Before School Math Study Group Tomorrow

Tomorrow is our Chapter 2 Math Test. If any student would like to receive more help on the skills, they may come to Room 205 at 8 a.m. I will do a 20 minute review at that time. Study hard tonight, and don't forget to bring your completed Chapter 2 Math Packet to turn in tomorrow.

Mrs. Bailey

Fill Number 15's Birthday Bucket!

Today we celebrated Number 15's birthday! Happy Birthday #15!!

Number 11 helped Number 15 pass out delicious cupcakes!

Number 7 lead us in our singing! Nice work Maestro!

Let's continue the celebration by filling number 15's bucket this week. Leave your bucket filling comments here so she will know how glad we are to celebrate her!

Mold!

Mold Observations from our teams:

Team 2~

- Mold takes a long time to form

-Mold can be any color

-Mold has spores

Team 3~

- The mold looks like powder spread

- It's black and dark green

-We can each mold (mushrooms)

Team 4~

-Mold feeds off of dead plants to get nutrients

-Mold spores need to grow in the dark

Team 5~

-Mold on the bread is hard

-The mold fed off of the bread and water

Team 6~

-Mold grows in the dark unlike flowers

-Mold is a decomposer

-Mold can be different colors

-Spores fly in the air

-Mold eats rotten things

Math Quiz 2.7

Show how you would estimate:

1.) 2.8 * 37 =

2) 0.7 * 508 =

3) 48.2 * 375 =

Solve the following using the Partial Products Method:

4) 521

* 28
______


5) 129

* 7
______

Correction in Accessing My Grade Book

A very kind parent informed me that the log in must be capitalized the following way: 5Bailey205



The link to the website is here: mygradebook.com



I apologize for any confusion! I hope the online grade book will prove a helpful tool throughout the year. Thank you for your patience and help along the way!



Regards,



Katie Bailey

Progress Report Time!

Mid-Quarter grades are coming home today! Please sign and return your child's progress report by Friday. Next week I will send home a sign-up for conferences.

You will also be receiving the log in and password for checking your child's grades online. I have already added grades that will raise or lower the grade your child received on the progress report. If your child has late work or work from an absence, I generally do not record it until the end of the week. Check back on Friday for a more accurate grade. Here is the link to the grade book site: http://www.mygradebook.com/

I look forward to working with you to help your child reach his or her full potential this year.



Thank you,



Katie Bailey

Math Quiz 2.7

Today students took a quiz on estimation. For each problem, they were to show how they rounded the numbers as well as their estimated answer. Students should also be able to tell whether their estimate is in the 0.1s, 1s, 10s, 100s, 1,000s, 10,000s, etc. Here are the questions if you would like to review them before the test!

1.) 28 * 33 =_______


2.) 14 * 98 = _______


3.) 37 * 104 = ______


4.) 2.8 * 1.3 = ______


5.) 0.8 * 0.1 = ______

Tomorrow students will have a quiz on Partial Products! Happy Studying!

We Love Extracurriculars!

Thank you to those of you who have invited me to see a bit of your life outside of school. I had so much fun watching you bowl, cheer, and play football this weekend! You're the BEST!

Number 26 bowled a better game than I will ever achieve in my lifetime!

Number 25 was also there to cheer her along!

You did a terrific job number 26! Thanks for the invitation :)


Next stop...football with Number 28! Great Game...Panthers win!

Number 7 and 3 did a DYNAMITE job cheering for the team! What, what, what, what...Go Panthers!

Social Studies Extra Credit Opportunities

Opportunity #1: Students may submit up to five items for our class' Regions Scrapbook. Students should bring in a picture (one that we can keep) or draw a picture of a place they have been. The picture should include a caption that describes the region/location and characteristics of that place. They should tell how the land or climate of that region effects life there. We will compile each scrapbook item into a class book to help us learn more about our country's regions.



Opportunity #2: Students may read about two letters in the book D is for Democracy and write a summary of the content. This one must be done at school because I have checked the book out from the library.

