Want To Get a Head Start on Our Next Science Unit?
Of course you do.
Our studies will focus on body structures. We will be learning about the body systems for respiration, excretion, digestion and transport or circulation. We will study the exchange process for oxygen and carbon dioxide; and also examine how blood moves through the body. We will study the steps in the digestive system and the role various body parts and organs play in it. In addition, we will also examine the transport system of plants and the process of photosynthesis.
Visit the website below. Click on the body parts to watch movies, take quizzes, read articles, solve word finds, and do activities.
Student Council has organized Welby Way’s food drive!
Our Student Council members are coordinating a food drive
with the West Valley Food Pantry to help those in need. Please bring in a nonperishable food item between
Monday, December 10, and Thursday, December 13, 2012. Please check the expiration date of your item before
donating. With the holidays just around the corner, this is a great way to assist those in need. Thank you, Student
Council, for your thoughtfulness and organizational skills.
We will be performing in the Winter Sing Wednesday, December 12th at 8:30 and 1:05.
Our class play is that same evening at 7:00.
It's going to be an exciting day!
We are hard at work this week preparing for our play on December 12th at 7:00PM!
Please practice lines, songs, and projecting your voice
EVERY NIGHT!
NO MORE SCRIPTS SHOULD BE NECESSARY!
The BOOK FAIR is here!
We got an opportunity to preview the Book Fair yesterday and make wish lists!
Please come by and purchase some books during Thursday's
TAKE YOUR PARENT TO LUNCH DAY
11:30-12:15
You can bring your own lunch or Red Balls Pizza will be selling pizza right outside of the school for your convenience!
This week we will be working on addition and subtraction of fractions! Please practice at home! Try playing the fraction games we learn in class as a family!
As we begin our week break for Thanksgiving, I must share how thankful I am for all of you!
The students did such an amazing job of conducting their conferences. The goals and the strategies they developed were reflective and mature. I am honored to be a part of helping them meet these goals! One more step toward becoming the leaders of the future!
A HUGE thank you to Mrs. Walker, Ms. Macauley, and Mrs. Levy for setting up our beautiful feast! We appreciate all the families who brought in delicious food and those were able to join us for this celebration!
In Math, we finished up learning about decimal division and moved on to Geometry. We will be studying the properties of shapes and measuring angles.
Review your decimal division with the following video.
In Language Arts, we finished up our Tall Tales and reviewed inferences and summaries. Next week we will begin reading The Kite Fighters using a Literature Circle format as we review and enhance the skills we have learned during the past two units!
In Science, we conducted experiments that taught us about convection currents. You can review the lessons here.
Next week we will use water bottles, syringes and tubes to learn about atmospheric pressure and air compression! It's always fun when we get to learn by "doing!" Parents can help out by letting their scientists reteach them the information!
In Social Studies with Mrs Gallo, students may re-take the States and Capitals test on November 9th if they need to.
Check out this video if you need a little help!
Next week, they will be discussing the election and the election process. Students will be able to "register" to vote and will even be given the opportunity to cast their own votes on Tuesday!
Next week, we will be working very hard getting ready for conferences. Students will be reflecting on the year so far to determine the areas in which they glow and the areas in which they need to grow. From these reflections, they will be determining reasonable goals and developing specific objectives to help them meet their individual goals. It is a life lesson for them and an amazing experience! I am sure you will be just as impressed with their visions and maturity as I am! We can't wait to share at our conferences.
If you have not already done so, please return your request for conference time as soon as possible!
Please note the following dismissal times:
Friday, November 9th at 12:33 PM
Monday, November 12th- NO SCHOOL
Tuesday, November 13th- 1:30 PM
Wednesday, November 14th, Thursday, November 15th, and Friday, November 16th- 12:33PM
Monday, November 19th- Friday, November 26th- THANKSGIVING BREAK/NO SCHOOL
We will also begin the hard and rewarding work of putting on a play! Please be sure to practice ALL of the songs on a daily basis!
