Sacramento

     The 5^th grade just had a great trip to Sacramento. We enjoyed seeing the Capitol, Railroad Museum, Sutter’s Fort and of course, visiting Coloma and panning for gold. Our tour guide, Jerry was awesome and very knowledgeable about almost everything. We had as many parents as kids and they enjoyed it as well.

     In class we are also getting started on our bottle rockets. The students are in groups of three trying to figure what will make their rocket go the highest. They are discussing and researching if the amount of pressure or the amount of water make a difference. Some are even testing the fins. In the next couple of weeks we will see what they come up with.

January

It has been a busy month already. Each student presented a report on the colony they have been researching. We are now learning about the Revolutionary War. To go along with that we just visited Knott’s Berry Farm’s Independence Hall. We interviewed Ben Franklin and heard how people lived in the 1700’s by Abigail Adams. We also watched the Storm in Philadelphia and learned what a sacrifice others made for our freedom. After our brains were filled with valuable information we went across to Knott’s and went on a few rides. It was such an enjoyable day!

 

 

 

November 2014

We had a great time at our annual Thanksgiving Feast. Thank you to Impact and all the parent volunteers who made this possible. Now, we are getting ready for the Christmas season. There will be a program on December 12 showing off what everyone is learning in their choir/band/orchestra and rhythmic movement classes. Also, that same day we will have another spirit rally in the gym. In between we will continue with dividing and multiply fractions and learning about the colonies.

October 2014

Wow, it has been a busy month. We started with the 5^th grade doing a chapel on patience. Also, we have been working on our program for Grandparents Day. The class enjoyed having them so much. We played a trivia game, a fraction game, and had a few people in the class show their science reports and history presentations that they will be doing in class. We topped it off with giving them a gift that each student created on the computer from “wordle”, and saying I Corinthians 13. Now, we are getting ready for red ribbon week, tackling fractions, and our upcoming field trip to Oak Glen.

January 27,2013

Our 5^th grade recently enjoyed a bus trip to the Oval Office West Wing, In Corona, CA. It is a replica of the Oval Office in Washington D.C. It started off with a Charlie Brown movie on our constitution, a tour through the oval office and time in the computer lab learning more about how the government is run and deciding what we would do if we were president.

It’s hard to believe we are already half way through our year with still so much to do. We are looking forward to our upcoming research paper, learning and practicing our fractions, and of course, this will be our 3^rd year launching rockets. We are preparing by learning the scientific method in science. We have been finding our pulse and discovering what it takes to make our heart work harder or relax more.

October

Well, we have had a tremendous first couple months of school. It all goes by so fast. We are in the midst of honoring our grandparents/loved ones with verses, songs and special presentations in the classroom.  We found that some of the grandparents are pretty fast at math and even beat some of their grandchildren. Soon, we will be getting ready for our chapel in November where the evil thoughts battle the good thoughts. Hopefully, it will be a lesson in life not just a performance for chapel. In History we just finished making posters trying to persuade Europeans to come and be a part of the Jamestown Colony. The students, of course, just focused on the positive things and not on the negative. In math we got the protractors out to find the degrees of angles. We are learning the difference between acute, obtuse and right triangles. Soon we will be getting ready for our annual Thanksgiving Feast. So many things, and so little time.

What's Happening in 5th Grade

In January we went on a field trip to Oak Glen with the fourth grade. It was very informative and taught many 5^th grade standards in science. We learned about trees, ponds, recycling and the scientific method, as well as went on a hike which reminded me how out of shape I’m in. Right now we are practicing the scientific method by building and shooting off our water bottle rockets. They are testing them with different pressure and different amounts of water. The kids love experimenting with this, and it’s good for them to work in their groups and practice team work. They will then put all of their data together in a chart on the computer during their computer class. In language we are writing a research paper on an American who has made a positive influence on our country. We are learning how to take notes, do an outline and a bibliography.