BABIES!

Our praying mantis started to hatch this morning!  All of a sudden the sac erupted and the babies started to pour out.  It was like a scene from a horror movie!  We created a habitat for them to in an old aquarium.  In a few days we will take one home for our gardens.

A Differnet Week!

These past couple of weeks in grade five have been very different. We went to the fish hatchery yesterday. Everyone had a great time and learned something new about salmon. A week ago today we went with the grade one class to the cultural centre ..that was where the art show took place. Last Friday we went to a french concert by bus at Truro Elementary. All of us learned new french songs! It was amazing!!!

Mrs.Lockerby finished reading the third book of Philip Roy's River Odyssey. The whole class loved it!

Class is working on an I spy book.....it should be fun!! We have now started the ABC countdown today is letter E- exercise day. Our class has a praying mantis eggs......! In gym we finished basketball !! Yay!

Thanks for reading the grade five blog!

The grade 5 class!

Mad Scientists!

Today we held a Science Fair in the gym with the grade 4 class. Mrs. Wall, our science teacher helped us get ready. We have been working hard for weeks. The other classes came to visit and ask questions between recess and lunch time. Our parents and the general public came in the afternoon. Our teachers were impressed with our explanations and conduct. We were very tired by the end of the day! 

Readers Theatre!!!!

Here are three links to hear us read about Ancient Societies. 

Ancient China

Ancient Egypt

Pompeii

Guess Who We Gave the Quilts To?

Maplewood Manor!

We walked across the playground to deliver the quilts to the residents of the Manor.  Dr Jeff Williams asked us to sit in the 150 year old front palour to visit and chat.  Some of the ladies looked very closely at our stitches and said we did a good job.

Our school placed second in the RCMP Adopt-a-Libray Reading Challenge.  We have won new books for our libray.

We finished our paper bag hats.  They are on the bulletin board in our hallway.  Check them out as you walk by.  They represent the different ancient cultures we have studied in Social Studies.  Can you match the hat with the following cultures, Chinese, Mayan, Egyptian, Aztec, And Greek. 

Since March Break we have been busy practicing, practicing, and more practicing of our Readers Theatre.  Again, these were part of our studies about Ancient Societies.  We have used the School's new Digital Voice Tracers to record them.  Stay tuned to hear us on the blog.

More Doubles

Seeing Doubles!

We are Seeing Doubles!

 Our class, the last two weeks got to make our self portraits out of a big piece of paper. What we thought would be easy turned out to be very difficult!! We had to keep them a secret from our parents. This week was winter carnival and student-led conference. Today is the Tatamagouche Idol, p,j, day and wacky hair day!!! We got our 350 salmon eggs on Feb. 28^th.  Our whole class is excited about them hatching into salmon. At the end of the spring when the eggs hatch, our gym teacher will let them into the river.  (Submitted by Bre, Em, Kaleb, Tuck)

Art and Pizza, it does not get any better than this in Grade 5

On the Roll.....

This month in grade 5 we learned a new rhyme to help us with math questions. Today the RCMP came in to each class room and gave a toy to each of the kids because we are in The Adopt A Library Contest! We have been working on a craft with Mrs. C, we made little books.

Just a couple of days ago we received a letter from Philip Roy the author of the series Submarine outlaw Philip sent us a picture of the cover of the new book that is coming out in the summer! In French we got to make pizzas ….they were yummy!! We had 7 people out for two days this week .Next week our gym teacher will get 100 or more salmon eggs for our fish tank. We had 3 ½ storm days this month! WOW!! Also we had our monthly assembly today.

The primary’s let us spend their 100 day of school with us. We got to decorate a poster with them. Soon we will be getting ready for the parent teacher and winter carnival!  Whooo! We will be doing silly things like doing our hair weird and etc ,etc. Almost 2end term report card time! OH NO!!! In the book we are reading in school we are at the part where we can not stop reading!! Our school got in the 2011-2012 Book of World Records for the most snow angles. YAAAAA!!

We hope you enjoyed reading our blog!

                                                               Grade 5 (Submitted by Bre and Em)

More on Top?                           18
No need to stop.                      - 5
                                           
More on the floor?                   73      
Go next door.                         - 25
Get ten more.

Numbers the same?                 26
Zero's the game.                   - 16

What's New this Week?

At the school assembly, our principal, Mrs. Davis-Maybee, presented our class and the 5/6 class with green hats.  They have the school logo and on the back read “Green Team”.  The new computer cart was shown to the whole school and visitors.  It holds 16 Netbooks and will travel to each classroom on a tight schedule.

Today, author and wordsmith, Sherre Fitch, celebrated Family Literacy Day with us at our assembly and in the Library.  She is a very talented writer and loves tongue twisters. We look forward to her return in the spring.

Our letters to Philip Roy are ready to mail. In Science we are writing an assessment.  We still touch our toes at least 50 times everyday.  In French, we learned a new song about pizza!

Reaching for the Floor!

Toe Touches!

This week we continued to touch our toes everyday.  Some of us are now to the point where we actually touch the floor! The rest of us are motivated to “reach for our toes”!  All of us are experiencing a growth spurt.  Most of us check our heights on the chart taped to our washroom door.

One of our classmates had a flu fire.  It was scary, but everything is ok.  They need to fix a wall and have their home cleaned.

We finished listening to Philip Roy’s, “Submarine Outlaw” audio novel.  At times, we saw a movie playing in our heads as listen to his voice.  We liked the adventure so much; we immediately started the second book in this series.  His voice is what we hear as we take turns reading “Journey to Atlantis”.   We are writing to encourage him to make more audio books.  We think this series would make spectacular, action packed movies.

The White and Blue teams are playing in the championship games for team handball.  Red and Green are playing off for Bronze.

The quilts were put on the back burner this week.  We were very busy and did not have much spare time.  We did compose what we want to say on the labels. 

Not Done Yet.....

   One quilt is completed, and the other is still being knotted.    It needs a few more stitches.  Both are bound and ready for the labels.  Stay tuned for more updates and maybe a photo.
   We were successful in getting Mme L an I-Pod nano!  A bright blue one.  It took a few days to be shipped, but is here now.  We are making progress on our presuasive skills.  Look out families. 
   We love knitting.  Several have finished their first projects.  It is addictive.
   For this term we have set goals for school and home.  As a class, we are working to touch our toes 50 times everyday, and increasing our water intake.  In Gym, we finished a Round Robin Team Hanball tournament.  The Playoffs are next.