Monday, 4/27/09 Reported By: Sophia

Monday Morning Ms. Jensen’s fifth grade class came to school ready to start the new week. When all of the students came in there was a writing prompt for us to do. We had to imagine we woke up tomorrow and we were already grown up and had children. Because there were people talking (including me) Ms. Jensen told us to stop working on it and turn it into the tray, even if we weren’t finished. Then Ms. Jensen said to take out our music books and get ready for music. All of a sudden Mr. Howell came in. We started with warming up our voices. We sounded awesome! [=
After we warmed up our voices the class sang a song called Pollerita. After music we took a spelling pretest. All of the words were from the first few chapters of The Black Stallion. A lot of people got five or more wrong. Next Ms. Jensen told us to take out our rosaries and line up to go to church. I lost my rosary a week ago, but when I put on my jacket and put my hands in my pockets I found it! When we got back from praying the rosary it was snack time. When we came in from snack we were told to take out yesterday’s math homework and our correcting pens.
After that we took a math test, and I’m glad because we have no math homework when we have tests. If you finished your math test you could work on your spelling packet or read. Next we did language arts. The lesson was about past and present… again! When the bell rang all of us got our lunches, and got in line. When we got in from lunch we took two science quizzes. One of the quizzes had a word search which was really hard. If you were done you had to work on tonight’s science homework. Then we took out our fifty states maps and made sure we had them all and put them in alphabetical order. After we were finished, we wrote down our homework in our agenda and got packed up. Then, we went home, but I had a piano lesson. =(

Friday, 4/24/09 Reported By: Sofia

The day started when my teacher, Ms. Jensen, picked up the fifth grade class from the schoolyard and took us to the classroom to start the school day. It is Friday and boy am I happy that I get to sleep in tomorrow. The first thing the class did was study in Religion class about Saints who are recognized as champions. We then went on to study the new vocabulary words. Next, our teacher handed out a “Time for Kids” magazine that has articles about how water is decreasing very fast, how a boy made a difference, and who won the “Picture of the day” for Earth Day ( It was a picture of baby Hawksbill turtles going to the ocean for the first time). We again wrote out our own questions about the articles and wrote them on the white board and corrected the questions. We moved on to Spelling and checked our workbook pages.

Next, cam our spelling test. The students who got 100% on their spelling pretest were exempt. Reading stations were next (Library, computers, writer’s workshop, and reading comprehension). We were surprised with a Time for Kids pop quiz to test us about how much we learned about what is going on in the world and the questions happened to be the questions we posted up on the board.

Our reading test was next and the story was about a guy that makes foolish choices to impress a girl but at the end he becomes her French tutor. All of a sudden it was Recess! It was a good recess chasing, talking, and eating with my friends. There was a bake sale going on and we bought donuts and milk. Too soon the bell rang telling us it was time to go back to class. When everybody got inside it was time to finish reading station assignments and when everybody finished they could read for a little while.

Afterwards, came math class and we had a timed test, did some mental math, took notes on the lesson, and had a pop quiz. Lunch time arrived and I had a lot more fun with my friends and ate a delicious lunch.

Once lunch was over we all went inside and had the last quiz of the day. It was in Social Studies class and we had a test on locating and spelling the States and Capitols of the northeastern States correctly. We then had a surprise when my friend Brooke stopped by to visit the class. Brook had been on vacation with her mom and had been lucky to go on a nice cruise. Our teacher was also happy and surprised to see Brooke. On Monday she will be back and class and we will all welcome her back again. After the visit we had to add unknown information to our State worksheets for another 45 minutes. Soon we were writing down our weekend assignments in our Assignment Book. We packed up our things and were ready to start the weekend. What a wonderful day in Ms. Jensen’s 5th Grade Classroom

Tuesday, 4/21/09 Reported By: Asha

At 8am in the morning the school bell rang. We went up the stairs and went into the classroom. We unpacked our bags and put them on the hooks. Then we put all of our homework into the tray. After that we did our morning work. Our morning work started with logic links it was a little hard but I understood it. Then our teacher talked to us about our classmates. She told us that we had to write a nice comment about each of our classmates and her. The first thing we had to do was to cut out our paper stencils. Then we had to trace the stencils on colored paper. After that we had to past around our papers to each table for each classmate to write a comment about you. Next we cut out leaf, petal and circle tracings to make two different colored flowers.

