1. Miss LaLonde’s BOTB!
An important packet of information
is coming home TODAY! Our battle
is on March 30 and will take place all
day in the gym. Feel free to attend
the battle and if you’d like to help
out, let me know by your signature.

Writing
Fifth Grade Mews We are currently working on a poetry
unit. Students have been busy writing
March 25, 2011, absolutely wonderful poetry! We will be
celebrating with our….
Greetings Crossroads Families! Poetry Café
Friday, April 1, 2011- 10:30am
Please Sign Here and Return: Please join all 5th graders as we
celebrate our poetry unit with a poetry
read aloud café style: complete with
______________________________ punch and cookies. All are welcome to
attend. Please let me know if you would
So March comes in like a lion and out like to volunteer some bake goods: yum!
like lion, too? Hope you enjoyed your All poems are written by the students
time with your students during our and do not have to be memorized unless
snow days! by choice. 
March Character Trait: Super Science!
Mercy All I can say is: WOW o WOW o WOW!
Habit of Mind: Fabulous job on your science fair
Listening with Understanding and projects boys and girls! Thank you for
Empathy all who attended our Science Fair Night!
It was nice to see you!
Awards Assembly!
Will be held Wednesday, March 30 at Social Studies
2:30pm. Hope to see you there!  We took our test over the 13 colonies
this week and we are starting a project
Reading on the 13 colonies. We will begin
I attended an excellent seminar on learning about the American Revolution
Monday, the 21st, about literature after we finish our current literature
circles and the importance of shared, circles, we will take a break and study
guided, and independent reading in the the Revolution.
classroom. Independent reading is
when students chose a book and read Comfy Reading Day:
silently to themselves. If you were to The afternoon of Friday, April 1 will be a
walk into the classroom in the morning, comfy reading day IF:
you would see us currently doing Students have all their work completed
shared reading with Shel Silverstein and turned in!
poems and we all read the poem Students may bring pillows, stuffed
together and discuss vocabulary, animals, and blankets to read with! 
fluency, etc. Guided reading occurs in
a small group setting with the teacher Kleenex:
giving a mini reading lesson. What a cold/flu season we’ve had…and
it continues! If you could please spare a
See other side for more IMPORTANT box of Kleenex/Puffs, etc. for the
information 

2. classroom, we would appreciate it, and
so would our noses! Thank you!
Important Dates
Wednesday March 30: Awards
Assembly at 2:30pm
Thursday, March 31:
Battle of the Books: All Day
Friday, April 1:
Poetry Café: 10:30am
Comfy Reading Day: Afternoon
April 4-8: SPRING BREAK!
April 15: PTO Treat Day
April: 22: No School: Good Friday
April 28: Awards Assembly
Questions to Ask Your Child:
Are you ready for BOTB? Are all your
books read? Do you know the authors
for extra points?
What is your favorite poem you written
so far? What was it about?
What is the poem you’ve been reading
for shared reading this week? Can you
remember your favorite word from it?
Are you keeping up with your literature
circle journal? What makes a good
“connector?”