5th Grade Predictions

by SD128

I think 5th grade will be fun because you will get more advantages like safety patrol and selling lollipops. If you are in the Aloha room, you get to do the Heart to Heart thing. Fifth graders also get to be in the B.E.S.T. club. It will be fun to have all the kids looking up to you too. It might be hard trying to figure out what instrument to play and fun to go to Eagle Bluff. The work will be harder and we will be the smartest kids in school. That's what 5th grade will be like.

State Fair Projects

by BM1018

Hi, I'm BM1018 and we're doing a project where we pick a state and figure out interesting things about it like state flower, bird, animal, and who's famous from that state.

We got to choose which project we wanted to do. Such as making a piece of clothing with symbols that represent the state.

The most popular project done was "My State Takes the Cake." It's where you make a cake in the shape of your state then decorate it with things like rivers, lakes, mountains, cities, and other areas of interest.

Choice Novel Projects

by SM329

Miss H's World Famous Class is doing a choice novel project. It's when we do all sorts of projects on a book we've read in the past 30 days. We have the choices of the poster, character quilt, CSI, design a CD, reality TV, and much more! We all did great!

The View From Saturday by SD917

This amazing book was written by E.L. Konigsburg. It tells about four children: Noah - who happened to be best man at Ethan and Nadia's grandparents' wedding; Ethan - the silent one who likes Nadia; Nadia - the red headed turtle loving girl who has a genius dog; and Julian - the wierdest person on the bus. Julian invites Noah, Nadia, and Ethan to a tea party. Mrs. Olinski is thier teacher. Shewas in an automobile accident so she is a paraplegic. She is the one sho started everything.

Arbor Day

by CB812

It was Arbor day last Friday, April 24th. We went on a field trip downtown. When we were downtown there was food, stands, and scavenger hunt. There scavenger hunt was where you had to find green slips on the trees. For food there was hot dogs, corn on the cob, chips, and pop. It was the best field trip yet.

by CM923

Arbor Day was so fun and we got delicious hot dogs and buttered corn on the cob with soda. They had stations you could go to and some of them had stuff for you. One gave you a energy saving light bulb and another gave you part of a small tree. Then they had awards for the poster contest. The grand prize was your art gets to be in a calendar. Mayor Brade handed them out to the winners. Then my group went to look for Smokey the Bear. At the end of the day we got trees and went home.

How to Eat Fried Worms by ER1212

In class we just finished a book called How to Eat Fried Worms. This book is about a boy named Billy who makes a bet with his friend Joe that he can eat 15 worms in 15 days for 50 bucks. to buy a minibike. Then guess what he does? During the he gets tricked by eating fake worms made out of beans and at a baseball game he gets home late and stuffed so he won't be hungry enough to eat the worms! Pretty sneaky huh?

This book teaches you to never give up, not eat worms, and bets are bad. You should read this book because I liked it all and you should too.

Morning Run

by AC929

You know some kids just like to be lazy and never want to be active. They jsut want to stay home and watch tv and play video games all day long. So that's why there is a morning run so kids can be strong and stay healthy and get active. So now you never have to stay in and be lazy and eat junk food all the time. Wake early, eat some healthy food and go straight to the morning run. Do four or three laps.

byNE58

The morning run is a run that is supposed to help us with a phy. ed that we do every year. If you run 2 laps every day than you get a blue star award at the end of the year. If you run 3+ laps every day than you get a gold star award at the end of the year. Sometimes you can get over 4 laps but that is usually not for the whole year. And if you did 0 laps I don't think you get anything! I think the mile run is real fun because I like to run.

Recorder Belts by BM1018

Hi, I'm BM1018 from Miss H's world famous 4th grade class and I'm going to talk to you about recorder belts. I hope you know what a recorder is.
For all of you yahoos out there who are thinking what are recorder belts - that is what I am going to tell you.
Recorder belts are kinda like Karate belts. You get one when you complete a song on the recorder. There is a red, white, yellow, green, and blue belt. When you get all of those you get a black packet with a bunch of songs. You have to play all of those to get a black belt. There's a couple more belts but they're hard to get.
This has been BM1018 reporting in on recorder belts.

Test Taking Tips by KP614

Steps When You are taking a Test

• Eat a good breakfast and get a good night's sleep
• Read all questions carefully
• HUM - Highlight the main idea, Underline the supporting details, write notes in the Margins
• Good readers read like writers and good writers write like readers.
• Double check your work
• Ask yourself "What do I already know?"
• Eliminate wrong answers
• Chewing gum reduces stress and mint stimulates the brain
• Know your math facts
• Preview the questions
• If you get stuck, skip the question and come back to it later
• Refer back to the passage
• Use pracitce materials on Miss H's website
• Drink water - its good for the brain
• Take a stretch break
• Use context clues
• Don't give up

Visit from Congressman Walz

by CB1127

Tim Walz is a congressman. He spoke at Bamber Valley. Tim Walz worked at Mankato high school and was born in West Point, Nebraska. About every week he commutes to Washington D.C. He said quote "My concern is the limited amount of resources." I think it was cool hearing from a politician.

by ER1212

On April 9th, 2009 our class got to go to an assembly and meet Tim Walz! During the assembly a fifth grader asked what his basic routine was and he said that he gets up at 6:00am. At 6:30 he goes to the gym, at 7:30 he reads ALL of the newspapers from southern Minnesota (including Rochester) on the computer and at about 8:30 he goes to meetings for the rest of the day.

