LIVING MUSEUM & WRITING CONTEST

We missed you today Ms. Verdene!

We have decided that Dylan and Madison are officially BUNNY HOGS!

Today your child brought home a cardboard display. This is for the visual presentation for their Living Museum project. There is no cost to your child for these display boards.


The middle part of the display is for the name of your child's subject and pictures or collages. One of the sides is for biographical information. The other is for the accomplishments of the subject. Your child is supposed to have fun with this assignment.

WRITING CONTEST
A colleague at another school made me aware of a holiday writing contest being held by The Florida Times Union. Your child has to write a narrative (story) using the 12 words provided. It must be at least 500 words but not more than 1,000.

Any student who participates will be given extra credit in Lang./Writing. One winner will be chosen from Room 71, and one from Room 73. Each winner will be awarded a valuable prize donated by an outside source. The Ape winner will be determined by an objective outside source. The winners will then be entered in the fifth grade school wide contest (one from each class). That winner will be entered into the newspaper contest. The overall winner will win cash from the Florida Times Union, and published in the paper! It is due to Mr. Gibbons by November 14.
The words that must be included in the narrative are:

nog
wreath
mistletoe
blizzard
kazoo
gingerbread
family
Alabama
puppy
stocking
roller coaster
Kermit the Frog

Have fun with this and use everything we have learned in Writer's Workshop!

END OF MONTH LUNCHEON IS AT 12:30 TOMORROW!

We will begin reading Number the Stars by Lois Lowry at the end of next week. This story shows how the people of Denmark stood up to tyranny and saved over 95% of its Jews during the Holocaust.


We will be reading My Senator and Me starting next week also. This is the Book of the Month for November. Mr. Kennedy has served as a U.S. Senator for over 46 years. He is currently battling terminal brain cancer. He is the younger brother of John F. Kennedy (JFK) and Robert F. Kennedy (RFK).

READING CELEBRATION!

Today we celebrated the End of the 9 weeks with a visit from author Jane Wood. Ms. Wood wrote our Book of the Month, "Trouble on the St. Johns". She explained how she gets her ideas, and what inspired her to become a writer. Special thanks to our Media Specialist Mrs. Hartnett, and Ms. Hartley for setting up our best author visit yet!

A nice welcome for Ms. Wood.



Ms. Wood poses with some of the Apes.


Olivia and Cristian have already read their twenty five books...WOW!


Ms. Allen pays us a vist with some interesting activities.


We got to move to some cool music.

WORLD CHAMPIONS!

Mr. G's favorite team, The Boston Celtics, raised their 17th Championship Banner in the Boston Garden. Below is a picture of the diamond and emerald rings the players received. Let's hope they do it again in 2009.
By the way...the beat the Cavaliers and LeBron tonight!

What a week so far!

Reminders:
*Tomorrow is our Reading Celebration for the FIrst NIne Weeks. A special author will be visiting us.
*October's End of Month Luncehon is this Friday at 12:30. Please note the time change from normal.


Nice study buddy Grace!


This week we are working on Story Structure.


Woody welcomes our newest classmate Earlene!


Joshua says hello to Bridey.


Don't let the smile fool you, Karson was scared!


The ladies get some free time on the rug!


Eat the carrot, eat the carrot, eat the carrot.


Griffin learns some cool stuff about "The Black Hand".


Matilda wonders what in the world an archduke is.


Matt and Woody take notes about Serbia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.



CAMPAIGN POSTERS



TELEVISION STARS!





MUSIC FUN WITH MRS. LAYMON!







LEARNING ABOUT CONTOUR AND LINE WITH MS. ROBINSON IN ART!







MEASURING FUN IN MATH WITH MRS. WHITELAW




AUCTION PRIZES!

Trenton and Lillian were the high bidders! Can you believe Grace has still not spent any of her money!



Jasmine and her Study Buddy!

EXTENDED DAY FUN WITH MRS. RUNYAN




SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FIFTH GRADERS FROM EXTENDED DAY WHO HELPED LEVEL MRS. LAMB'S AND MRS. NELSON'S LIBRARIES!

Octavia


Cristian


Guardo

WWI, and Welcome Bridey and Earlene

First of all, everyone in Room 71 met their reading goal for October! That means we can all come to the luncheon Friday! YAHOOOOO! There are still two students who are 2 books short of their 15 book goal for the year. I'm sure they will be caught up by the end of November! We have read collectively over 300 books as a class!



We started learning about the causes of The Great War today. Is it confusing or what? It sounds like a playground fight among 8 year olds! Hopefully the map below will help you see how close these countries are to each other. You will notice that on this map the Allied Powers (England, France, and Russia) are called Triple Entente. Can you figure out why most of the fighting took place in Germany, Belgium and France?

Europe in 1914

We also met Earlene and Bridey today! The kids great job of handling them, and treating them like God's creatures. Was Lauren excited today or what? Dylan, sorry about NO RATS! Joshua did a great job of handling them after school.

28 out of 40 Apes have responded to the CRASH poll. So far it looks like Penn is the favorite book character. There are only a few more days to vote!

Pictures of Bridey and Earlene will be posted tomorrow! Mr. G forgot his camera at school!

Spelling

Your new Spelling list is posted on the sidebar. These are words that are necessary to understand The Great War and the Treaty of Versailles? Huh? You will be experts on these subjects by the end of the week.



Lauren and Robbie's pictures never appeared on the blog when they were STAR Stuents. Sorry guys, better late than never!




Coming Soon:





(Franky and Thelma look like they just saw dessert!)