Bailey And Maria's Class News Letter

                                                    Bailey and Maria’s Class News Letter

            Monday: In Morning Meeting we read the message that Mrs. Starr wrote. She told us all of our jobs. In Library we did a paper on Dewey Decimals. During Guidance we did active listening. Four people were observers that observed people to see if they were paying attention to the speaker. In math we finished our morning work and did a paper on converting fractions to decimals and percents. Read Aloud Mrs. Starr read The Giver. During Writing everyone was working on their story book.

          Tuesday: In Morning Meeting we solved the problem that Jillian and John made. We greeted each other doing the bow and curtsy greeting. Our class played a little bit of 4-corners. In PE we played paddle ball. During read aloud (we are almost done the book=^{D!) Mrs. Starr read the book The Giver. During writing everyone (just as yesterday) worked on our story books. Independent work we ether did our job, worked on our creative piece for our utopian community, finished our paragraph for our utopian community or work on our story book.

          Wednesday: On Wednesday we read the message and did our greeting. Then we had gym. We played the halloween games. On was where we turned off the lights and had to find the object that Mrs. Gross told us to find. After in math we returned our homework. In writing we did the same thing as the days before. Independent work was the same as the other days too.

          Thursday: On Thursday we did the greeting called the snowball greeting. For the game we played a couple rounds of What did I do then we played 4 corners because it got out of control.

          Friday: On Friday we did the Mr. and Miss. (Mrs. for Mrs. Starr) greeting. When we went with our kinder-buddies we made ghosts out of a tissue, yarn and a Tootsie Pop. In writing we worked on our Narrative Poetry Story Book. During read aloud we finished the book The Giver. Then during math we did an assessment on how to convert fractions to decimals and percents, how to convert decimals to fractions and percents and how to convert percents to decimals and fractions.

        EXTRA: Last week we did “Skype” with Mr. Swangbang’s class. Stephanie was in his class! Then the poet came. Also, last week we have finished our Utopian Society and our Story Books. Our Utopian Society is a community that is perfect in our own way. We had to describe what our Utopia looks like,what it feels like to be a member of the community and the rules of the community. We also had to make a creative piece that goes with our Utopia, these will be posted on our class bulletin board. Our Story Books are our Narrative Poem put into books. We have to have a picture for every stanza. Each stanza i son it’s own page.        

Newletter for Learning by Meagan and Kenny

Math
 The first few days of school, we were working on Division & Multiplication in math. Also we were talking about decimals. 
           
                 

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                                           x   212         6 ) 1836
                                   ----------------           -18           
                                            1,704            ---------       
                                    +    18,520                 036       
                                        170,400                 - 36
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                                      180,624                      0
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Writing

    In writing we have been working on Narrative Poetry.   During our Narrative Poetry time we have been watching the videos and analyzing song lyrics like “White Horse” by Taylor Swift, “In The End” by Licoln Park, “Travelin’ Soldier” by the Dixie Chicks, and “Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air” by Will Smith. We have been watching these videos so we have examples of narrative poems. Another reason we have been watching these videos, is to look for Poetry Devices!
    The storyline of “White Horse” is about Taylor Swift who is dating a guy, and they are in love. Then her friend tells her friend tells her boyfriend is cheating on her, then she dumps him. “In The End” by Lincoln Park is about a former girlfriend and how she was mocking her boyfriend, picking on him & more.  He tells her that he wrote this song to remind himself why he won’t go back to her, and that she was a waste of his time! The last song “Travelin' Soldier” is about a pretty girl, with a bow in her hair, who was a waitress. Then a Traveling Soldier comes in, and asks her to sit with him, because he was feeling low. Then she said “I'm off in an hour, I know where we can go” Then they went up on a peir and fell in love, he asked her if he could write to her when he goes to Vietnam. She said yes, then when she went to a football game, when they were naming off the people there was a name that was called that nobody cared about. Except a girl with a bow in her hair. The “Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air” by Will Smith is about Will Smith living in West Philadelphia. When he was playing basketball, some guys who were making trouble in his neighborhood started beating him up. Then his mom got a little scared, and told him he was going to live with his auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.
    Our next step in writing is to begin writing our own narrative poem using everything we have learned this past week.
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“The Giver”

