Happy Halloween!!!

You guys were all so great today that you are rewarded with NO HOMEWORK!!!

Go have fun tonight, be safe, but most importantly, get some sleep!

I hope you have a spooktacular time!

Congrats!

Great job in the film festival!  Hopefully we can post the Mock-U-Mentaries soon!

Spelling Words Oct. 27

Pret-Test:

1. fascinate
2. science
3. scenic
4. reminiscent
5. descend
6. doubt
7. subtle
8. debt
9. guilty
10. league
11. guardian
12. disguise
13. guidance
14. vague
15. fatigue
16. intrigue
17. autumn
18. column
19. condemn
20. solemn

Words to add to you’re my List:

1. indebtedness
2. susceptible
3. discipline
4. misguided
5. monologue
6. rhyme
7. rhythm
8. crescent
9. adolescent
10. conscious
11. foreign
12. cologne
13. raspberry
14. asthma
15. vehicle
16. rhinoceros
17. rhinestone
18. fluorescent
19. reign
20. afghan
21. psychology
22. psychiatrist
23. pneumonia
24. heirloom
25. shepherd

Student Created Math Study Guide

Here are all the questions your groups came up with today for the test tomorrow!

1.  7.37 x 0.05

2.  49.0 x 2.8

3.  5.32 x 2.03

4.  5.38 x 9.2

5.  5.75 x 0.85

6.  24.17 x 35

7.  8.68 x 4.5

8.  2.768 x 3.6

9.  If the product of 521 and 2 is 1042, what is the product of 5.21 and 2?

10.  Fred made 163 videos on youtube.  If each video is 7.42 minutes, how many minutes long will all his videos be together?

11.  Ben buys 7 candy bars for $0.85 each.  He has a $20 dollar bill that he pays with.  How much change will he get?

12.  Katey bought 10 books at the library.  Each book costs $2.55.  How much is the total cost?

13.  There were 24 crosses that each cost $1.55.  If Anthony, Lemar, and Isabella each bought 3 crosses, how much did they spend?

14.  Kyle hiked 0.4 miles to work (includes both to and from work).  If he hikes that distance for two weeks, and doens't work on weekends, how far will he have hiked?

15.  Bob went to the store and bought 12 cupcakes for $3.68 each.  How much money did he spend?

16.  Steve ran 3 laps on a race.  He ran 39.8 minutes per lap.  How many minutes did Steve run altogether?

17.  Chloe bought 7 volleyballs.  Each one was $3.75.  How much did she spend altogether?

18.  Nixie bought 13 cakes.  She spent $4.01 for each one.  How much did she spend altogether?

19.  Natalie bought 11 pizzas.  Each pizza cost $5.95.  How much did she spend altogether?

Now get to studying!!!

Science Questions!

Which was the healthier choice the orange or the orange drink? Why?

Look at the nutritional values for the orange and orange drink. Write down the differences in the amount of:

Dietary fiber

Sugar

Protein

What are the health benefits of eating and orange over drinking orange drink?

Remember to pay close attention to the commercials and advertisements on television this evening. Make mental notes and observations about the following:

WHAT is so appealing about certain junk food commercials?

What is catching your consumer attention?

Why would you want to buy and eat a certain product?

\Be ready to discuss.

Vocabulary Words Oct. 25

Vocabulary Words this week can have multiple meanings, please use the following tips

1. spare- a spare tool
2. persuade
3. spirit
4. shrill
5. deliberately
6. pressure- under a lot of pressure on stage to perform
7. pestering
8. juggle
9. serve- to serve someone else
10. spike- to spike the ball in the game

Hope that helps!

October 21

We were in charge of Mass today and sang, We Gather Together, Taste & see, and our best hymn Go Make a Difference. Then we went to reading and corrected/worked on our response literature. Then came Science where we looked at our skin/spit. After was Social Studies where we continued editing. After was read aloud & then math which we went in our groups.

Special Thanks to:

______________

Anthony

Nico

Breanne

HomeWork:

_________

Rough Draft due Monday for Response to Literature

Mock-U-Mentary Mania

Spelling Words Oct. 20

Today we didn't have time for a pre-test, so students are allowed to choose from this list any 20 or more words.