Then it was time for recess. At recess we ate our snacks and watched the 6th graders play soccer. It was so funny to watch them play. The teams were made up of boys and girls. Therefore the teams were evenly matched. They didn’t keep score so it didn’t matter. It was a good game.

After recess we finished making two different flowers each consisting of eight comments on each flower. Then when that was over we needed to finish our 50 states before Monday. I think everyone is almost finished though. It was so much fun to do the maps of each state because we got to learn about the capitals, surrounding waters, mountain ranges, cities and bordering states. Next it was time for math. In math we learned about Algebraic Addition Activity. I didn’t really understand it, but my teacher helped me. Then she let us have some time to do our homework. Then it was time to go home. We packed our book bags and left.


We had another great day in the fifth grade.

Monday, 4/20/09 Reported By: Mychae'l

Today, we unpacked our backpacks and started our morning work. For our morning work, we had logic links, and a spring break paper. Logic links is a piece of paper that gives you clues so you can solve the problem. The spring break paper is when you write about what you did over spring break. While doing our morning work, the announcements came on. After the announcements, it was time for music class. During music class, we sang “Be Thou My Vision.’’
After music we prayed the rosary. For the rosary, our class decided to go to our school church. Next, we did our spelling pretest. On the pretest, we had words like: scar, starve, and return. Right before we corrected our spelling pretest, it was recess. During recess, it was burning hot I needed all the water I could get. Then, we came back in and corrected our spelling pretest.
Once we finished correcting our pretest, it was math time. In math we did our practice book, math lessons, and our math homework. While doing our math homework, Ms. Jensen said that we will stop and do language arts. In language art, we did a review of past and future tense. Next, we did one page of language in our workbook. After that, some students did their invention in front of the whole class.

After the invention, it was lunch time. During lunch time, it got even hotter! That was one of my big worries on the day; I’m glad that’s over. Finally, it was Social Studies aka… my favorite subject. In social studies, we learned more states and capitals sang the famous Wacko Warner Fifty states and their Capitals song. Then, we played a fun state game that Ms. Jensen created where we had to name the states in five seconds. I won the first round and came in second in the second round. Then, it was time for Science. In Science, we did a project with our groups to see which object would make the bulb light up. Sadly, the day is over.
Another wild day in the fifth grade classroom!

Friday, 4/10/09 Reported By: Kim

Today I am the Jensen’s Journalist for April 10, 2009. My name is Kimberley. Today is the last day of school until April 20th because of Spring break! Ms. Jensen came downstairs to pick us up from the playground. When everyone got up stairs and unpacked their bags.


Everyone started the morning work, but the announcements and Morning Prayer came on. After everyone finished the morning work which was the TFK (Time for Kids). On the TFK everyone had to read the article then write a question on the TFK article. Everyone had to put it on the whiteboard. Afterwards, everyone did the worksheet.


Then Ms. Jensen said “Everyone get your rosary and line-up.’’ After everybody lined-up and walked to the Church, people were having mass, so everyone walked to the stairs of the Church. At the stairs of the Church their was a homeless person there. So Ms. Jensen took everyone to Good Friday Mass.


At the mass the songs were really pretty and nice, but the mass was overall powerful and effective. After Church everybody walked back to the school. When everyone got back to the school we listened to tape that read the story of the week that was Catching the Fire Philip Simmons, Blacksmith. The story made me look up to a blacksmith instead of look down at one. After, everyone did the reading and vocabulary test.


The vocabulary test was easier than the reading test for me. Then the bell rang for snack! At snack some people played soccer and some people played basketball. After snack people finished the reading and vocabulary test. Then Ms. Jensen passed out the fifty state test on the mid-west.


It was super easy for me. I think I got an A. Then Ms. Jensen made everyone write down their homework. Then it was time for the invention project. Afterwards, Ms. Jensen said “Everyone bring up your rubric if you are done.”


