Lounging With Literature

We cozied up by the fire and shared some good books with our buddies today. It was a great way to end the semester! We hope you get time over the break to get lost in a book.

Kindergarten Writing Celebration

We joined our kindergarten buddies today to celebrate their writing! It was so much fun to hear their stories, celebrate their accomplishments, and talk with them about how to improve their writing for next time.  The cookies and chocolate milk were a yummy addition to our celebration!

Digital Citizenship

Today, we had a guest speaker to discuss what it means to be safe while using technology and the internet. Students were given a handbook today with the information that was presented. Social networking, video games, texting, are just a few of the topics that were covered. 

Makerspace - Ozobots and Spheros

The 5th grade had a great opportunity to practice various types of coding through the use of Ozobots and Spheros. It was a great connection to our hour of code from last week. 

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Spanish: Family tree in spanish.

PE: Basketball.

Math: Practicing algebra.

Social Studies: Story of Columbus.

Writing: Personal narrative.

NWEA: Math test!


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PE: Playing Basketball

Spanish: Starting family unit, and watching video about it.

Math: Adding 0's!

Social Studies: Leif Erikson's Facebook page.

Reading: Getting new notebooks! Passing around ideas for what to put in them.

Writing: Working on another personal narrative.


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Spanish: New tables!

PE: Race track.

Math: Doing algebra!

Social Studies: Learning about the vikings (mostly Leif Ericsson).

Class Meeting: Compliments for class.

Reading: IDR.


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A Thanksgiving Message

Happy Thanksgiving!!

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PE: Setting up assembly in gym so we played on black top.

Music: Eating candy for celebrating play!

Assembly: Chorus!

Social Studies: Doing social studies activities.

Reading: IDR.

Life Skills: Teamwork to try and get a gummy worm into a life raft, only using tooth picks!


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Spanish: Practicing for the test.

PE: Learning to juggle scarfs!

Math: Pre-test for algebra.

Social Studies: Comparing Indian artifacts, to European artifacts.

Reading: IDR.

Learning Buddies: Decorating heart and writing what you are thankful for.


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Music: 3-Hour Rehearsal For Play.

Brain Break: Giving Our Brains a Break and Stretching Out and Doing Excersises Since There
Was No PE.

Writing: Working On Personal Narrative.

Reading: Starting Non-Fiction Unit.



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PE: Monthly Courses.

Music: Play Practice.

Math: Math Test.

Social Studies: Civilizations.

Reading: IDR.

Other: Yesterday: Field Trip and Swarm of Bees Attack Students, Including me. That Leads me To Why I Had Left Early, and Didn't Have Time to do the Blog!

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Spanish: We Decorated Sugar Skulls we Made, Unfortunately, I wasn't Here to Blog it. :(

PE: Sit-ups & Push-ups, Shout-out to Timothy.

Math: Textbook Problems.

Social Studies: Info About Colonies.

Reading: IDR, and Fire Drill (for practice).

Reading Buddies: Helping kindergarteners.

Other: Substitute for Day: Dr. Davis.


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Bones 100 Word Challenge

It was the night before Halloween, and on that night, a boy was walking through the forest! He was walking calmly when a human-eating bat swooped down from its tree. As the boy heard the “SWOOSH!” he looked up, from shock he jumped and landed on his back. The bat kept going and ate the boy whole! The legend is still told today, about how shocked the boy was, and how the bat swallowed him whole. So if walking in the woods the night before Halloween, beware because the human-eating bat may eat you whole. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

Bones 100 Word Challenge

‘Hey Billy, look what I found.’  ‘What should we do with it Jeff?’  ‘Show it to a bone scientist.’  So they took it to a scientist and the man said kindly, ‘thank you for bringing this to me so now I can have something to study.’  After that, Billy and Jeff went back hiking and the scientist would study the bones.  While the scientist studied it he realized this was a skeleton from a few years ago.  He then figured out he was 6 feet, 2 inches and about 37 years old.  So far this is the only amount of information he has.

