Student of the Week... Briana B.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK! ALL ABOUT ME!

I am a member of: Friendship Baptist Church

I am most proud of: my sisters

People tell me I’m good at: softball and dancing

The person who most inspires me is: my parents

My favorite color is: baby blue

My favorite book is: Narnia

My favorite food is: pasta

My favorite TV show is: Icarly

My favorite sport is: softball

My favorite musical group is: Jonas Brothers

My favorite part of school is: English

My least favorite part of school is: homework

When I am 25, I will be: Pharmacist

Thank you, Briana! Great Job!

Roving Reporter by Taylor L.

Title: Another Exciting Day in Mrs. C.’s Class
Date: September 23, 2008
Roving Reporter: Taylor L.

Hi, my name is Taylor L. and I am the Roving Reporter for Tuesday September 23rd. Each of us in Mrs. C.’s class is taking a turn at being a Rover Reporter for our class blog. The Roving Reporter’s duty is to take pictures and write about our day. Our class had lots to do today so I’ll get started.

We began our day by saying 1 Peter 1:15-16. We approached Mrs. C.’s desk one-by-one to say our verse. 1 Peter 1:15-16 states, “But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct; because it is written, “Be holy for I am holy.”

After we finished our quiz we went to chapel. Mr. Gibbs talked to us about Jonah. Jonah began his journey not being holy and tried to run away from God. He took a shortcut that caused him much grief. After being swallowed by a fish and living in its stomach for three days and three nights, the fish spit him out. He learned a valuable lesson. We are learning this same lesson this year at school. The lesson is to listen to God and obey His commands.

Upon returning to the classroom, we began our math lesson. Mrs. C. taught us about division remainders. This means that not every number divides equally into other numbers. Some have remainders, or “leftover” numbers. During our math lesson, we were interrupted by a Boosterthon member.

The Boosterthon Run is our fundraiser project for this year. Each student is able to run up to 35 laps in a race that is sponsored by our friends and family. We met our goal as a class by getting over $100 per lap sponsored (yeah!). The Boosterthon member came into our class to give us the prizes that we earned for reaching our goal. Some of us received “glow-in-the-dark” wristbands, wristwatches, booster beach balls, vortex footballs and the hall-of-fame pack.

After lunch, it was time for Mrs. Brown’s art class. We started a new project on hair. Each student received a blank piece of paper, and then drew different hairstyles. We drew straight hair, curly hair, wavy hair, braided hair, Mohawk cuts and Afro styles. Mrs. Brown’s class is lots of fun; she always has cool projects for us.

For the rest of the afternoon, we went to recess and studied spelling, science and history.

Our class had a lot of excitement today. We are enjoying our school year. There is so much happening in our class. I am thankful for the opportunity to tell you about a little of it.

Taylor B. Lawing

2008 Member, Mrs. C.’s Fifth Grade Class

Student of the Week

All right!! I get to be the very first "Student" of the Week on our blog! :)

I know I'm not really a student in fifth grade, but I thought you all might like to hear a little more about me!

I have been married for 8 years, and I have two children. Haylee is five, and is in Kindergarten this year. She absolutely loves school! Wade is 6 months old and is over in the AEL.

You might remember me around the end of February with a giant belly!

I used to collect elephants, believe it or not! I still think they are so cute, even though my husband thinks I'm crazy. He thinks they are ugly!

Here are some funny pics!

This is my younger sister and me. I was about 6 years old, I think.

This was my 6th grade class. I am the girl in front of the line in the white shirt. :) Don't I look funny?

This is our expanded family in April 2008. Wade was only one month old here!

Okay! Here are my student of the week facts!

I am a member of... Northside Baptist Church.

I am most proud of... my fabulous students!

People tell me I'm good at... singing, writing, and saving big $$$ on groceries with my coupons!

The person who most inspires me is... my sweet husband! (Aw! Isn't that sweet?)

The favorite color is... purple and red, just not together. I have red in my kitchen, Living Room and my bedroom! I told you I like red!

My favorite book/author is... Lori Wick and Dee Henderson

My favorite food... oh so very many! Bavarian Creme doughnuts, brownies with walnuts, pasta!

My favorite tv show is... Gilmore Girls - even though it doesn't come on anymore! It's one of my all time favorite shows! :) I know you boys probably don't think that was a good show. You actually might have never even heard of it! I have some of the shows on DVD, but I usually just record them on ABC family and watch them as I grade papers or work on the computer. :) I like watching Reality TV shows too! Survivor is fun to watch. They do some crazy competitions and eat some crazy things sometimes!