Josh, Grant, and Reese went up first, they did a invention called the movie-a- Nat or. Then Sharmaine and I went up are invention was called Whiteboard Perfecto! It was a scented whiteboard cleaner. Then Ms. Jensen said”Have a nice spring break.” That was Friday!

Thursday, 4/9/09 Reported By: Josh

When I got to school I saw 3 to 5 kids that were in my class. I thought it was cold in the morning. All the kids had a St. Timothy shirt and blue jeans on. When we got inside we had to do the state maps. I really dislike doing them because they take too long to do. A couple minutes later, Sidni’s mom came to give the class apple dippers. After 10 minutes of doing our maps we chose our groups for the field trip. I went to Sidni’s group. At about 8:30 a.m. Ms. Jensen said to use the restroom before we leave. When all the students came back to class we got lined up and we left. Ms. Jensen said to sit at the benches out on the yard to wait for the 2nd graders because they were coming with us. We waited at the benches for about 10 minutes. We left around 8:45 a.m. It took us about 15 minutes to get to the Eco Station. When we got there, there were already kids there since we took separate cars. When we got on the ramp to go inside there was a lady and she was our tour guide. She told us the number 1 rule is to have library voices.
When we got inside the tour guide led us into an empty room. She showed us 2 snakes and 2 tortoises. Next she split up the groups into 2. Another guide came and took the 2nd graders. The first room we went into was the reptile room there was a snake named Skittles because its scales were rainbow colored. Next we went into the bird room. There was a green bird named Rocco. He was the oldest animal in the Eco Station. He said “hello” and “good bye”. The tour guide said he could say “oh my gosh”.
In the next room there was a stuffed animal that had a sign that said, “too late I’m already extinct.” The last room was the aquarium. The were a lot of fish but my favorite fish tank was the one with the fish from the Amazon River. I liked it because the fish were huge. The tour guide led us to the gift shop where we met the 2nd grade. Only 5 people could go inside at a time. I bought dog treats for my dogs and I bought a glass frog for my brother.
When we finished with the field trip we met the class at Mc Donald’s. I had an Angus 3rd pounder. Of course I didn’t eat it all. When we got back to class Ms. Jensen said, “Since you had good behavior you don’t have any homework except for your reading log.” At 1:55 p.m. we got lined up and went outside for P.E. During P.E. we played baseball. I was so happy because baseball is one of my favorite sports. At 3:00 p.m. the bell rang and we went home.

Until next time Josh. ☺

Wednesday, 4/8/09 Reported By: Grant

Today was a sunny and cloudy day with a high of 66*F. Ms. Jensen picked us up right after the bell rang. After we climbed the stairs with our heavy backpacks, our morning work was on the board. We had to do pages 10-13 in our map packet Ms. Jensen gave us a few months ago. Then we corrected it after we were finished. Next, we went to the church to pray the rosary. We prayed the sorrowful mysteries. After we prayed the rosary, we went back to class and started our reading stations.

The stations were: computers, comprehension, library, and writing. My group was on writing first. We had to write a letter to the teacher or principal, to persuade something that is not allowed. Next, we went on the computers. We played a game where you have to name all the states in the U.S. Then it was recess. At recess I played Knockout with Josh & Reese. When the bell rang, Ms. Jensen picked us up and went back inside and continued our reading stations.

Next, we were on reading comprehension. We had to do Think and Respond in our reading book. Then our last station was library. I went to the library and read Diary of the Wimpy Kid the Last Straw. Finally it was math. First, we corrected last night’s homework. Next, we did our daily power-up. Then we corrected the. Finally, we did the lesson. The lesson was on triangles and quadrilaterals and their measurements. Then it was lunch.

At lunch I played soccer. After lunch, we had technology. We had to finish editing our movies. My group’s is on the Declaration of Independence. Also we had to extract the audio. We finished 5:00. Now we are adding titles. Then tech was over. Now we had to do a science test. But we had to correct our pretest. I did a good job. Then we did our test. After we were all finished, we started the maps. Then we packed up and went home. Today was the coldest day ever!