Bones 100 Word Challenge

His name was Ron, he was a normal 12 year old boy, he liked soccer, had an older brother named Gregg who was 15 and a younger sister named Margaret who was 9 .

                His family had just moved into a new house in the sunny suburbs of New York, the house was like any other house accept the strange skeleton by the creek, he and Gregg were the only people who knew about the skeleton. It was a secret they said if Margaret got really annoying like more annoying than usual,they would make up a story to scare her.

Bones 100 Word Challenge

One day there was a boy named supercalifragilistticexpialidcouis and he was lost. He never had parents. he was an orphan................ he ran off into the woods. and got stuck in quick sand and he was only 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 so as soon as he died his body just turned into a skeleton. and to this day I'm still looking at it. Then a bird hit and i fell into the quick sand.

Bones 100 Word Challenge

One dewy Autumn morning there was a boy named Autumn. They had a Mansion in which most doors were locked so his Dad locked himself up in one of those rooms . Luckily he had a butler who practically raised him .That butler,Kenneth had a son. Kenneth II loved to play with Autumn. One day they walked to the garden and they compared battle cards. when they  got up ,Autumn practically fainted but Kenneth had his back. what they saw was a skull  sticking out from their marigolds, a right hand sticking from the roses, and a left hand just barely grazing the grass.

Bones 100 Word Challenge

There was a man who liked to be in the woods. but one day he was walking to find some food. but he herd a noise [HELP] and the man ran to the noise when the man got to the noise it was quit. [ bark bark ] there was wolfs the man ran for his life. up and down side to side tried  loose the wolfs but he didn't lose the wolfs. he ran up a a hill he looked back at the wolfs he looked down and he jumped down and he got stuck and the wolfs ate him.

Bones 100 Word Challenge

I was lost in the woods running running as fast as i could until i came upon a skeleton.  I stopped for a second and then keep running then i came upon a similar skeleton again and again so I started running back.  "HELP" I called no answer just silence so I went back to the skeleton it was gone "Son!"I heard my mom call so I ran towards the voice. I saw my mom in the distance...

every day after that i went to that same forest wondering what i saw was it a crime scene or murder

Bones 100 Word Challenge

“Boo” screams my sister AHH i yell across the room she got me I trip over my cat. “MEOW”she hisses as I fall I keep going where am I going I look down all I see is darkness. ‘THUMP” I land.

I look to my left I see a skeleton dancing I think to myself “what?” And then I look to my right and i see a town that's having fun and get this  they were skeletons but when i try to go in I can't then I wake up and I guess I was in a dream.

Bones 100 Word Challenge

“Whoa!” Maddie shouted. “Abby, come check this out!”

I walked toward Maddie. “What?”

“Look!” Maddie pointed to an object about 5 feet away from her. I stepped closer.

“What is it?” I kneeled down to get a closer look.

“It’s a skeleton!” Maddie exclaimed. She took a stick and poked at it. The skeleton got up from where it was laying and stared straight at us.

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!” he boomed.

“Uh… w-w-we were just hiking a-a-along this trail…” I stuttered.

“NO! NONSENSE!” The skeleton lunged towards us and I blacked out.

Bones 100 Word Challenge

One day there was a little boy that was just walking thru a cemetery and tripped and as his face hit the cold hard ground, he got up and screamed          
and ran home to tell his mother that he tripped and nothing was around him except graves.     The next day he got right up and rode his bike to            
the cemetery to see what was going on and what  made him fall so he examined the graves and as he got to the last grave a arm wraped its slimy hand around his leg  and was stuck. What really happened?

Bones 100 Word Challenge

I was walking in the forest with my grandpa to explore. I was at his house for the weekend and I needed something to do.
"So are you going to have an adventure this weekend without me?" Grandpa asked.
"Well, maybe I will." I said. "I'll go look for one!"
I ran off to the hill and went around it. I didn't see anything at all. I went climbing up the hill and got the top. Nothing. I decided to go back down and get back to grandpa. But when I turned, I saw a pile of bones.

