• Stay home if you are sick.  Fevers, diarrhea and vomiting are friends you should visit at home and not bring to school as special guests.  
• Continue good hand washing.  Before eating, after eating, after the bathroom, after blowing your nose/coughing into hands, after assisting a student who is ill and anytime your hands are visibly dirty.
• Hand sanitizers are NOT effective against most stomach viruses.  Soap, warm water and friction while washing hands is always best.
• Eat a healthy diet of real foods with fruits and vegetables and stay hydrated with non caffeinated fluids
• Wipe down surfaces that are frequently touched: doorknobs, door jams, pens or pencils, computer mice that have multiple users, pencil sharpeners, clipboards/books that are shared, etc.  Anything that is universally touched in your classroom should be wiped down frequently throughout the day.  

Spring Conferences are coming up in March - NOW is the time to sign up and reserve your time with your teacher.  Please click on the link below and choose a conference time with your child's teacher:

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During 5th grade science we have been learning about different types of rocks. This month we focused on the different ways to identify minerals. One way we found out is to rub a mineral on a tile, this mark on the tile is called a streak. Sometimes a minerals streak color tells us more about a mineral than the actual color of the mineral. We learned that we can also describe  minerals by their lust
er, a luster is the way the light reflects off a rock. Some rocks have a metallic luster and some have a nonmetallic luster. Ask a 5th grader of other ways they learned to identify minerals, and the different types of minerals we have been working with!