1. their
2. there
3. they're
4. wring
5. ring
6. chili
7. chilly
8. scent
9. sent
10. cent
11. oversees
12. overseas
13. patients
14. patience
15. cereal
16. serial
17. course
18. coarse
19. counsel
20. council
21. herd
22. heard
23. capital
24. capitol
25. principle
26. principal
27. straight
28. strait
29. compliment
30. complement
31. stationery
32. stationary
33. idle
34. idol
35. hostel
36. hostile
37. sheer
38. shear

October 20

Today October 20, 2011 we went to Religion in which we talked about the readings for tomorrow. Then we went to music class and did marches and composed songs there. After we went back to class and worked on our body paragraph's. Then came snack and recess, and after we finished filming our Mock-U-Mentary. Again came lunch and lunch recess and then we has read aloud. Soon we got into our math groups (Cheetah's Bear's Lion's & Tiger's) then after we had our Vocab test we didn't have time for a spelling pre test. After I started typing this

Today's Homework:

______________

Reading: Outline for response to literature due Monday, Body Paragraph's due Friday

Spelling: My List (Look at the post above mine)

Math: WB Pg 73-74

Handwriting: All Pages due tomorrow

Current Event Paragraph Questions

This week the focus is less on the paragraph structure and more on the response that is written.

Please choose one or more of the following questions to respond to:

1.  Why do you think that there were so many more people at the Rosary Rally during 1961, then there were in 2011?
2.  Is the Rosary special and important to the Catholic faith, why or why not?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/10/16/BAA01LI6TL.DTL

Vocabulary Words Oct. 17

1. expedition
2. colony
3. conquistador
4. missionary
5. indentured servant
6. fact
7. opinion
8. conqueror
9. explorer
10. native

Students need to make a three column chart for homework tonight:

WORD-DEFINITION-PICTURE

Halloween Celebration 5th grade style!

On Monday, October 31st, students are given the option to wear Halloween costumes to school.  We will be going on a Halloween parade at 1:10pm.

If the room parents would like to plan a party they are more than welcome to plan it, otherwise I will plan a different activity.

Please let me know if there are parents that would like to plan the party.

Thanks!

October Birthdays

The month of October is coming to a close and it is almost time to celebrate our birthdays!  We will be celebrating all the birthdays on Friday October 28th at noon.

If you would like to bring in a treat, please let me know ahead of time what you would like to bring and make sure to purchase a birthday book down in the office.  You may purchase the book anytime before the celebration.  I just got some more birthday books over the weekend, and I know they will be on display soon!

Can't wait to celebrate!

Halloween Carnival!

Hello all you fabulous ghouls and goblins,

An evite was sent out to the parents and families of the fifth graders to help with the cake walk booth at the Carnival this Saturday, please respond to the evite as soon as possible so that times can be arranged!

Thanks for all your support and making Halloween special and spooky for all out Broncos!

Spelling Review Words

Remember that this week you need to make a My List with 40 words on it.  However, these are all review words so it should be something you can manage!

1. traveled
2. traveling
3. received
4. receiving
5. panicked
6. panicking
7. qualified
8. qualifying
9. controlled
10. controlling
11. researched
12. researching
13. argued
14. arguing
15. mimicked
16. mimicking
17. horrified
18. horrifying
19. committed
20. committing
21. mathematics
22. really
23. audience
24. usually
25. diamond
26. favorite
27. memory
28. restaurant
29. recognize
30. disgusted
31. secretary
32. miniature
33. tournament
34. vacuum
35. Delaware
36. gratitude
37. elementary
38. juvenile
39. victim
40. category
41. believe
42. weirdest
43. beige
44. thirtieth
45. fierce
46. briefcase
47. sleigh
48. lieutenant
49. unbelievable
50. decaffeinated
51. dietary
52. mischief
53. heighten
54. vein
55. quotient
56. priest
57. friend
58. hierarchy
59. impatient
60. foreign
61. concierge
62. science
63. hygiene
64. either
65. wieldy
66. yield
67. receipt
68. thieve
69. eighteen
70. obedient

Good Luck!

