Field Day Cancelled :(

Today Field Day was cancelled because of the weather. Come up with a solution for what we could do next year if this happens again.

Father's Day

This Sunday is Father's Day. Tell me about your family's plans. My family is going to have a BBQ if the weather is nice.

Summer Break

Tell me what you looking forward to the most over Summer Break. I personally am looking forward to sleeping in and going on a vacation to Florida. Please write me at least three complete sentences.

Colonial Boston Presentations

On Tuesday some of our parents came to our class, other teachers came, and the third graders came to visit as we presented our Colonial Boston Smart Board projects. Tell me what you liked about the presentations and what you would change for next time. Also tell me what your favorite part about this project was.

Marley & Me

Right now we are reading Marley and Me which is a hilarious book about a man's family and thier dog. Tell me what your favorite parts have been so far, and tell me if your family has had any crazy pet stories.

Tacoma Rainiers

Yesterday we were given a very fun opportunity to go to a Tacoma Rainiers game. Tell me about your favorite part of the field trip, and something you would've changed about the trip.

Colonial Businesses

Tell me what your family business is for our Colonial Boston Unit. Then please search for two interesting facts about that type of business in Colonial times.

Scholastic News

Tell me three interesting pieces of information that you have read about in this weeks addition of Scholastic News. If you have not read it yet, then please tell me that as well.

Coming Home

We read a book on Monday called Coming Home based on the childhood of famous poet and author Langston Hughes. Search the eChalk library, and other sources to learn three new facts about Langston Hughes and the amazing life he lived.

Seahawks!!!

As we all know...Marcus Trufant, Blitz, The Sea Gals, Blue Thunder and the Dairy Council Cow came to our school on Monday for an assembly. Tell me what your favorite parts of the assembly were.

Colonial Boston

Today we are going to start making the setting for our Social Studies unit: Colonial Boston. Search for images of colonail Boston, and then write me three descriptions of what Boston looked like in the colonial period.

Orphan Trains

During reading time this week, we have focused on a book called Train to Somewhere. It tells the story of a girl who travels on an orphan train to the Mid West to find a family to adopt her. Your job is to find out more information about the real Orphan Trains from the mid 1850's to the late 1920's. After you search for information, tell me three new things you learned about them.

Do Amazing Things!

Now that we are on our last week of Do Amazing Things, tell me what this program has taught you. What has changed the most in your daily schedule due to this program?

Earth Day!

Yesterday was Earth Day. Tell me three things you could do around your own house that would help the environment.

WASL PREP

Tell me some important things that you can do to prepare yourself for WASL testing. Also tell me something you learned from Mrs. Hurt this morning.

Spring Break!!!

Tell me what you did over your Spring Break! This needs to be at least three sentences.

Spring Break!

Hi class! If any of you are visisting this site during your Spring Break, feel free to post what you are up to. Hope you all are having a wonderful break!

Mrs. Martin

Ideal Job

Today you are going to be asked to brainstorm what your ideal job is, and convince someone why they should hire you. What would your ideal job be, and what are three reasons why you should get that job. Be Creative!

Do Amazing Things!

We have been monitoring our healthy eating and exercise over the past two weeks with a fun program called Do Amazing Things. Tell me two things you've learned throughout this program so far, and tell me why it is important to eat healthy and exercise.

Thinking Blocks

If you went to Thinkingblocks.com last night, tell me about your experience. If you did not do this for homework, go to Thinkblocks.com and do a few problems.

Book Clubs

What is your book club book? How has your book club group been going? What is your favorite part of book clubs?

Science Fair

What is your project for the Science Fair? What have you done so far? What else do you have to do before the Science Fair?

Willy Wonka Jr.

Our school loves performing! This year our drama department is going to perform Willy Wonka Jr. Next week on Tuesday, we get to watch the play at school, and then you can come at night to watch it with your parents if you would like. Many of you have seen the movie, and we have read most of the book together as a class. What part are you looking forward to seeing in the play?

BizTown!

Yesterday we started our first lesson on BizTown. We watched a DVD that introduced us to all the things we would be experiencing with these BizTown lessons. Tell me two things about BizTown that you are excited for.

Finally!!! We're back on track!

Alright class we're back on the tech track! Let's go explore!

Persuasive Writing

Today we will be continuing our lessons on persuasive writing and how we can write a powerful persuasive essay. The topic that we will begin with is whether or not you should have to do homework at night. I would like you to tell me three reasons why you should continue to have homework at night, or three reasons why you think you should not have homework at night.

