Book Taco

Good Evening Parents!   Today we launched our Book Taco (https://booktaco.com) accounts as we kick off our Battle Books Celebration! We have A LOT of different websites we will use this year and I am working on a list to share with you to show you how to login to each account. For now, I have Book Read More…

Math Test/ Science Test Update 9/17

Hello Parents, I am moving the math test date from 9/18 to 9/19. We will review tomorrow and then test on Thursday. If you are wanting to have your student practice please refer back to pearsonrealize.com and sign in using the students r2.d2 as the username and the s. number as their password. We will be testing over Topic Read More…

Behavior Chart/ 3R

Dear Parents,   As we head into the 5th week, it is time to start thinking about the 3 R’s club. If you are unaware of the 3’s club, this is a school-wide program that celebrates student’s practicing the 3 R’s, Responsibility, Respect, and Ready to Learn, through the school day. To best provide you Read More…

ELA- Week 5 News and updates

Good Evening Parents! Thank you to all the attended our first curriculum night this past Thursday. For those that were not able to attend or if you just need a refresher, here are some highlights of the night: · Battle of the Books has begun! We are encouraging students to read independently here at school Read More…

Curriculum Night Sep 4

Hello Athenian Families! Tomorrow night is curriculum night. Curriculum night at Athenian runs in two sessions, one starts at 5:30 and another at 6:00. To better accommodate our parents, Ms. Bowman and I will run four 15 minute sessions to better explain our curriculum and classroom activities (5:30, 5:45,6:00,6:15). If your child has Ms. Bowman Read More…

ELA Update Sep 3rd

Good Evening Parents! I hope you all had a wonderful long weekend! School will return tomorrow at 8 am. Please remind students that they are to report to the cafeteria FIRST. They will be dismissed at 8 am from there to come up to class. The tardy bell is at 8:15. Students need to be Read More…

8/21 update

Good afternoon parents, Today for math we worked with representing decimals to thousandths as fractions and fractions with denominators of 1,000 as decimals. This was a somewhat difficult concept to some students. Email me for the answer key! I do encourage parents to help with homework if at all possible! This is a great time Read More…

Smolen’s ELA Welcome Letter

Welcome once again to all of our families to 5th grade ELA! It was a pleasure to meet all of you and your amazing students yesterday at open house! If you were unable to attend, my door is always open so feel free to set up a time to come in and say hi J Please make sure Read More…