Secret Santa's / Christmas - Ice Skating Party

The kids chose Secret Santa's this week.  Ask your student who they have!  Remember all three small gifts should not be more than 5$ in all. 

The Christmas Ice Skating Party will be Dec.  22nd.  Please check out this  Volunteer Spot Sign-Up for donating items / setup and clean up for our Hot Dog Lunch that day.

All parents are invited to attend our ice skating party @ Griff’s Ice House West.  Our ice time is 12:45—1:35pm.  You can watch or skate.  Just bring a few bucks for skate rental or your own.

Also, check out our Wetland eBook.

Scholastic Book Orders:

Class Code:  RH78M

Order online:  https://clubs.scholastic.com/5th-grade-2/

Make sure to like our Facebook Page to see all the highlights!

https://www.facebook.com/mrbraymer/

Wetland eBook, Christmas - Ice Skating Party

Our wetland ebook is complete for Braymer’s class.  We are still finishing up a few sections from the other classes.  You can view the final copies at this link.   Wetland eBooks 

The Christmas Ice Skating Party will be Dec.  22nd.  We are going to do a secret Santa gift exchange and a hot dog lunch.  Gifts should be under 5 dollars.   We will pull names out of a hat next week.

All parents are invited to attend our ice skating party @ Griff’s Ice House West.  Our ice time is 12:45—1:35pm.  You can watch or skate.  Just bring a few bucks for skate rental or your own skates.  There will be a note coming in a week or two as the celebration gets closer.  Also, we will send a Volunteer Spot Sign-Up for donating items for our Hot Dog Lunch that day.

Scholastic Book Orders:

Class Code:  RH78M

Order online:  https://clubs.scholastic.com/5th-grade-2/

Make sure to like our Facebook Page to see all the highlights!

 https://www.facebook.com/mrbraymer/

“Wonder Movie” / Quincy Bowl / Thanksgiving

Thank you everyone for your support in our private showing of the movie “Wonder.”  It’s such a great story and it will be another fond memory for us as fifth graders seeing it all together on the day it comes out! 

The Quincy Bowl is this coming Tuesday at 2pm.  This year I talked Cal DeKuiper into playing on the teacher team.  Should be a blast and yet another great memory of fifth grade for the kids. 

Enjoy your Thanksgiving Break everyone, I hope you find some peace and solace during the busy holiday season, and as always, GO LIONS on Thanksgiving Day!

BTW, my plans changed so I will be here and going to “Wonder” tomorrow!  I’m super excited!

Scholastic Book Orders:

Class Code:  RH78M

Order online:  https://clubs.scholastic.com/5th-grade-2/

Make sure to like our Facebook Page to see all the highlights!

 https://www.facebook.com/mrbraymer/

Conferences / Book Fair / “Wonder Movie”

It has been great meeting with everyone for conferences this week!  I love sharing stories and talking about the kids academics and personalities.  This is a great group, and I am looking forward to the rest of the year!

Book Fair will be this week.  Our buying day is Thursday Nov. 16th. 

WONDER / Friday:  We are going to see our own private showing of the movie “Wonder!”  We have been reading the book in class and the kids love it!  If you would like to attend the movie with us please  review the information in the email.  You will need to contact Mrs. Greshaw to let her know you’ll be attending. 

mgreshaw@zps.org

Scholastic Book Orders:

Class Code:  RH78M

Order online:  https://clubs.scholastic.com/5th-grade-2/

Make sure to like our Facebook Page to see all the highlights!

 https://www.facebook.com/mrbraymer/

Bike Trip / Art Project / Picture Day

Sturgeon Presentation by Past Students

Water Testing

Flipgrid Video Book Reviews

What a great bike trip it was today!  The weather was beautiful and the ride was fantastic.  Thank you again to all of the parents for your help making it such a great fifth grade memory!

I hope you had a chance to view some the Flipgrid book review videos.  Some of them are quite funny!

Here’s a note from the Art Teacher:

The kids will be doing a school wide art project where they will need 1 plastic clear water, Gatorade, or any bottle  that’s plastic with the label peeled off.  They are hoping to start next week.

Next week we will be back in the wetlands.  Weather looks beautiful all week. 

Scholastic Book Orders:

Class Code:  RH78M

Order online:  https://clubs.scholastic.com/5th-grade-2/

Michigan Maritime Museum / Bike Trip

We had a great time Thursday visiting the Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven!  The kids all had fun sailing on the Friends Good Will and the Lindy Lou!  It was a hot one, but we persevered and made some memories!

Next Friday we have the traditional fifth grade bike trip!  REMINDER:  We will be meeting at the Macatawa Natural Area at 9am and picking up at 2pm.  The notes came home at the Parent Meeting, I will also attach them to the email if you misplaced them. 

Email with questions if you have any.

Scholastic Book Orders!  CLASS CODE

RH78M

Please order books online if you’d like, and use the above code so we can gain points and get FREE BOOKS!  Ask your student about the book they are reading in class each day.  

Wetlands / Scholastic Book Orders /Bike Trip

I can’t believe week two is already in the books!  We had a great time exploring the wetland and examining all of our Quincy friends that live in our wetland area.

We have the Michigan Maritime Museum Tall Ship sail coming up this week Thursday.  REMINDER: There is a late pickup at school at 6pm.  Please have a note for us if anyone but you is picking your child up and bringing them home.

If you missed the Parent Meeting remind your student to bring home the notes and take a look.  Email with questions if you have any.

Scholastic Book Orders!  CLASS CODE

RH78M

Please order books online if you’d like, and use the above code so we can gain points and get FREE BOOKS!  Ask your student about the book they are reading in class each day.  

Quincy Wetland Ebook

Quincy Wetland Resource Guide

iBook Creator has evolved to the point where we can now share this project out from last year.  Mrs. Johnson and I worked together with the fifth graders from last year to put together this wetland guide from our school wetland ponds.  We have some other ideas on the burner now that we can push this tool out to kids.  Exciting times!

Hemlock Crossings Sturgeon Presentation

Students working on the presentation

Videoing tasks of Sturgeon Care

Right before the presentation!

They looked so professional!

We presented our Sturgeon in the Classroom Project at Hemlock Crossings Nature Center last week!   56 people were in attendance to hear all about how we raise our lake sturgeon, care for its environment, and release it into the wild.  The students did an amazing job!  We will be releasing our classroom fish "River" this coming weekend in Onaway MI.  This marks the fourth consecutive year of our program and "River" will be the fifth lake sturgeon that we have raised here at Quincy Elementary.