Flight Four Forum 12

Tuesday Express Newsletter #12
November 27, 2012
Flight Four Forum
5th & 6th Grade Families,
A very special congratulation to Seth
Brinton for reading over a million words
and achieving Honor’s Reader, to Alexis
Beller for reading two million words, and
to Katya Schwieterman for becoming the
third 5th grade million-word reader. We
also need to congratulate Larrea Horner,
Urijah Kolb, Katya Schwieterman, Kai
Sorenson, Aspen Lopez, Austyn Norris,
Dagan Schwartz, Marly McLeland, Isacc
Ungaro, Lyla Hayutin-Baril, and Alexis
Beller for achieving their second quarter
goals. We already have twelve students
on the AR wall. Students on track to
achieve their AR goals should have 63%
of their points by this Friday.
We have plenty of other good news
to share. The following four 5th graders
were nominated for the National Young
Scholars Program: Katya Schwieterman,
Alexis Beller, Logan Green, and Carly
Horn. The first two Flight Four
recipients of the Exceptional Eagle
Award were Harley Ewert (respect) and
Logan Green (achievement). Finally,
Jade Ellenberger won the Delta County
Soil Conservation 6th grade poster
contest and Jaquelin Mora’s design was
selected as the new PES logo for Eagle
gear. Congratulations to all!
The 6th grade Math Counts competetion is December 7th at the Delta Center.
Teams will be announced next week.
Noetic Learning Math Contest
awardees will be recognized this week.
The PES Christmas Concert will be
Thursday, December 13th.
The end of second quarter, the day of our
holiday parties, and the start of Christmas
break is Friday, December 21st.
The 6th grade Denver Museum of Nature &
Science Camp-in will be February 1-2. Forms
and reservation $10 are due back Thursday.
Here are the highlights of what we “plan”
to do over the next week:
Reading & Vocabulary:
- Vocabulary test Thursday
- 5th read aloud: Hoot
- 6th read aloud: The Outsiders
- Book Club books: Banner in the Sky,
Coraline, Tuck Everlasting, The Great
Ghost Rescue, &, The Lion, the Witch,
and the Wardrobe
- Independent reading & testing (AR)
Writing - Diagramming test Wednesday
- Grammar (DOL) test Friday
- 5th: Persuasive Writing
- 6th: Narrative Writing
Math - Math pretest today, test tomorrow
Social Studies - 5th: Nonfiction text & media
- 6th: People of the Americas
Science - 5th: Earth’s History and Resources
- 6th: Astronomy
Check the school website for past copies of
this letter: http://pes.deltaschools.com/.
We encourage you to contact us at any
time. Mr. Bushta also wants students to call
him at home (anytime before 10PM) for math
help.
Mrs. Pizey Mrs. Stewart Mr. Bushta
527-4657
527-3639
527-5370
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