Tuesday, 4/7/09 Reported By: Nina

In the morning at 7:55 a.m. we walked in from the playground it was the start of a new day. The first thing we did was to listen to the morning announcements, which included the “Pledge of Allegiance.” After the morning announcements we did our daily Logic Link puzzle. The Logic Link puzzle is a puzzle in which you get clues to figure out were the chips go.

After completing our Logic Link, we took our rosaries and library books and left the classroom. We went to the St. Timothy Library it is located in the Chapter room. I checked out a book about optical illusions. Our second stop was church where we prayed the “Sorrowful Mysteries.” After returning to our classroom we read “Catching the Fire.” The story is about a blacksmith who went to Washington D.C. and displayed his art at the National Mall. Then Ms. Jensen told us to work on our “Invention Project.” Our invention is called the “Arrow Mark” which is a bookmark that slides out to be an arrow pointing at the word last read in book. It was then time to go to snack break.

After snack break we did our daily math. We then corrected our homework. After correcting our homework we did Mental Math. It is a warm up exercise where we do math in our head and time ourselves. This is a good problem solving exercise. We then did Math Notes. The lesson was about transversals. After Ms. Jensen taught us about transversals she let us do five minutes of our homework. Then it was time for lunch.

After lunch, Ms. Jensen told us to collect box tops from our Grade we are representing. Sadly, our 8th grade had no box tops. Then Ms. Jensen told us to work on our State sheets. I worked on several states. We then did our Tuesday packets. We then packed up and waited to go home. At three o’clock we went outside to be picked up by our parents. Another exciting day at St. Timothy’s school.

Friday, 4/3/09 Reported By: Kim

Good morning, I am the Jensen’s Journalist for Friday, April 3, 2009. My name is Kimberley. Today Ms. Jensen came downstairs to pick the whole class from the playground. When the whole class got in the class, everyone unpacked their bags. After that, everyone did

 a logic links that was easy for me. Then the morning announcements came on the intercom. After everybody, finished their morning work everyone either read

 or did the egg we started with our grandparents. Then Ms. Jensen gave everyone a spelling test. I got an A on Monday so I did not have to take it today. After that, we did the reading and vocabulary test, which I think I got an A in. Finally the bell rang for snack time.  

       At snack, I played soccer with my friends. When we got back in, we finished the reading and vocabulary test. After that, we just packed up and wrote our homework down for the weekend because we had Church. At Church, everyone had a good day and was singing the songs. We were at Church because of Palm Sunday that was coming up.  

       After Church, everyone in the whole school ran over to the tabl

e where they were selling pizza for one dollar. I got one pizza and water for two dollars. The half day was the best Friday ever!  

Wednesday, 4/1/09 Reported By: Reese

Today we came in from the playground with our teacher 8:00.  As we all knew it was
April Fool's Day.  Everyone immediately started on their logic link puzzle which is an
activity where you get five, six, seven or eight clues to solve a puzzle.  
 Next on our list of things to do today was finishing up our maps; which was where we
would pick a state, right the capital, rivers, mountains, etc.  The class' next subject was
Religion.  In Religion we would learn about the teachers in the Catholic Church which
was on page 163 in our Religion Work Book.  We all learned how Peter was the leaderof the 12 Apostles and that one of the Apostles betrayed Jesus.  Right after that we all
did a Religion Pop Quiz on the 12 Apostles and the Seven Sacraments.  Then we tookout our Rosaries and our Rosary prayers.  Then all of the students headed on their way
to the Church to pray the Rosary.  When you pray the Rosary you pray 50 Hail Marys,
5 Our Fathers, one Apostle's Creed, one Hail Holy Queen and six Glory Bees.  Then
everyone came back to class.   Now we went to the next subject which was Language Arts, we learned our lesson on
page 170 in our Language Book.  Our lesson was about "subject, verb, agreement."We learned all about it; and watched a quick video on it.  Then we had to complete
a page in our Language Workbook to see if we understood our lesson; there were ten
questions.  Then there was snack, everyone went outside to eat and play.  When wecame in, our class and the teacher talked about the states.  Then we all started correcting
our math homework.  Our teacher, Ms. Jensen, taught us about "symetric property of
equality."  Everyone learned so much from this.  Then everyone got started on their math
homework because they all got the lesson very easily.  Afterwards, it was finally lunch time
and everyone came running down the stairs to have lunch.   
When we came in to our surprise, it was computer class for one hour.  The whole class
had so much fun and learned so much from what our computer teachers taught us about
making movies.  Our class then sang a song aboiut the states and their capitals right after
computer class.  The person singing it was a cartoon chaacter named Wakko Warner.  
 
