Study and Reading Skills
Into the Book

• Quoting
• paraphrsing
• Summarizing
• Inferencing
• Comparing and Contrasting
• Point of View
• Authors Purpose
• Story Elements (character, setting, plot, theme, conflict)
• Text Structure (description, sequencing, compare and contrast, problem and solution, cause and effect)
• Context Clues
• Main Idea and Supporting Details
• Guide Words - Dictionary Skills

Math
BrainPOP Math
LearnZillion 5th grade Math
StudyJams Math

Writing
BrainPOP Grammar
BrainPOP Writing

• Narrative
• Informational
• Persuasive

Science
StudyJams Science
BrainPOP Science
Georgia Performance Standards Activities

• Earth and Changes Over Time - Constructive and Destructive Forces
• Classification - Dichotomous Key
• Cells and Microorganisms - Plants, Animals, Bacteria
• Electricity and Magnetism
• Physical and Chemical Changes

Social Studies
BrainPOP Social Studies
Georgia Performance Standards Lessons, Activities, and Videos

• Turn of the Century
• WWI and Post WWI
• Great Depression and the New Deal
• WWII
• Cold War
• Key People, Events and Developments between 1950-1975
• Important Developments in America from 1975 to 2001

Review Packet

Milestones start the Tuesday after spring break.  Per my remind text yesterday, if you would like a spring break review packet for your child, and have not already let me know via remind text, or email, please let me know by 7:00 AM Friday, March 30.

I hope you all have a wonderful, relaxing break!

Perfect Attendance for the 3rd Nine Weeks!!!

For the third nine weeks the following students had perfect attendance!  These students (who are listed below) will be allowed to dress down on Thursday, March 21, 2018.  Congratulations for having perfect attendance!

• Madisyn
• Christian
• Shane
• Noah
• Anyah
• Reginald
• Annalise

Teasley Talent Show

The Teasley Talent Show is Friday, March 23, 2018 at 6:30pm at the Cumberland Community Church (3110 Sports Ave. Smyrna, GA 30080)

Come see our incredibly talented Teasley Tigers (including Ms. Kraftschik in the staff act) perform in the annual talent show!

Admission

• Reserved seating available in advance only for $5 per person (adults and students)
• General seating (paid at door) is only $3 for adults and $1 for students.

Reserved seating orders due Tuesday, March 20, 2018 without exception.

Click here for the order form

Field Day Shirts and Picture Day

Field Day T-Shirt Order Form
Here is the order form for Field Day T-Shirt.  These went home on Friday, but many students forgot to pick up their copy.  Our shirts this year will be tropical blue which is a nice dark teal color.  The shirts are $8.00 each.  The orders are due this Thursday, March 8, and WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED LATE.  If you are having a hard time finding funds for the shirt please let me know.  We are trying to get a shirt for every child this year.

Picture Day
Picture day is this Friday, March 9.  Students do not need to wear standard attire but are encouraged to dress nice since this is our class picture day.  If you would like to purchase pictures, please have your child bring their packet with money on Friday.  It is the child's responsibility to hand the money and form to the photographer during our picture time.  Our picture time will be at 10:58 which is before lunch and specials.

Learning Targets
Math-Volume
Reading-main idea and supporting details
Writing-persuasive writing
Social Studies-World War II
Science-Animal Adaptations

**We have begun reviewing for the milestones as well.  Please continue to practice with your child at home, and teach them testing taking strategies.  The one area all students need to focus on is writing to a text.  (Here are some samples to pull from - They say fourth grade but would work for 5th as well)

Read Across America Day

I hope you are having a great week. Friday is Read Across America Day. In celebration of this day, the 5^th grade teachers are dressing up as characters from the beloved children’s book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We would like to invite our students to participate in the fun. All 5^th graders are invited to dress up as the most memorable characters from the book, the Oompa Loompas. There are many DIY ideas for this costume on Pinterest and Google. There are also wigs and green hairspray on sale for cheap at Target in the dollar spot and at Party City due to the approaching St. Patrick’s Day holiday. I will purchase some white tape that we can use to make the suspenders for the shirts if your child would like to bring in a brown shirt to prepare for the costume on Thursday or Friday.

If your child would like to dress up as a different book character, that is perfectly fine. Please be sure to send in the book associated with the costume.

Let me know if you have any questions! As always, thank you for your support. I will get a group picture to share with all of you on Friday. 

Upcoming Dates

Tuesday, February 27^th

·       LOS BRAVOS NIGHT….5:00 – 8:00 p.m. 

  

Thursday, March 1

·       STEM Night – 5:00 – 7:00 in the café - If you would like to volunteer to help at he 5th grade station, please email me to let me know.

Friday, March 2^nd

·       All Pro Dads – 7:00 AM in the café

Have a great break!!!!

Georgia Student Health Survey 2.0

Georgia Student Health Survey 2.0 – ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (grades 3-5)

http://gshs.gadoe.org/elementary

Valentines Day

Wednesday 2/14/2018 is Valentines Day!!! This year, students will decorate paper bags in class for morning work on Monday and Tuesday. Students may also choose to bring in a pre decorated box on Wednesday morning if they so choose.  Passing out Valentines is optional, but if you choose to, you must provide a valentine for each student in the class.  We have 20 students and a class list will go home on Monday.

Olympics Celebration

Community Resources

Parents are you looking for community resources in the area?  Check out our Counselors’ Blog for a few community resources!

http://www.cobblearning.net/oliver/

Learning Targets

Learning Targets for next week
Math - Multiplying a whole number by a fraction (includes word problems)
Reading - Main Idea
Writing - Informational Writing
Social Studies - The Great Depression
Science - Circuits (Science Monday Labs)

**Please check the links for each subject for additional study materials for each subject.

Homework
Starting on Monday, January 5, 2018 Homework will be as follows:

Math - 50 problems on prodigy per week + 10 review problems to prepare for the milestones
Reading - Read a good fit book for 30 minutes per night
Writing - ELA Review problems for milestones (amount to vary each night) + Spelling city(tests on Wednesday)
Social Studies and Science - Study for upcoming tests as needed

We are changing homework to help students prepare for the milestones and middle school. We will go over homework at the beginning of each subject during the school day so that students can see what their strengths and weaknesses are.

DRESS DOWN DAY FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!!

Good Afternoon Teasley Families! We will be having a DRESS DOWN DAY this Friday, Feb 2nd to benefit Black History Month activities. For $1, Student may wear their favorite school appropriate outfit!

Flu and Heath Update

Teasley Families - we want to make sure you are aware of the information provided by School Health Services that may help stop the spread of the flu. Please take time to visit this webpage for the tips and information they have provided. If a child has a lowgrade fever or they are not feeling well, we ask you to please keep them at home.  Those who have the flu (with or without fever) are highly contagious. Please know that we are all working hard at Teasley to disinfect classrooms and sanitize door knobs, hallway and stair railings and other public surfaces.  We hope you all stay well during this flu season!! 

On a side note, our class has been going strong (no absences due to illness in a week or so) and I hope to keep it that way.  If your child does end up getting the Flu and you get this confirmed with a doctor, please let me know so that I can take further action to disinfect my classroom.

Thank you!