Incentive Friday

Today we started our drawing project in art. It is awesome. Then we had science which we re modified our groups cars ,they are off the hook. We just got done watching Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. It was hilarious! Well lunch is calling see ya peeps.It is our last day blogging.

Leaving for lunch for now,

Broede and Kendall

Sub Thursday

Today was any ordinary day until... I'm just kidding you it was a good day because in library we were on a treasure hunt for authors, book title ect. For computer we had free time, some of the time otherwise you had to do research. Well we just got done doing our writing for our research. Well geust what? We have a insentive tommorow with a movie and pj's. Well we have to go eat Sub sanwichs for lunch, Hazaaaa!

leaving you now for lunch ,
Kendall and Broede

Wacky Wedsday

How's it going people?! Well, today we were having fun slamming pucks in the nets in gym class. Floor hockey rocks! We are starting a band in music... NOT! It sounds like heaven (exaggerated). We are starting to study animals for a compare and contrast paper we are going to write. We have to study one animal, for now. The options are: polar bear and giant panda, poison dart frog and American bullfrog, and hammerhead shark and great white shark. What animal would you do? We were playing with rubber bands in science. Don't try it at home! We had to wind up our rubberbands around our free spinning axles, and let the car go. Depending on the amount we spun the back wheels, the car traveled a certain distance. We are going for lunch (TOASTY DOGS!), so enjoy your day, because math is coming and that ruins the day. Right? Ok maybe not the whole day. Well see ya!

Adios peeps,
Broede and Kendall

Salisbury Tuesday

Today we took a bully survey in computer/guidence. After that we got free time, horray! Almost every body finnished there Wiki. Know every body is starting to read , exciting right. Have you started a website yet? Well I didn't. So have you ever read more than one book in a month? Well you are probably wondering why we named it Salisbury Tuesday, well we are having the tottaly awsome salisbury steak for lunch.

signing off,

Kendall and Broede

Wiki Madness

Today we jammed out on recorders in music (I wish). In gym we were slamming pucks across the gym floor, during floor hockey. In science we demodified our awsome lunar cars. What do you think we are building them with now? Here are a few clues: we now have potential energy, kinetic energy, and tension. During snack we were learning how to use the wiki (boring),but inportant. Now we are just finishing up our wiki pages and getting ready for lunch, which is spaghetti. "Mama mia!" After lunch we HAVE to go to mind controling math. Then we head home for the night. HORRAY!!!

Our wiki's website address is: www.glenbrooksbookshelf.pbworks.com.

Leaving for lunch finally,
Broede and Kendall

Terrific Thursday

Today we had art. In art we made clay pots. After we had soical studies. In social studies we took notes on New Netherlands and New York. We also took a test on dog 9 and 10. Next we read People of Sparks. After we had to finish our personality squares or work on our book report. Now we are getting ready to go to lunch and recess. After we will have math. In math some of us are finishing our test while others are finishing up a lesson on subtracting mixed numbers and maybe playing some games. Parent teacher conferences begin tonight, and continue tomorrow afternoon and next Tuesday evening.

Signing off,
Hayden and Gabbie

Wacky Wednesday

Today we had library and computer. In library Mrs.Gee read "Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Lightning Thief." So far, it is about a boy who causes a lot of trouble, and is sent to a private school. He is taking a class where the teacher talks about Greek Gods. In computer we worked on typing up our spring personality square paragraphs. Afterwards we had science. In science we had to make a lunar rover that had to perform special tasks. The vehicle was part of our orignal vehicle, but we added on to it. It had to carry two blocks of wood, and travel the length of our table in 4 to 6 seconds. We had 30 minutes to create our lunar vehicle. Only about 3 out of the 12 teams vehciles worked. Then we had to draw the rovers while Mr.Hendricks read "People Of Sparks." In "People of Sparks" we learned that Torren's brother Caspar is coming home (he is a roamer). Also, Lena is lonely, because she is not near Doon who is making new friends. One of those friends is Tick Hassler. We had no guided reading today but, instead some of us had to finish our writing assessment, while others worked on their spring personality squares. Like any other day we are now getting ready to go to lunch and recess. After will be going to math. Some of us are taking our chapter 7 test today, while others are working on adding mixed numbers.

We talked today about how Doon is treating Lena. What do you think will happen with their friendship?