My favorite sport is... volleyball. I used to play in high school and college. :)

My favorite musical group is... The Martins.

My favorite part of school is... making meaningful connections with my fabulous students.

My least favorite part of school is.... maybe grading papers!

When I am 25, I will be... Whoops! I've already passed that age! When I WAS 25 I was married and was about to have my very first baby!

There you have it! Now you know all about me!

Life through the eyes of Moss!

This chapter in Science we are learning about Ecology and Primary and Secondary Succession. Here is an essay written by Taylor L. through the eyes of moss on life in a forest experiencing Secondary Succession after the "interruption" of a forest fire.

Hi, I'm Maddie Moss. Last week a forest fire started because of a lightning strike. It was so sad watching all the animals leave and most of the plants die. After it was over, all that was left was very few trees, pioneer species, which include lichen, moss and blue-green bacteria, and few insects.

After a few days, tress stared growing little by little. Few plants had grown some and grass had grown. More insects started coming and little animals like frogs, lizards and snakes.

By now, lots of plants have grown and bigger animals like bunnies and turtles are coming back. Trees are starting to mature.

It's been many years now and finally the forest is back. The mature softwood and hardwood trees have grown back. All the animals are back. Finally, our forest is back!

Our Flood!

With all the rain we had this week, we had some interesting things happen to our ceiling!

Mrs. C. was very glad this didn't happen during school!

This was all the things we had trying to catch the rain coming in!

Yikes! We are missing two ceiling tiles now, but our class thought our big hole was very exciting when they came into class!

Some Snazzy Snapshots!

I'm not sure what Josh B. is doing!

Phillip M.

Samantha M.

Some of the boys playing games in the classroom.

Eating some Hulk cupcakes for Josh M.'s birthday. :)

Science Link

We finished up our Science Link Project, and I think that most of us even managed to enjoy it!

I was pleased with most of the class's effort and told them that I would share a few on our blog for all to see and enjoy!

(You can click on the picture to enlarge.)

"The Cell Cycle" by Karigan

"The Cell Cycle" by Alexis

"The Cell Cycle" by Briana

"The Cell Cycle" by Jordan

"Journalism Link" by Samantha. Samantha interviewed her PaPa who is an amazing 99 years old! He had skin cancer almost 40 years ago and was able to answer some of Samantha's questions about it.

Great Job, guys!

Roving Reporter by Alexis

What Happened on 9-3-08 at School

Hello, my name is Alexis and I am here to tell you what happened on 9-3-08 at School.

We are now in 5th grade and it is awesome. Lockers, our own girls and boys table and we all get to play together at recess!

How it all began

The story starts right when the bell rings. "Ring" went the bell right at 8:00 a.m. and the day was starting out great. We all sat down and got our bible book and Bible out.

Then Dejah said, "Pledge" and we all said the pledge. After the pledge, we opened our book and started the lesson. It was about how Joseph's brothers sold Joseph to someone else. The story had a happy ending about how Joseph saved the people from a drought and this would not have happened without his brothers selling him.

Next was math, which is one of my favorite subjects. We had a quiz.

You can see how our brains are working hard to get a good grade. After the quiz, we started our math lesson, which was subtraction. I thought the subtraction was easy because I have known subtraction since 1st grade.

Afterwards, we had English class. The day is moving quickly. With the morning moving right along, English class was spent going over chapter one review out of our English book. The whole review page was going over sentences. For example, sentences with prepositional phrases and compound sentences.

The time seemed to fly by to the next subject, reading. We finished our first book today called "Taste Of Blackberries". We filled in the answers to questions regarding chapter 8 and then went over the vocabulary words from Chapter 7.

The time seemed to go by quickly and now my stomach started to rumble for some reason.

Lunch time! We all walked quietly to lunch and got to sit in our new 5th grade lunch tables. The girls get one table and the boys got their own table too. We had to be quiet for the first 10 minutes because we have been getting to loud lately. Eventually, we were able to talk and visit with our friends.

Back to school

Computer class was next and the students seemed to enjoy it. Today we went on MapQuest and then labeled the larger cities in the state like Raleigh, Greensboro and Charlotte.

Sometimes we have to ask questions and it's great to have a teacher to help us, which was a substitute teacher named Ms. King. At the end of class the students seemed to get excited about our next activity.

Time to Play

Recess seems to be shorter this year, however, all three classes get to play together. Last year, our classes were separated and I missed playing with some of my friends.