Bake-sale for Maria's Awesome Ride

Fifth grade has been selected to bring in CUPCAKES!  Students will be asked to bring in the cupcakes on Monday (17th) - Thursday(20th) of next week.

#1-8 Monday Oct. 17th
Lara
Joshua
Chloe
Lemar
Olivia D.
Skyler
Kevin
Olivia E.

#9-16 Tuesday Oct. 18th
Matthew
Kenny
Ryan
Seth
Jesse
Anthony
Isabella M.
Blake

#17-24 Wednesday Oct. 19th
Jonathan
Ava
Samantha
Nixie
Nico
Gaven
Reuben
Marlyn

#18-33 Thursday Oct. 20th
Breanne
Melissa
Natalie
Zoe
Shivaya
John
Isabella V.
Jackie
D'Andre

Thank you in advance for all your help and support!

Compliment Cube Celebration!!!

Congratulation fifth grade on all your hard work earning compliment cubes!  You are awesome!!!

We have chosen to celebrate with a literacy celebration on Friday afternoon.  Students are allowed to bring in any form of appropriate literacy- comic strips, magazines, newspapers, children's picture books, etc.

Students may also bring in one cozy item to use while reading- pillow, blanket, stuffed animal, etc.  ONLY ONE ITEM THOUGH!!!

Let's work hard to fill up the jar again!!!

October 6, 2011

Today we went to music and sang a song the first words are "Four white horses on the river." Then we had time to to finish our grammar. Some people already started it. Then we had recess. Some boys like to jump rope. Then we had to go to science. When we were in science we had a substitute teacher. Then we had a social studies test. I think it was simple. Then we had lunch and went went to recess. Then we read Mrs. Frisby and the crow. Then we had a quick math test and then we had our vocabulary test. Then we had a head start on our homework. Then two students did a flash mob in the middle of the classroom. It was really funny!

Spelling Words Oct. 6

Words from the Pre-Test:

1. answered
2. answering
3. delayed
4. delaying
5. remembered
6. remembering
7. satisfying
8. satisfied
9. omitted
10. omitting
11. occurred
12. occurring
13. decided
14. deciding
15. included
16. including
17. exercised
18. exercising
19. interfered
20. interfering

Words to add to you’re My List:

1. traveled
2. traveling
3. received
4. receiving
5. panicked
6. panicking
7. qualified
8. qualifying
9. controlled
10. controlling
11. researched
12. researching
13. argued
14. arguing
15. mimicked
16. mimicking
17. horrified
18. horrifying
19. committed
20. committing

Challenge Words:

1. benefited
2. benefiting
3. prophesied
4. prophesying
5. transferred
6. transferring

Social Studies Test

Students should be studying 15-20minutes tonight in preparation for the test. They need to be familiar with the vocabulary words and know the answers to the questions on the back of the study guide.

Happy Studying!!!

October 5, 2011

Today we had spanish. Then we had library and technology. We had to find information if eating before recess is a good thing or not. We had recess after that. Then we went to science and looked through microscopes. Then we went to PE. After that we ate our lunch and went to recess. Then we went through our me bags. We did math after that. Then we had our spelling test.

Current Events Paragraph of the Week

The article is from the NY Times and here is the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/10/02/magazine/29mag-food-issue.html?ref=magazine#/health

Please read the section:

Is It Better to Eat Before or After Exercising?

BY GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
The Question that I am posing is:  Do you think that students should have recess before lunch?  Why or Why Not?

Remember that you need to have two key star ideas as to why you think your idea about when to have recess is correct.

Math Book Issues

So many have tried, and I guess it is just not working.

The access code, I just checked again, is supposed to be:

Class access code: 4BDF233D78E2318D3430


This may be different from what I posted previously, this time I just copied and pasted it.


If this is not working, please login as stmgrade5student
Password: lovemath5


I hope this works!


I'll check in with Mrs. Wong on Monday and see if she can help me figure it all out.  Thank you for your patience.