Ethan's Writing

We used a quote from Mrs. Bowen, our counselor, to inspire our writing today. The quote was: "Whether you think you can or you think you can't-you are right."

Here is what Ethan wrote

Over the spring, I overcame a fear that no Lacrosse player likes doing, playing GOALIE. Goalie is a really hard position, in fact it is the hardest. The reason that playing goalie is so hard is because who wants to stand in front of a ball that is layered 100's of times in rubber coming at you. Well on our 3rd or 4th practice coach said, "Who will be our goalie?" And I said, "I will." So at our next practice I saw my mom walking onto the field with a brand new goalie stick, and when I saw it I knew there was no backing out.

Busy Monday

Today was a whirlwind. We had head checks with Nurse Carol, played Smackdown with Mrs. Evans, wrote about things we love in our writer's notebook, and created posters in social studies. We are learning about area and perimeter in math and reading Frindle in reading. We worked on our Wordly Wise with Mrs. Heaberlin and enjoyed beautiful weather at recess. We have a social studies test coming up on Thursday, and Mrs. Evans reminded us to review our two graded worksheets along with the vocabulary in chapter 1.

Friday Fun

Friday's are test days, but we also had some fun today. Ms. Cindy substituted for Mrs. Heaberlin today, and we had our spelling bee. We did a musical chair edit in Mrs. Evans's room. We had a special treat when Brianna sang for us and then Hailey and Mallory sang a duet. We are thinking about having a talent show. Wouldn't that be fun?
Wildcat Assistants for the first semester were announced today. They are: Heaven, Maria, Bailey, Brandon, Austin, Ryan, Katie, Devan, Christen, Harrison, Ryan, Sam, Rachel, Lauryn, Emma.

On the Rug

5th graders gather on the rug to listen to various mentor texts for writing workshop. We have already used Amelia's Notebook and The Way We Are Smart to inspire our writing.

Thursday is Jeopardy Day

Thursdays are always fun because Mr. Exner plays Jeopardy with us as a review for Friday's tests.

8 ways we are smart

We read the book How We Are Smart and learned about the different ways people are smart. We read the poems out loud to the class and discussed how each person was smart then we made

Tuesday, REACH Day

Today the REACH students started their classes with Mrs. Wagoner. Because we have such a large REACH class, Mrs. Jan Pushaver will be working with Mrs. Wagoner.