YOU HAVE ARRIVED!!!!!!!!

You are now the senior students in

Central Blvd. School!

WE ARE A TEAM!

Being a fifth grader means that you will have to work harder than in fourth grade. You will have extra responsibilities, because you are older and can do things that younger students cannot do. Also, you will have more fun activities too because this is your last year in our school. It will be your job to set a good example for the little kids in C.B.S.

THERE IS GOOD NEWS!!!

THERE IS NO LONGER A NEW YORK STATE SOCIAL STUDIES TEST IN FIFTH OR EIGHTH GRADE

However there will still be a NYS ELA TEST and a NYS MATH Test. (By the way, English is the only subject that is ever capilalized, because it is a language. This is an exception as it is used here. It is the title if a test.) On the good side the fifth grade NYS tests are much shorter than the fourth grade NYS tests.

Fifth graders participate in a program called Athletes Helping Athletes. Mrs. Tierney and Mrs. Glassman will be taking over Dr. Farkas' program where you will have an opportunity to help a teacher in a lower grade during the second part of lunchtime. You will be the only students that get to pick their seats when you eat lunch. It is too early to know yet, exactly which trips you will be going on this year. However, you will probably go to the Cradle of Aviation, roller-skating, and on a very special trip at the end of the year. My class usually works on a math, English, economics, and science project which ends in our going to Burger King.

HOWEVER, THERE ARE TWO HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS WHICH MUST BE COMPLETED, IF A STUDENT IS TO GO ON THIS TRIP. IF EITHER ASSIGNMENT IS NOT ENTIRELY COMPLETED, THE STUDENT INVOLVED WILL NOT ATTEND.

If you have any reservations about this, please speak to me now.Doing some other assignment will not be acceptable. Of course, it is a requirement that we all come back wearing our crowns, because it will now be clear that the members of our class have now become the "Royal" members of the CBS school community.

Our class will have a Trucker Buddy and we will participate in the Newsday in Education Program.

If everybody works hard in class, you will have the opportunity to stay after school sometimes to play games both inside and outside. Only those who do their work will be invited.

Since we will be a team we will have to work well together and show caring for all the members on our team. You do not get to vote on this, since I am the captain of our team. To be a good team everyone must listen well to the captain. We will work hard together, play together, and laugh a lot together. There are five senses, but the sixth sense is of great importance. The sixth sense is HUMOR!!

LET THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR

BEGIN!