September
11th
by Adam
On Friday
September the 11th Mrs.Nettling’s class had a very
fun day of learning. First they did their warm-ups.
Then they checked over their homework. Next the
class did place value on their white boards.
Eventually they went over unit 1 math review on Mrs.
Nettling's smart board. Afterwards the students did
some BrainPop quizzes about associative property,
commutative property, and square roots. Finally, it
was lunchtime.
For
lunch the kids got to enjoy “brunch for lunch”. The
boys played soccer at recess. The teams were
Mrs.Nettling vs. Mrs.Johnson. When recess was over
the class went to lab. They did Turbo Math facts,
Number Munchers, Type to Learn, and geography
review. Later on, they read Top Secret. Afterwards
they had a review over plant vocabulary. At last
they had music. They were as loud as an atomic bomb.
That’s what happened on Friday September the 11th
in Mrs.Nettling’s 5th grade class.
September
14th
by Austin
Today in Mrs. Nettling's class we started the day
doing warm-up. Warm-up is an exercise where we do
five worksheets to jump start our brains. These
worksheets cover subjects like math, language arts,
and geography. We work
on
warm-up until 9:00.
Following warm-up
we passed out papers such as homework and a field
trip application to Sunwatch Indian village for
October 1. Sunwatch Indian Village is supposed to be
better than Fort Ancient was last year. Mrs.
Nettling said, "Please have them back by September
18. That is this Friday."
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Next
we checked our warm-up papers. When we finished
this, Caleb asked a question about the trapezoid. We
looked up the definition in our math book and
learned the trapezoid has four sides with two sides
being parallel. It also must have two angles being
the same.
Afterwards we did math, lunch, and recess. We had
chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes, and milk for
lunch, immediately followed by 15 minutes of recess.
We had 15 minutes because we have behaved very well
for the past week and a half. [Editor's note: Each
day the class earns points for extra recess, and
have already earned two full recesses!]
When recess was
finished we went to computer lab. Some students did
math facts
while others did Number Munchers. Math facts is a
program that teaches simple math facts such as
single digit multiplication, division, addition, and
subtraction. Number Munchers is a game that teaches
prime numbers, factors of certain numbers, and
multiples of certain numbers.
Following
computer class we did a project on globes. the globe
project was about making
your own globe. The globe is made by
labeling the continents and oceans on a map that is
later changed into a globe. After labeling the map,
we colored all the continents except Antarctica.
Tomorrow we will turn the map into a globe.
Finally, we
finished out the day going to art class. We
continued work on illuminated letters that we
started two weeks ago. We write the first letter of
our name on a piece of paper and decorated it. We
used pencils to outline our letter and markers to
decorate around it. We finished the day in art class
and went home afterwards.
Today was a
normal day at school. We worked on math, language
arts, geography, social studies, and art. the most
exciting part of the day was working on the globe. I
also enjoyed lunch and recess.
September
15th
by Andrea
Today at
warm up Mrs. Nettling announced that we will be
moving desks. She also said she had to go to a
meeting. She is president of the teacher
association. At morning announcements Mr. Starkey
said “There will be no D.A.R.E today.” And for the
second time! That is what happened at warm up.
Math Call!
In math we
had a pretest. Our sub told us we had till 11:00 to
finish the test. But we all finished at about 10:40!
At that time we took a restroom break. We also did
partial differences and subtracted. We even did Math
Magic!
Interview express!
What do you
feel about Mrs. Nettling? Ashley’s point of view
about herself in 5th grade is “I like
Mrs. Nettling, she’s really nice! Everybody in the
class is my friend! My favorite school lunch is
Brunch for Lunch. Science and Social Studies is my
best subject. I love the smart board. It is so
PRETTY!”
[Editor's
note: Students took the 2009 5th Grade OAT as a
pretest to see what they may already know so that we
can focus on those things they still need to learn.]
September
16th
by Ashley B.
Today we had a
whacky Wednesday. First we had a bus evacuation
drill. That's where you practice getting off the bus
in case something would happen. Then when we got to
the class and some of us finished our globes,
followed by morning work. Next we looked at other
people's Daily News.
Next
we looked at a gourd ghost that Hannah made. Then we
went over yesterday's morning work. When we were
going over morning work, some people would not ask
questions. Mrs. Nettling said "Don't be afraid to
ask questions. Even Einstein asked questions."