The boys played in the field and the girls talked and all of us had tons of fun!

The rest of the school day was taken up by spelling, science and history. Spelling this year is super hard because the words are so long. Science I find very interesting and this year we have been going over cells. In History class, we have been going over the people in the Bible, which is very interesting.

Time to Go!

The day ends at 2:55 p.m. after we pack our bags up at our new lockers! The students seem to really like the lockers. Some have decorated them, while others just like having lockers for the first time. I love my locker and have decorated it with pictures and magnets and a really cool mirror.

End of the day!

What a great day it was. I love 5th grade and all the extra freedom we have; lockers, lunch tables and recess with my friends. Now you know what happened on 9-3-08.

The End

Extra, Extra! Picture Day Announcement!

Picture Day is this Friday, September 5th at 9:15 am.

Since Friday is "Spirit Shirt/Jean Day", students should come to school dressed in their regular uniform shirt and jeans.

You can then bring your Spirit Shirt to change into AFTER pictures!

Come ready to SMILE!

Science Link Project is Coming Up!

Our Science Link Project is coming up soon! It will be due Monday, September 8th.

Here are the three choices you had to pick from and their descriptions...

• History Link... Research and write a one page handwritten report on the discoveries and contributions of Rosalind Franklin, Francis Crick, and James Watson.

• Art Link... Draw and color the three stages of the cell cycle on an 8.5 by 11 inch piece of paper. Include the four phases of mitosis. Label each stage and phase and write a caption that describes what occurs in each one. Remember to use full color!
  
  
• Journalism Link... Interview someone who has experience having a type of Cancer. Ask that person to share his or her story with you. Take notes of your meeting, and in the style of a magazine article, write a half page to full page handwritten about what you experienced.

Art Link Students... Briana, Josh B., Micah, Alexis, Michael, Jordan, Karigan, Josh M., Phillip, Andrew, O'Bryant, and Dejah

History Link Students... Taylor

Journalism Link Students... Samantha and Levi

Remember to your best!!!

Assessment Alert! :)

Here are the quizzes and tests for the week to keep in mind!

Bible verse Quiz... Tuesday

Reading Taste of Blackberries Quiz chapters 7-8... Thursday

Reading Taste of Blackberries Test chapters 1-8... Friday

Science Chapter 3 Test... Friday

Homework Summary 9/2 to 9/5

Homework for 09/2/2008 - 09/05/2008

Bible

Tuesday - 09/02/2008
Write Gen. 50:20

Wednesday - 09/03/2008
Write Gen. 50:20

Thursday - 09/04/2008
Write Gen. 50:20

Friday - 09/05/2008
Write Gen. 50:20

History

Monday - 09/01/2008
none

Tuesday - 09/02/2008
Study Review Sheet for Test Wednesday, 9/10
Study American's Creed for Quiz Friday, 9/19

Wednesday - 09/03/2008
none

Thursday - 09/04/2008
Study Review Sheet for Test Wednesday
Study American's Creed for Quiz Friday, 9/19

Friday - 09/05/2008
Study Review Sheet for Test Wednesday
Study American's Creed for Quiz Friday, 9/19

Language Arts

Monday - 09/01/2008
none

Tuesday - 09/02/2008
English: Do wksht 9; Study for Test next Tuesday
Reading: Write Vocab ch. 7
Spelling: Finish bkwk pages 6-8

Wednesday - 09/03/2008
English: Study for Test next Tuesday
Reading: Study for Quiz tomorrow on chapters 7-8
Spelling: Study for Test Friday

Thursday - 09/04/2008
English: Do wksht 10-11; Study for Test next Tuesday
Reading: Study for Taste of Blackberries Test tomorrow
Spelling: Do Journal p. 9

Friday - 09/05/2008
English: Study for Test next Tuesday
Reading: none
Spelling: Do worksheet

Math

Monday - 09/01/2008
none

Tuesday - 09/02/2008
Do workbook 1.7

Wednesday - 09/03/2008
none

Thursday - 09/04/2008
WB 1.9

Friday - 09/05/2008

Science

Monday - 09/01/2008
none

Tuesday - 09/02/2008
Study Review Sheet for test Friday;
Work on Link Project due Monday

Wednesday - 09/03/2008
Study Review Sheet for test Friday;
Work on Link Project due Monday

Thursday - 09/04/2008
Study Review Sheet for test tomorrow;
Work on Link Project due Monday

Friday - 09/05/2008
Work on Link Project due Monday