    In class we have been reading “The Giver” by Lois Lowry.  In the book you don’t have a birthday you are just called ones, twos,  threes and so on. But there are ceremonies every time you get older. The last ceremony that you have is turning a 12. Then you are an adult! Also you are given your spouses, and you can only have two kids. But you don’t have the babies there is birth mothers that have the babies. But the birth mothers don’t get to see the babies, that they have. Also when you turn eight, you have to volunteer, at places. Like the Old House, The Nurturing Center, and many more. If you don’t do so many hours then when you turn a twelve, then you won’t get your job or assignment, and have anyone clap for you. There is a rumor that one kid didn’t do enough volunteer hours and he didn't get his assignment! When he did finish his hours he got his assignment privately, and nobody clapped for him.
                                            

These are some of the things that we have read about.

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Class Photos

This is our 6th Grade class, one of our first days! We are getting ready for the wonderful year ahead of us! c[:

This is Ethan & Jacob working on their Prezis

This is Mrs.Starr eating a HUGE apple!

This is Mrs.Wetherby! She has been helping us in class the first few weeks of school : ]

 

Sam and Maria's Newsletter

    Last week our class presented our math games and human body projects. Half of us presented in the other fifth grade, Mrs. Wright’s and the other half presented in our class. Mrs. Wright’s class played our games with us. We will continue playing the games today, outside(Monday, June 7th at 1:00.) Like the math games, we presented our human body project half and half. We got in groups and shared our power points with our groups. Everyone did an awesome job on their math games and human body project!! Today we went to the Kindergarten graduation to cheer them on and give them graduation cards that we made them. When the graduation was all done, we came back to class and worked on our digital story telling. And as a special treat, we got to have ice cream and cake from the graduation. The cake was very delicious, it had a Big picture of all the Kindergarteners on it!!!!!!! We also got a bag of books today to read over the Summer. At the end of every school year each kid in the building gets a bag of books to read. Tomorrow is field day for us. During field day we do all sorts of fun activites in different stations, like: egg toss, water balloon toss, go on a obstacles coarse the national guards bring that is blow up, tug-a-war, drip drip drop, popsicles, face painting and other fun things!!!!!! We will also be drawing murals of our favorite characters on the school parking lot with 2nd graders. On Tuesday after we drew our favorite characters, we had art. In art we drew a self portrait of ourselves. And then Wednesday is our last day of school!!!!! We have a half of day that day. Then it’s goodbye school, and HELLOOOO summer.    




                                       Your Newsletter Authors,

                                                        Sam F. and Maria J.

 Maria And Sam's Class News Letter

           Friday: On Friday we have gym and in gym we did stealing sticks again. Then we had read aloud, in read aloud Mrs. Starr reads a book called “The Graveyard Book”.  After that we have SFA (success for all). Next we have lunch and recess. Finally we have math. Same as usual, we use the first few minutes to write our procedures. Then we do our calendar. We have to find out the missing angle. At the end of the day we have writing again. We ether work on our persuasive, our procedure or our digital story telling.
    Monday: On Monday we had Music. In music we practiced the songs that we are going to do for the Spring Concert. The songs that we are going to sing are: Cat Came Back, Third Base Coaches Dance and some of us are going to dance and some of us are going to sing to the Hoedown Throw-down. In writing we are doing procedures about things math related. Some choices are: Order Of Operations, Surface Area, Volume and other things too.
    Tuesday: On the we have Library. On The in Library we have skills day. In skills day we went over the test that we are going to do on next Tuesday. In writing Mrs. Starr introduced the persuasive piece. Mrs. Starr showed us a persuasive called “A Request For A Dog.” We started writing a persuasive, we had to write a request for a different or the same animal. Also in math we had to continue writing our procedures for the first minutes. Then after we did The procedure we did the angles on the calendar. On the calendar we have a shape and it there shows us the 3 other degrees and we have to find out what the other degree is. Did You Know? A 4 sided shape has 360 degrees in it’s interior angles. A 4 sided shape is called a  quadrilateral. A 3 sided shape has 180 degrees in it’s interior angles. A 3 sided shape is called a triangle.
    Wednesday: On Wednesday we have Library.  We also have Guidance. In guidance we started writing letters to the upcoming fifth graders. (the fourth graders).On Wednesday in Library we sign out books. Also, if you bring in your books for five weeks in a row with out forgetting any of them you get to go in the treasure boxes or discard boxes. In writing we kept on working on our procedures and our persuasive pieces. Then in math we used the beginning to write or type our procedures. Then we used the rest of the time to work on area in a rectangle. We also did an area page in our student books. We had to estimate the area in some rhombuses.
    Thursday: On Thursday we have P.E. Or Gym. In P.E we played a game called Stealing Sticks. In the game the other team tries to steal the other teams sticks. Then in writing Mrs. Starr introduced a new persuasive piece that we needed to write. We needed to write a letter to our parents to persuade them to come to the state that we did for the fifty states project. In math we did the usual use the first ten or so minutes to write or type our procedures. Then we did some more of the angles.
   
