We published our 4 square writing piece and are now working on a personal narrative.

Your child’s TWO best AR scores are due by May 16.

We would like to take this opportunity to encourage you to continue the reading of good books with your children during the summer months. Of course they will read the two books required by the fifth grade teachers. However, it would also benefit your child if he/she frequently went to the library and spent some quiet time each day reading for pleasure. The Kenton County Library offers a Summer Reading Program with many incentives that encourage children to read. Summer reading will help your child maintain the skills he/she had obtained in the 4^th grade and prepare him/her for 5^th grade.

May is certainly going to be a jam-packed month. Academically, we are concluding many important lessons in various subject areas. In Language Arts, students are working on a research paper. In Religion, we will be concluding the Ten Commandments unit. Math will bring geometry and more and more division and multiplication. In Social Studies, we are continuing our Kentucky History. In Science, we are working on the Energy unit.

Before the year-end rush, we want to encourage you to plan with your child to make summer extra special. Have fun and share wonderful times, but also set aside some time for schoolwork reviews.

Please ask your child if they need paper, pencils, black erasable pens, crayons, or a red pen to finish out the school year. Many children are borrowing supplies at this time.

This year, we again used a program to share books so that students could leave the majority of their books at home. We are looking for your feedback to see if this would be worth doing again next year. Let us know what you think by answering the questions below and returning this section to school with your child.

What did you like about the book share program?

What could be done to make the program better next year?

You can make your summer vacation count! Take steps to learn new things, to help others, and to grow in God’s love. Each time you accomplish one of these suggestions, plan a special celebration or reward!

1. Plant some seeds.
2. Help someone today.
3. Give someone a compliment.
4. Clean your room.
5. Recycling something.
6. Read a book.
7. Learn three new words. Use them in conversation.
8. Write a letter to a friend.
9. Find three homographic pairs (words with the same spelling, different pronunciation and meaning).
10. Identify birds you see on a walk.
11. Learn a proverb.
12. Find three homophones (words with the same sound, different spelling and meaning).
13. Visit the library.
14. Draw your family tree.
15. Plan a week’s menu.
16. Learn some words in a foreign language.
17. Read to a younger child.
18. Make a map of your neighborhood.
19. Design a new kind of chair.
20. Identify five kinds of trees.
21. Look up the origin of your name.
22. Make the Fourth of July a patriotic celebration.
23. Write a poem about our country.
24. Dramatize a favorite Bible story.