Signing off,

Hayden and Gabbie

Terrified Tuesday

Just like any other day we had gym and music. In gym we played side line floor hockey, and in music we had a visitor: Ms. Kinny who is a music teacher at Lannoye and Fairveiw. We practiced our watermelon belt for recorder karate. After we had social studies. In social studies we took notes on the New Netherlands and New York, also got a little bit of time for dog 11. Then we had guided reading. Today Wolf Brother read with Mrs.Doell, Island read with Mr.Hendricks, Tunnels and Elijah of Buxton read alone. We had word study and we cut out our words and did a my sort. Then was the writing assessment or personality square if done with writing. Now we will be going to lunch and recess. After we will be attending math.

Signing Off,
Hayden and Gabbie

Another Monday

Today was the greatest day ever!!! We had computer and guidance. In computer we learned about our new wiki, and it is going to be called Glenbrook's Bookshelf. In guidance we learned what it was like to be blind. Some people even ran into doors!!!! During science we went down into the cafeteria and did a experiment with motion. After we had guided reading in guided reading Elijah of Buxton read with mr.Hendricks, Half Moon Investigations read with Mrs.Doell then Tunnels and Wolf brother read in the hall. We got a choice to do spelling or writing assessment but both groups had to do a meaning sort. Now we are getting ready to go outside and eat lunch. After we will be attending math.

Later,

Hayden and Gabbie

IT'S FRIDAY!!!

The kids did not have a chance to blog today, so I am taking the liberty of doing so. Today has certainly been a day out of the ordinary. After all, there are only a few days a school year where it is acceptable for the students to consume pounds of sugar (candy) for their before lunch snack. That being said, we celebrated Valentine's Day in our classroom today. While a lot of the kids explicitly shared their dislike of Valentine's, it was clear this was not true as they were "like kids all over again," opening up their Valentine containers filled with cards and treats. Whether they will admit it or not, they liked the Valentine wishes from their peers. This morning we snuck in music and gym. Many of the kids will soon be ready to try out for the Green Bay Gamblers, with their incredible floor hockey skills. One problem, however: the Gamblers play on ice. This morning the students also had a Language Arts free choice period, where they worked on one of three things: 1. reading their February book report (wiki) book, 2. worked on their Fifth Grade Writing Assessment, or 3. paste their Hatchet map and letter to one page for viewing in the hallway. The sugar lull has hit, as many of the students are working hard (maybe even falling asleep) while taking their unit 7 math test, working on figuring out those challenging double negatives, or testing their skills at math computer games. Today has been fun, and reminds us why it is fun to be a kid!

I'll see many of you next week, and the week after for conferences! Until then, have a great weekend and Happy Valentine's Day!

Mr. Hendricks

I don't know Thursday

Today we did many activities such as.... let me think, we had specials and we made some radical clay contaners for various items that we will take home and use. In science we did some sort of test with our vehicular devices using washers. The washers acted as an unbalanced force, in order to pull our cars, and create inertia. During snack we studied for our word study quiz or read quietly to ourselves. In word study we took an exciting test. We spent some time on our 5th grade writing assessments today. Some people are already finishing up. Now we are in team study, and getting ready to go to lunch and recess. In math, some of us are finishing chapter 7 today, while others are getting close. Double negatives are tough! Just remember, a double negative equals a positive.

See you later,

Hayley and Chris

DERFENSHNAUF!

Today in specials we had library and computer. Mr. Hendricks said that we could have free time in the computers if we were good in library. Do you think that we got free time or not? Then we went to social studies and took a really hard test [did i mention it was hard] har har har! My favorite food is horseradish. Then we had a lovely snack, filled with awsomness! We had guided reading. Gark! haha! Then we had a writing assessment. Moof. We are noun here! derfenshnauf! Soon we will be heading to NUM! NUM! Then we headed off to YEAH! YEAH land! THen we go to math world. Derfenshnauf!

Signing off,

Hayley, Chris, and a lot of help from Allison

Toatlly Tuesday

Today we had gym and music for specials. Today in gym we had floor hockey practice. Then in music we had to play on our recorders. We played Jingle Bells. We came to science and we took a test on Motion and Design. We also had guided reading. In guided reading we had to write a predictoin and a summary. We lunged into our 5th grade writing assessment. Now we are headed 0ff to Lunch and recess. We then skip into math. Soon enough time to go home!!!