I began my day by first I woke up
and went to pack my bag and put my homework in it. I got breakfast (a bagel and
orange juice) and then went to school.
I was their early so I put my stuff down at
the hand ball court and was getting ready to run. When I heard the bell ring I ran
but went slow but not to slow so I was walking.
I ran 4 full laps but I took a walking break for a half of a backstop
and ran then I had to do 5 laps but I did 6 on accident then. After we went to
line up and went to class. When we got to class I saw that we moved seats and
moved the class around then we got unpacked.
We started with language art and
had to read the last of the story from yesterday and did a summary about it
then we had to draw an icon but we didn’t have enough time. The bell rang to go
to recess. I played on the appratice and on the monkey bars then the bell rang
to line up.
When we went inside of the class we
went to our seats and did a math test. While we waited till everyone was done
we were quiet and did unfinished work or something quiet and then we were about
to play games the bell rang for lunch. I
had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and chips. Then we went to out to the
yard to play and I played kickball and my team won. After lunch we went to watch
the presidents where they give their speech to us and for us to vote for them.
Then when they were done we went to our class rooms to vote.
After we voted we switched for social studies
and started a study guide and when we were done with it we changed back to our
class and the bell rang for after school.
I went to pack for tutoring and my mom picked me up and went home and
now I’m writing this.
Matteo When I entered the school I put a big smile on my face and
started doing our daily run. After the
exhausting run me and my entire class went to our room. We unpacked quickly to get ready before the
song ended [I think we beat it]! We started doing language arts quickly to
start our lesson. I tried finishing my personal narrative[ if you don’t know
what a personal narrative is it is a story about you] completely. After our catch up time we started
reading A tall tale about Davy Crockett.
Then the entire class rushed out for
recess. When I ran outside I felt a surge of excitement in my body, I was also
a little happy that I got to play. I played handball, handball is a game that a
person hits a ratio of hits. After
having fun we went inside to do math.
When I went inside the entire class to watch a math video about decimal
division. After it was over Mrs . Gallo’s class left we started doing math
rotations . It was all about the lesson
we learned. When we went to lunch I bought food from the cafeteria. I went to
play handball again! Finally for finale
subject we did a big social studies test. It was about the government and its
three branches. Some kids said ‘it was going to be a hard test’. Then for the
finale of the day we wrote our homework, packed up, and dashed outside.
In the morning when the bell ringed .We
lined up and waited for Mrs. Slezinger.
Immediately when I saw her I called Maisson and both of us went to class
to unlock the door. When the students
arrived to class we went in, unpacked right away and went back to line up for
cycle-motor. Once we got to cycle-motor
we lined up and Coach Allison arrived. She called a few names from all the 5th
grade students to go practice the dance for the hunted house. On stage we practiced and learned new moves
for the dance. After a while when
cycle-motor was over, part of the 5th graders came to watch us
practicing. After practice we went back to class and the rest of the students
were working on their icons and tall tail.
We joined them as we listened to Munchkin Mediation songs. Afterwards we
went to recess. During recess I was playing on the bars trying to make new
flips with my friends. After recess we went right to ballroom dancing and
learned more of Tango Gold. The ballroom
teacher Mrs. Moe made the two groups of the class to compete against each
other. It was fun and exciting to find out who will win. Following ballroom dance the whole class had
to go to room 40 to get our eyes checked.
At our turn we had to cover one eye at a time and read the letter that
lit up. There were three ladies that did that so it didn’t take as much time as
if there was only one person. Once we finished we went back to class got our
lunch boxes and went out to lunch.
During lunchtime I went to dance practice. I ate there and than start
practicing the dance with the rest of the dancers. After lunchtime we headed to line up. We were waiting for Mrs. Slezinger to came
and walk us to the computer lab. At the computer lab Mr. Regan taught us how to
file different things. Following that we had to take two tests. One of the tests
we took was about filing and one was about gigabytes. Finally when our time at the computer lab was
over we went back to classroom. As we arrived to class we started science.
