Rockhopper Weekly Reminders
June 11- June 15


Mark Your Calendars:
• Tuesday, June 12: Volunteer Appreciation Brunch 9:50 a.m.
• Wednesday, June 13: PSCO Meeting 6:30 p.m.
• Friday, June 15th: 4th grade cumulative math test
• Friday, June 15: Hawaiian Day - Spirit Day
• June 18 - June 22: 5th Grade Human Growth and Development
• Tuesday, June 19: “Move Up” Day
• Thursday, June 21: Band Concert 7:00 p.m.
• Friday, June 22: Field Day
• Tuesday, June 26th: Fifth Grade Recognition Ceremony 8:20am
• Tuesday, June 26th: Last day of school- Dismissal at 11:20!

5th Grade Families ONLY:

We are excited to invite you to our Fifth Grade Recognition Ceremony that will be held on Tuesday, June 26th, beginning PROMPTLY at 8:15am. In celebration of the big move to middle school, a potluck will immediately follow the ceremony. Please plan on bringing some kind of finger food to help keep things simple. We also will need help with set-up and clean-up, too. Thank you for helping us celebrate our 5th graders!


Volunteer Brunch TOMORROW, Tues., June 12:

Hooray for Portal volunteers! You give of yourselves, and you precious time, for the children at our school. Now, it's time we celebrate you and your efforts. The staff is specially going to be making homemade goodies for this event. Truly, it takes a village to raise a child. You are a very important part of that. Thanks as always for your willingness and enthusiasm to help at school!

When: Tuesday, June 12, 9:45 – 10:30am
Where: The courtyard behind the school office
Who should come: Anyone who has volunteered in any
way at school!


A Note from our Great Librarian- Books & DVDs are now PAST DUE!

All Portal library books were due back to by JUNE 8th, Friday. Please begin the search in your rooms, under your beds, behind your bookshelves, under your blankets, between your pillows, and anywhere else you think you may have left your library book, and bring it back to the library!

ALL library books and MATH DVDS must be returned by immediately. If your book is absolutely lost, please write a check to PORTAL SCHOOL in payment of a replacement for the amount that is due on your book. I've already sent out notices this past week to all students who still have books or DVDS checked out to help your student identify their errant books.

Thanks for helping us keep all Portal books safe and intact for the new school year!

Mrs. Lim

Curriculum Flash!

Language Arts:

We are currently finishing revisions of our writing projects from the year and working on our anthology covers to complete our language art experience. Now is a great time for some end-of-the-year blog submissions too from our classes- what a great way to reminisce about your time as a Rockhopper!

Math

4th grade: We will be exchanging our Game Factory games with each other and evaluating their fairness to all players- a great application of our content understanding. On Friday, we will take an End of the Year Test to assess how well we’ve retained the concepts learned this year. Any areas of our curriculum that our students are uncertain about should definitely be reexamined before our Friday test.

5th grade: In BIZ world this week, students are designing and manufacturing friendship bracelets. They will compare the benefits of raising money from the bank versus the venture capitalist. They will keep daily financial statements, pay rent and collect salaries. They will also discuss patents and consider the cost of registering their patent.

Science:

In Rooms 20 & 21, we finished up Investigation 4, Part 3: The Pressure is On today, and we’ll be involved in Investigation 5: Weather for the remainder of the week. We’ll also have a brief check of our Investigation 4 understanding on Wednesday- this will be a “response-style” page based on the work we did in class. The “response” will take no more than 10-15 minutes to complete, and it will be a rare “closed book” test of our understanding!

Social Studies:

I am so proud of the students from both classes for putting on quite a show last week at Open House! The Wax Museum was a huge success, and it made learning about the states so much fun! In class, we will focus our attention on our state posters (sandwich boards) that we didn’t have time to complete in time for Open House. Students are also typing up a bibliography to go along with their state research reports.

Mystery State Clues:

The country's first department store opened in this state in the late 1880s.
The world's largest natural-rock span is located in this state.
The 2002 Winter Olympic Games were held in this state.
Mormons were among the first settlers in this state and still make up a high percentage of the population.
This state is home to the Great Salt Lake, which covers 2,100 square miles.