Please encourage your student to take advantage of this opportunity to raise his or her S/S grade! The last day to turn in this Chapter 2 Extra Credit is this Thursday, October 1st.

Fill Number Five's Birthday Bucket!

This Saturday Number 5 is turning eleven! We celebrated a day early with cupcakes...thanks number 5!

Let's continue to celebrate with him by filling his bucket...remember to use his number...NOT his name!

Leaf Characteristics Sort

Leaves! Leaves! Leaves! Last week we did a science experiment with leaves. Do you know why? We wanted to sort them by their characteristics. Characteristics are the texture, color, shape, size, and smell...or anything else you observe. Some leaves smell good, some didn't. Smell is one of the characteristics of leaves. My favorite characteristic was texture because I love how the leaves felt. Some were rough, some were smooth, and some felt sticky.

Keep scrolling down to see how the rest of the class sorted their leaves!

Article By: Number 8

Number 17 and 11 sorted their leaves by size, color and texture. "One leaf was fuzzy. It felt kind of weird," said #17.


Number 15 and number 25 sorted their leaves by the size, shape and color. "One smelled like pizza," said number 15. "It did," number 25 agreed!

Number 23, 18, and 20 measured their leaves in order to sort them by size.

Number 23 said, "One of the leaves was a mint leaf. It smelled so good. I just wanted to eat it!"

"The texture was really bumpy on the older one, and the new ones were really smooth," said number 18.

" When I saw one of the leaves, it looked like a four-leaf clover. I made a wish, but it wasn't a four-leaf clover," said Number 20.

Word of the Day Week 3

Room 205 is becoming quite skilled at using our words of the day! Below you will find this week's words:

• tuition
• tamper
• flourish
• vigorous

Can you use any of these words in a sentence? Do you know what part of speech they are? Do you want extra credit?...Answer these questions if you do!

E Pluribus Unum!

Throughout the year, our class will work together to write essays. We will focus on topics across the curriculum. For our first essay, we used what we are learning in Social Studies. Please enjoy our essay entitled E Pluribus Unum!

E pluribus unum! This Latin phrase means "out of many, one". It has been the United States motto for over two-hundred years! Even though we are very diverse, we all come together as one. Not only is E pluribus seen in the U.S., you also see it at work in a classroom, neighborhood/community, sports team, and family.

Our classroom shows an example of e pluribus unum. Even though we are diverse, we work together in groups to finish one project. Each person has a different job, but we all work together to keep our one room organized and clean. We work as one line in the hall, moving quietly. Each person does their individual part so our fifth grade class is seen as a bucket filler.

Neighborhoods and communities are another example of "out of many one". Every person has to work to keep it clean. To keep the neighborhood peaceful, we need many volunteers. We also work together to keep our community "green". Everyone must do their part and recycle so the whole neighborhood is kind to the environment.

E pluribus unum is also shown in sports teams. In football the eleven players on the field have to work together as one to score a touchdown. Even though there are 9 players on a baseball field, each position tries to get outs for the team. To score a goal in soccer, each player must pass the ball to other players. The individual team members do their part to score a goal for the team.

Families are another group that demonstrate e pluribus unum. One example is they set the table for dinner. Someone brings the plates and someone else might bring the forks, but they all set one table. Family members do different chores to keep the house clean. Although each person in the family is a different age, they are all still one family.

Families, classrooms, neighborhoods, and sports teams all show examples of our country's motto "E pluribus unum". It takes all kinds of people to allow these groups to be their best. To be a good member of your family, neighborhood, team, or classroom just remember "E pluribus unum"!

Math Quiz 2.2

Today we took math quiz 2.2, over partial - sum addition and column addition. Below are the questions from the quiz:

~Solve problems 1 and 2 with Partial - Sum addition:

1.) 4.56 + 3.25 = ?

2.) 2.53 + 5.7 = ?

