Fuller BRAIN ~ who knew the title of the blog would have even more meaning!

Crazy Days!
It has been nearly 4 weeks since I have been to work.  I am missing my students terribly, as well as the routine of teaching and hanging out with my friends during lunch and recess (I know I sound like one of the kiddos when I say it that way... :))
I had a large pituitary tumor removed just before Valentine's day, and have been on the mend.  Good news is that it is not cancerous and that I will recover. Bad news is that they had to shave most of my hair off (which is upsetting and makes me scared to go back to work) and go in through the top of my head near my forehead to get in, so it is taking longer to recover than we had originally thought. I have been super tired and have spent WAY too much time watching home renovation and cooking shows on TV.
I have some appointments with each of my doctors this week to see about getting back to real life.  I'm hoping to be deemed healthy and strong.  I am feeling stronger. Not quite back to where I was (I mean, there was a doctor poking around in my brain after all... :/ ), but for sure stronger. 
It is still kind of freaky to think about, so I try not to, lol. Good old denial.  
Anyhow, I have missed field trips, fractions, and our electricity unit.  I hope my kiddos have been working hard and learning loads of new things.  I know that they have missed me, and I have missed them.
Hopefully I will be back soon!
Mrs. Fuller

Off to a Super New Year!

Hello!

I am so SUPER excited for this new year to begin!  It has been a fun summer, although busy!  We are listing our home to sell as I type, so I may have some big changes before I know it!  I love teaching 5th grade at Westridge, and look forward to meeting a whole new group of kiddos.  Our theme for the year will be SUPERHERO's, so be thinking about things that make people extra wonderful.  Some of my first thoughts are about people who serve in the military. What can you think of?

We will have a fantastic year filled with loads of learning; reading, math, science, history, my fun stories, and much more. :) 5th grade is a time when most students work and learn harder than ever before.  There is so much to think deeply about and to discover.  I look forward to getting to know each of you and your families.

Mrs. Fuller :)

Hello,
     I am so excited about our state reports on Thursday, March 5th!  The students have put so much work into their research and have displayed so much creativity.  Please stop by if you get a chance between 12:30 (we will start setting up then) and 3:00.  Feel free to ask questions about their state and what the favorite things are that they have learned about.  We will have in-class presentations the following week.
     Another great thing in our classroom is the incubator full of duck eggs.  We have 20 eggs, and have seen the veins and hearts through the shells when we candle the eggs in the dark.  Please ask your child about this!  It is part of our unit on heredity and traits.  We will be having a drawing for ducklings right before Spring Break.  It will require a signed permission slip for a student to be able to put their name in.  We will send those after the ducks hatch. QUACK! QUACK!
     In math, we are just coming out of the decimal unit and heading into the fraction unit.  This is usually a challenging time of year in math for 5th graders.  In reading, the students have just started another round of book clubs with some amazing chapter books from our UVU reading study.  It is very helpful to have some great literature to share with the kiddos.
     Ask your student to share some of their assignments with you from their Google Drive account so you can see what they are doing!  I recommend their camouflage slide shows!  These kids keep amazing me!
Keep READING,
Mrs. Fuller