Homework - due on March 6th.

Make a poster with your family history (from grandparents on) and their professions!
Please include pictures.

This Week

We went out side and we found a scorpion and a lot of crickets.

We played a lot on break, especially hide tag.

We wrote a lot and eat a lot,  every day we have short talk this week was very cool.



Posted by Pedrinho

The 5th grade class

                                         
 
    Monday: The 5th graders had a cooking class! Yes, we, the 5th grade,made many delicious cookies! It was very good and we had a lot of fun making them.

    Thuesday: Mrs. Robs taught us how to make a paragraph structure by academic writing standards. It was difficult, but we are so smart and everyone gave their best! Now we know how to make a good paragraph.

    Wednesday: We had a field observation. We wrote a paragragh and a list of 10 living things. It was fun!
 
     Thursday: We made groups and had  Math, Science and Language Arts activities to answer with the group.
 
     Friday: We had a game class. It was like this: we made groups and work together to have the correct answer of the play. It was very cool!


Posted by Isis

Our First Cooking Class...

I plan on adding meaning and depth to the fun so we actually started working on this recipe last week. Monday was our first, hands on, cooking class, but we have been working on this recipe for a week  in Math. I gave them measurement conversion charts, so our first step was to evaluate the recipe, learn the conversion charts - cups and spoons to mg or ml - and then we convert the recipe.  We went from cups and teaspoons to mg, or as I like to say, they went from the unknown to the understandable. It was tricky in the beginning but they soon got a grip of what they were supposed to do.

Today, we got our hands on the kitchen and put last week´s work on paper into a delicous cookie!  We had fun, got our hands dirty and our mouths full.  The kids did a wonderful job keeping clean and helping around.  I think I might have discovered a few hidden talents in the process as well!

If you are curious about our recipe, here it goes:

INGREDIENTS

·         2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

·         1/2 teaspoon baking soda

·         1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature

·         1/2 cup granulated sugar

·         1 cup packed light-brown sugar

·         1 teaspoon salt

·         2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

·         2 large eggs

·         2 cups (about 12 ounces) semisweet and/or milk chocolate chips

STEP 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a small bowl, whisk together the flour and baking soda; set aside. 

STEP 2

In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the butter with both sugars; beat on medium speed until light and fluffy. Reduce speed to low; add the salt, vanilla, and eggs. Beat until well mixed, about 1 minute. Add flour mixture; mix until just combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.

STEP 3
Drop heaping tablespoon-size balls of dough about 2 inches apart on baking sheets lined with parchment paper.





STEP 4

Bake until cookies are golden around the edges, but still soft in the center, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from oven, and let cool on baking sheet 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack, and let cool completely. Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature up to 1 week.

The Week

We are in the second week of school and we are reserching about a pet for our class and we saw that guinea pigs are very sensible .And now we are reserching about a lizard for our class.

And in performing arts we are doing a movie about the descpicable me.

The week was good!

Posted by Carlos

VALENTINE´S DAY KICKBALL

"Kickball is a playground game and league game, similar to baseball, invented in the United States in the first half of the 20th century. It is similar to baseball where players kick the ball to bat it instead of using bats, making it more accessible to young children. As in baseball, teams alternate innings with one team attempting to score by having its players circle the bases and the other team in the outfield working to stop runs from being scored. Players on the batting team kick an inflated rubber ball to advance players around the bases and thus score runs. The team with the most runs after a predefined number of innings wins.

Kickball is a popular playground sport and is typically played among young, school-age children.^{[citation needed]} The lack of both specialized equipment and highly skill-based positions (like pitcher) makes the game an accessible introduction to other sports. It is less popular among adults, who are more commonly known to play similar games like softball and baseball. "

"The game seems to afford equal enjoyment to the childrens and it gives a better understanding of the national game (Baseball), and at the same time affords them an exercise that is not too violent and is full of fun." 

                                                                                                                                   (Source Wikipedia)

Today we took the time from Arts and Crafts to learn a 

new game.  We had the 4th grade against the 5th 

grade.

The kids took a little longer than I expected to master 

the game so we had to lwave the actual plating for 

another day!

Let´s not forget that today is VALENTINE´S DAY, so 

we made a special card to share with a loved one. 

There were some really great projects and texts!  

Mrs. Roberta Mesquita

Homework - Due Monday, Feb 17th

Research how to take care of a Lizard!

Answer the following questionary:

1- What do they eat?
2- What is their natural habitat?
3- How long do they live?
4- Do they require any special care?  What is it?
5- Are they sesitive to anything in special?

Parent´s Meeting...

We would like to thank all the parents who came to the meeting on Tuesday!  It was great to have your feedback and to learn a little about your expectations, I hope you have enjoyed it as much as I did.  Please feel free to visit our class anytime and to contact me as often as you may need.

The kids were surprised and thankful for the notes you left them!

Mrs. Roberta Mesquita

The Week...

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Hi people of forth and fifth grades,

this week we made a class contract, and we talk about our vacations.        
We drew and described some of the places we visited on our vacations.                                                      
My teacher is very cool, my friends too. I like the week so much.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          BY GUILHERME !!

Homework Due Feb, 13th

Research how to take care of Guinea Pigs!

Answer the following questionary:

1- What do they eat?
2- What is their natural habitat?
3- How long do they live?
4- Do they require any special care?  What is it?
5- Are they sesitive to anything in special?

So The Year Begins...

I have been looking forward to this week for months!! 

I am so happy to lead this class into the adventure that the 5th grade will represent in their lives.

We had a blast this week, we got to know each other and we started shaping our class.  We made signs designating class area for the different subjects; we decided what we are doing for P.A. and how we are learning about Living things in Science. We also created systems for water and bathroom breaks.

As I told the kids, when I look at them I don´t see boys and girls, I see young men and women and that´s how I want to treat them this year.  We must leave all the child play out of the door and learn when we need to work and when we can play because we will be doing a lot of both!!

We have started working on a interdisciplinary project so far:  A travel brochure of their own vacation experiences put together as groups.  With this I intend to elicit their curiosity about Geography and start on map skills,  We are also working on writing and editing, since we have to put our vacations into words and we have a bit of arts and crafts with drawings, scaling, decorating and designing.  It has been a lot of fun and it will be on display as soon as it is done!

Oh... the week went by fast!!  

Mrs. Roberta Mesquita