Computer Lesson:Search Engines

www.Ask.com
www.google.com
www.altavista.com
www.yahoo.com
www.msn.com

Great Reference Sites
www.discoverychannel.com
www.dictionary.com *has other reference sites listed
www.reference.com

If you are looking for just pictures be sure to click on images and not the web on the tabs available on each search engine.

Water Cycle Project

5th Grade Water Cycle Creation
1/11/07 +1 week

□ Title
□ Create a Water Cycle that is 2-D or 3-D (pop up using paper or objects: NOT a drawing on paper)
o Careful
o Colorful
o Detailed

□ Label each step in the Cycle *look at notes, poster on the wall, chart in the back of the book
o Correct (4 labels 1point extra credit of runoff and ground water)
o Defined by the stages of matter example: Condensation: Gas>Liquid

□ Neatness
o Writing/ Type
o Project

□ Creative *you can come up with any way to represent the water cycle

□ Completed on time (due Thursday, January 18, 2007)

Weather Sites

Water Game
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/droplet.html

Water Cycle
http://www.kidzone.ws/water/index.html

January News Letter

Happy New Year

With the new year will come some new changes, new goals for students, and higher expectations. I hope that you will help encourage your children to read at home. Practice makes perfect as the old saying goes. Remember students should be bringing home their FROG binders every night to be looked at by a parent/ guardian.

Learning Corner

Math: We just finished up with long division in math and with be starting fractions.
Reading: Reading time has been spent on our Literature Circles, reader’s theater, and talking about family traditions.
Science: We are still working on the states of matter and will begin taking a look at the water cycle and how the states of matter apply.
Computers: We were using mapquest.com to plan a vacation and looking at the math involved with the program. Now we will begin working on some typing skills that will be helpful to our future.
English/Writing: We have been working on adjectives and using them in the stories that we have written. Our goal for this quarter is focusing on the quality of our writing and revisions.

Club Zone

What is the Club Zone? It is an opportunity for students to make a goal for themselves. That goal may be to make it in one club or maybe all 5.
AR Club: Meet AR reading goal of 30points by the end of the year.
Math Wiz Club: Complete all problems correctly on Minute Math worksheet in 1 minute or less.
Record Reading Club: Read and record the times that a book was being read. Goal is to read 5 chapter books.
Spelling Bee-utifully Club: 5 spelling tests with 100% or greater by the end of the semester.
Fact Finder Club: A student must know their multiplication facts from 1*1 to 10*10 and prove them verbally to Ms. Gray.
Benefits or Rewards for being in a club:
2 or more Lunch in the classroom with Ms. Gray every Tuesday
3 or more 30 minutes of free time on the computer
4 or more Free book (limits may apply)
5 or more Pizza party at the end of the quarter/ semester in the classroom with Ms. Gray.

Thank You

Thank you to 7 and 21 for the beautiful bulletin board of our class’s Santa is Missing in Action stories.
Also thank you for the gifts and all the wonderful treats that were brought to our Christmas Party.

Upcoming Events

Jan. 5 18'sBirthday
Jan.8-Jan. 12 STAR Testing
Jan8-Jan 12 Year Book Week (dress up is optional)
Mon. Animal
Tues. Barry County
Wed. Hooville (Dr. Seuss)
Thurs. Toga *must have regular school clothes underneath
Fri. Crazy Hair Day
Jan. 11 Book Orders Due
Jan.15Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday
Jan. 28 8’s ½ Birthday
Jan. 31Mid Quarter Reports

2007 a new year

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! See you all on the 3rd of January.

We Like to Leave Comments

This is the part where you can leave comments just for the sake of leaving a comment or to talk to another classmember.

>>Remember whatever you write gets sent to my email account.

>>Remember becareful of the information you are putting on, use class numbers or initials.

Jouranal Online

If you would like to respond to a question or two please leave a comment. This is for adults and students!


What do you like about the winter season and why?

What did you do over the 4 day break that we had from school?

December Newsletter

Stuck on Good Behavior

Students reached their goal and filled the poster man with tape. In return stuck Ms. G to the wall.
Next goal is to fill the man to get the opportunity to play in a giant bubble and have a movie afternoon.

Encouragement

Encourage your students to read. With practice students become more fluent readers and their language skill will improve.
Encourage your students to study spelling words or even math facts at night for even just ten minutes a night to help improve scores.

Congratulations

Congratulations to our class for earning a movie, popcorn, and extra recess for getting back the parent surveys.
Congratulations to 7 and 11, our Carnival King and Queen. Also a big thanks to the parents and students who helped us collect the pennies to vote.

Upcoming Events

Dec. 12 Music Concert 7p.m.
Dec. 20 End of 1st Semester
Dec. 20 Early out 12:30 p.m.
Dec. 20 Holiday Party at school
Dec. 21-Jan.2 No School
Dec.22 16 & 17's Birthday

Thank You

Thank you to 1 and 10 for the beautiful bulletin board for November.
The carnival was a while ago, but thank you to all the parents and students that helped out in our spooky classroom.

Long Division

D M S B r

Dad's job is to divide
Mom's job is to multiply
Sister's job is to bring down
Brother's job is to bring down
sometime Rover comes around as a remainder

*remember to look back at your notes

Happy Thanksgiving

Don't forget no school Wednesday- Friday this week.

Tuesday we will have class as normal until recess. We earned 30mins of extra recess and we get to watch a movie in the afternoon. Popcorn provided by Mrs. Riley.

Sticky Situation

Two full rolls of duct

tape, 35minutes later, and I have a brand-new outfit!

All Filled

Stuck on Good Behavior is completed. Ms. G gets to be tapped to the wall Wednesday!







Our next goal is to fill the bubbles so we can play in a giant bubble and watch a movie!

Family Tree Project

5th Grade Family Tree Project

What does your family look like?

Start Date November 14, 2006 +2 weeks = assignment due November 28, 2006

Create your family tree. (doesn’t have to look like a tree)

Must Have:
Start with your name at the bottom, top, or one side.
Have a key example : female pink writing, male blue writing
Title to your project
Names of people (try to get first and last names)
Creative Presentation (how are you going to show all your information)


Optional:
Write down details about the person
Where they are from/ lived
Date of birth- death
Pictures

What can I make it on?
Poster board
Computers (PowerPoint, word programs)
Large paper
Card board
Mobile hanging downward
Construction paper
Other

Other information:
Will be looking at organization of information and neatness, as well as how much was completed using the source available to you like your family members.

This project is wroth 50points towards your reading grade.

There will be some class time spent on this project, but very little.

This project is about looking at your history and communication within your family. Use all the resources available to you.

If you need material to create your project please talk to Ms. Gray

Count Down

http://home.valornet.com/sabruf2/countchr.html

Guess that arm?

Arm A (white shirt)

Arm B (red shirt)

Links

POEMS
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/

http://www.gigglepoetry.com/

HEALTH
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/pyramid.html

WORDS
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/

ART/ENGLISH
http://www.stephen.com/enigma/enigma.html

http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/

READING
http://www.starfall.com/

MATH
http://coolmath4kids.com/

Carnival Night

Congradulations to our King and Queen and to our class for raising the most votes by collecting pennies.

Thank you to all of the students and parents for participating in the haunted classroom. Also thank for everything that was donated.

Red Ribbon Week

Congratulations to the cap winner DP and to TE for winning the pennant contest for Red Ribbon Week.

Stuck on Good Behavior