During science, we talked about our experiment we did a day before. We made a graph to see how much the water and
soil got hotter in the sun and cooler in the shade every three minutes and
answered questions about it. Right after science we got our health stuff out
and went to Mrs. Gallo class while Mrs. Gallo’s class came to our class to
learn science. During health we discussed our packets and did some of it.
Before it was time to switch again we had more time so we went over the
answers. We switched right at 2:30 when the bell rang and it was time to go
home. At the class Mrs. Slezinger told us “clean up, pack up and its t0 go home.’’
Hello, this is Roving Reporter
Dashing Demetrius with some outstanding reports! Today we are going to explore
another day in my life of a Welby Way student. This is going to be another
outstanding educational exploration.
I arrived at school at 7:50 am
this morning on a cool and chilly day.
As soon as I arrived I decided to play suicide with my classmates. Suicide is a game that requires you to throw
a ball at the handball court. If the
ball hits you before it hits the ground you have to run to the board and touch
it before someone throws the ball to the handball wall. If you fail to touch the wall you are
out. I was only able to play for about
five minutes before the bell rang. Darn
it! I didn’t get a chance to get the
ball. There is always another day.
When the school bell rang it was
time to run our laps. The laps are
really easy for me because I run four times a week at 6:00 AM in the
morning. I am training for my black belt. So I am always able to run the laps with no
problem. We had to run five laps
today. The laps were pretty uneventful
today. After the laps we headed to
class. Our first task of the day was
to write our personal narratives. I
thought it was fun and I enjoyed doing it.
It took about twenty minutes to complete that task. I was a piece of cake. The next thing we did was to work on our icon
project. The icon project is when you
draw your icon and then you must answer questions about a story. My icon project is about “The Black
Cowboy.” I am enjoying this project
also. I am super interested in the story
because the black cowboy accomplished things that had never been done before. That project took about thirty minutes.
It was now time to work on your tall
tale. A tall tail is a story that takes
real people and you must exaggerate what they really did. My tall tale is about
my mom. When I drew my mom it looked
like she didn’t have any hair. Then
pencil I used didn’t show up much.
Mrs. Slezinger told me that my
mother surely has hair. I decided to
color the hair darker. It was finally
recess. Yeah baby! Recess was super fun me and my friends did
flips on the playground. We had lots of
fun.
It was now time for me to go to
my pre-algebra group. I like going to
this group because I love math. After I
came back from pre-algebra my group in math rotation was starting the second
rotation. I was able to join in at that
point. They were busy playing math
games. I got to play a game with April. It was really exciting because I didn’t know
which of us was going to win. Wow April
won! I really thought I was gonna win. I will challenge her another day. At the third rotation it was math facts time
and we had to figure out the problem of the day. Okay I finally go to shine; I finished the
math problem first. I felt like a math
super hero. I could hear my cap flapping in the wind. The math rotations ended. Shoot I was just starting to really have fun,
but it is was now lunch time.
At lunch time I ate my lunch and
then played prisoner with a few friends.
That was really fun because I caught the ball like a billion time! Lunch seemed like it was over super quick. Our team won. Yeah! We rejoiced!
We went back to class and listened to Mrs. Slezinger read a chapter in a
book called “Among the Imposters.” It is
a really book. It is filled with
excitement, fear and happiness. It was
now time for social studies in Mrs. Gallo’s class. We learned about how the life of the
Europeans on the ships in the 1450s.
Mrs. Gallo had us pair up into groups that showed us how to control your
anger and how to keep friendships. We
switched back to Mrs. Slezinger for science.
Today’s science project taught how soil can heat up in the sun and how
it cools down in the shade. We also
learned how water could heat up in the sun and how water can cool down in the
shade. It was now time to go home.
So that was a little peak into another fun
filled day of education exploration!
