Friday, October 10 is our Walkathon. All of the proceeds will be going to help with the cost of whiteboards for the classrooms. Students are allowed to wear their gym uniforms on Friday. We will start at 1:00pm and walk to Rahway Park, around the park and back. It is about a 3 mile walk. Please fill out the permission slip and bring it back as soon as possible. Thank you.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email me directly at [email protected]. Please do not email through the School Notes site. Thank you. 

October 6, 2014

I cannot believe that October is already here. The year seems to be flying by. On 10/2/14, Power School passwords were sent home with your students. The Language Arts subcategories are weighted as such: Grammar 45%, Writing 35%, and Spelling 20%. I will have Power School updated by each weekend.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, October 7 at 1:30pm we will celebrate the Living Rosary in the school parking lot.  Please join us if you are free. Students can also bring in their rosaries for this event. On Friday, October 10 we have the Walk-a-thon.  We will begin walking at approximately 1pm.  Dress code will be announced later this week.

October 15 and 16 are conferences.  No appointments will be made.  Parents are asked to come during the allotted time and wait in the hallway for the teacher(s) they would like to see. The times will be sent home in a letter at the end of the week. 

A lot of students are getting close to being 1/4 of the way done with the 40 Book Challenge. It is very exciting to see so many students engaged in reading. There are some incentives to the challenge that have been added within the past week.

• After reading 1 book, and completing an index card for the book, students will receive a FREE book coupon for Scholastic Book Club.
• After reading 10 books, students will receive another FREE book club coupon.
• If students complete the entire 40 Book Challenge, they will receive a special, surprise gift.

We will be beginning a new story this week as well. We will continue our studies of plot and character. We will also add in setting to our mix. In Grammar we will be reviewing subject and predicate. We will also begin learning more about verbs.

I look forward to a fantastic week with you all. 

-Ms. Stamer
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Congratulations to our class representatives: Julia Scafidi & Andrew Jotz. Congratulations, also, to our alternate rep Emily Destito. Thank you to everyone who ran for 5-21's representatives. I look forward to an amazing year with lots of fun events. Your first meeting is Monday, October 6, 2014. 

Reminders:

• Scholastic Book Club forms went out on 9/26/14. There were several forms, to give our students a wide variety of choices. These orders are due 10/17/14.
  
• October Scholastic Book Club Order forms went home on 9/26. If we order $100 worth of books, our students will all receive a free book, Spirit Animals: The First Greencloak, a Scholastic exclusive. Orders are due October 17, 2014. Every student who orders will also receive a FREE Minecraft bookmark.

**Our Class Activation Code for Scholastic Book Clubs is N2W8Z.