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.

Tuesday, 3/10/09 Reported By: Mychae'l

Today we got in and we started logic links. Logic Links are a mind binder our class does for fun. During logic links, we listened to the morning announcement. After everybody finished their logic links, we opened our religion so when we get back from the library we would be ready for it. While we were in the library, our library assistance introduced us to new books, but I just picked out Winnie the Pooh, and Mary Poppins.  After the library, it was almost time for recess because a lot of kids were hungry. When we got back we read pgs: 150-151. We learned about the Second Vatican Congress. It was about Pope John XXIII becoming Pope. We wrote three questions that we would like to ask the Pope. I wrote” is it fun being the Pope? Do you speak English? Where were you born?” Next we went on to Reading. In reading, we read my side of the Mountain. This story was about a boy who moved to the mountains and decided to stay on the side his great grandfather owned.

                  After reading, we did language arts. During language arts, Miss Coy said” You guys are good at contractions.” The whole class was happy to here that. In our workbook we did pg: 35. After language it was recess finally! During recess some of the fifth graders wanted to see who was faster than each other. Sadly recess was over. When we got in, we corrected our math, started our power up, and did our lesson for the day. Lucky we finished our lesson early and got to start and finished our homework and play the fun game of quizmo. The classmates who won quizmo were Kimberley, Sophia, and Asha. After math it was lunch. Nothing happened to us during lunch today.

                  After lunch, it was Social Studies. In social studies we learned about the loyalist, patriotic, and neutral. It also told us about the women of the war. The soldiers named them Molly Pincher because they would carry the heavy pincher. After we did pg: 46 in our workbook, we did our Tuesday Packet. Lucky for me my Tuesday packet was good. Next it was Science; in science we did a review. When everyone was finished, we got to play a game and group three which was: Kelly, Sharmaine, Nina and Sydni. I just said to myself,”It’s not about winning or losing, it’s about having fun.” Sadly it was the end of the day so we packed up and went home. But lucky for Kelly she won the S.L.E.

Today was one of my favorite days at the fifth grade classroom.

Friday, 3/6/09 Reported By: Kim

Today I am the Jensen’s Journalist for March 6, 2009. Ms. Coy (the substitute) came downstairs to pick us up from the play ground. When we got to the classroom, we unpacked our back packs. Then we all said the Pledge of Allegiance and the Morning Prayer. After that we did the Logic Links that was on our desk. The logic links puzzle was kind of easy for me! Finally we got into the tests for the day! The first test we had for the day was the spelling test, which I did not have to take because I got a 100% on the pretest.

 

 When everyone else finished the spelling test it was time for the reading and vocabulary test. First we had to listen to the story and read along. The reading and vocabulary test was the easiest reading and vocabulary test I ever took in the fifth grade! Afterwards, Ms. Coy taught us to use a constant factor to solve ratio problems. Then when she was a done teaching us she let everyone do their math homework for the weekend. I finished my math homework so I do not have to do it on the weekend!

 

 Then finally it was time for snack! At snack I read my book and talked to my friends about what they were going to do for the weekend. When we got back it was time to pack up for Church. At Church they talked about the Paschal Mystery and people took the Eucharist. Today was one of the best Fridays ever beside the fact Ms. Jensen was not there today.

Thursday, 3/5/09 Reported By: Josh

Ring.  The bell went off at 8:00a.m.  We weren’t so happy because Ms.Jensen was out in New York for a meeting with Scholastic.  What cheered us up was our substitute was Ms.Coy.  Ms.Coy was one of the best subs ever.  The first thing we did was get unpacked and get our chips for our logic links.  Our logic links is a paper that has 3 circles across and 3 circles down. I really like logic links.  There are clues on the left side of the paper and you have to use your chips to solve the clues.  I thought it was really hard.  It took me about 15 minutes to solve it. 

            Next we did religion.  I thought it was really fun because there was a prayer.  I wanted to be the leader but I didn’t get chosen.  After religion we did stations.  The stations were comprehension, library, computers, and word study.  The comprehension was our Time for Kids magazine and a worksheet about the magazine.  I kind of dislike the magazine because it is boring.  My favorite thing about the magazine was an article about what kids eat for breakfast. During library you go to the class library and read.  For the computer station we had to type an article about the field trip on February 26,2008. Word Study was in our workbook.  The lesson was about contractions (BOORING).

            When we were finished with our stations we had snack.  For snack I had chips (it was so good.).  It was soooo cold I could hardly move my fingers.  My friends and I played basketball.  The bell rang at 10:20a.m.

            Later we did math.  The lesson in math was finding the area of a triangle (it was really easy).  Since we had a lot of time left until lunch we had time to do our homework.  I finished really early.  I finished early so I finished my pretest that was due Wednesday.  Before I knew it the bell rang and it was lunch.

            It was a lot hotter than it was during snack.  For lunch I had beef with rice.  It was so good.  My friends and I played basketball for a while then we played volleyball. 

            When Ms.Coy picked us up from lunch we had our social studies quiz.  It only took me like 5 minutes or less.  Later we did science.  The lesson was about friction.  It was pretty cool.  After we did our science we did language.  The lesson was about helping verbs.  When we finished language Ms.Coy said,” Write down your homework so we could go to P.E.”  Sofi won the SLE.  The SLE award goes to the person who acts the best during the day.

            At 2:00 p.m. we had P.E.  The first thing we did during P.E. was the mile.  Grant, Kelly, and I were the only people who did the mile.  I ran the fastest J.  After we did the mile we played capture the flag.  The bell rang at 3:00 P.M.  Another productive day at St.Timothy.  Until next time, JoshJ. 

