Dear parents,
The 6th (and 8th) grade science fair is this Wednesday. Please make sure that your child has their completed poster board installed in the gym no later than 8.40 am. Please do not bring any live animals or plants into the gym. If you have chosen an engineering project then either bring photographs, or if it is small enough the actual apparatus. If you have taken videos, or still shots of the experiment and wish to show them at the fair, then the student is responsible to bring in their own device. There will not be room to charge the device, so make sure it is charged before the fair. Make sure your video is only a couple of minutes long, as judges have a maximum of 10 minutes to spend at each project.
Parents are welcome to come and view the fair after 3 o’clock and we will be ending the open session at 4.30. Please encourage your student to leave their science fair board until the next day, when they can collect it first thing in the morning. Please do not come in to view the fair during the day (from 8.45-3 pm).
The following week on Tuesday February 27th is the school-wide spelling bee competition. Three students will be selected from each class to participate in the competition. Lower el is from 9-10 am and upper el and Junior High from 11-12. There are some very keen students in the class at the moment who are studying hard!
Maturation this year is scheduled for Tuesday March 6th and you will be receiving the permission slips for this event shortly. Maturation applies only to 5th graders.
Our next class field trip is scheduled for Wednesday March 28th to the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City. The 5th grade field trip to JA Biztown is scheduled for Wednesday March 14th and usually requires two or sometimes three 5th grade parent volunteers. For the field trip to the museum of Fine Arts we will be asking for parent drivers/chaperones again. More information nearer the time regarding the Fine Arts Museum, but if you wanted to put your name forward for the Biztown trip (held at the Discovery Gateway Museum in Salt lake), please email me ASAP. It’s a great event for the 5th graders and they get a lot out of it!
Thanks everybody! Hope you’re having a great Presidents’ Day weekend!
John