Next everyone finished up their states that they worked on earlier during the day.  Then we
packed up and left the school.

Tuesday, 3/31/09 Reported By: Sharmaine

In the morning, Ms. Jensen brought in our class. When we got in, we unpacked. After we unpacked, all of us started our morning work, finishing our maps. Then my class went to the book fair. Afterwards we went to church to pray the rosary. Then, when we came back, it was time for reading. The story for this week is A Do It Yourself Project. Once done with reading the story we broke up into our groups and worked on our inventions. Then it was time for snack.

            After snack, it was time for math. During math, we did investigation 9. Then we had a benchmark test. After math, we worked on our homework. Then for a lovely surprise, it was time for lunch.  

            After lunch, we did our Tuesday Packets. Once we were sorted, we did social studies. Then we worked on our maps. Then we packed up and went to PE. After PE, we all went home.

Monday, 3/30/09 Reported By: Kelly

This morning we started the day with Today’s Quote and Logic Link #53.  I think that today’s logic link was pretty easy!  After about 20 minutes of working on morning we had music.  Today Mr. Howell brought in two different types of instruments.  He brought the xylophone and drums.  A few f my classmates got to play on the xylophone and made different types of notes.  When music was over, we had to finish the rest of our morning work and collect our things to pray the rosary at Church.
           
            When we got to Church, our prayers started with the Apostles’ Creed.  Upon returning to class, we started our spelling pretests, but in the middle the bell rang for snack.  After snack, we ended our pretest and corrected it.  I got two wrong!  Finally Math came.  We did a math pretest for homework and we did the real thing today.  Since I finished early, I got to read my book.   
            Our class has been working on partner inventions, so a little time before lunch we were able to work on them.  My partner and I have invented Mutant Makeup. It is mascara, eyeliner, and lip balm combined in one specimen. At 12:20 lunch began.  It lasts forty minutes. When we got back to the classroom, Social Studies began. We have been learning about the fifty states in the U.S.  During Social Studies, we have been coloring pictures of each state.  Afterwards was Science.  In our books, we read pages B91-95 and on B95 we did questions 1-3.  Now came time to write down our homework and pack up for the ending of a wonderful St. Timothy’s  School day!

Friday, 3/27/09 Reported By: Brooke

RRRRRiiiinggg! Goes the school bell. All the kids on the playground stop playing and get in their classroom lines. All the teachers come out talking, laughing, or just smiling. The 5^th grade teacher, Ms. Jensen was absent, so the 3^rd grade teacher Mrs.D, took my class with her class to her classroom.

The 5^th grade sat at a bean shaped table and read for 2 minutes. When Mrs. D. said “Put your backpacks near your classroom door”.  Reese found a deck of cards.  Most of the class played card games and some read.  Around 3: 42 my best friends, Asha, and Selena begin talking, I joined in the conversation.  

It was about one of the best substitutes we’ve ever had, Ms. Amanda. Selena had asked who she was.  Asha and I told Selena all about Ms. Amanda. Selena looked up and said “who is she?” While we were talking Ms. Amanda stood at the doorway listing to our conversation! Me and Asha turned around and said at the same time “Its Ms. Amanda”! We sounded like twins. Ms. Amanda told the class to follow her to the classroom.  

When we got inside our classroom we unpacked, got out our reading book, and read the story Girls think of everything.  The story is about inventions we use today that were invented by women. After that we got out our scan tron, privacy folders, paper, and test booklet. Then we took the reading test. Later we took the spelling test. When we finished both test the class worked on a sheet that looked like the cover of the book.

On the sheet you had to make up a name for a book you would write, then color it and on the bottom write what it was about. RRRiiiinnnggg! Snack time!  After snack was math we corrected our math homework, and worked in our workbook. 20 minutes later we went to preview the book fair. We had to take our lunch bags because when we would come out of the book fair it would be lunch. There was a lot of things in there books, toys, and other stuff.

