End of Year Assembly

We celebrated this year of leadership for the 5th graders at our end of year assembly. CLAYMO memories were shared from kindergarten through 4th grade students. Three 5th grade leaders reflected on how they have grown this year and lessons they will carry with them as they move on to Wydown. 

Finally, we honored those teachers and students who are moving on from Clayton. It was a really nice way to wrap up this school year as a community. 

 

 

 

 

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Morning Transition 8:30 - 8:50

8:50 Spanish: We went over homework.

9:20 PE: Our favorite game...            Gaga Ball!

9:50 Math: We started a new unit on volume!

11:50 Social Studies: Detective work on Boston Massacre.

Recess/Lunch 12:30 - 1:10

1:10 (Continued) Social Studies: Continuing detective work.

2:30 Library: Spot check day & Book Swap!

Ending Transition 3:20 - 3:30

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That's it for todays blog! I hope you have a Exotic evening!

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Morning Transition 8:30 - 8:50

PE: Pacer! (Running back and forth in a straight line).

Music: Practicing Song for promotion.

Math: End of Year Test! A test where we go over the things we did this past year.

Social Studies: We did skits for wealth points, personally, I think are colony was the best, (of course).

Recess/Lunch Transition 12:30 - 1:10

Assembly: Right after lunch, we transitioned into the gym to view a performance the high school jazz band gave!

Social Studies: Working on french and indian war conflicts!

End of day transition 3:20 - 3:30

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That's the end of todays blog! I hope you all have a Pleasant evening!

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Spanish: Playing mastermind! And also, we're gonna have a celbration next spanish! (Tomorrow).

PE: Flashback Friday! We played something we haven't played in forever! Air Raid! In this game you set down a bowling pin anywhere in the gym and we'd retrieve beanbags to knock others pins down! It was great!

Math: The first thing after specials was, of course, math. I was gone half the time to do something important, so, I'm pretty sure all we did was do more stuff with triangles.

Reading: Looking up stuff on the internet for our book, for example, me and our group researched greek mythology, about the gods of course. It really helped us because our book, (which you might be familiar with),  was Percy Jackson. Because it was mainly about greek gods!

Social Studies: Today in social studies, we researched a colony to research and share with the class, in the form of a skit, modo, jingle, etc.! After that we did a settling round! And almost the whole time, we had a sub! Shoutout to Ms. Ebling.

Field Trip: On this field trip we went to wydown and took a school tour! It was very interesting indeed.

Social Studies (again): When we got back, the first thing we did was, enter the building of course. Though the second thing we did was social studies. We had this for a short time but in that time we did trading!

Reading: Right after social studies, we did the planner and then IDR. After that we cleaned up and left!



That's gonna be the end of this blog! I hope you have a Spectacular weekend!

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PE: We played, the original, Gaga ball. One of the most favorite games of the 5th grade! Though, sadly, I was late, and I missed the whole thing. :(

Music: Singing a variety of songs.

Social Studies: Researching colonies a bit more, and doing sailing rounds!

Math: Practicing triangle work. That's all I can say. :P

Reading: Independent reading!

Writing: Memoir mixed with poem writing! Though, I didn't get to participate because I'm doing the blog. ;_;

That's it for the blog! I hope you have a LEGENDARY evening!

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STEM day field trip: So today is STEM day which stands for science, technology, engineering, and math. So to celebrate today, the whole firth grade of Meremac, Captin, and our school, Glenridge, went to Clayton high school to do various things at various stations. Things that basically had to do with, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. For example, one station, people showed us a huge robot that can shoot hoops with large grey balls. Another station, people let us build paper airplanes that we had to get through hoops in order to get candy. It was, in all, pretty fun! Boring for some but not for everyone! One of the most distrusting things we did was pick up a sheep heart and poke at it, of course, with gloves on. We had lunch outside on grass in the middle of the day. Finally it was time to leave at about 2:20 and we got on the bus and left.

