Wednesday, 10/29/08 Reported By: Asha

The school bell rung at 8am in the morning. We went into out classroom and Ms. Jensen had already put our homework that had to be turned in on the board.  We removed everything from our backpacks and put them on their hangars.  Then we learned about the theological virtues which are hope, faith, and love.   Next we did reading comprehension at our reading stations.   Then we went to the library.  The librarian taught us how to summarize a book.  We each had to write down the name of two books that we like then we had to write what was meaningful about the books. 

 

     Then we went to recess and played soccer.  Then we returned back to our classroom to do our math lesson.  This math lesson we learned how to convert percents into decimals. Then we did reading stations again.  Next we went to lunch and we played soccer for a second time. It was the girls against the boys. You know who won.

                                                                            

     We headed back upstairs for social studies.  We had a quiz and we learned about Christopher Columbus and watched a video about him. Next we worked on our totem poles. This was fun because we get to learn about symbols that the Indians drew on their totem poles. Some of the symbols were bears, buffalo, and the eagle. The bear stands for strength and courage. The buffalo stands for life and great strength. The eagle stands for divine spirit and intelligence.  It was very interesting.   Next we had a chance to work on any assignments that were unfinished.

 

     Then it was time to pack up and go home.

Tuesday, 10/28/08 Reported By: Sydni

Today was a new day. Today we had a substitute teacher- Mrs. Durand. When the bell rung we all went inside and got unpacked. Once that was done we started on a batman worksheet it was on multiplying decimals. After that was done we did religion. In religion we talked about the Holy Trinity. Then we prayed a prayer. Once that was done we read “The Summer of the Swans” by Betsy Byars. When we finished reading The Summer of the Swans, Mrs. Durand read a poem. Just right when she finished we went to the mission’s assembly. The mission’s assembly was very interesting.  Afterwards, we went outside for snacks. 

Next was math, today in math we learn about comparing and ordering decimal.  It was a little complicated but after Mrs. Durand explained in more detail I understood.

When the math was over, we went outside to have an enjoyable lunch.  After lunch Ms. Jensen returned to class.  We got back to class an opened our social studies book and read Europeans arrived in the Americas.  We were also able to start on our social studies homework assignment.  It was getting near for school to end, Ms. Jensen told us to close our book and clear off our desk.  Afterwards, We got our papers for Tuesday’s package and we got our backpack for dismissal.

 

 

 

Monday, 10/27/08 Reported By: Josie

In the morning when the bell rang the teacher got us from the yard. Then when we got in we read our morning announcements. Right after we did religion  we had music. It was fun. Then the teacher told us to stand up to see if we did our homework assignments. Was not very good. .

 

 Then we did our plays . It was kind of fun. After, we went to snack. I did not play, I just read.  When we got inside we did math. It was so not hard!!!!!! Then we had to do our lesson practice before we began to do our homework. Just for a while. After, Ms. Jensen read our pen pals. I got Zoriah. I got her because her note was pretty good.

 

Finally, we had lunch I was starving . My dad brought me some food because I didn’t bring lunch. I enjoyed it. After I, was done I finished my book. I read A squirrel in the school. It was good. The bell rang  and I got in line. After we got in we got time to correct our science. After we did  our social studies. Then we wrote down our assignments so that we could finished our totem poles from Fri.  Then we got our backpacks and put our books in so that we can leave. Over all that was another wonderful day at St. Timothy School!!!!!!!

Friday, 10/24/08 Reported By: Sofia

The day started as the 5^th grade class went into the classroom and we started doing our daily schedule. We turned in our book reports and we finished our reading stations. After that we took a spelling test. I was luck that I didn’t have to take it because I had done well on my pretest. Next, we had a handwriting test and then started to read this week’s story. Following that we had a reading and vocabulary test. After that I read for a little while and suddenly my stomach was rumbling.  It was snack time!

 

I ate my snack outside and enjoyed the sunshine. Some of the other students played during their snack time and enjoyed it. Then snack was over and we went back inside the classroom. It was time for church and everyone put on their blue or green ribbons. We had a living rosary for an hour in church and stayed for a little while to hear Ms. Jensen tell us about the symbols in the stained glass windows.  

