Field Trip Friday-

We are looking forward to our field trip on Friday! The weather should be nice (72 degrees).

Students need to bring a bag lunch and a drink, and wear sneakers. We are going on a 2 mile hike!
Students should also consider wearing JEANS - we will be in the outside elements!

We want FREE Pizza!

We would like to see everyone sell at least 5 tubs! Patrols we would like you to sell at LEAST 10 tubs! We want to win!
I heard it through the grapevine that Gibbons and Hollaway's student's are on their second order forms!!!! YIKES!!! We need to sell, sell, sell!

How Cold Is iT??????

Well, it was so cold that when I came home from dance Wednesday night, I tossed my ice in the yard from my water bottle, and low and behold, when I went to get in my car this morning IT WAS STILL THERE!! I had to chuckle! It really was cold! Then, I looked over at my neighbors founain, and it had ice on it, with a little trickle of water still running!

These next two pictures of our Reading Celebration movie "Shredderman" on Wednesday. We are pleased to report that ALL students in Room 138 got to stay and watch the movie. Thanks to Mrs. Parker for our snack (popcorn, pretzels, and water) and Jordan (carrots!)

During the movie we also practiced our tornado drill! We did the duck and cover, and it went pretty fast!

We have really been busy working on our Reading Strategies. These strategies help us refine our abilities to answer multiple choice questions using the search and find strategy. Most all the tests we take in Room 138 are open book for that very reason! We have seen a lot of students increasing their percentage correct simply by looking back!

Alexandria is focused and working - showing us her AWESOME skills!

Maddie, Mario, and Tyree are also busy working.

Emily is deep in thought remembering what she read!

Well.... I want to give a shout out to Najee' one of our students from last year. (And... a PUBLISHED POET !!) We miss you Najee' but your little sister is in Briley's class this year, so at least we get to see her! And I saw your wonderful mom a few weeks ago. I know you are doing the RIGHT thing in middle school!

We are very busy getting ready for the big test! We will continue to review good testing strategies. Our students have come so far this year, now we just need to make sure they have the confidence to "Stomp the FCAT!". At home you can help by practicing FCAT Explorer with them, let them explain their thought process to you. You can also read with them, review science concepts out of the science book, or review FCAT vocabulary. Half the battle in taking big tests is understanding the format!

Next week we will celebrate Valentines Day after our field trip to UNF. A list of student names will come home next Monday. Please be sure that if you bring in a Valentine that you have one for everybody! We will have some special sweet treats as well!

Dress warm, it is supposed to be another cold one tomorrow!

Meet one of our Blog editors!

Meet Zelma.. she is one of our Blog editors! She is doing a great job taking all these pictures.

Our room has turned into a greenhouse if you can believe it. We are growing seeds in cups (no soil!), we are trying to root some flowers, and the plants in our terrarium are growing like crazy, not to mention some of our fish are still living!

Lauren and Nahjani are busy working!

President Obama has been bejeweled! Nice shirt Jasmine.

This is our new Calendar Math activities. We are learning about inches, gallons, and pounds.

We have finally made it to simple machines in Science. So far, we have had our classroom simple machine scavenger hunt, we have talked about what simple machines are, and how they make our lives easily. This week, we will actually start working with simple machines to observe and test how they carry loads, make work easier, and join forces to create complex machines.

These are spring scales and they are used to measure the force of gravity- I know, big stuff for 5th grade! Students may have seen forms of these in the grocery store. The next time you visit the grocery store, students can measure pounds.

These are Power Polygons and they are a big help with our Math Investigations Unit. We are using these to measure angles and create new shapes.

Here we are actually working with the power polygons.

Mrs. Miheret was our first visitor today. She came in and talked to us about how she came from Ethiopia. First, she had a stay in Kenya, and then she was allowed to leave and enter the U.S. She has been working to become a U.S. Citizen and just passed her citizenship test!

She was explaining to the students how the laws in Ethiopia were different and how the rights of people were almost none existent there.

She absolutely mesmerized our class!

Turinya and Lauren creating Energy Books for Science. We used just paper to create these really great books!






We were all busy working on our books!

Mrs. Rowan helps Cinnamon create her book!

Then we looked at objects on cards and tried to identify what type of simple machines they contained.

Wow! What an amazing Tuesday!

Wednesday students in Room 138 will celebrate meeting their quarterly Reading Goal with popcorn and a movie!

What do you do with 3,200 items on the 100th day of school?

Why you make a few math problems and then you eat your bounty!
We had a great day today! Thanks for sending in your items to make our whole day celebration fantastic!
So, if each one of us brought in 100 items, how many items would each person get?

And then, can you sort and classify the items you received and make a pictograph?

Let's see... cookies, chips, candy.... OH MY!!!

Don't forget the cup full of veggies and dip! Everybody ate their celery, carrots, and cucumbers! Who said Room 138 didn't know HEALTHY!

That is Boris's bag of loot! Each student received a bag and a cup of vegetables!

There was "wonder in the air.... excitement all around" Because we knew soon, that all this food..

would be eaten!

Turinya is working on her Book of the Month vocabulary story.

For our Book of the Month activity this month, we randomly pulled 24 vocabulary words out of the book, and then students will create their own story around those 24 words..

We are all busy writing! And we will share, and then read the Book of the Month and compare and contrast how are stories are alike.

Rainy day means inside BOARD GAMES!

Checkers anyone?

Mrs. West stopping by just to say "Hello!"

We have had a great time with our Social Studies unit. We have been researching where we came from. Check out our class map in the main hallway.

We have a strong force in Europe.

Well... we have had an absolute blast with your student for the last 100 days! It is hard to imagine that we are already past the halfway mark in school for the year. We continue to busy ourselves learning many new things, and enjoy seeing your students each day!

Don't forget field trip money is due Wednesday ($9.00). We will have more information on the end of the year trip soon. I believe that it will cost between $45.00 - $55.00 dollars.

Don't Stress The Test!

New Top Coming Soon!

Updated: A big thanks to Mrs. Plish who imported our top! She is so awesome with the MAC. Let's give Zelma a big thanks for styling the BLOG! All of our students will be BLOG experts when they leave us!

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Hey this is Zelma.Soon there will be a new background. It look sooooo
cute .Mrs Rowan and Macy helped me so I can't take all the credit

Happy 100th Day of School!

Technically speaking, that means we only have 80 days left in our 5th grade school year! That is not a lot of time when you think about all the learning that is yet to come! Not to mention a few holidays and Spring Break!

This month we will add another genre to our Reading Learning Unit. It is caused "Test Taking Strategies". We know our students are smart - it is evident in their daily work. However, we want to make sure they understand the language and logic of standardized tests. It will be important that they are at school everyday!

Our testing schedule is as follows:
Tuesday - March 10th - FCAT Math - Session 1
Wednesday - March 11th - FCAT Math - Session 2
Thursday - March 12th - FCAT Reading - Session 1 & 2
Friday - March 13th - Make-up Testing
Monday - March 16th - FCAT Science - Session 1
Tuesday - March 17th - FCAT Science - Session 2

We will start posting testing tips to help you help your student at home!