After we were done looking at the book fair it was time to have lunch. When we finished lunch we took our social studies test on the 13 western states and their capitals. After the test we had free time. Later we had Stations of the Cross which is when the school goes to the church to stand. When the altar servers get to a picture someone would go to the microphone and, read about what happens in the picture. When station of the cross was done the class went to the classroom, packed up, and went home.  

Another great day at St. Timothy School.                  

Wednesday, 3/25/09 Reported By: Grant

This morning on March 25, 2009, we did our 52^nd logic links puzzle.  A logic links puzzle is, a puzzle where you use 9 different colored dots, and it gives you clues where to put the dots on the paper.  After the puzzle, we read altogether, a scripture reading in page 154 in our religion book.  The reading was about the 12 apostles.  Then Ms. Jensen taught us a trick on how to remember the 12 apostles.  

It is, B-A-P-T-I-S-M-J.  B is for St. Bartholomew (a.k.a. Nathaniel).  A is for St. Andrew.  P is for St. Peter and Phillip.  T is for St. Thomas and Thaddeus (first name is Jude).  I am for Iscariot (first name is Judas, the one that betrayed Jesus). S is for St. Simon.  M is for St. Matthew and Matthias.  J is for St. John, James the lesser, and James the Greater.  After the acrostic trick we went to the front of our church to pray the whole rosary. 

We prayed the sorrowful mysteries.  After we prayed the rosary we went back to our classroom and continued our invention.  My group is making a movie robot.  After we started our inventions we went to recess.

            At recess I played basketball with Josh and Selena.  After recess we did our math power –up in our math workbook on page 88.  Then we learned about fractions, ratios, and proportions.  After Lesson 88, we did the Unit 2 review in our Language Arts books on pages 157-158.  It is about linking main, helping verbs, verb phrases, contractions, and forms of be.  After that we went out to lunch.

            At lunch I ate a lunchables.  We played basketball with Josh and Selena again.  We also played soccer with a lot of kids.  After lunch we had technology class with Mr. Huy and Mr. Pizzota.  We had to take a quiz about everything we learned in technology class.  After we were done with the quiz, Mr. Pezzotta showed everyone how to edit our movies.  

My group’s movie is on the Declaration of Independence.  So, after he showed us how to edit, we started to edit.  Our group got 40 seconds of footage done.  After technology, we worked on our western states.  They are: Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Hawaii, Wyoming, and New Mexico.  After we did that we packed up and went home.  That was a hot day because it was like 85 degrees.

Tuesday, 3/24/09 Reported By: Selena

Today in class, we learned about the fifty states. Wow, there’s so many I thought to myself! Ms. Jensen told us to locate the rivers, mountain ranges, and important cities in some of these states. Once we had finished our lesson about the states, we went to the library for thirty minutes. I was really excited because we got to read our new story of the week. I’m trying to read as many books a possible so I can record them on my reading log.

 When we had left the library, we did our rosaries. Then it was time for recess. During recess, I usually like to play basketball with my friends. Recess was a lot of fun but, before I knew it, it was time to go back to class. After recess, we corrected our math, and worked in our workbook. When we had finished our workbook, we learned about geometric formulas. After the lesson we had a chance to start our homework.     I like doing my homework at school because it means I have a lot less to do at home! School can be a lot of fun but, it can also be very busy!      

Monday, 3/23/09 Reported By: Sydni

Today I was once again, “Jensen’s Journalist”. I really have no problem with being Jensen’s Journalist. Today, it was too windy and cold for anyone to stand outside, so as soon as we got to the school we had to inside. As the bell rung we all got unpacked and started on our handwriting poem called “What is Life?”. The poem was about life. I think handwriting is easy and my best subject.  

If you finished the handwriting then you had to start on your Time for Kids. Time for Kids was mostly about space, and the title was “Are We Alone?” I personally don’t believe in all that mumbo jumbo. Then when you finished you were supposed to be working on the Time for Kids worksheet, usually the worksheets are easy. Then Mr. Howell walked into the room with his big grey electric piano. Once we warmed up our voices, we talked about how Unison is the ratio of 1:1, and the Octave is the ratio of 2:1. Then he said, “ Open your textbooks”.