        

Maria M's and Kyle's Class News Letter

                                      Maria And Kyle’s Class News Letter

    Monday: In Morning Meeting Kady and Sam put a problem on the board. Kady and Sam (the morning meeting leaders) choose Taylor to solve the problem.  In math we were learning about the Surface Area (S.A) and the Volume (V). To find the volume you need to write: V=Bh. Which means (V) Volume. (B) Area of the Base. (h) Hight. To do the rest it’s just like the order of operations. You bring down your work. For example: V=Bh bring down your work, V=(lxw)h. Example: Length: 6 in. Width: 10 in. Hight:9 in. V=(6x10)9. 6x10=60. V=60x9. 60x9=540. So the answer would be 540 cubed inches. On Monday we have music in music we have been learning about the different types of symbols in a song.

    Tuesday: On Tuesday we were still working on Volume and Surface Area. To find the Surface Area you write FB (front back) SS (side side) TB (top bottom). (See example photo below) Example: FB= 3x2=6x2=12 SS= 6x2=12x2=24 TB= 6x3=18x2=36. You would multiply 3x2 because the front is 2 by 3. Then multiply 6x2 because there is two congruent sides on the rectangle. You would do the same thing with the other ones except you do the right numbers. After you’re done that you add up the numbers. In this example you add 12, 24 and 36. 12+24=36. 36+36=72. The S.A or Surface Area is 72. On Tuesdays we have library. The first Library day is studies day. We have been learning about using indexes in the world atlas.
    Wednesday: On Wednesday we kept on working on our math, volume and surface area. In morning meeting the morning meeting leaders kept giving us problems to solve on the smart board. Also on Wednesday we have book day in Library. On book day we signed out books then we finished a worksheet on finding places in the whole North America. One of the places that we had find are Timbuktu.
    Thursday: On Thursday we had people come and teach us about the brain. The people brought in plastic and real brains. They also brought in animal brains. Some of the animal brains were a bird, a mammal and a squirrel. On Thursday we have usually we have gym but we didn’t because the people that brought in the brains used our gym time. Instead of having gym we went outside.
    Friday: On Friday we also had other people come in. They were from IBM. IBM stands for (I) international (B) building (M) material. They taught us what was inside a computer chip. After they were done that they let us try a little experiment with these plastic cups and we saw into two lights. We had to find witch one had more blue light.  Then we did a game with little cars and lights. 
  

Aaron and Maria

Writing: The class is doing digital story telling this week, and this is what we have to do to make the digital story telling. You have to speak and tell the twisted fairy tail you made and you have to make a slide show with pictures off the internet to go along with your story.

Math: The class is working on graphing, converting fractions into a decimals, and then converting decimals to percents. We are also working on surveys that we made to ask the class to get to know them better. Once we have collected the data we have to turn it into a decimal and the taking the decimal and converting it into a percent by moving the decimal two places to the right. (You are multiplying the decimal by 100.) This is Friday we had a math quiz on how to convert a decimal to a percent. 

