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    By admin | February 9, 2010

    is now on the BizTown page. :)

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    Today. Today. Today. Or Just Tuesday

    By Tape Abuser | February 9, 2010

    I know what you’re thinking, weird title. But, oh well. I was bored.

    Today we came in and did Cursive. Yay! Sort of. Then we had DEAR, which was cool. After DEAR we talked about this new Reading Log we’re trying. It sounds awesome because we don’t have to write description or anything! THANK YOU! I always hated writing those. The only downside is that we’re trying to read an hour a day. 30 min. at school and 30min. at home. It sounds like a lot, but I think we can do it.

    Then we went to Music and did more Square Dancing. I think that’s what you call it. But, about 50% of the time I think I’m right, I’m actually wrong. Hey! We worked on %s in Math today! So Music was fun and we got to watch a few seconds of this cool Chines New Year Lion. It was awesome!

    When we got back from Music we finished up our conversation about the Reading Log, which kind of morphed into a conversation about Lit Circles at last moment. After, it was time for…duh duh duh duh…MATH. That was supposed to be dramatic. We worked with more fractions and got a head start on our homework.

    Then we had Recess. Recess was just like Recess, so nothing interesting there.

    When we got back in from Recess we finished our Math Lesson and went on to Biztown. Biztown seemed a lot like a vocabulary lesson for part of it because we kept learning all these words. I’m just happy we didn’t have to make a poster. That would have been hard. Also in Biztown, we worked with Dilemmas. That was fun. My group was debating over our answer and had to negotiate to get our innovative solution.

    After Biztown I think we went to Lunch. Lunch was normal, old Lunch.

    Then, after Lunch we went straight into more DEAR. We wanted to get at least 30 min. in for our new Reading Log. The classroom was really quiet, which was really cool. We all got a good amount of reading done. After DEAR we had about 5min. to talk with our new Reading Partners. That was SO fun!

    By that time it was time to go. So we packed up as fast as we could and went out the door.

    Have a great Tuesday and don’t forget to do your homework!
    -Riley

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    Magnificent Monday

    By admin | February 8, 2010

    Today we had a sub because Ms. Bondi wasn’t there. We worked on the Wild Slide extreme sports and corrected after we finished. Today we had Wellness and played Great Wall Of China. It was a lot of fun for all of us. After Wellness we had a conversation and did math. Math today we worked on 10 by 10 grids and shading a fraction. We had Art Lit today and we made a quilt out of paper by ourselves. When we got back from lunch we did writers workshop to work on our Graveyard book review, and or do our ending to All Summer in a day. We did HW planners and were out the door to go home!

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    Marvelous Monday

    By Erbear | February 8, 2010

    Today we started the day with our usual Monday stuff: getting organized, turning in Friday folders, (although they’re not due until Tuesday),  making our S.O.S. stickies, and turning in homework.

    Then we played a game called The Great Wall of China for Wellness. Everyone was so excited.  In The Great Wall of China, once the tagger says to go, everyone else runs over to the other side and tries not to be tagged by the “guard.” It was cool.

    Once we got done with that, we went inside, we got caught up with our sub Mrs. Parker. We told her what we did when she wasn’t at Stafford since she retired from being our librarian. *sigh…*

    We did a little math until recess. Ah, recess. We work hard as 5th graders. Why are we the ones, besides 4th graders, that only get 2 recesses? No one knows.

    Anyways, after recess, (no lap!) we did Art Lit. This time, we made quilts. Our “interpretation” of quits. Because, of course they couldn’t give us cloth and a sewing needle. That would be crazieness! So we just did it with paper and glue, and a sharpie to make stitches. After…

    Lunch! Yum! For hot lunch, there was French Toast, and something else. I can’t remember. More recess. It was Bee-uuti-ful outside. Sunny, but not to hot. *smile*

    Writers Workshop was next. You could either revise or type your All Summer in a Dayother ending, or your book review for The Graveyard Book.

