Gremlin Giggles

POOL PARTY!

Rain! The pool party has been rescheduled tomorrow, Thursday 5/10 from 4-6.

New Math!

Who composed this ditty?  What can you find out about him?  It is worth a few points of extra credit in math if you find out and write a paragraph to tell me...http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=6084   new math

At Home Extra Credits

Science

* Put some celery stalks into colored water and see what happens in a couple of days.  (Keep in the fridge)  You can do this to white or pink carnations and it will work too!

Social Studies 

*Visit KSU's Holocost Musuem near the Cracker Barrel on Busby Pkwy, or the Breman Museaum in Atlanta.  Make a presentation about it.

*Watch The Longest Day or Sargeant York or any other WW1 or WW2 movie and make a presentation about it!

*Listen to WW1 music and WW2 music and make a presentation on how these types of music differed and how the  music reflected the differing attitudes towards the war.

*Read (With your parent's permission) Number the Stars or The Great Escape, or another WW1 or WW2 book,  make a presentation about what you learned.

 

 

Thank you and an update!

 

Today was the first of our two days of human growth and development.  There was a lot of good practical information about this process. 

In math we are continuing on with geometry.  Area, volume and capacity, circles, polygons, slicing and dicing, so much to do with all the numbers!  But, we need to remember to calculate correctly.  And we have not forgotten fractions!

For Social Studies, we are zooming into the 20th century.  After World War 1, we progress through the Harlem Renaissance, The Great Crash, The Great Depression, World War 2, and I that's not the end!

Science brings multicellular organisms, classification of living things and finally genetics, and body systems.

We continue to learn more words every day.  We write with ease and humor.  We read, read, read!!!

Keep up the good work and classroom support.  Be sure to get enough rest, even with all the ball, gymnastics, scouts and music.  It is hard to learn while asleep in class :-)

Thank you for a great Teacher Appreciation and Valentine's!  We say it every day.  This class is the best.  I know it!!

Chinese New Year

We celebrated Chinese New Year today!  How fun!  We began by painting banners that said Good Luck in th New Year in Chinese.  Then we made paper lanterns.  All of this before math.  Then we took a fortune cookie recipe and used our math skills to figure out how many batches we would have to make to cook 50 cookies.  It took eight batches.  We multiplied the fractions in the recipe to know what to stir up.  The students made the batter and the fortunes and the parents flipped the cookie/pancakes.  We delivered the fortune cookies to our friends and the adults around the school that help us so much.  Mr. Magee made us some special egg drop soup.  I will post his recipe soon.  Here is the recipe for the cookies. 

1 large egg

¼ cup sugar

2T veg oil

¼ cup corn starch

1-2T water

 

Beat egg.

Add sugar.

Add oil.  Mix well.

Add water to cornstarch and mix until a smooth paste. 

Then slowly add cornstarch to batter.  Mix well.

Drop a heaped tsp. onto the hot, 350 degree, griddle.  Spread in a 3 inch circle 1/8 inch thick.  Flip like a pancake.  Place on paper towel, put fortune in the middle.  Fold in half.  Bend so that edges touch. 

 

Play pandemic 2 for extra homework for science!

100th DAY-- and Gung Hay Fat Choy

100th Day of School

We are going to be celebrating our 100th day of school on  Friday, January 27th. We have planned a fun probability and graphing math activity. To help us see the different ways 100 looks, we are asking that each child bring 100 pennies to school in a Ziploc baggie.

 When we are finished we would like to donate the 100 pennies to our 5^th grade fund for our upcoming trip! Please send in the 100 pennies by Wednesday, January 25.

Thank you for your support!

 

Today is Chinese New Year!  We will celebrate this next Friday, February 3rd.  Look for more information!

Comic Strip Dictionary

Use this link to create a comic strip for dictionary!

A contest for free admission to Stone Mountain

Tell me if you enter.  It is worth an extra credit in language arts!  Very valuable. Download Write Your Ticket Civil War 2012 EMAIL BLAST w LOGO

Useful websites for Immigration Day preparation research

You can google currency converter to find many easy to use webistes or use the link.  Remember you need $20.00 US to get throught the Immigration Station at Ellis Island, Galveston, or Angel Island.

 

Here is a lot of pictures of different clothing from different European countries.

Social Studies Fair

Check out the Social Studies Fair updoming at KSU.  I hope you decide to participate.  I will be a judge.

Social studies fair

http://www.gcss.net/socialstudiesfair.htm