Worlds Fair: As soon as we got back, our teacher, Mrs. Scotino, told us today was also Worlds Fair! Excited, we took our note cards and pencil down to various 3rd graders to give us info on their country to write down. It was so fun to see all of their work and how hard they worked on it. We also had a mini challenge of whoever got the most facts/info, would get candy. We get candy at the end of the day so I'm praying that I get some! 

Thank you for reading and letting me fill you in on what we did today! I hope you have a extraordinary weekend! Bye!

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PE: Sadly, last day of archery. :(

Music: Prep for music test

Math: Starting chapter 12 unit!

Art: Making 3D cake on paper!

Reading: Pairing up with reading groups for theorizing are book.

Library: Studying George Washington.

That's the end of our blog thanks for reading and have a great afternoon!

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Spanish: Memorizing countries of Central America.

PE: We played archery and prayed that we got a good bow to shoot with. We also marked our score again.

MAP Prep: We did a example test that was similar to the real test for practice.

Math: We took a pre-test on chapter 12, it was mostly about lines, line segments, angles. Basically a lot of different stuff. Afterwards we read silently till the next subject.

Social Studies: Finishing up our draft of our colony flag and typing meaning of it.

Reading: Pairing up with our book groups and theorizing on our book, after that we independently read.

Visitor: We had third graders come into are classroom and ask us questions about the upcoming MAP test.

Read Aloud: We read a book called 'Blood on The River' outside!

That's the end of this blog for today have a great afternoon!

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PE: We played archery and wrote down are scores! Bullseye!!

Music: We sung I am a small part of the world and memorized the beginning of the song!

Math: We took a chapter 11 math test about combinations and charts! 

Social Studies: Started colonies unit and designing are colony flags!

MAP Preparation: Our science teacher; Mr. Kearny, came in and practiced the words 'if' and 'then' which are the words we will add in are MAP test!

Reading: Pairing up in three groups to to read and write about a book called 'The Thief of Always'.

That is the end of the blog for today, I hope that you, the reader, have a great and grand evening!

Spring has Sprung!

To celebrate the changing of seasons, we spent some time with our kindergarten buddies looking for signs in nature that tell us Spring is here. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Author, Jody Feldman, Visits

Author of The Gollywhopper Games, Jody Feldman, visited Glenridge today to share her journey to becoming a writer. She shared a few tips for how to use the world around us to help collect story ideas. She shared her process for developing characters that anyone can use when imagining characters for their own story. We got to see a picture and hear stories about the amount of times she wrote and rewrote The Gollywhopper Games before it was officially published. We loved learning from this author and can't wait to try some new techniques in our own writing! 

 
 
 

Studying Author's Perspective Through Headlines

 

 
 

 

Understanding Concentration

The scientists of 5S created solutions with various amounts of solute and solvent to compare mass and explore the ideas of a concentrated solution and a diluted solution. They used kolaid solutions and a taste test to compare concentrations of solutions and they mixed salt solutions to compare how mass is different based on the concentration of solutions. 

 

 
 
 
 
 

MCTM Math Contest

The Glenridge math team has been working hard to prepare for today and they are ready to rock this MCTM Math Contest!!!

 

Mary Poppins Musical at Wydown

So much anticipation! The 5th grade was so excited to see the first performance of Mary Poppins! 

 

Solute, Solvent, and Solution

During science today, our investigation focused on answering the question: "how does dissolved solute affect mass and volume of a solvent?"

 

 
 

 
 

Creating and Separating Mixtures

We began our first investigation of our chemistry unit this week. Our focus was on how can we make a mixture and how can we separate the components of a mixture. We used the substances earth material, powder, and kosher salt to observe what happens when we add water to create a mixture. Then we developed strategies for separating the substances from the water. We had to use a screen to separate the earth material from the water. We used a coffee filter to separate the powder from the water. Finally, we set out the salt and water mixture to allow the water to evaporate over the weekend in order to separate the water from the salt.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Kicking Off Our Make a Change Project

Two of our 5th graders reminded us of one part of our CLAYMO promise - "we promise to take care of many others." We had a visitor from The Shoeman Water Project to re-emphasize the need in our world for clean water and shoes. Starting tomorrow we will kick-off our fundraiser. We thank our community in advance for all of the support you will provide!!