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Welcome to my classroom...........the best fifth grade at Due West!  We are going to have a wonderful school year of learning and I am looking forward to getting to know each and every one of you.   We'll have while we are learning and as education is a lifelong process, we'll all be learning.

Making Dreams Come True

Book Buddy Visit

We had a great time with our book buddies last Friday.  We sorted shapes, explored patterns and colors, and got to know each other more.   We are really enjoying our kindergarten buddies and love having them stop in for a visit!  Share the fun we had through these photos.  Not all of them are on the blog, but I posted the ones I had.  I'll get the others on later.    http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/judy1davis/?action=view&current=1160852125.pbw

• Finish Math pg 76/77 (1-42)
• Do noun worksheets

Rock Eagle is  Monday:  Be at school before 7:50 a.m.  Wear your Due West 5th grade tee-shirt.  We'll give you a Rock Eagle tee- shirt to wear home. 

Weather:  It is going to be gorgeous.  Both days have predictions of 82 for the high and 56 low temperature.  We are in luck!  There is a 20% chance of rain so pack a light poncho.....a really inexpensive one will do. 

We'll "rock" the eagle!  Rest up!

• Spelling homework:  finish all worksheets
• Math homework:  Page (I forgot and I'm at home) but do the input/output charts and the review and remember
• Language Arts:  What's Missing? worksheet plus sentences

Remember our PTA program tomorrow evening.  It begins at 7:00 pm and we have a meeting for Rock Eagle chaperones at 6:30.

Homework:  Please have your parent send a note stating they know how to access this blog!

• Chaperone letters for Rock Eagle went home today for those volunteering to go on our field trip.   We could use a dad or two.   Any takers?
• Do the scramble sheet on "The South."
• Quiz tomorrow on helping verbs....we have a really cool song sent home today.
• Study multiplication facts (look at the link).
• Those Due West FIFTH grade tee-shirts will be here soon.

Off and running!

We are off to a great start this year and I just want to let everyone know we are doing wonderful things in the classroom.  We even named our blog today!  Thank you for having students on time and in school for testing this week.  Remember to PRACTICE multiplication facts as 5th grade students should REALLY know them by now and we don't have time during our day for drills.  Go to one of the links on this blog for some practice!

We'll be updating our blog frequently and posting our newsletter there so be sure and visit everyday.   Remember it is not a "chat room" and never use your real name. 

Here are some recent pictures from a visit with our book buddies in Mrs. Roberts' kindergarten class.  We had a great time visiting them and getting acquainted.  We're looking forward to lots of activities with them this year at Due West Elementary School.

November 29, 2005

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.  I'm sharing some powerpoint presentations recently done in class.  Enjoy....our students really enjoyed doing them and learned lots of Health information, too!  We also did some from a Time For Kids article (thanks, PTA) summarizing an article using the four types of sentences.  Download Earthquake.ppt Download Presentation1.ppt

I'll link more later.

November 14, 2005

Thanks to Abbie Cavender's mom for also going on the trip to Rock Eagle with us and I apologize for leaving her name off the first list of volunteers. 

Assignments:

• Permission for High Touch/High Tech
• It'll Drive You Batty
• Reading Log due 11/16/05
• Social Studies vocabulary
• Math, page 150, all even numbers
• Maurice's Room, pages 38-50, up to "The Bear"

Check out yesterday's blog for Rock Eagle pictures.

Question:  What was your favorite class at Rock Eagle?

November 12, 2005

Due West Fifth Grade Students "Rocked" the Eagle!  We had a wonderful trip and enjoyed all of the activities while at Rock Eagle.  Many thanks to our chaperones, Mr. Brummeler, Mr. DuPre, Mr. Jones, Mrs. Chalmers, and Mrs. Edwards.  Mrs. Vaughn and I really appreciated all of their support while on the trip!  I am attaching some photos taken at Rock Eagle and hope you enjoy them.  There were no lions or tigers or bears (Oh My!) but there were turtles, snakes, and crocodiles!  I'll have more at school on Monday.  We have lots to do next week as we are off the following week for the Thanksgiving holiday.  Our "milk and cookies" will be Tuesday morning.  Have a great weekend and enjoy this beautiful weather.  I'm off to watch the football game.....go Dawgs....wooof, wooof, wooof!

                                                      

                                                     

Be sure and let your parents view our photos and thank them again for letting you go on the trip!  Maybe unpack your own bag and clean your room without being asked to do so!

November 7, 2005

The Fall festival was a huge success!  I was in school at KSU Saturday so I was unable to attend.  Our class won free cookies/milk from the Great Harvest Bread Company for our entry in the scarecrow contest!  My, she does look familiar!  I'm attaching pictures for those of you who were unable to attend the festival or who haven't recently been at school.

                          Thank you Mrs. Vaughn and students for making my "Forever 29" image so memorable.  I think the feathers helped!  Double-click on the image to make it bigger.

Rock Eagle is awaiting the arrival of our fifth grade students.  We have lots of classes planned and I'm sure we'll stay busy.  Remember to be on time Thursday morning for our trip and we'll be back on Friday afternoon at 2:30 PM.  Please make arrangements to stay in ASP or a ride home if your parents cannot come get you.  It looks like the weather predicted for the two days is going to be beautiful.  If you bring a camera, please write your name on the camera with a sharpie.  Check your packing list and make sure you have everything you NEED, not everything you WANT.

Chaperones are Mrs. Cavender, Mrs. Chalmers, and Mrs. Edwards.  The boys will have Mr. Brummeler, Mr. DuPre, and Mr. Jones.  Thank you for going on the trip with us; you'll have a great time even if you don't get much sleep!

Math:  Please finish Cummulative Review on pages 128-129.

Remember there is no school tomorrow but your teacher will be working hard at school.  Enjoy your time off in this beautiful weather.