Back in class we looked at our past week’s tests to see what grades we got. Then we did our math lesson in the workbook lesson 26.  We took notes on our math and I think we all tried to finish as much of our math homework as possible. Lunch soon came and we ate, talked and played for forty minutes.

 

Then we tried to do more of our math after lunch. Then we studied totem poles and talked about them. We are going to do an art project about them and we had our first art lesson in class about the totem pole project. The time passed quickly and soon we were writing down our homework, packing up our bags, and getting ready to go home and start the weekend and get ready for Saturday's Halloween Carnival at school. 

Thursday, 10/23/08 Reported By: Reese

Our class came in today at 8:00a.m. into our 5th grade classroom.

   We quickly stated our religion lesson for today, I came in a little bit late so I got strait

  to my religion so I wouldn't have to do it later. Ms. Jensen started passing out class cash

 for the people that got good grades on tests and quizes. Next we practiced the prayers

The Apostles Creed and Hail Holy Queen.

 

We then started reading stations which was Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Word Study,

and Computers. Our group finished all our work except one person that had to do there classroom job.

Then we started talking about our service learning  project which was helping out families in need by giving

them animals.

 

 

Then we went to snack and ate our snack and played.

When we came in we started making speeches  about our service learning project to tell to the

other classes. Who knew it would take us this long!!! By the time we finished our speeches it was

lunch. So we went to lunch and played until that loud bell rang. Next we corected our homework

from last night. After that we took our Science Test, when it was over I heard a kid say

''I don't think I did good''. Finaly we packed up and ended our day by doing P.E. for one hour.

 

 

Tuesday, 10/21/08 Reported By: Sophia

No! Ms. Jensen isn’t here. We have to have a sub today which is Ms. Harner! First we had to wait outside in line for a really long time because Ms. Harner is always late.  When we finally got in the classroom we had to do a Saint Patrick’s Day worksheet. Then we corrected the worksheet. After that we did religion. Our lesson was about Anne Frank. Reese read a story that Anne Frank wrote, which was about her trying to think about the good things in her life. When Reese finished reading Kelly asked questions about the story. After religion we did reading. Our story this week is called Number the Stars. Man! Language. Aye!! It’s snack! Math time. First we corrected last night’s math. Then we did our lesson. After that we did fast facts, mental math, and problem solving in our workbook. Yea! Lunch. When we came in from lunch it was science time. We watched a brain pop video about heredity. Afterwards we took a brain pop quiz which was about the video. Next we did Tuesday packets. It seemed like a lot of people got good grades! After that we did social studies then went home!

Friday, 10/17/08 Reported By: Brooke

RIIIIIIIIIIING! Goes the school bell. All the kids stop playing and get in line. I say to myself “Today is going to be a great day!’’  All the teachers come out and everyone looks good today. It is free dress, a bake sell, and a half-day! Ms. Jensen comes out wearing her St.Timothy T-shirt and everybody goes to class. On top of our desk is a time for kid’s packet. We look at the board to see what to do first.

Time for kids packet and worksheet is first.  Then we do our religion page. In religion, I learned about the seven sacraments. Next it’s time for the morning announcements. Afterwards it is time for the spelling test that has 20 words. Following is the reading test.  For the reading test, we take out our reading books and a sheet of paper. Finally, we hear the bell. Riiiiiing! It’s snack time, and I rush outside to be first in line for the bake sale. I bought 2 sour belt candies, one was a rainbow color and the other looked strawberry.

After snack, we finished up the reading test. Once we were done, we started making our puppet plays.  Me and my partner write and talk about the ending of the play. Soon we write down our homework, pack up, and go home. Another great day at ST. Timothy school.

Wednesday, 10/15/08 Reported By: Sydni

This morning was a windy morning. When the bell rung we all grabbed our bags and headed to the door. Then when we got in the classroom we followed our classroom procedures. Once that was done we studied for our religion test. Next we corrected our religion workbook page that we had done the previous day. Then we finally did our religion test. Next was library. When library was done we finished up our Pablo Picasso pictures. At around 10:15 we had snack.

