Challenge Winner

At the beginning of the school year we sent home a paper announcing a special new challenge. It was called The Great American Challenge. All completed forms needed to be turned in by the beginning of May. Out of our whole 5th grade, only 2 students completed the necessary requirements.

Cute Kaley-Bug was one of them.

Congrats Kaley! I'm so proud of all your hard work!

THANK YOU!!

I have lots of reasons to be grateful for my wonderful 5th grade class, but most recently I am grateful for the opportunity I had to go to Capital Theatre and see the incredible production of LES MISERABLES!!

For those of you who don't know - At Christmas time my students (and their parents) pooled their money together to get me one big, awesome Christmas present. And you guessed it... it was 2 tickets to see Les Mis! 

The show was amazing! 

Thanks everyone for the thoughtful Christmas gift!

Summer Birthday Party!

School Carnival!

It was fun seeing so many of you at the school carnival tonight! The 5th grade teachers were in charge of the photo booth and it was super fun!

Here are some funny shots from the night:

I haven't heard the final word yet, but I'm sure our school raised a couple thousand dollars. Woohoo!

Thanks everyone who came and made it a success!!


Oh, and look at this funny family!

We've Been Busy

I honestly can't believe how quickly the school year has passed by. 

Here are some of the things we've been busy doing:

For our Mother's Day gifts, we made these beautiful plates.

I was so impressed with how creative they turned out! Good work everyone!

(Note to moms - Did you like yours?)

We have been doing lots of fun science experiments! In this experiment, we got to dissect baby diapers.

We also made circuits and played with bar magnets.

In this little activity, we used Ivory soap to demonstrate how popcorn pops. (We found out that popcorn popping is a physical change.)

This "rock" is actually not a rock! It is an actual piece of the Berlin Wall!! Blake's dad lived there when the wall came down. How cool! It was fun to see and touch a piece of real history!

This is Weston holding a piece of cotton. To understand a little bit of what life as a slave was like, we all  got to clean a piece of real cotton. (We found out that it is really hard work and even makes your fingers sore!)

Today was "Tool Day" for the 5th graders. Tool Day is a career type day where parents come and show us the tools they use in their jobs/hobbies. It was fabulous! Thanks to all our wonderful presenters for coming and sharing your tools with us!

David was glad his dad was able to come talk to us about the tools related to the carpet cleaning business.

These lucky kids got free shirts from the dad who helps educate students about the harmful effects that drugs have on our bodies.

Guess what - Only 9 more days of school!! 

(I apologize for the blurry pictures. That's what happens when you use your phone for a camera.)

States & Capitals Practice Test

I hope you all are practicing for your states and capitals test. If you have a printer, you can print this off to do some extra practicing. 

Good luck!!

We Can Be A Light

                              Love this song! Can you see us?

States and Capitals

Today we took a pretest of our states and capitals test.... and the results did not look so good. You will need to really study and work hard to memorize all 50 states and capitals! To make this a little easier, we are going to spend the next two weeks (in class and at home) memorizing. We'll have 25 states this week and 25 next week. A test will be given each Friday. To prepare,  I recommend spending at least 30 minutes each night practicing. 

Here's the note that went home today:

Here are some links to help you practice:

Students, after you've played some of these games, leave a comment and tell me which one is your favorite!

Hope of America

Last week our class got to participate in the Hope of America program!

Look at how cute everyone is:

I love you guys and am so proud of how well you all did on your performance.