After that we got
in groups and did a math page. Afterwards we went
over it. Then we wrote in our journals.
Next we went to
lunch, then recess. After that we went to computer
lab. Then we read our book Call it Courage.
Next a sub came in
and we took a math test retest. The day was coming
to an end and we got our homework and stuff ready to
go home. The last excitement of the day was music
class, where we played four corners.
September
17th
by Annie
Today in Mrs. Nettling’s class,
we started off the day by doing out daily warm up.
This is what Mrs. Nettling calls our dry work, the
work that we want to get done first so we can have
fun with our other work for the rest of the day. Our
daily warm up usually contains one page of our math
journal, math
vocabulary
(words that we write in our math composition books),
DLR, and daily geography. Sometimes, we will have a
science or math packet along with our dry work.
Afterwards, we read until 9:00 AM. Then we took a
redo test over unit one. When we were done, we
checked over our warm up and our test. Then we
reread chapter one of the book, Call It Courage.
We also worked on a reader’s response packet for the
book.
We headed to lunch when we were
done. Today we had a choice between a hot dog, a
pretzel, or chicken and noodles. Afterwards it was
time for recess. There‘s usually a soccer game, a
football game, and kickball game going on during
recess. If you don’t want to participate in these
games, there is also a playground.
From recess we went straight to
the computer lab. Here we got on three websites,
Turbo Math Facts, Type to Learn and Mrs. Nettling’s
Social Studies website. Then we checked our homework
when we got back. Eventually, we did a fun math
lesson called Grab-It Gauge, then we did hillbilly
math.
This
is a lesson that contains a fun song and cool
props.
Finally, to wrap up the day, we
had library as our special. We also made bookmarks
with our name and picture on them. Our library
teacher, Mrs. St. Jacques, said, “Your book marks
look great!” It was a fun filled day in Mrs.
Nettling’s class.
September
18th
by Hannah
We
had a lot of fun today at school. First, we had our
warm-up. Our warm-up is our morning work. We had Drops
in a Bucket number 29, math page 42, math
vocabulary -maximum, minimum, range,
mode, and mean. We
also had to do Friday’s DLR and geography. We finished
our science packet. Then, we did silent reading. After
that, we took a restroom break.
When
we got back, we checked over our warm-up. Afterwards, we
took another restroom break. We went to lunch. We had
stuffed crust pizza for lunch. After that, we went to
recess. Our class went to computer lab. We played Turbo
Math Facts and Type to Learn computer games. That was
really a lot of fun! Finally, we took our spelling test
and turned in our spelling homework. Some of our
spelling words were courage and coward. Then we learned
about the probability meter. That was fun too!
Next, we did hillbilly math. That was really fun to do.
We sang a song about “Mean”. Here it is. "Add up all the
numbers, count how many there were, divide by that
number, you’ve got the mean for sure! da da da da da da
yeeha!" We had a straw hat and a bandana on while we
were singing. We also danced like a hillbilly. Mrs.
Nettling took lots of pictures and a few videos. That
was my favorite thing we did today!
Finally, we read Call it Courage chapter 2. The
book is about a boy that lives on an island. His father
wasn’t proud of him, so he went to sea on a canoe. He
took his dog Uri with him. He finally got to another
island. Will he be able to survive on that island? Then,
we filled out our homework planner. We left for the
buses. This was a very fun day!
September
22nd
by Caleb
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Today in class we did our warm up, went over it, and
went to the bathroom. When we came back we finished
going over our math, and we had Deputy Dunaway from
D.A.R.E come in, and we all talked about his items
and utensils, my favorite was the taser and how it
connects to the two parts like the handle piece and
how it shoots extra feet out, and how the barrel
piece will give more of an effect when it hits you.
After that we finished the rest of our warm up, we
went to lunch, and after that we went to recess. We
came in and we got out our math books and did
partner work a little bit, went over it and got out
reading we are reading a book called Call It
Courage. We filled out a pamphlet about chapter
1, then we sang a song that goes like, "Put your
reading away don't delay help Mrs Nettling have a
happy day, help Mrs Nettling have a happy day-- ."
Anyway we did this other song called "Hillbilly
Math". It's fun! After that we all got our backpacks
and went to music.