   After snack we corrected our math homework. Of course we did 40 subtraction facts in 1 minute. Once that was done we had learned about the three methods for adding and subtracting mixed fractions. Then when we were finished with our notes we could start on our homework. Every night we have thirty math problems. Afterwards it was lunch. Finally!

   When lunch was over we did social studies. Just before we did our social studies test we corrected our workbook page in social studies. Once that was done we had our social studies test. Afterwards we did science. We corrected our homework once again. Then we had a science quiz. The science quiz was on cells and how you relate to your parent or grandparent and if you don’t all. When done we all worked on unfinished work. It was almost 3:00 so we wrote all our homework and got packed up. Then we all left the classroom and went home.

Tuesday, 10/14/08 Reported By: Grant

When the bell rang, everybody went in his or her lines.  They were waiting for his or her teacher.  When Ms. Jensen picked us up we went to our classroom and started to unpack.  After that we had to do page 69 in our Religion book.  When we finished she gave out bonuses for our Classroom Economy.  We get bonuses if we get good grades on tests and if we reach a certain goal.

After she did that we read, “Darnell Rock Reporting” in our Reading book.  Then we started two of our Reading Stations.  I did Comprehension and Vocabulary.  10 minutes before Recess we worked on our Art Project.  It was an Art Project that Pablo Picasso did that only involves people made out of shapes playing an instrument.  Finally it was Recess.

            When Recess was over we did our Math workbook.  In our workbook we got timed for 40 problems, did mental math, and did a word problem.  Then we corrected that.  We got our Math Tests back.  In my opinion we did pretty good.  After that we all started a lesson in our Math book.  While we were doing that Josh and I opened the bank so people can get or deposit class cash.  Finally Lunch!

            Afterwards we watched a Science Video that helped us for our quiz we are about to take.  After that we started the Science Quiz.  Then we corrected our Science homework we did yesterday.  Finally we had our quiz.  After the quiz we started our Science lesson for today. 

            When that was over we handed out the papers for the Tuesday Packets, and packed up the packets.  Finally we started Social Studies.  We corrected our workbook that we did for homework last night.  Then we took our Social Studies quiz.  Then we packed up and went home.  What a nice day of school J.

Friday, 9/10/08 Reported By: Josie

When the bell rang the teacher came out to pick us up from the playground. Then we read our morning announcements. We had religion pages 67-68. After I was done we started our 7 sacraments. We had about 40 min. When we were done we had our spelling test .

Then we did our reading tests. It wasn’t hard. After it was snack, I was hungry. Snack was at 10:20. After the bell rang the teacher picked us up. It was kind of windy outside. When we got in from snack we this power up test then our math test. It took a while.

Then the bell rang for lunch I was so excited to take a break from tests. I didn’t play as much. But,  I stilled played. We had 40 min. for lunch. After the bell rang we line dup until the teacher came .  Then the class finished  the movies about the Indians. It  was such a good  movie. When the movie was over we corrected our Socials Studies homework .Then we finished our art projects and started to get packed up for the end of the day. And that was another day at St.Timothy.

Thursday, 10/9/08 Reported By: Selena

This morning Ms. Jensen picked us up from the school yard.  We started our morning with Religion.  After Religion, we took a dictation test which is when Ms. Jensen says a sentence, and we have to write it down exactly how she said it.  Later in the morning, Ms. Jensen made an announcement that the bank was going to be open today.  That was exciting because I needed to withdraw some money because I was very low on money. 

Next, it was time for Language Arts and we learned about combining sentences and compound subjects.  Finally, the bell rang for Snack time and my friends and I ate our snacks and talked about girl stuff.  When snack was over, we returned to class to do Math.  We learned about angles and we were also reminded that we have a test on Friday.  After Math, Ms. Jensen gave us a ton of math vocabulary that we did in class and we even had time to do our Math homework.  Shortly after, the bank opened and I went to the bank to make a withdrawal.

When the bell rang, it was time for lunch.  During lunch I ate and played with my friends.  Today, lunch time was fun.  After lunch, Ms. Jensen gave us a Social Studies quiz and we did some work in our workbooks.  When we finished Social Studies, we watched a video tape about Plain Indians and it was very interesting.  It was about how they lived and what they did for a living.  I learned that Plain Indians were very smart people. 