Bones 100 Word Challenge

I was walking in the forest one night and I heard a noise.  I didn't see anything so I started walking again.  I was looking around when I saw something glowing.  I walked toward it and it was... a skeleton! I screamed and ran away.  I ran home and I went to bed.  When I woke up that morning I saw the skeleton laying next to my bed and I screamed!  My parents ran up to my room and asked if I was ok.  I screamed "NO!" then they disappeared!  No one ever saw or spoke to them again!

Bones 100 Word Challenge

It was halloween night and I was walking through the forest looking for another house to go and trick or treat. Little did i know i was walking in the old dead woods. I kept walking thinking I was on the other side of town in the other woods. it was dark and I stumbled across something, I turned on my torch thinking it was just a tree branch  looked down and to my horror I saw a pile of bones. I ran out of the woods, and I never went back, but I could never ever forget the bones.

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PE: Race Track and Flexibility Test.

Spanish: Test About Day of The Dead.

Math: More Improper Fractions.

Social Studies: Making Boats and Testing Them Like The Native Americans.

Reading: Emotions.

Writing: 100 Word Challange.


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Spanish: Animated Short Film.

PE: Bowling (With Weird New Pins)!

Math: Multiplying Improper Fractions.

Social Studies: The First Americans Debate!

Reading: IDR.

Writing: Sheets to Help Writing.

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The Pringles Challenge Results are IN!!

Finally we were able to set up a time with Mr. Pitlyk's 5th grade class at Hudson Elementary School.  We did a google hangout so each class could see and hear each other.  Mr. Pitlyk's class opened our packages one by one so we could see which designs allowed a pringle to be sent through the mail without breaking.  We had some interesting results!  Before sending the packages, we recorded the mass of each.  It turned out that the lightest and the heaviest packages were unsuccessful but the packages that all had a mass near 300 grams successfully protected a pringle.  Our class had a great reflection as to why some designs protected the chip better than others and they will do some personal engineering reflecting tonight.  Then we took a turn and opened up the packages we received.  Out of their 8 packages, 6 out of 8 were successful.  It was a great challenge and some brainstorming is already taking place for a second challenge next semester!

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PE: Halloween Themed Obstacle Course.

Music: Halloween Songs Such as: Thriller, Little Shop of Horrors, Witch Doctor, etc.

Math: Learning How to Multiply and Divide Fractions.

Pringle Challenge: Finally. The Results! Well we Skype Called Another School, They had are Packages, We had theirs. We opened up the Packages, Some Were Broken, Some Weren't. We Had Lots of Fun!

Reading: Listened to songs and read the lyrics to work on comparing themes across different texts.  Book Groups, IDR, Read Aloud, etc.

Writing: Learning About Story Circles, And Using 'em to Revise are Stories.


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PE: Halloween Course.

Spanish: Substitute.

Math: Starting Chapter 4 (Multiplying Fractions).

Social Studies: How Did Native Americans Make it to America? (Reading Theories).

Reading: IDR.

Kindergarten Buddies: Teaching Kindergarteners About Bucket Fillers and Bucket Dippers.


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Spanish: Talking About Day of The Dead.

PE: Bowling (Starting Scores).

Math: Chapter 3 Test Review.

Social Studies: Continuing Who Discovered America

Reading: Reading Groups and IDR.

Writing: Practicing Dialogue.


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PE: Bowling.

Music: Play Practice.

Math: Chapter 4 Pre-Test.

Art: Finishing Self Portraits.

Reading: IDR.

Writing: More Dialogue! All The Dialogue!


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Spanish: Spanish Sheet Activity.

PE: Pacer.

Math: Chapter 3 Math Test.

Reading & Writing: Getting Things Done. Such As: Blog Post for Dot Day, Research, Mottos, etc.

Life Skills: The Sneetches.

Library: Spot Check Day.


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Car Wash

The 5th graders had a successful first fundraiser to raise money for their class gift!  They spent a Saturday morning washing cars and selling baked goods.   Cars were driving away with a clean sparkle and drivers were leaving Glenridge full from delicious brownies.