~Solve problems 3 and 4 with column addition:

3.) 58.2 + 76.08 = ?

4.) 344 + 348 = ?

Review:

5. Circle ALL the prime numbers:

1, 15, 41, 7, 56, 9, 11

6.) List ALL factors of 54:

Math Packets

Inside of the Friday/Monday folder, students will be bringing home their Chapter One Math Packets. The Math Packet contains all of the homework for chapter one. Students are assigned one page per night. The following day, we check the work in class. This gives students the opportunity to review concepts and clear up any questions they had while completing the homework.

At the end of each chapter I will be grading the Math Packet. I will not check each and every problem, but I will spot check to ensure students are correcting their papers as needed as well as completing their work. For each page that is not completed and corrected with excellence, the student's grade on the packet will drop one letter grade.

If your student received a C + or below, please discuss with them the importance of correcting their papers in class and completing their homework at home the night before. You might want to check your student's packet to see that they are making the necessary corrections in class if they got below a C+ this time.

We're Growing Fungus!

Today, we started learning about the Fungi Kingdom. We learned a lot of fun facts from our fungi video. Some fun facts our table teams learned were:

- Fungi can help plants. It gives the soil nutrients and also kills plants. It decomposes animals, trees, and leafs.

- Mold feeds off of rotting things. Fungus helps the environment by decomposing dead things so it makes the soil rich.

- Fungus can stop a plant from getting water. Fungus can attack your body's cells.

- If you leave something out for a long time it will turn into mold.

- Mushrooms are fungus. Fungus can attack your body, and mold has spores.

-Fungi can destroy bone tissue, lungs, and skin cells.

- Mold / Fungus eats living organisms.

**Anyone that can add fun facts to our list, about mold/fungus/ fungi kingdom will receive extra credit.**

If you are not in our class and you also know about fungus, please inform us! We want to know it all!

We also started our mold experiment, and hopefully we will start growing mold on our bread!

Miss Seyller

Array Museum

For Math Chapter One, students were asked to bring in household items that contained an array. In an array, each row contains the same number of objects, and each column has the same number of items. Several students took advantage of this extra credit opportunity. Can you write a number sentence for the following arrays?

Number 21 brought it an egg carton (2 rows, 6 columns), crayons (3 rows, 8 columns), and water bottles (3 rows, 2 columns).

Number 24 brought a paper game (2 rows, 2 columns), Number 28 brought in a plastic peg board (14 rows, 14 columns), and number 7 brought in a Lego array (2 rows, 4 columns).

Number 20 brought in a cupcake array (4 rows, 6 columns), but it didn't last long enough to be a part of our museum! Yum!

Number eight brought in a paint pallate ( 3 rows, 8 columns).

Number 4 brought in an array of letters ( 5 rows, 4 columns).

Write a number sentence for one of the arrays to recieve extra credit. Make sure to say which object you are writing it for.

Back to School Picnic

Last week Spring Trail held its second annual back to school picnic. Look who showed up from Mrs. Bailey's class!




Thanks to all who came. I enjoyed getting to know your family a bit more, and thank you number 24 for educating me on what a Rip Stick is! It was a fun evening!

President Obama Speaks to Us

Today we viewed President Obama's address to us. We couldn't watch it yesterday because we were in gym. President Obama spoke to us about challenges we face in gaining an education. He also discussed the importance of giving our BEST every day and setting educational goals. Our brains were really working overtime when he encouraged us to imagine the possible contributions our generation will make to our nation and world.

Following the speech, we wrote letters to the President regarding these issues. We'll post pieces of the letters when they are complete so check back soon. If you missed the speech or would like to watch it again go here: C-Span

I encourage parents and role models of students to sit down and discuss their challenges, educational goals and dreams. What did you think of President Obama's speech? How are you going to do your part to make our country and world the best it can be?

First Math Test Tomorrow!