After the movie, we went to P.E. Following P.E.  we were dismissed to go home. 

Wednesday, 10/8/08 Reported By: Asha

The school bell rung at 8am in the morning. We went into out classroom and Ms. Jensen had already put our homework that had to be turned in on the board.  We removed everything from our backpacks and put them on their hangars.  Then we recorded our results about our fungi experiment in our science workbook. No one in our class has grown any fungi except our teacher.  I find that mysterious.   Next we did our reading stations. Then we went to the library.  The librarian taught us about biographies.  We each had to write three facts that we learned about different famous people.  I wrote my facts about Jackie Robinson.

     Then we went to recess and jumped rope.  I wish I knew how to double dutch.  Then we returned back to our classroom to do our math lesson.  This math lesson we learned about multiples of a number.  Next was language arts where we learned about nouns and subjects.  Then we went to lunch and we played tag. It was hot outside but it was still fun to run around.

     We headed back upstairs for social studies.  We learned about southwest Indians and watched a movie about them. The main crop for these Indian was corn and they wove baskets with cedar bark. We then took a quiz.  Next we had a chance to work any assignments that were unfinished.

Then it was time to pack up and go home.

Tuesday, 10/7/08 Reported By: Kelly

  This morning Ms. Jensen brought us to the class.  Our whole class read the morning announcement to see what to do this morning.  It said we have to check our science project, which is a piece of bread and a tomato to see if it has grown fungi after a week.  My old group which was Hippos had no fungi what so ever, the food was just soggy from the water I had put in it.  After that we did religion which was page 61.  When we all finished that we went near the corner of the class to pray the rosary.  Every day after praying the rosary we all pray to Mary asking her to keep us safe and blessed.  Today though, we talked about how to act better in church.  I think talking about that will have everyone thinking about how to act better.  For our weekly book we read the Marble Champ.

 

            When we finished that we talked about Book-it, it is a book project that we read a book and write down how many minutes we read for.  I think it will be fun because at the end of October if we add up how many minutes we read for and it comes up to 1,000 minutes in all we get a free kid box, of Papa Johns pizza!  Once that was threw, everyone did reading stations.  Our group, the Giraffes did comprehension questions and a vocab. weekly reading worksheet.  Now it was snack!  Afterwards we talked about our new criterion assignment.  It was about who we would like to have president and it had to be someone we new.  Finally it was math, during math we had to do page 18 in our workbook.  Our math notes today were about mixed numbers.  They are easy! When we finished that, we worked on our math homework for 20 minutes.  Finally lunch, I was very happy for lunch to come so I could work on Book-it.  Then after lunch we corrected social studies.

 

            After correcting we watched a video about the early Indians.  I say the movie is full of great facts.  Then Tuesday packets, when everyone was passing out papers our group was talking and I think that’s why we didn’t get to pass papers out.  Oops! While everyone was passing papers we were writing down our assignments for tonight.  What I like the best about the end of the day is that we can finally work on the Halloween puppet show that me and Anthony are partners on.  It’s very fun!! 

Wednesday, 10/1/08 Reported By: Sophia

YAHOOO!!!! I’TS PAY DAY! J Wow, it’s already October. I got to school and saw people had things to sell to the class. Everybody is selling old toys and books and trying to get a lot of class cash for the auction of the video store.

             When the bell rang Ms. Jensen came out and took us into the classroom. When we got in the classroom, morning announcements were up on the board and there was also a funny Garfield comic strip. Next, people were doing the rebus puzzle. I think I got it right! We were supposed to do handwriting but I was to busy filling out papers for today’s deposit.

             Soon after that we went to the library. I didn’t get any books today because I already have too much to read! When we got back from the library we immediately started taking our ITBS test. After we did about 3 tests in the book it was time for SNACK!! Then it was time for ITBS tests again. We did so many tests that by the time we finished it was time for lunch! Then, of course, when we got back in the classroom we had to do our ITBS test. L! I’m just glad that we had free time after that. YES! It’s time to pack our bags and go home!!!

