Greetings!
This week is picking up steam as we continue barreling into the New Year!
Some things to be aware of:
Monday is a half day. Please remember to pick students up at 1:00 PM.
Wednesday: Planetarium FIELD TRIP! (6th Only) The schedule is below (it has not changed from the permission form). I will need a parent chaperone to go on this trip as Mr. C will be out of the classroom all week for surgery. If someone is available to do this, I would appreciate it.
- Arrive at Ogden Frontrunner at 7:10 a.m. Leave Ogden Frontrunner Station at 7:37 a.m. Arrive at Salt Lake Central at 8:36 a.m. Take the blue line Trax at 8:43 a.m. Arrive at Clark Planetarium at 8:47 a.m.
- Leave Clark Planetarium at 2:00 p.m. Take the blue line Trax at 2:12 p.m. Arrive at Salt Lake Central at 2:17 p.m. Get on the frontrunner at 2:25 p.m. Arrive at Ogden Frontrunner Station at 3:24 p.m.
- Please make arrangements to have your child picked up at the Frontrunner Station no later than 3:25 p.m. Please pick up your child at the Frontrunner Station before going to MMA to pick up your other children.
Friday: Invention Convention proposals due. (5th Only) This is an informal check in to make sure students are on track with completing their invention convention project, please have students write up their proposed project (a couple of sentences explaining the invention is fine.)
4th grade STEM project:
We will be starting a 4 week long exploration of energy and motion through designing and testing mousetrap cars! Please be aware that students will need supplies for this project, though all design and testing will be happening inside the classroom. We will be starting this week with a discussion of kinetic and potential energy and students will be making their design for their cars in class. Next week we will focus on the actual build of the car and then we will begin testing our designs and tweaking after break.
From the MMM:
Dear Families,
Please take a few moments to complete this anonymous Stakeholder Survey before it closes on December 14th. We need your feedback as change only comes when we know where we can improve.
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STARbase Info: (6th only)
Dear Sixth Grade Families,
Our sixth grade students have the unique opportunity to attend STARBASE on Hill Air Force Base. This is a wonderful STEM program offered to very few schools in Northern Utah. The permission slip has already been sent home and returned to school by each family, thank you. This is a five day field trip one day a week for five weeks. The dates for this wonderful experience are:
STARBASE:
Monday January 7, 2019
Tuesday January 15, 2019
Wednesday January 23, 2019
Wednesday January 30, 2019
Wednesday February 6, 2019
It is your responsibility as parents to get your child to and from STARBASE on each of the dates listed above. I encourage you to carpool with each other. I would like permission from each family to send out a list of the sixth grade parents e-mail addresses to each of you so you can coordinate rides. Please let me know as soon as possible if you do not want me to share your e-mail address with the other sixth grade families.
STARBASE in on Hill Air Force Base; we have a few plans to get your students on base. Other schools hire a bus to get them to and from STARBASE. A bus costs $500.00 a day so that is not an option for us.
Our first plan is to meet at The Aerospace Museum and STARBASE will send a Hill Air Force Base bus to come pick us up and transport us to and from STARBASE. The information for this plan is located here.
Roy Gate Base Bus One last thing, I can not press upon you enough not to be late dropping off or picking up. The use of the
base bus is a courtesy that has been extended to
STARBASE and we do not want to keep them waiting; especially if they have other routes.
The second plan if the Hill Air Force Base cannot come get up for some reason is to have parents transport their child onto base. In order for anyone to get onto base they need to provide some information. Please fill out this form with the appropriate information if you think there is any possibility you might drive to or from this field trip one of the days.
TRANSPORTATION FOR BASE ACCESS ’18 STARBASE needs this information by December 20th. Please get this information to me as soon as possible. Once this information is turned over to security forces we will not be able to add any drivers. If you think there is a small chance you may drive your child then please fill out this form. These are the instructions for getting to the South Gate.
South Gate Contingency Paln ’18If you have any questions please let me know.
Ms. Amy