Social Studies: This week we are working on the states fair project  with Mrs. Wright's class. We have partners and each pair of partners has a a state to work on and study. These are the expectations we have for the project. You have to have the population, the largest city, major rivers and lakes,  the state flag, the state bird, the state animal, all of the state's national parks, you have to draw the state map, and our last expectation is you have to find the climate of your state.

Morning Meeting: Monday the Morning Meeting leaders were Kyle and Jake. The class did the formal greeting. The activity on Monday was What did I Do. Here is how to play What Did I Do, it starts out with some one going to the front of the room and make sure they turn around and then they walk out of the room in the hallway and change something and when your done changing some thing, the person walks back into the room and some one will raise their hand and you pick someone to guess what you changed and if they get it right they have to do the same thing as the first person did, it is simple. This is what we did for the problem this Monday: The teacher gave us a division problem and we converted it into a decimal and then converted it into a percent.
         This Tuesday we did pick your own greeting and we did a problem the was the same as Monday just different division problem. The activity that the class did on Tuesday was the Never Ending Game which I will tell you how to play. First you have like half of the class divide into two lines.  Then you use flash cards and the two people in the front of the line say the answer, the first person to answer it correctly goes back to the end of their line and the other person fallows. Then it is  the next two peoples' turn. You continue this until one of the lines have no people left in it.
       This Wednesday the class did the same problem just a different division problem and we did the ankle greeting. All you have to do is shake ankles with each other and say good morning to whatever their name is. Then the class did the four corners for activity.
     This Thursday the class did the elbow greeting and we did Around The World for activity and we did the same thing for the problem but different division problem and some of the class went skiing because it was a ski day.
      This Friday the class did the butterfly greeting and we didn’t get to do the activity because we didn’t have enough time that morning and we did the same thing for the problem, just different division problem.

P.E: This week the class did volley ball for our unit.            

Writing: The class is doing digital story telling this week, and this is what we have to do to make the digital story telling. You have to speak and tell the twisted fairy tail you made and you have to make a slide show with pictures off the internet to go along with your story.

Math: The class is working on graphing, converting fractions into a decimals, and then converting decimals to percents. We are also working on surveys that we made to ask the class to get to know them better. Once we have collected the data we have to turn it into a decimal and the taking the decimal and converting it into a percent by moving the decimal two places to the right. (You are multiplying the decimal by 100.) This is Friday we had a math quiz on how to convert a decimal to a percent. 

            Social Studies: This week we are working on the states fair project  with Mrs. Wright's class. We have partners and each pair of partners has a a state to work on and study. These are the expectations we have for the project. You have to have the population, the largest city, major rivers and lakes,  the state flag, the state bird, the state animal, all of the state's national parks, you have to draw the state map, and our last expectation is you have to find the climate of your state.

           Morning Meeting: Monday the Morning Meeting leaders were Kyle and Jake. The class did the formal greeting. The activity on Monday was What did I Do. Here is how to play What Did I Do, it starts out with some one going to the front of the room and make sure they turn around and then they walk out of the room in the hallway and change something and when your done changing some thing, the person walks back into the room and some one will raise their hand and you pick someone to guess what you changed and if they get it right they have to do the same thing as the first person did, it is simple. This is what we did for the problem this Monday: The teacher gave us a division problem and we converted it into a decimal and then converted it into a percent.
         This Tuesday we did pick your own greeting and we did a problem the was the same as Monday just different division problem. The activity that the class did on Tuesday was the Never Ending Game which I will tell you how to play. First you have like half of the class divide into two lines.  Then you use flash cards and the two people in the front of the line say the answer, the first person to answer it correctly goes back to the end of their line and the other person fallows. Then it is  the next two peoples' turn. You continue this until one of the lines have no people left in it.
       This Wednesday the class did the same problem just a different division problem and we did the ankle greeting. All you have to do is shake ankles with each other and say good morning to whatever their name is. Then the class did the four corners for activity.
     This Thursday the class did the elbow greeting and we did Around The World for activity and we did the same thing for the problem but different division problem and some of the class went skiing because it was a ski day.
      This Friday the class did the butterfly greeting and we didn’t get to do the activity because we didn’t have enough time that morning and we did the same thing for the problem, just different division problem.

    
         Music: In music we sang songs.