ANOTHER GREAT DAY IN 5th GRADE!!!!!!!! :-) :-) 

Tuesday, 9/30/08 Reported By: Kimberley

Hello today my name is Kim and I am the Jensen’s Journalist for today. Ms.Jensen came down the stairs to pick us up from outside. We walked up the stairs to room five. When we walked in the classroom, there were worksheets on everyone’s desk. When everybody was settled in the Pledge of Allegiance and the Morning Prayer came on the intercom. Once that was over everyone, sat down and started the worksheet.

 When everyone finished we were suppose to exam an experiment that we started the day before. After that, we corrected the worksheet we just did. Then we corrected our review in our religion book. Right after we did the Chapter 2 Test in religion. Ms. Jensen bought us our ITBS test books to our desk. Then the bell rang for us to have snack. Once snack was over it was time for math.

 Ms. Jensen passed back our math test we took the day before. We then did ITBS test again until ten minutes before lunch. With that left over time, she gave us free time! Then the bell rang for lunch, we played jump rope. When we got back in Ms. Jensen said, “We are going to start a book report that is due October 24^th.” Then when she was done telling us about it, we started to do the Tuesday Packets. When we finished with that, we did more ITBS testing for the rest of the day. Then the bell rang for us to go home!

Monday, 9/29/08 Reported By: Sofia

Well, the end of September is almost here.  Ms. Jensen, as usual, greeted us in the play yard and brought us into class.  We started our day by unpacking our backpacks and starting to write a quote down from the board and then turn in our words of the week. Then we started religion class.  The lesson learned today was about how to love and respect your neighbor.  

 

After religion we started music. We were given a worksheet about Musical Spelling and Can You Name Them to complete. Next, we sang a song and then all too soon music class was over.  Then we started our I.T.B.S testing.  After the first test was done we had snack time {yeah!}

  

After recess we corrected our math assignments and started a timed test.  After that we had a math test.  I think I did well on my test but was happy it was over and that we could now read for a while. Lunchtime and play time came next. When we returned to class we had more I.T.B.S. tests with the class. After that I did a puzzle packet which was very fun and easy.

 

Science class soon came and we are going to observe fungus for the next seven days and write what happens.  I continued to work on the puzzle packet and started to read for a little while before we had to do one more I.T.B.S. test.  After that last test for the day I read my library book.  Soon I had to start writing down the homework for tonight which was real easy!  My homework is to have a goodnight sleep and have a healthy breakfast tomorrow. After that I put my binder in my backpack and went outside to leave. What a different type of school day we had today.  My favorite part was writing down my homework!  It feels good to be a part of St.Timothy School.    

Friday, 9/26/08 Reported By: Josh

Right when I got to school I saw an array of colors because it was free dress.  Today was the first free dress of the school year!  Our teacher picked my class and I up at 8:00 A.M.  When we got inside we read the morning power point and it said to get out our religion and work on the chapter review.  Five minutes later, the P.A. went on and the speaker said to make sure you gave your dollar to your teacher for your free dress.  The dollar goes to the Holy Childhood Association.

             After we did our religion we did our Time for Kids.  Today’s issue had articles about Barak Obama.  The article had information about the demmocractic party.  After our Time for Kids, Ms. Jensen said, “get a privacy folder for your group for the spelling test.”  After our spelling test, Ms. Jensen asked us to take out our reading books so we could read this week’s story.  This week’s story was Knots In My Yoyo String.  We did the comprehension part of our reading test on a scantron.  A scantron is a rectangular piece of paper and you have to fill in the squares.

            At 10:20 A.M. the bell rang because it was recess time.  We all rushed outside because there was a bake sale today.  A bake sale is when the student council comes together to sell food.  At recess it was too hot to be true.  The game we played was jump rope.

              When we got in from recess we corrected our math.  Later, we did page 15 in our math workbook.  When we finished our math we reviewed today’s lesson.  Today’s lesson was “Equal Groups” Problems with Fractions.   That lesson was kind of long.  When math was over, we had to pack up ad leave.  Today was a half day so we got out at 12:00 P.M.