Roving Reporter... Dejah W.

ROVING REPORTER 11/14/08
DEJAH W.

Hi, I’m Dejah and I’m going to tell you all about Friday, November 14, 2008.

Our school day begins when we recite the Pledge of Allegiance, the Christian Flag Pledge and the Bible Pledge.

Our teacher, Mrs. C., moves on to Bible class. We read from our book, The Songbird. It’s about a boy named Truxton and his gift of helping birds.


Our next subject is math. We have started a new chapter! It’s about how your calculator works and function machines. We especially like the part about using calculators. When we finished, Mrs. C. said we could play the metric unit game. You have to guess which metric unit the pegs lands on and continue from there.

This is Taylor and Alexis having a good time playing this game.

Meanwhile, Micah and his buddy are enjoying the metric unit game as well.

Next, it’s English. We are working on our diamantes. Diamantes are so much fun! Mrs. C. said “Can’t you notice how the diamante is in the shape of a diamond?” I guess that is how they decided to name it.

Eventually, we move on to reading. We had a reading quiz on our vocabulary words. Taylor and Michael finished their quizzes. I think we studied really hard for the quiz because everyone was very excited.

Finally, it is my favorite part of the school day - lunch!!! They are serving hotdogs and macaroni. There are many students who decide to have hot dogs. Other students select something else. For the first 5 minutes, we have red cup which means we can’t talk to each other.

Afterwards, we line up to go to music class. We play the chimes that we have been practicing for awhile. This goes extremely well.

Before you know it, we have to head back to our classroom for recess. We are playing inside because of the rain. We, therefore, resume our metric unit game since we have to stay inside.

Next, it is time for science. We recently started a new chapter. It is about force and work. Doesn’t everybody work in some way? I like science mostly because it talks about the human body and staying healthy. Force and work is very important to the human race. If we did not have all of the appliances that we need, it would take a long time to accomplish everyday tasks.

Finally, it is time for history. We are learning about Africa. We discovered that many Egyptians are from Africa. They make glass and ceramic bowls. It was very interesting learning about the Egyptians.

Now it is the end of this school day. It is 2:55 - dismissal time. We had an interesting day and we learned a lot. We also had a lot of fun.

Signing off,

Your Roving Reporter,

Dejah W.

Fly your banner high!

We are close to finishing up our novel, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and we had a good time designing our own flags and banners that we could fly at the Stone Table. They really turned out super, and after Briana had the good idea of sticking hers on the front of her desk, we got everyone to put theirs on display as well.

Here's some pics of the finished work... (click on each pic to see it larger)

We can't wait to finish the book this week! We will be watching the movie on Tuesday afternoon (the 24th) in the Hudson Chapel right before we get out for Thanksgiving Break!

So cool!

We are participating in Operation Christmas Child this year. OCC is a great program that gives Christmas gifts to needy children all over the world some of whom have never gotten a Christmas gift before!

Our class learned about writing business letters recently in English class, and we decided to write letters to various businesses and ask for donations for our OCC boxes.

This morning I got a call from Michael at the Walmart on University. He received a letter from Micah and Andrew. His Walmart agreed to donate a $50 gift card to help our cause.

Since we are running really close to the deadline to get these boxes in, Mrs. Reyborn ran out and did some fun, fun shopping for these needy kids.

Here's Andrew and Micah "packing" the boxes to send out. We were able to fill four boxes with the gift card!

Great job, guys!! Thank you, Walmart!

Spell, Spell, Spell!

We have a spelling bee coming up soon!! Two winners will be selected from each fifth grade class to go on and compete against the winners from 5th to 8th grade on December 9th in the School Spelling Bee.

So get started studying and let's do our best to represent the fabulous fifth grade!