Then, listen to this, he taught school in China and there are NO left handed students in China. And the Chinese people have not heard of fortune cookies! Mr. Walz also taught 4th, 6th, 11th, and 12th grades in Mankato, MN.

Heritage Festival by SM128

Thursday, March 19th there was a lot of fun stuff to do at the Heritage festival. You could watch the flag ceremony and listen to the fifth grade singers. Then the heritage fashion show. There also was a lot of dancing. Also there was a lot going on outside the gym. They had posters, food, stickers, games, and more from countries around the world! It was fun!

Ag in the Classroom by EB829

On March 24th, Miss H's World Famous Fourth Grade Class went to a lesson about Agriculture. Agriculture is about working on a farm. Bill Queasly and Kevin Connelly were the speakers. We learned that an average cow weighs 1500 pounds. Bill said the heaviest cow is probably 3,000 pounds! They feed cows alfalfa, corn, and beans mix. When a calf is born it weighs more than a 4th grader, 80 pounds! After calves drink their mothers milk for awhile, they eat this dried up milk like left over cheese and yogurt for about 60 days. People come to their farms and take a sample of the cows milk and bring it to the machine that tests it. They test it because there might be some medicine like penicillin in the milk. Our class thought it was fun.

The Class Hermit Crabs by AB630

We have 2 class hermit crabs. Their names are Kitty and Hermetta. They are different because Kitty is HUGE while Hermetta is small and shy. We started with three different crabs that we earned a year ago when the entire class met their reading goals. They have died and I brought Bobbi Jo who also died. Now we have Kitty and Hermetta donated by students.

Some of the adventures they've had was Bobbi Jo shedding a leg and then crawling around with one leg. And when Miss H left kitty on the table and she crawled off and Miss H could not find her. When she found her she was by the door trying to leave.

Magnets and Circuits by IM715

Hi, in class we've been studying magnets and electrical circuits. For those of you who don't know a circuit is a line (usually a wire) that lets electricity flow through it. A magnet is an item that uses a magnetic force to stick to iron.

To prove to us that electricity flows through a wire we did an experiment with 2 wires, a D-cell (battery), and a small light bulb. My group got it to work so we were pretty proud about that. You can try it at home if you have these materials because I did. But remember never put water near an electrical item or you could get a very bad shock that could injure or kill you.

Keep reading our great blog! Bye

Amelia and Eleanor by SK53

Reading is great! Especially our story for this week. It's called Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride. Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt are best friends in the story. Amelia is a pilot and Eleanor is President Roosevelt's wife.

The Beginning of the story starts like this - Eleanor invites Amelia over for dinner so they both get ready for dinner. Amelia puts on a white gown. At the dinner table Eleanor gives Amelia a gift of a scarf just like hers. After that the guests start asking her questions about flying. Amelia's eyes sparkled at one of the questions. She answered why don't we take a short flight tonight. So they did.

Eleanor's secret service agents tried to stop her from going. But that didn't stop her. She said, "Amelia is a good pilot so let's give it a shot." When they got back reporters were asking so many questions to Eleanor. Before they went back inside they took a drive in the car and then they had cake.

Expert of the Week by PP315

Our class has Expert of the Week. That's where it is someone's birthday and they bring in something that they are good at. Sometimes the expert brings a snack. The class gets to ask the expert questions to get to know them better. The most famous question is "What is your most embarrassing moment?"

I am the expert this week and I am an expert on collecting baseball cards. I passed my favorite cards around and my dad came in. That is my expert of the week!

Writer's Workshop by AB630

Writer's Workshop is when we write about anything we want to. The steps to doing this are: prewriting, drafting, sharing, revising/editing, conferencing, and publishing.

We have to have two pieces done by Tuesday, March 24th. We also have to have one piece that we edit and revise without an adult for a report card grade.

In our Writer's Workshop binder there are helpful hints like a 6 trait rubric, a revision peer conferencing form, writing topic suggestions, and tips for writing.

I asked some people what they wrote about. Here is what they said: "Lost in Winter Wonderland" "The School Ghost" "Minnesota Travel Brochure" and "The School Ghost Award"

The Golden Charger by BM1018

Hi! I'm in Miss H's World Famous Class and I'm going to tell you something about us winning the Golden Charger.

Our teacher is really wanting us to win it. How you win is the hard part. You have to read as many A.R. books as you can. The Golden Charger award is only for 4th graders.

Whichever class has the most A.R. points and accuracy wins the Golden Charger for a week. We've only won 4 times and Mrs. L's class six. So come on Miss H's class - Get Reading!

St Patrick's Day

by SD128

It is St Patrick's Day and Miss O'Hennes gives us green paper and clover cutouts. She wants us to write our name the way the Irish would so we put the letter "O" in front of our last name. We give the shamrocks with our Irish names to Miss O'Hennes.

After math we saw names all over the place! The leprechauns had visited. We got to look for our hidden shamrocks. The most exciting one was hidden in the mouth of Pete the Perch!

St Patrick's Day

by EB820

On St Patrick's Day, we watched a video about how St. Patrick's day began. It is because of Patrick, a guy who combined church traditions with Irish customs, that we have St Patrick's Day.

Later we did a craft where we had a stencil and and cut out a big clover and put it on a different shade of green paper.

The last thing we did was a Personal Best Drawing. I know it doesn't tie in but that's what we did. A Personal Best is something you get when you do something good. We put our name on it, put it in a bucket and if Miss H draws your name out of it you get a prize. The best prize was a box of Cheez-its.

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