Afterwards, we sung “Down by the Riverside.” I think “Down by the Riverside” was a nice, fast, uplifting song.

Once music class was over, we worked on our morning work. I was nearly done with my TFK {Time for Kids} worksheet. After 10 or 20 minutes, Ms. Jensen told us to take out our privacy folders for our Spelling Pretest. I did okay on it, but I got two wrong, so I got 18/20. Once we finished, we took our rosaries out and prayed. Finally, the bell rung, and we went to recess. Once the end of recess bell rang, we all lined up, came inside and started on math. I don’t like math, and math doesn’t like me either. Today we learned about Using Proportions to Solve Ratio Word Problems, I thought today’s lesson was easy. During math they announced the winners of the Science Fair in our class, and Kelly got first place, Josh got second, Asha got third place, and Selena got fourth place. Then we got out our Science Lab books. I used to be terrible at Science, but now I’m great. Today we were doing a science project about Investigating Potential Energy. Ms. Jensen said, “We had until Lunch to finish”. Today’s project was pretty easy.   

The bell rang and it was finally Lunchtime! Once we got back from Lunch we did Social Studies. In Social Studies we were starting a new unit. We are finally starting to do 

the 50 states! 

Today we did 13 out of the 50 states, and we did the Western states. Today we were coloring the state of Alaska. I didn’t really know that much about Alaska, but now I know a little bit more. The bell rung once again, so we had to write down all our assignments in our a

gendas, and get them signed by Ms. Jensen. We then had to get packed up go home. Another day waits.     

Friday, 3/20/09 Reported By: Josh

The bell rang at 8:00 a.m.  Ms. Jensen picked us up early because she was outside watching the kids that got to school early.  When we got inside Ms. Jensen said, “Get your chips so you could do your logic links.”  I thought the logic links were really easy.  It took me about 5 minutes to put the chips on the paper and to color in the circles.  Next, we prayed the rosary.  That took 15 to 20 minutes.  After the rosary we did our reading test on the story Fall Seasons.   I thought the test was kind of hard because 

of the vocabulary.  It took me about 30 minutes to finish the whole test.  Since I finished before some students, I did my art project.  

Our art project was to make a leprechaun out of paper plates and construction paper.  When it was 10:20 a.m. the bell rang.  I was so happy because it was snack time.  During snack, the student counsel held a bake sale.  A bake sale is when the student counsel sells cookies, 

candy and juice.  I thought the sugar cookie I got was really good.  During snack we played basketball.  The weather was cold.  At 10:40 a.m. Ms. Jensen picked us up from the yard to go inside.  

            When we got inside, we had to take out our math homework.  It took us about 30 minutes to correct our math homework.  Next we had our math test.  I was so happy because I was the first one to finish the test.  When I finished, I continued to work on my leprechaun.  By the time all the students finished the math test it was 11:45 a.m.  At 11:50 a.m. Ms. Jensen told us to pack up so we could go home.  At 12:00 p.m. we left school.  Another fun, but short day at St. Tims.  

Thursday, 3/19/09 Reported By: Asha

At 8am in the morning the school bell rang. We went up the stairs and went into the classroom.  We unpacked our bags and put them on the hooks. Next we did our religion. In religion we learned about Fredrick Douglass.  It was a good story.  After religion we did 

our reading station. In reading stations we did comprehension, computers, word study and library. We finished an awarding book and wrote a letter to our teacher.  We also finished our Riley’s farm article.

Then it was time for recess.  At recess we ate our food and played soccer.  The girls won 7 to 6. We were so happy that we won. After recess we learned about finding unknown factors in math.  It wasn’t hard but it wasn’t easy.  Our teacher let us work on our math homework.

Then our teacher remembered that we had to make gifts for the ladies luncheon. Our class made St. Patrick poems but we did have much time so our teacher printed a poem off the computer.   We decorated them as much as possible. They looked so green and pretty!  Then we went into the parish hall and gave the poems to the ladies.  They loved them so much that they asked us to read them aloud.  I thought we did well.  