Wednesday, 3/4/09 Reported By: Reese

Today we came in rainy as ever at 8:00. The whole class noticed that we
had a substitute teacher.=0AThe teacher immediately started role call which
 is when the teachercalls out your name to see if your here, if you are
you say "Here."Then the announcements came on, and that is when the ple-
dge of Aallegiance and the morning prayer. Our next assignment was called
the=logic link puzzle which gives you 6,7, or 8 clues and 9 chips, and you
try to rearrange the chips so the clues make scene. After that everyone
took the Religion Test which was 20 review questions that you would answer.
 

 We had until 9:00 to complete the Religion Test. Afterward our subs-
titute teacher read us a short story. The sub. asked us all oral questions
 so that we could get that done quicker. We then read our vocabulary in
our reading book. Next, we answered oral questions on how well we knew our
 vocabulary. Next we read a fable called Aesop's Fables in our reading book.
 We (the class) read the fable out loud. Then, we answered five questions
 on a piece of paper, the assignment is called "Think and Respond". Our
next assignment is Language Art and we learned about verb phrases. We completed           page 36 in our Language Arts workbook and there were twelve questions.
 

 Then we went to have our snack but we ate inside because it was raining
 outside.. When it was time to go back to class we completed page 473-474.                       The lesson that we did was about the Metric System. We all got to start
 our Math homework because we finished our lesson early. The entire class
 said "that was easy". Then it was just free time until lunch. Of course,
 then it was lunch and we all ate and played. When we came in we immediately
 started Technology Class with Mr. Huy and Mr. P. We actually got
to start making a commercial for one hour, until Computer Class was over.
Then we read our Social Studies lesson which was about the Declaration of
 Independence. After that we all completed page 45 in our Socia Studies work-boo. Finally we wrote down our
 assignments and left St. Timothy School.

Tuesday, 3/3/09 Reported By: Brooke

RRRRiiiiiiiigggg! Goes the school bell. All the kids on the playground stop playing and get into their classroom lines. The teachers come out holding keys, coffee, or books. Some teacher are laughing and looking at their friends. My teacher Ms. Jensen comes out with keys and says to the class “alright guys lets go.” The class follows her up the stairs and into the classroom. The class sees logic puzzles on their desk. They get their chips (not the ones you eat), privacy folders, go to their desk, and work on it. After that we had religion. We learned about respect and disrespect.

We had library after religion. The class read and checked out books. The books I checked out were American girl books. When we got back to the classroom Ms. Jensen gave everyone $200 in class cash. I was so happy! I looked into my empty wallet and shoved the money in there. Next, we  had to proof read our partners assay about the field trip at Riley’s farm. My partner was Sofia and we proof read each others assay. RRRiiiiiinnnngggg! Snack time!

Later on after snack the class found computers in the classroom. Ms. Jensen said we were going to type our assay about Riley’s farm. We got our computers and we logged in. Ms. Jensen took control of our computers and showed us what to do. After that she stopped controlling our computers, we did what she showed  us how to do until lunch. RRRRRiiiinnnngggg! Lunch time!

The following was math. The class corrected their math homework and after that did their math test. Those who were finished before others read. At 2:00 p.m the class packed up and did Tuesday packets. The last thing to do was read the story for the week, it was called The Skill of Pericles. Phew! What a great day at St.Timothy School.

Thursday, 2/26/09 Reported By: Sofia

Today is February 26, 2009 and it is our class’ first field trip!  Our day started when Ms. Jensen greeted us in the play yard and arranged the students into groups so that we could all go in separate cars to our exciting field trip. I was in Josie and Mychael’s group and the three of us drove with Mr. Green as our driver.  It was a long way to get to Riley’s Farm.  It isn’t your typical farm.  It is more like a tiny village that teaches people about what life was like during the Revolutionary War.  It was like living the life of what we are reading about that time period in our history books.  The people who work at Riley’s Farm also dressed like that time period.  Even the men were wearing tights! Once we looked around we were ready to start the first part of our visit.

The first part was playing the games that colonist children played during that time.  There were a lot of interesting games and I chose to play stick and hoop.  It was really hard but I had fun.  The next thing we did was to practice being the Lexington Militia. We were helped by a man who was like an army sergeant and he taught us how the militia prepared for war.  We didn’t use guns, WE USED STICKS!  The man that helped us told us about how his ancestors (great, great, great grandfather) founded Riley’s Farm.  He told us interesting fun facts about the Revolutionary War and about how his ancestors founded the farm. 

Next we went to a tent where we learned how the colonists paid their taxes!  I learned that paying taxes wasn’t fun then and it isn’t fun now.

Right after that we learned about how the colonists lived life in the household.  We even met cows and one of their calves was a bull.  It was so cute to see.  Soon we went into a courtroom and saw an example of how unfairly the British treated the colonists.

The next lesson was how to weave on a loom.  It looked very interesting but at first it was hard.  I finally began to get the hang of it when Brooked helped me.  But the lesson was soon over.

Lunch time finally came and we were given a ration of corn bread, beef jerky, cheese, apples, and lemonade.  Right after eating we had a couple of minutes to go to the gift shop.

The end of our wonderful field trip came when we had a fake war with another group using sticks instead of guns of course.  ST. TIMOTHY SCHOOL WON THE WAR!! 

Once the war ended we spent more time in the gift shop before having to leave.  The drive back to school wasn’t too bad because we could take a nap or watch movies during the ride back. 

What a fun and educating day we had thanks to Riley’s Farm and Ms. Jensen for choosing it!