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!

Wednesday, 2/25/09 Reported By: Sydni

Today was the first day of Lent and Ash Wednesday. Lent is when you give up something for forty days. I think fasting this year is hard because this year I am giving up sodas and I drink sodas every day. Once we got inside we unpacked and started on our Logic Links. I thought today’s Logic Link was really easy.

When everybody was finished, we corrected Religion pg. 142. I did pretty good because I got a B+. Once we finished correcting our Religion page we did Chapter 9 Religion Test. I think I did okay because I’m usually good at Religion. We were supposed to read, once we finished the test, but some people were talking. Next Ms. Jensen said, “Take out a piece of handwriting paper.” Then we talked about Lent and about what we are giving up for Lent. Luckily I already knew what I was giving up for Lent. Once we thought about it, we wrote it down and then signed the bottom of the page. We then started on the reading questions called “Think and Respond.”  I don’t like doing those questions, but I have to. Afterwards, we got to work on our Narnia Wardrobes. I love drawing but I just don’t like drawing more than one person.

         Next, it was finally snack! Once we got back in it was math. Math is not my favorite subject and it has never been. The only time I liked math was in third grade, and that is it. Today we did lesson #73. It was review so all we did was lesson practice. Everybody did lesson practice on the board and only two people got wrong answers. THANK GOODNESS! I wasn’t one of the people that got the wrong answer. Afterward, we got to start on our homework. While we were doing our homework Ms. Jensen told us that we were having lunch at 11:20 am. This was because we were going to have church at 12-1 pm. We usually have lunch at 12:20 and right followed by technology class. It was nice of Ms. Jensen not to cancel technology, all we had to do was switch around our schedule. After the homework we had lunch. It was so much fun having lunch with the little kids.

Once lunch was over we had church. Church was pretty short, but the most important part of today’s church service was the ashes, of coarse. Then we tried to finish up our Narnia Wardrobes, but some of us didn’t. Next was Technology class, which I absolutely love. In this part of technology we are going to make music videos. Silent music videos are when you only play music, but you don’t talk. We are doing a music video on the Boston Massacre. Once Technology was over we went outside to get our lunchboxes from downstairs since we left them for church. Next was Science, where we did our Science quizzes from last week, luckily they were open book. I thought the crossword puzzle on the back was kind of hard. We then assigned who was going in whose car tomorrow for the fieldtrip to Riley’s Farm. The people that are going in my mom’s car are Grant and Nina, and that’s perfectly fine with me. Then we wrote down our homework and got packed up. Once that was done, we watched the last five minutes of Narnia (the older version). Finally it was time to go home! I can’t wait until tomorrow’s fieldtrip! 

Tuesday, 2/24/09 Reported By: Sophia

Hooray today is Mardi gras, which means Fat Tuesday! Ms. Jensen came out, looking serious as usual. When we got in the classroom we unpacked and sat down. We had to do a logic link puzzle that had to be done in 10 minutes, because we had to go to the library today. Just as people were finishing up on their logic puzzles, the phone rang. When Ms. Jensen was done talking she told us that library was canceled. Everybody started saying things like “What!” and “Ohh!”
            When everyone had finished the logic puzzle Ms. Jensen said to take out our religion book and a correcting pen. We corrected the religion homework from last night. Three people didn’t do it. Next we got the vocabulary words for this week’s story. We had to write our hypothesis and then see if we were right. After we completed that we listened to a tape reading this week’s story which is called The Greeks and The Romans.
            Following that Ms. Jensen read us a story about Mardi gras. Afterwards we took a quiz on the story. When we were done Ms. Jensen passed out a paper that had a mask shape drawn on it. We were decorating Mardi gras masks! Then the bell rang and it was time for snack. When we got back in the classroom we continued with our masks. Everybody’s masks looked awesome! When everyone was done we took several pictures with our masks on. After that we corrected our math homework, and did our fast facts, mental math, and problem solving. After math time it was lunch. When we came in from lunch we finished watching The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and it’s not the one that most people know. It’s the one with the 6ft tall beavers, and the silver witch, and the really fake looking Aslan. Then we did Tuesday packets and wrote our homework down in our agenda. RIINNGG!!! It’s the end of the day, so we get to go home and have as much to eat as possible!! J