Marine Science Fun

~What an awesome day at the Marine Science Center with Mr. Viers in Mayport.  Collection buckets to Mayport manicures to microscopes, to fossils, to making fresh water from salt, starfish, and collecting shells on the wind beach.... BEST DAY EVER!

High Tide Running Club

~Big thanks to Mrs. Runyan for running with us after school and taking up the caboose on our running train!

San Pablo Teacher of the Year!

~Congratulations to Mrs. Goodman, San Pablo's Teacher of the Year 2015-2016!

Bag Lunch

~Do not forget to pack a lunch for Wednesday's field trip to the Marine Science Center!

Box Tops

~Do not forget to send in your box tops to fill the Green Monster!

Achieve 3000 Weekly Winner

~Congratulations to Gage!  He earned the most Achieve 3000 points for the entire school for the week of September 14-21!  Way to go Gage!

Literature Circles

 The Apes are working hard in their literature circles and TRIADS to answer complex text based questions!  It is awesome to see fifth graders working together and helping each other in a respectful way!

Star Students

~Congratulations to Cheyreanna and Bella!  They are this week's STAR Students (Silver Anchors) Both girls worked hard, did heir best, got along with their classmates and set good examples for their classmates!

Ratna the Rat

~Meet Ratna, our new class pet.  She is named after a character we met in one of the pieces of complex text we read a few weeks ago.

Esperanza Rising

 ~We were introduced to our new novel today, Esperanza Rising.  We learned some important background information about the setting of this piece of historical fiction.  Today we worked smarter not harder and did the work in teams and then shared it with our classmates! 

Scholastic Book Club

We have an online Scholastic Book Club and the first order is due September 30th!  You may use the link on the right to access the website and sign your child up and place orders!  Our class code is NFP7G or you may look it up under Mrs. Goodman's name.  Please check out the book choices online, there is usually more to offer.  You can also pay online rather than sending a check with your child.  If you cannot shop online you may write a check payable to Scholastic Reading Club not to San Pablo Elementary.  I do believe things move a bit faster when ordered online!  Happy shopping and reading!

Swim America 2016

~Permission slips for Swim America went home today!  No Gibbons or Goodman Apes will be allowed into the Fetcher pool area without a signed permission slip.  If you were absent on Tuesday, please see Mr. Gibbons onWednesday!

Refugee Stories: Shyrete from Kosovo

Interesting story from Kosovo that we can connect to today's text.

150 Points!

~Congratulations to Ava who has earned 150 AR points!  She has worked hard outside of school to read high level rigorous books!  Way to go Ava....or is it Eva?

STAR STUDENTS

~Congratulations to Taylor and Adam!  They are this week's Silver Anchor Award winners! 

Working with COMPLEX TEXT

 ~We have been working hard on  dissecting and interpreting complex and difficult text in class. We have been working with our discussion groups to figure out what the authors meant when they wrote this document (UHDR).  We have also been discussing some of the global tragedies that made the Universal Declaration of Human Rights necessary.  Did you know that in some countries and cultures you do not get to choose who you marry?  In some places girls as young as 10 and 11 are being married off by their families.  In some countries, the government can just come and take your property away.  In some countries you must practice a certain religion. Again, WE ARE GLAD WE LIVE IN THE USA!

Acting Out In Class!

There are more ways than one to define a word.  Today we acted out some of the more difficult vocabulary words from our Close read of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.....and it was quite fun!

Early Release

~Tomorrow is an EARLY RELEASE DAY - 1:50 P.M.!  Please pick up your child on time!

Collection Jugs

Here are some ideas for making your collection jugs for the Maine Science Center in a few weeks:

Fieldtrip to Marine Science Center

~Mark your calendars for September 23, 2105! Bring a bag lunch! 

Odds & Ends

 Thanks to Beau, he is our 4th Grade helper who comes by every morning to get our room ready for the day!

~Congratulations to Aiden, who earned his first AR points today!

~Big time appreciation to Ryan and Bella for piling up our chairs at the end of the day!

STAR Students 9-4-15

~Congratulations to Ayden and Erick!  They are this week's STAR Students.  They both worked hard and were good neighbors and citizens

Connection Section: Pilgrims/Wompanoags

To watch a short video from the History Channel abut Pilgrims, click HERE!

100 Points

~Congratulations to Ava!  She is the first student at San Pablo to earn 100 Accelerated Reader points!  Way to go Ava!

Creating Timelines!

 ~We created timelines during work-time to better understand why the United Nations needed to create a document laying out rights that all human being should be entitled to. We discussed in detail how the Holocaust led to international outrage and disgust and ow this document would rally the nations of the world to defend the victims of such brutality in the future.