Barack Obama

On Tuesday we all watched our new president, Barack Obama, being sworn into office. In class we watched his Inaugural speech. Tell me one thing that he said in his speech that relates to your life, or that made an impact on you.

*If you would like to watch the speech again, you can find it by going to CNN.com

Persuasive Writing

We are about to start a new writing unit called persuasive writing. Tell me what the word persuasion means to you, and where you see persuasion in your everyday life.

Lake Chargoggaggoggmanchoggagogg

On your math homework a few nights ago, it talked about the place with the longest name in America. Many of you questioned whether it was real or not, so your task is to search the internet to find more information about Lake Chargoggaggoggmanchoggagogg and report back to the blog important information you found. Good Luck!

Classroom Rules

We just made new classroom rules. Tell me what you think the most important rule is and why.

Rules:

#1. Treat others the way you want to be treated

#2. Be honest and trustworthy

#3. Ask permission to go out of the classroom or to use others supplies

#4. Use your time wisely

#5. Raise you hand if you want to speak

#6. Other: turn cell phones off and don't be distracting when the teacher is teaching

#7. If you see someone breaking the rules, tell the teacher or tell that student to stop

Winter Break

We just got back from a long snowy winter break. Write a few sentences telling me what you did over your winter break.

*Remember to check for proper spelling and capitalization before you post.

Winter Poems

We have been working hard on our winter poem unit.

Please pick a poem and tell me what type of poem it is,

then write the poem.

Example:

Name Poem

Hot chocolate with marshmallows

Outside the weather is cold

Lights sparkle from the houses

Icy streets glimmer

Decorating sugar cookies

All family members gather together

Yearly these events occur

Explorers

In social studies, we are studying explorers. Please tell me the name of your explorer, where he was from, and where he traveled. Please also include what he was looking for, and if he found it.

Holiday/ Winter Words

We are starting a new writing unit today: Poetry. While writing poetry, it is so important that you use amazing word choice! Please post ten words that remind you of the wintery holiday season. Try to get creative and stretch your mind with some new words that we do not have on our winter word wall yet.

Novemeber/December Reading Goals

Please tell me what your reading goal is for November/December and how close you are to acheiving that goal. Please also tell me the books you've read for your goal this month and whether or not you have taken AR tests, or filled out book report forms for those books.

MAGYK

Our read aloud book, Magyk, is getting very good! Tell me one or two of your favorite parts so far.

Sticky Situation

In your Scholastic News magazine, there is an article called "Sticky Situation". It says: Bryce gets in trouble and has to stay after school. He needs a ride home but doesn't want to call his mom because he's afraid she'll be angry with him. A man offers Bryce a ride. Bryce thinks he seems kind, but his mom has told him to never accept rides from strangers.

I would like you to write a few sentences giving Bryce advice for what to do.

Deborah Wiles

We had an amazing author come and visit us yesterday, and her name was Deborah Wiles. Please share one or two fun or interesting things that you learned yesterday while she was speaking.

Seed Stories- Personal Narratives

In writing, our focus has been to zoom in on small stories in our lives and write them with loads of descriptive words and sensory details. Please share one of your seed stories below.

World War II

As we were reading the book "Baseball Saved Us" yesterday. A few of us had questions about why Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. If you would like, you could search this information from our virtual library on the school districts website. Let us know what you find.

Jackie Robinson & Walt Whitman

In our read aloud book the main characters love to play baseball! One of their idols is Jackie Robinson. Another person that they mention quite a bit is Walt Whitman. I would like you to go to the virtual library and navigate to the big chalk library and find two facts on each of these historical figures.

You will need to find two facts about Jackie Robinson, and two facts about Walt Whitman.

Good Luck Navigators!

Art with Mrs. Petersen

This past Tuesday we had our first Art lesson with Mrs. Petersen. Write about your favorite part of that art lesson, and one fact you learned about Manet the French Impressionist painter.

Virtual Library Resources

This week in library Mrs. Vosper introduced our class to online resources that are provided to us. I would like you to go on an online scavenger hunt. Mrs. Martin showed you how to open a separate tab when you have the internet page open. Your job is to open a new tab and navigate to the virtual library. From the virtual library, I would like you to go to the brown research page. Once you are at the brown page, find the link to the Big Chalk Library. From there you may search any topic of choice. Once you have read a bit about that topic, I would like you to report back to me about three new facts you learned while researching that topic.

Here is Our Class!!!

Yay! We have survived another summer and are back to school for our 5th grade year! Here is a picture of our class. We are so excited to get started with this fun blog!