Good afternoon parents,

      Here are the plans for this week.  I will be sending the vocabulary PowerPoint later this evening along with some extra credit practice.  This week's words focus on the suffixes -er, -est, -ed, and -ing and the students will be tested next Monday and Tuesday.
      I also wanted to make you aware of several upcoming events.  First of all, the Fall Festival is Thursday evening from 6 until 9 pm.  Our team is sponsoring the cake walk.  Mrs. Shultz has been kind enough to set that up for us.  She has begun contacting parents with information and seeking volunteers.  We have signed up to do the Cake Walk.  For this event, we are asking for volunteers to run the booth in 30 minute increments.  Any time you can help us out would be greatly appreciated.  We are asking that parents send in a baked good donation to serve as the prize.  The baked good must be store bought.  It can be cakes, cookies, donuts, coffee cakes, and any other sweet treat you would like to donate.  This is one of the only fundraisers that the PTA will be doing this year so we need your help to make it a success.
      I also wanted to remind you that there is no school on Friday due to planning day.  This week also marks the beginning of the second nine weeks.  Tomorrow is our first celebration for meeting the reading goal for the first nine weeks.  For a student to have met goal, they were required to have turned in their monthly book log for September with at least 450 pages read.  Some had also turned in a monthly book log for August as well which helped to boost their total number of books read.  5th graders are expected to read 450 pages per month (the equivalent of 3 books) in order to meet the goal.  Most students met their goal but there were a few that did not.  I spoke with those students and discussed what they must do to meet the goal for next nine weeks.  The October book log will be due next week on November 1.  I will send it later this week.  Congratulations and thank you to those students that met their goal!  Keep on reading!
      I also wanted to let you know that I have programmed activities on Destination Success.

 https://success.duvalschools.org/lms

I will be programming several more activities in the next few weeks based on student benhcmark scores.  I will be giving the students until the end of March to complete all of the activities (which will indicate Ms. Snyder after them).  Those students that complete ALL activities will be allowed to particpate in an "Popcorn and Movie Social."  Again, this is only for the students that complete ALL activities that are programmed by me.  Their username is their network log on.  I will be printing stickers in the next few days and placing them in their agendas.
     Thank you again for all you do and feel free to contact me with any questions.