    We cleaned up a bit, did jobs, and scrambled to the buses. And pick-ups. ;)

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    Fantastic Friday

    By admin | February 5, 2010

    It is Friday!!!!:) We came in and cleaned our desks and then did D.E.A.R. until library. We came back and and talked about our Valentine’s day party. After we did Math and learned about how to convert fractions in to percentages. We came in from recess and finished our math lesson for the day. Before lunch we did Writer’s Workshop to work on our All Summer in a day writing, or we could work on The Graveyard Book review. We came in from lunch and did D.E.A.R. again for about ten minutes. The we worked on Biztown for the rest of the day. Our week this week was great and now it is the weekend!:D

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    Thirsty Tuesday

    By admin | February 4, 2010

    Today was an amazing day. We walked in today and read three TFK magazines. After we talked  to our partner and explained one article. Then we went to music and square danced for the whole time. Then we did math and started a new unit, unit four!!!! Then we went to recess and came back and finished up math. After math we did science and started a new poster of invertebrates. After lunch we did D.E.A.R. and then did Biztown. In Biztown today we are starting to apply for jobs. Overall we had  great day.

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    Weirdo Wednesday

    By Erbear | February 3, 2010

    Today we started off the day with some reading comprehension practice, sixth-grade level, you should know, that’s how good we are!  Once you were done, you got to D.E.A.R. (we love to read, especially when it’s raining outside, it’s so cozy).

    Next we amazing P.E.!  In P.E., we played Everybody’s It. It’s like tag, but every body’s it — so much fun! Then, Ms. Ellis, our physical education teacher, had us doing whatever we could do using the jumping rope. Then we practiced badmitten for the rest of P.E.

    After that, Ms. Bondi gave us the end of the unit test in math. Ms. Bondi said we all did a very good job. Yay us! Then we started a long Biztown lesson. We talked more about how to write checks, deposit tickets, and how to keep up with our check register. It’s hard stuff, but important to learn! Soon, we will be applying for our jobs! Yippee!

    Lunch was a reliever! 5th graders are growing fast … they need to eat a lot and often!

    After lunch, we finished our Biztown lesson with the end of the unit test. We did it together, it was very hard!

    We all wrote our homework down in our planners, packed up our backpacks, did our jobs, and off to the busses we went. What a fast day!

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    Tasty Tuesday!

    By Erbear | February 2, 2010

    Started the day with Time for Kids. We got a new piece in Music today. Some people called it the ice cream song.  Then, back at the classroom, we did math until recess. At recess, some of the boys played football, while others played four square and other stuff.

    After recess, we raced around the track. Then we went inside to eat snack and do read aloud. We finished our book, called The Graveyard Book. Once we finished, we talked about writing book reviews for the book. After that, Ms. Bondi gave us a choice of starting our book reviews, or revising our All Summer in a Day alternative endings. Then, Lunch! Lunch was loud.

    We came back, and did Biztown for the rest of the day. We talked more about writing checks.Then we packed up and went home.

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    Thrilling Thursday

    By admin | January 28, 2010

    Today we walked in and again Ms. Bondi wasn’t there again. :( We did our cursive for practice for ten minutes and then D.E.A.R.. We all love reading ti me because we want to finish our books. Then we did our “All Summer in a Day” activity. We found similes and metaphors. We finished our rough draft and revised and edited them. We did not start on our final drafts. When we came back from lunch we started our new JA Biztown lesson learning how to write and deposit checks. Our substitute gave us ten minutes to work on our Verterbrate poster, Math HW, and or let us read. Hopefully Ms. Bondi is back tomorrow! Get better Ms. Bondi!!!!!

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    Talent Tuesday

    By admin | January 26, 2010

    Happy Birthday to Ms. Bondi!!!! We came in and did our morning routine. After we did comprehension reading and answered questions. If we finished that we had D.E.A.R. which we all love!! We corrected our papers as a class. Then we read from Sarah’s dad’s blog, because he is in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. We went to Music and sang, and played the instruments. We came back and math. Math today we learned strategies for subtracting. We went to recess a little bit early because Ms. Bondi wanted to play to. We came in and read The Graveyard Book! The book is becoming so intense because Bod and Scarlet are trying to hide from Jack. Then we read a story All Summer in  Day. Our class loved the story! We came in from recess and did D.E.A.R. for ten minutes. After D.E.A.R. we did Social Studies. Today in Social Studies she printed a couple of pages from the textbook out on paper so we could highlight the important stuff that the explorer has. Today was a great day because it was Ms. Bondi’s birthday!!!!

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