Upcoming Events

April 29th: Panoramic Pictures
May 1st: No School
May 4-22: Book Fair
May 15th: Deadline For Memorization Of Multiplication Facts
May 12-21 and, 27th: KCCT Testing
May 19: Make Up Day
May 25th: No School
May 26th & 28th: Middle School Visits
June 3: Life Skills Assembely
June 4: Fifth Grade Day/Graduation
June 5th: Last Day Of School!

Book Fair Contests

Centerfield Book Fair starts May4th and runs through the 21st. There are many contests that you can win just by buying a book.

* Pie in the Face- buy 2 or more books over $4.00 and get to vote on a teacher to receive a pie in the face. If your ticket is pulled for that teacher you get to be the one to pie her.

* Toy Bag- buy 3 or more books over $4.00 and get to pick a toy out of Mrs. Blake's fantastic toy bag.

* Anything You Want- buy 4 or more books and choose any item you want from the Book Fair.

* Duct Tape Mrs. Blake- if the school earns $6000.00 from the book fair the whole school gets to duct tape Mrs. Blake to the wall for a few hours.

Please check out the wish lists that your teacher has filled out and donate a book to their classroom. I know we would greatly appreciate it.

Podcast

We have a new podcast with some of the greatest personal narratives in 5th Grade! We will be featuring a few this month and then a few more next month. Please feel free to download them to your computer or your MP3 player. If you like, you can also leave a comment for the author.
http://cewildcatpodcast.podcastpeople.com/

Congratulations April Life Skill Winners- Effort

• Jill Oldham
• Lexi King

Student of the Month

• Sydney Rogers

*Life Skills Assembly Is On Thursday, April 23 at 9:00 am

New Library System

The library has a new system were you can check what books you have out online, you can even search for books, too!
Visit: http://oneplace.oldham.kyschools.us/

How To...

Check out these tutorials that our classroom "Tech Guru" created.

How To Use Movie Maker

How To Use Photo Story

How To Make a Powerpoint

Writing Fix

Having trouble coming up with ideas for your writer's notebook? Check out the two new links that I added under Language Arts Websites. There are writing prompts for those of you who are more left brained and those of you who are more right brained. NO MORE EXCUSES!!! Now you have access to many ideas to fill those beautiful lined pages of your Writer's Notebook.
http://www.writingfix.com/right_brain.htm
http://www.writingfix.com/left_brain.htm

What Are We Reading????

In class right now we are reading several books. The Giver by Lois Lowery, Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli, A View From Saturday and From the Mixed Up Files of Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick, The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, and The Dead Man in Indian Creek by Mary Downing Hahn. These are some books that have entertained many of my past 5th grade classes. I hope students this year are enjoying them as well.

This is a View From Saturday book club students and Mrs. Smith (IUS Student). We are using pantomime (when we act with no words) to act out scenes from the book. This shows how much detail the author used in her writing, we could act them out and our group could guess which part of the book it was. - Jill Oldham

Jacob and I were using pantomime (in a shopping way) to act out a scene from our book: The View From Saturday. The we are acting out is when Ethen is shopping for a gift for Julian. Ethen first finds a book, then a game, and then a puzzle. Ethen thinks a puzzle would be perfect for Julian. - Trevor Isaacs

This is me and Meredith doing pantomime (showing something without words) of a scene in our bookclub book, The View From Saturday. We were doing the part in the book where Noah talks about how this red wagon was holding a wedding cake. It was lots of fun and The View From Saturday is a really good book. Can't wait to see how it ends...-Joy Girgis