Chris and Hayley

Today we went to computer. We had to go on Edmodo and respond to an article on Time for Kids. Then we went back upstiars to work on our valentines boxes and the hearts for the door. We then went to social studies. Four people presented there posters on India, United States, Japan, and Sweden. We came back and had snack, while Mr. Hendricks read People of Sparks. Today Lena learned about "The Disaster," which was caused by 4 wars and 3 plagues. We found out our new guided reading groups. The books we will be reading for a while, because they're long, are "Elijah of Buxton," "Tunnels," "Wolf Brother," and "Half Moon Investigations." We had to read to a certain amount of pages, if we did not get it done we have homework, which includes a prediction and summary. We had to work on our 5th grade writing assessment for the district. All fifth graders are doing it. We have just finished lunch and then are off for recess! After recess we go to math then clean up and dissmisal!

Talk to you tomorrow,

Hayley and Christopher

Fun Friday

Good morning blog readers! Today is a Friday, and thank god, that was a long week of school. It started out as a normal day. We did our D.O.L then went to specials. For specials we had muisic and then gym. In muisic we had a free day, so we played muisical chairs. Emily won and then we played "lelgoto lake" then finaly played on the keyboards. In gym we worked on floor hockey and played hockey pirates. Then in science we watched the apollo missions. In the apollo missions they landed on the moon. Then after science we had our writing assement prep. Now we are working on our valentine boxes or finishing Hatchet maps. Then we have lunch, recess, and then math. Have a good weekend!

Signing off,

Emily and Mason

today, we had ART for specials. Then off we went to social studies and some of us did our country reports. after that we had read aloud and read people of sparks.
Then we had word study. in wordy study, the green group did the spell sort then shared there stories. The yellow group worked on there stories. then we had to talk about our descriptive writing, then practiced grading some from last year. then we got ready for math and went to lunch followed by reccess then math.

signing off

Emily andMason

Hatchet Map Day

Good afternoon blog readers. When we got here the news was on. After D.O.L we went to specials. For Specials we had Library and Computer. In library Mrs. Gee showed us the Scholastic Book Wizard. In computer we took an S.R.I. Mr. Hendricks said that this was our best S.R.I yet. After that we had science. In science we finished our drawings of our first car and then built one from a technical design. Then we had snack and read people of sparks. Today the people of Sparks desided to let the people from Ember stay for 6 months. Then we had word study.In word study the green group wrote a story and yellow group did there spell sort. After that we talked about our wiki and the Hatchet books. Then we worked on our Hatchet maps. It's team study now. Then off to lunch and Recess we go. Last but not least math.

Have you read the book Hatchet?

Signing off

Emily and Mason

FINISHED HATCHET TODAY!

Today it started out like any old day. First we did our D.O.L then went off to specials. For specials we had Gym and Muisic. In Gym we started with our floor hocky unit. In muisic we finshed up our big 6 muisic project. After specials we had social studies. In social studies some of us presented our country reports. Then we had snack and read people of sparks. Then we went into word study and shared our my sorts. After that we finished up Hatchet. Today he got the survail pack. Then off to lunch we went. Now its recess and then math.

How do you think the book Hatchet ends?

Signing off

Emily and Mason

A Normal Day in B223

Today it was a normal day. We did our D.O.L then went to specials. For specails we had computer and then C.A.L.S. In the computer lab we went on Edmodo and discussed Groundhog Day. In CALS we talked about what it might be like to be hearing impaired. It was harder than we all thought. After that we had sicence. We made three view drawings of our first vehicle, and colored them. The views we made were side view, birds eye view, and front view. Then we had our snack and read people of sparks. Today the people from Ember were assigned to houses. We did a meaning sort in word study. Then we did our Hatchet vocab quiz and Hatchet quiz. Now it's team study. Next we are going to lunch and we have chesse quesadilla then recess and finally math. So, do you think the groundhog, Phil, will see his shadow tomorrow, and send us six more weeks of winter OR do you think he will stay out and bring spring early?

Emily: I think there will be six more weeks of winter!
Mason: I think he will see his shadow, because it is so nasty out.

Most of us want spring to come. We'll keep our fingers crossed!

Signing Out,

Emily and Mason