        Library: The class sighned out books and we are working on mapping by using maps.

         Guidance:In guindance the class played a board game called lives.

Music: In music we sang songs.

Library: The class signed out books and we are working on mapping by using maps.

Guidance:In guidance the class played a board game called lives.

Other: Grandma Chrissy reads to us now from the Graveyard Book.

Maria and Shawn

Social Studies: In social studies this week we have been gathering information about our state for our “Super Starr Down Wright Coolest State Fair Project Ever.”

Writing: In writing some people are working on their digital story telling and others are working on their twisted fairy tails.

Math: In math during this week we were graphing data we collected about the class. For an example, we graphed the classes favorite core subjects. Once we collected our data, we converted the fractions of each vote to a decimal then to a percent. Now we are making up our own questions to ask the class then we will turn the results to fractions, then to decimals, then to percents. We will then graph the percent of each vote on a grid.

Number Corner: In number corner we are plotting points on a coordinate grid. To plot our points we are following directions using a compass rose.

Independent Work: During independent work kids are working on their class jobs.

Specials:
    Music-In music we were quizzed on our so’s and me’s. We also played egg shakers and maracas to the beet of the music.
    Library-Skills day in library we started to work with the world atlas. Mrs.Guertin also had us find specific places on the map using degrees and North, East, South, and West. We found the places on the smart-board. Book day in library we signed out book for our Kinder buddies and our states fair project.
    Psychical Education-In gym we went snowshoeing. Thursday we just went for a walk around the school, and Friday we played a game kind of like camouflage. This week we are starting our volley ball unit.
    Guidance-In guidance class Mrs. Sadaro pretended to fly into our town of Celtic City and she asked us questions about the town. (We are trying to get her to build a big business in our town and we answer questions she asks to help her decide where she will build it. We have to brag about our town)  

Other: This week our teacher introduced us to the newest member of the class, Grandma Chrissy. She is our class foster grandparent and she will be in here to help us learn Monday through Thursday. 

Kady and Shawn

Social Studies:
Mrs. Starr and Mrs. Wright introduced a new project.  It is called “The Super-Starr Down-Wright Coolest State Fair Project Ever!  This project is about our 50 states.  We will be researching a state and presenting our learning in a state fair.

Math:
We are learning about equivalent fractions. 

We are working on building and extending patterns.  We have started graphing expressions.

Writing:
We are finishing our Twisted Fairy Tales.  Some students are now creating a movie that represents their writing.  Mrs. Starr calls this “Digital Story Telling.”  I think that it is going to be fun because it will be fun recording our voices in the movie and sharing it with others.

Specials:
Music: In music class we played with instruments and followed a beat of highs and lows.  Next week we continue to practice this.

Library:
In library we took a test with  sentos. It was fun. We had to answer the question on it. There was true or floes  or a map or a a,b,c,d answer.
Today we got so books and at the end of the library time than we read poems

Kady and Micheal

What we do in math    

Monday: In math we are writing procedures. We are supposed to pick one thing to do with math and write a paper that could teach another person. Then you go step by step and you have to use real life examples.

Tuesday: We practiced math with partners.  We are practicing how to make charts.  This is the greatest thing we do.

Wednesday: This morning we talked about the calendar, its colored pattern, and the area or fraction of the markers.  

Thursday: We are working on the calendar grid.  We also working on making expressions to represent patterns.  For example, T= n + 2 was one pattern that we represented in an expression.

Friday: We took an assessment on patterns with partners.  We all earned high grades.

What we do in writing:

In writing we are working on Twisted Fairy Tales.  In this project you make your own fairy tale and put it in your own words. We looked at the blog to find that Mrs. Starr or others gave us for feedback on our Twisted Fairy Tale: What did we do well?  What can we improve?  After reading the feedback we made changes to our writing. We typed and printed our writing for Mrs. Starr, so she could read a hard copy with us to proofread for a final copy. We continued to work on our writing.  Every day more people finished.

What we do in Science:

In science we are presenting our inventions.  As people present, students grade what they did well and what they can improve.

What we learned in Specials:

Music: We learned about high notes and low notes.  We also got to sing many songs and danced to them.

