Reading:  Fantasy Fanbook    By: Catherine O'Donnell

   Our class had to make a fanbook. You had to pick out a fanasy book. Then when you are done reading it yo get a white, blue or green piece of paper and make it into a fanbook. Then you write 6 important events from the book. You also have to make a cover and leave a page p
blank for commennts and the grade. You also had to color the pictures neatly in colored pencil, crayon or make a collage and spell everything correctly. On the cover you would write the name of the book, the author, your name and the date. It was due on January 28, 2011.

Reading: Wax Museum   By: Paige Hofschire

On March 9th, the 5th grade will be doing something called the wax museum. For the wax museum, we choose a person to read a biography about. Then, for the wax museum, we dress up as  the person and pretend we are them. We tell about them, like when they were born, tell about their life, and other stuff. When people come to the museum (families, friends) they will have flashlights, and when they shine the flashlight, we start talking about our person. The wax museum is gonna be in the evening and be super cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reading:  Homophones and Homonyms   By: Sally Donovan

This week in reading we learned about homophones and homonyms. A homophone is word that sounds like another word but means the same thing but it is spelled differently.Some homophones are pair-pear,one-won,see-sea. A homonym is one word that has two or more meanings to it. Some examples are run,fair,coat,there, and there are many more too!!

January 7, 2011

Engineering

 This week in Engineering we started making windmills. We got partners to make them with. We had a packet so we could draw our ideas, answer questions and some other things. We have to follow the "Engineering Design Process" which is ask,imagine,plane, create and improve. On January 6, 2011 we started our ask and imagine stages, some people already started creating. We are having so much fun doing this.

Social Studies

 In Social Studies, we learned about the 13 colonies. It was a "Jigsaw" project.Our teacher Mr.Weinstein split the class into 3 groups.The 3 groups were the Northern Colonies, Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies. All 3 of the groups had to get information on the colony name,the founder,the main resources,the main religion in the colony, and one interesting fact about the colony. After we found out all of the information we had to make a map of the colonies.After we did that, we recopied the information on a poster board.The 13 colonies were much different back then, than right now.This was a fun project!

                           

Health

 This week in health we did a cool thing . We put goggles on called "drunk goggles." They show you how people see when they are drunk. Mrs.Kinsella put a long piece of tape on the rug and told us to try to walk in a straight line.She said to listen to your eyes, and not your brain. When you have the drunk goggles on, you see double of everything. If you are drunk, when you are driving, it is not safe for you and the other people on the street. You might see two yellow lines and accidentally go on the wrong side and have an accident with another car. That's why you must NEVER drink alcohol when you're driving.

By Jordan, Jonas,and Elias