Civil War Review Game

Here is a fun game to help you review for our Civil War test tomorrow.
Fling the Teacher

If that link doesn't work go to the Fling the Teacher collection and click on the Civil War review game

Halloween Poetry Fun

Halloween

When terrifying ghosts rule the night
And the streets are filled with fright
All darkness without a light
This is Halloween night

When bloodthirsty monsters roam
And haunted house ghosts call home
And zombies with their mouths all filled with foam
This is Halloween night

With ghosts and goblins all about
They make you want to scream and shout
When Halloween is out
With costumes, candy, treats galore
That leave you wanting more
You will not sleep, you will not snore
This is good ol’ Halloween’s roar!

By Jason G.

Writing Workshop

Our writing workshop is up and running. Students have really been doing some creative writing this week. Here is a video that will give you a peek into our classroom during share time. We are still working on giving helpful feedback to our classmates. We have learned about dialogue, good endings, descriptive language, and much more. Let us know what you think.

4H Officers Elected

Today we held elections for our 4H officers. Everyone who gave a speech was a winner!

In Mrs. Evans' class we elected:
Abby=President
Caleb=Vice President
Jonathan=Secretary
Kailey=Reporter

In Mr. Exner's class we elected:
Abby=President
Bailey=Vice President
Kali=Secretary
Jason=Reporter

In Mrs. Morgan's class we elected:
Aaron=President
Shaylyn=Vice President
Zoie=Secretary
Alissa=Reporter

National Punctuation Day

Friday was National Punctuation Day. Students celebrated by performing a punctuation rap/poem/reader's theater for their classmates.

Civil War video

We are learning about the Civil War in Social Studies. Here is a harsh video that shows what Civil War battles were like
http://www.watchknow.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=9927

Another science Fling game

Here is the link to a Fling the Teacher game for science review related to page 86 in our science textbook

Fling the Teacher

North South Review Game

We have a social studies test tomorrow. Here is a Fling the Teacher game to help review:

North South Fling the Teacher

a twisted heart map

We have used our writer's notebooks to help us learn strategies writers use. One of the strategies was to make heart maps of things we love because writers generally pick topics of things they love and know about to write about. We then made lists of things we hate and things that bug us because sometimes we feel passionate about things we don't like too. Here is a very creative "hate map" that Jason made.

Fling Science

Here is the direct link to the Fling the Teacher science review game. It takes a few minutes to load-be patient. Have fun!

Fling the teacher science game

Fling the Teacher Science Review

Today we played a fun review game called Fling The Teacher to review for a science test on Earth's features. Here is the link if you would like to play it:

Fling the Teacher Game

Open House presentation

Welcome to 5th

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Writing Workshop

Our writing workshop is starting to roll now. Students have learned about the writing process and how writers get ideas from their "hearts". They have written their first pieces in their notebooks. We shared their paragraphs and learned how writers give each other helpful feedback. We used the following starters to help us form our feedback: 1. I really liked... 2. A word that popped... 3. I'm wondering... 4. I was confused by... 5. Can you tell me more about... Here is a video showing Mrs. Dees and Alex discussing his paragraph on fishing. Alex's next step in writing will be to take the feedback and see if he wants to "revisit" his paragraph and add more details. Of course, he is in charge of his writing, and he may choose to leave this piece and choose another topic.

Thursday Jeopardy

On Thursdays Mr. Exner plays Jeopardy as a review for Friday's tests. Sometimes he even throws in some fun categories like Sponge Bob and Baseball.

5th Grade Highlights

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Math Study Group

Mr. Exner holds a math study group every Thursday from 2:30-3:15 to help prepare for Friday's math test. This is free tutoring available for all 5th graders. They do not have to sign up; they just have to have pre-arranged transportation home at 3:15. Today students worked on reducing fractions using a competitive game format.

Science fun

Students learned how to think like a scientist by completing a fun bubble gum experiment.

We are recycling now!

Our school now has a paper recycling program. Families can send in junk-mail, magazines, newspapers, and any scrap paper. The kids have been working on making a science video-commercial-as often happens with technology, we have had a few glitches-hopefully the commercials will be available soon.

A New Classroom

Wow-what a quick summer we had this year! I am so excited about our new classroom space for this year-I moved into Mrs. Heaberlin's classroom since she retired. I think everything is now organized and ready for the new year-one of my goals this year is to stay organized-students will be reporting in on that goal in a few weeks. I met many of my new students today and can't wait to get to know them more.

Supply list

Moreland 5th Grade Supply List



3 ring Notebook/Binder
Dividers
4 Writing/Composition books (Marble books not Spiral)
Pencils
Notebook Paper
3 Folders with pockets
*Colored Pencils
*Glue Stick
*1 Box of Tissue
*1 Container Clorox Wipes
*1 Protractor
*1 Jump Drive/Flash Drive

*Optional items

**Students will need 3 sheets of regular white poster board in October for a Language project.