Library: We took a test about The World Almanac.  We got to chose our own books.

PE: In PE we practiced cup stacking and raced each other.  It was fun!  

Dylan and Taylor's Newsletter

    Math: In math we got partners and played 2 games they were Roll 5 and 15 Tic-Tac-Toe. It was really awesome. On the calendar we all built three dimensional  shapes. Also in math we  are working on arrangement, numbers, and averages. They are kind of difficult but  we  still get through                                                         We do algebraic problems.
                                                    They are fun.

    Writing: In writing we are working on our narratives. We are all typing ours but we still have to bring our writing pieces home to work on it. We only have a little bite of time till due date. We are almost finished our narrative.


    Social Studies:  In Social Studies we are working on  getting our project done. We are presenting our projects with the class tomorrow. Some people are doing scrapbooks, and a lot of people are doing Power-points . We are all working really hard. Now we are done working on our colonial projects and we just  presented our last Friday. Nice work all of Mrs. Starr’s class! Now we are working  on finishing our orbital studies. They are due  April 22  we have plenty of time to work on them. Wednesday  we are going to go and work with  the  forth graders. Then sometime we are going to work on the states with Mrs. right's class . Then for the next 6 days we are going to work with the forth graders. Our project is to make a slide show or a commercial we have to right  a report about it and make a blue print of your project. We are going to present on Friday with our fourth grades.

    Other:  We have music on Monday and in music we are doing half notes. They are really fun.   We also learn different songs like the Loco-Motion. We all stand in too  lines and go wherever you want to go in the music room. In gym we  are playing a unit on basketball. We even play scrimmages they are really fun we get to have teams and play against people. It is fun!!! The last thing we do for other is library in library we are going to have a quiz  on what is a almanac and what is a index and what are  are the 4  indexes. Also we look up different things in the almanac. It is so fun!!!

Thanks for reading our reporter Taylor and Dylan

Maria M's and Loghan's News

By: Maria M and Loghan

    In math this week we learned about the different views and how we can use them to build figures. One of the views are the front view. The front view in this picture is a two by three. Another view is the right side or side view. In this picture the right side or side view is a two by two. The last view is the top view. In this picture the top view is the same as the front view, a two by three. The next thing that we did was the number three. It says if you don’t see it, use your cubes to find out wether either of these two buildings match the views above. It has two buildings underneath. Our class figured out the first building doesn’t work. It doesn’t work because the top view is different.
          Another thing thing we did was play a game called Roll Five. We won against Mrs. Starr. The things you do in this game is you roll two dice and multiply them and that answer is the number you are going to try to get to, that number goes in the box above the five numbers that I will explain next. The next thing you do is roll five dice and those five dice you put in the little boxes below. You try to use those numbers to find your head number.


       During independent work or social studies this week we have been working on colonial America. People chose what they were going to study. This picture is from Matt and Dylan’s project.

         
         Also this week during guidance we finished interviewing people for our game called “The Play Real Game.”

       
 


         The next subject that we are going to tell you about is writing time. During writing we are working on our twisted fairy tails. When we first started writing our twisted fairy tails Mrs. Starr read us a few stories, they were Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Bears, Rumple Stilt Skin and the Ginger Bread Man.

    The last thing that we are going to tell you is during gym we have been doing our basketball unit.
 

John and Sam's Newsletter Weekly

Our Week of Learning: 12/14/09

Writing: In writing we gave feedback to other kids about their fairy tale stories.  Our focus was character description. 

Social Studies: We only worked on social studies in the afternoon from 2:00 till 2:30. We worked on our social studies projects and they are due after christmas break.

Mathematics: We did number corner by recording the carrot data and made our number corner areas. We practiced our multiplication and division.

Social: On Friday we had a Christmas party!!!!

Today was the program! We watched the kids do their musical SNOW BIZZ!!!!! GREAT JOB KIDS IN MUSICAL OF SNOW BIZZ!!!! Mrs. Starr got beautiful presents from her students.

Other: We voted on which movie we are going to watch at the  Christmas party. We watched Alvin and the Chipmunks!!! We painted our snowmen that were for our parents!