5th Grade Checklist

Today we will be sending home with your student, a checklist of things that will be coming up these last few weeks of school. For 5th graders, there are a lot of events and items that your student will be looking forward to or need of importance. Look in your child's bookbag or trapper for this yellow note or you can download it by clicking the link below.

5th Grade Checklist

Freedom Dollars

For the past two months, our reading group has been collecting the Freedom Dollars from the local newspaper, Salina Journal. The dollars are in part of a story through the paper about the Underground Railroad and who can collect the most dollars through their own "network". Today was the day we turned all of ours in. We turned in a whopping total of 22,693 Freedom Dollars. Mrs. Karlin's brother-in-law (who has been recovering from surgery) spent his recovery time cutting out and collecting for our class. Through his friends at the recycling center, he was able to get several papers to cut from. He brought our class 11,508 from his cutting. Mr. Boyer's OSCAR class is indebted to Mr. who became a member of our Freedom Dollar network and hopefully helped us gather enough to win. To show our gratitude, we gave him a brand new pair of gold plated scissors (since his are probably dull after all that cutting)

If our class gets the most collected, we will earn ourselves a $200 certificate from Scholastic and an ice cream party from Dairy Queen, as well as our picture in the Salina Journal. Good luck to our class and a huge thank you to Mrs. Karlin's brother-in-law for helping us out.

WISH US LUCK!!

No School Reminder!

Just a reminder to everyone that there will be no school on Friday, Mar 7, because of a teacher inservice/workday. I know you all will miss our classroom dearly and be really disappointed about having a three day weekend. Well, enjoy your time off. Maybe if you're lucky, we will have some nice weather for a change. See you all Monday!!!

Silkworm Excitement!

Mr. Boyer's OSCAR class has just become the proud parents of 46 little baby silkworms. We are raising silkworms to go along with a book that we are reading called Project Mulberry. You can see a day by day (well almost) account of what is going on from our Wiki site.

http://misterboyer.pbwiki.com/Silkworm+Project

Congratulations to a Heusner Teacher

Heusner has routinely been noted about all of it's wonderful teachers on staff. So, when a teacher gets publically recognized, it makes us all beam with pride. Mr. Boyer's 5th grade class would like to hand out their congratulations to 4th grade teacher, Mr. Michel. He was awarded the Kansas Horizon Teaching Award, which is given to only a select few 1st year teachers in the state.

If you want to read more about Mr. Michel and the Horizon Award, click here: http://www.salina.com/rdnews/story/3408-teacher-gets-award

Congratulations Mr. Michel, Heusner is honored and proud to have a teacher like you in our building.