Tomorrow we will have our 1st math test over unit 1. The test will cover factors, divisibility, squaring and "unsquaring" numbers, exponents, prime factorization, and prime and composite numbers. We have been reviewing for the test for the last two days. We have completed two review pages that the students should be bringing home to study. We also played a jeopardy review game today during class. Below are links to the 3 quizzes we took. It would be a good idea to review the quizzes and questions before the test tomorrow


quiz 1: Quizzes and Going Green
quiz 2: Divisibility Rules Quiz
quiz 3: Redo Divisibility Rules Quiz

Fill a Birthday Bucket

Over Labor Day weekend number Twelve celebrated her 11th birthday! We celebrated in class on Tuesday. Make sure to fill her bucket by leaving a kind comment some time this week!

Nice work maestro!

Redo of Quiz 1.5

The students had some problems with the first quiz (1.5), so today we did a redo of quiz 1.5. The questions from the first quiz are still posted, and the new quiz questions are posted below. I encourage students to review both sets of questions, because it will be covered on the test.

1. All numbers with a 0,2,4,6, or 8 in the ones place are divisible by what number?

2. A number is divisible by 5, if:

3. A number is divisible by 3, If:

4. If a whole number is divisible by 2 and 3, it is divisible by what other number?

5. Tell what each number is divisible by: (2,3,5,6,9 or 10)

a. 27 b. 36 c. 60 d. 711

Fill a Birthday Bucket

This week we celebrated our first birthday in Room 205. Happy Birthday Number Twenty !

We had fun celebrating! If you have kind words to fill number twenty's bucket, please leave them here! Please don't say his name, but we'd like to honor him on his birthday week.

Any Predictions?

Today Miss Seyller helped us start a science experiment. We're going to be studying properties of plants so we set up this experiment:

We put celery into water dyed with food coloring. We're going to observe what happens. I wonder what will happen? Any predictions?

Taste of Blackberries Chapter Five Quiz

The questions for the Taste of Blackberries Chapter 5 Quiz are listed below:

1. What was Jamie's friend doing at the beginning of the chapter that caused him to have "soapy whiskers"?

2. What did Jamie's friend change his mind about when he saw his parents leaving for the funeral parlor?

3. What was surprising about Uncle Jonah's face?

4. The boy said he wanted someone to know that he went to the funeral parlor? Who did he want to know that he was there?

5. Who held the boy while he was crying at the end of the chapter?

Mourning the Loss of a Loved One

We are currently reading Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan Smith. In this story a boy deals with the pain of losing his best friend Jamie. Jamie dies while taunting bees in their hive, not knowing that he is deathly allergic to them. Losing a best friend is not easy, and Jamie's best friend mourns the loss of his friend in many ways. Here are some of the ways we found he deals with his grief:

• remembers good times had with Jamie
• thinks of the future without Jamie
• pictures Jamie in a better place
• goes to Jamie's funeral
• doesn't sleep or eat
• denies the reality that Jamie is gone
• asks questions about what happened to Jamie

Today in class we realized that losing Jamie was so difficult for his friend because of how close their friendship was while he was still alive. Many of us have lost someone or something special to us too, and we realized that having special people in our lives means that we will at some point deal with loss. Do you have any ideas or suggestions about what to do when you lose someone or something special? Did you react like Jamie or did you mourn in other ways?

Math Quiz Lesson 1.5

1.) 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 are all divisible by what number?

2.) A number is divisible by 3, if :

3.) If the number ends in a 0 or 5, it is divisible by what number?

4.) A number is divisible by 9, if :

5.) List all of the numbers (2,3,4,5,6,9, and 10) the number is divisible by:

a.) 105 b.) 7,305 c.) 6,000 d.) 13,480

Word of the Day

Monday through Thursday, students will be working on a word of the day. Please encourage your student to use these words or find ways to casually use them around your student. There will be a small quiz covering the four words of the week on Friday. Using these words at home will help ELEVATE your student's grade as well as their confidence!

This week's words:

elevate
garland
flammable
horde