Star Students!

I am sorry Tyler and Abbey, I am late posting your pictures.  Sometimes in short weeks we may not celebrate a Star Student but these two were too awesome to miss!  Abbey and Tyler always make good choices and work hard!  Congrats to you two and keep it up!

September 11th and Jaguars!

We learned about the events of September 11, 2001 last week.  Over the weekend, even the Jacksonville Jaguars had events to honor those who lost their lives on that day and those who serve our country in the armed forces.  Here are a few pictures showing their festivities.

PTA!!

I really want our class to have 100% PTA membership.  Please send in your $5 to help us get there!  They do so much for us as a class and as a school.

Open House is next Tuesday at 6:30.  Please come join us and learn about your child's classroom!

Measuring as Scientists!

In math we have learned so many ways to solve division problems.  It is getting easier to complete our work and we are working great with our tables.

During science we have spent time wondering how we can measure like scientists.  We used a pan balance to compare and measure mass of solids, used rulers to measure the length and width of solids and finally learned to use the graduated cylinder to find the volume of liquids.  After comparing the texture, mass and color (describing the properties of our matter) of the same solids and liquids, we learned to read the meniscus when discussing the volume of a liquid.  Here are some pictures to show our hard work. 

Our First Week!

We have reviewed multiplication and our strategies including the generic rectangle, repeating our addition, and using landmark numbers.  Thursday we started our unit on division.  So far we have seen repeated subtraction, using multiplication to work backwards, clustering, and the partial quotient strategies to solve division.  I am impressed so far and I can't wait to see what else you guys can share about division.

In science we have looked at science tools, measuring objects and we have explored liquids and solids.  We reviewed the three states of matter and practiced describing matter using its properties.  We are going to continue our fun next week!

We are off to a great start and I hope you all have a great weekend!

Star Students!

We have had such a great first week of 5th grade!  Every week we get to celebrate a Star Student and this week Ann and Joshua worked so hard to earn the title! Great work!

Here is Ann and Joshua with Goody and Gibby, our class mascots! Keep up the good work!

We Are Ready!

Rooms 73 and 71 are ready for you!  Mr. Gibbons and I have been working so hard to get everything in place and ready for Monday.  We are both so excited to meet each of you and start learning and having fun!  The only school supplies you will need to bring are about 10 pencils, a composition book and a pack of ruled notebook paper.   As we say all year "It is good to be an Ape!"

Wow! Summer has moved fast!

We have spent time in Fernandina Beach, Virginia Beach and now moving.  This has been a very busy summer but at least we all still have a few days to relax before we get back to working hard.  Here are a few pictures of our summer.

We went to Fernandina with several friends. This is Caden, one of Ryan's best friends!

Ryan got to go tubing for the first time with her cousin and friend.

Then they made me go tubing, it is harder than it looks but fun!

Ryan and Ariela met their friends at Busch Gardens.

This is Ryan's Great Gramper Goodman.

The Bay is fun with Ashlee, Ryan's cousin who is now playing on the 15 year old Coastal National Volleyball team in Va Beach.  Did I mention she will only be 14 in August! Go Ashlee!

Learning to Polka in front of a live audience is not very nice!

The heat was so bad Ryan played in the water park with her clothes on!

She enjoyed the live audience for the Chicken Dance!

Ryan with cousin Lily, Mr. Goodman and Uncle Steve Goodman!

Summer has been busy!

I have not had a moment to post anything.  I have been so busy so far this summer and I actually thought I was going to relax.  Ryan and I went to Fernandina Beach for a week and a half while Mr. Goodman came out for about 5 days in between work.  I will have to post some pictures as soon as possible.  Everyday was spent swimming, building sand castles and jumping the waves in our beautiful ocean.  We got to see fire works for the 4th from the beach which was perfect and peaceful.  Now that we are home we are planning our next trip to my hometown to visit family.  Watch out Virginia Beach, the Goodman's are coming. 

Ryan also attended volleyball camp which she loved! Here are a few pictures of her in action.  She misses you all and asks about you all the time.

What a busy week we have enjoyed!

From Miss Clay County to baby chicks "peeping" all day, from basketball to people in history...

The apes have been so busy this week and my camera has been resting at home.  We completed our people from history presentations and they were so creative and fun.  We even went to Mrs.Brown's 1st grade class to present some to her class.  After presentations we had a great opportunity to meet one of Mrs. Ross's former students who is now Miss Clay County.  She talked about the Children's Miracle Network and let our apes make cards for children in the hospital who need some cheer and hope in their lives.  The apes in rooms 71 and 73 were the perfect ones for the job, they all created such great cards.

We have traveled to Mrs. Wood's room a  couple times over the past two weeks to peek in our the our eggs in her incubator.  She led us in the life of a chick and the stages of development before hatching.  On Monday we came in and found actual chick.  She even let us bring some back to our room.  The room was silent except for the nonstop "peeping" from our super cute visitors.  They are headed to the farm for a great happy life this weekend.

Please don't forget our End of the Year Luncheon is Tuesday at 11:30, 5th grade awards will be on Wednesday and we will leave on Thursday at 6:45 am for our field trip! I can't wait for one more week of fun with our 5th graders!