Then it was time for lunch.  After we ate our lunch we played soccer. This time we didn’t keep score. It was fun.  After lunch we went up stairs and into the classroom.  When we went into the classroom we did our logic links.  It was so easy!  Then we packed up our bags and went to PE. We had PE from 1: 30 to 3:00.   At PE some of the class played soccer and the other half played basketball.  Then we played paramedic against the third grade class.  We won of course. However, the score was very close 7:6.   Then it was time to go home.

We had another great day in the fifth grade.

Wednesday, 3/18/09 Reported By: Mychae'l

Today when we got in, we started logic links. Logic links are like a brain teaser and also fun little worksheets.

 Since we had no Jensen Journalist today, Ms. Jensen wanted to assign Jensen Journalist quickly. While we assigned Jensen Journalist days Ms. Jensen to

ld us that we can use the camera to take pictures on important things that today. Next we finished our Leprechauns from yesterday. Some students didn’t finished but it was okay.  

After that Ms. Jensen called us to pray the Sorrowful Mystery on the rosary. Then we headed over to the Pari

sh Hall so we can get judged on project, some projects were a

lso like Endangered Species, Yeast Feast, and mines Fun with nature. If it was up to me everybody should get an A+. Finally it was recess. During recess nothing really happen we just ate and played.

When we got back in we started math. During math we corrected, did our power-up, and learned our new lesson on Area. After math we open up the bank and the bankers did their job. After the bank it was lunchtime. During lunch we fifth graders played a loving game of tag. Next it was computer class. 

In computer class we started to edit our movies. When computer class was over we did science. In science we learned about potential and kinetic energy. Finally we packed 

up and went to the parish hall to get our projects to take them home after we went home.  

Another great day in the fifth grade class!

Thursday, 3/12/09 Reported By: Asha

At 8am in the morning the school bell rang. We went up the stairs to our classroom.  We unpacked our bags and put them on the hooks.  Next we did our logic link puzzle and it was difficult.  The reason logic link was hard today is because I thought we didn’t have enough information to complete it.  Next we learned about the vision of the church in religion class.  The vision of the church includes the body of Christ, people of God, bride of Christ and the pilgrim people.  I had a lot of fun learning about this vision.

 

Then we had language arts.  We learned about past, present, and future tense verbs.  It was so easy!  Then it was time for recess.  We ate our snacks and played basket ball.  The girls played against the boys however, we didn’t keep score.

 

After recess we learned about the US customary system in math.  It wasn’t hard but it wasn’t easy either.  Then our teacher let us work on our homework.  Next, we had reading stations.  The four reading stations were comprehension, word study, computer, and a verb and adjective sheet.  I had to really work at figuring out how to do the verb and adjective sheet.  I like the computer best because we had to type a letter to our teacher about an award we would give to a book.  The book I chose was The Giving Tree.

 

Lunchtime is here.  After we ate our lunch we made up silly dance moves.  We laughed and laughed.  Then it was time for social studies.  In this class we learned about the war in the north.  I really enjoyed learning about the war because we acted out a play about the war.  Then it was time to pack our bags and go home.

 

   

         We had another great day in the fifth grade.

Wednesday, 3/11/09 Reported By: Nina

Today we had a substitute teacher whose name was Ms. Coy.  We entered the classroom at 7:55 am.  Once we unpacked our backpacks we did our daily logic links.  After this we read our religion about how we could be a good for God.  Ms Coy then said each group would write a slogan of how we can spread our faith. After religion we did our reading stations.  They were word study, free rice, comprehension and time for kids. 

 

After the stations we did language arts.  We did the extra practice page.  After language arts it was time for snack.  I had Pirate’s Booty for snack.   Then we went inside to correct our homework and our math pretest.  We then took our math test that included twenty questions. 

 

At twelve twenty it was time for lunch.  After lunch we did technology.  We were taping our videos of the Revolutionary War.  My group’s video was about the Boston Massacre.  When technology was over we packed our books into our backpacks.  We had twenty-five minutes to play, so we played quiet ball.  Then we heard the bell ring and it was time to go home.