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[Editor's Note: The "Put
Your Things Away" song was from the children's show
hosted by the late, great Uncle Al; the "Hillbilly Math"
song is a Nettling original.]
September
23rd
by Kyle
To start off the day some people went to breakfast, got
taken to school, or rode the bus. At 8:15 everyone was
in the class room doing our daily warm up which includes
D.L.R, geography, a new thing called logic lollipops,
drops in a bucket, math vocabulary, and math boxes. We
had a busy morning.
After warm up we took a restroom break and then came
back and started our math lesson for the day. We learned
about lattice multiplication. Did you know that lattice
multiplication is so old that even Egyptians used it?
Then we had to do a math paper over the lattice
multiplication. It was kind of hard.
At 11:05 we started reading. We are reading a cool book
called Call It Courage. Mrs. Nettling said we
were going to reread the first two chapters because we
got a new student! We started reading and then it was
time for lunch.
At lunch we had a choice of grilled cheese and tomato
soup or a chicken sandwich. Then after lunch we went out
to recess where the boys usually play basketball and the
girls usually play soccer. My friends and I usually play
soccer. It’s really fun!
After recess was over we went to the restroom again then
we came back to the room and started reading again.
After we were done reading we had to do a reading
packet. After that we went to music and learned a new
song and dance. Then it was time to go home.
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by CoolMath4Kids at
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/times-tables/times-tables-lesson-lattice-multiplication-3.html
September
24th
by Sydney
This morning when everyone
arrived in the classroom we started warm up. At 9:00
every day we take a restroom break. Then after all of
us finish morning work we check it. But before that we
figured out the daily news person.
Probably over half
of the class raised their hands, and I was one of
them. I got picked. Since I sit by the clipboards and
forms Mrs. Nettling said, “Sydney will you hook Sydney
up?’’ Then we started checking our morning work. Every
morning we have to check math boxes, DLR, geography, and
drops in a bucket.
Before lunch we watched a movie about math. We didn’t
have enough time to finish it, so we continued it after
lunch and recess. Then we came back and went into the
computer lab for a half hour. We practiced math facts on
turbo math, type to learn, and went on Mrs. Nettling’ s
website to practice our states.
At
the end of the day we finished our movie. We only had
about five or ten minutes left of it. Afterwards we did
our state test. It was not anything exciting. When we
all finished we checked it our self with a study guide
or an atlas. We started chapter three in our book,
Call it Courage. We ran out of time and had to go
to library. Right in the middle we had a fire drill. We
watched a preview for the book fair books. That is all
we did today.
September
28th
by Jack
Today turned out to be a great Monday. At the beginning
of the day, we started Lego robotics. Mrs. Nettling gave
us the names of all the pieces, such as an axle, the
brain and all the cables. After that, we started playing
with the Legos. Each group got to build a robot, share
it with the class and write down any questions. It was
better than recess.
After robotics, we started math. Mrs. Nettling said,
“Get out your white boards and markers.” We reviewed
what we had learned for the test. First, we reviewed
magnitude estimate and then place value. After that, we
reviewed some landmarks, such as maximum, minimum,
range, median and mean. Math was not as exciting as
Legos.
Art came next. We had finished our first project,
illuminated letters, last week so we started a new
project today. Miss Hurley let us know we were going to
make castles out of clay. We each picked a partner, then
went to the computer lab to research castle parts. It
was as cool as the temperature in the computer lab. When
we were done, we went back to the art room. For a
Monday, it was awesome.
September
29th
by Caleb
This is what Mrs.
Nettling’s class did on September 29, 2009. First we
started with are warm-up. We had math, D.L.R; geography,
and reading. But it was interrupted by D.A.R.E. After
that we had our tests over nouns and math. Mrs. Nettling
played music on her radio for us. Then we finished our
warm-up. Lunchtime!
We were having
pretzels, yogurt, and milk. I sat by Jordan, Kyle, Adam,
Austin, and James. We ate then went out for recess.
Some of the boys played soccer with me, like Austin,
Nicholas, and Kyle. We didn’t keep score. Then we went
in.
Then
we graded our tests. Adam got an A+ on his math test. He
is probably the best math student in our class. Mrs.
Nettling said that she will give him a harder test next
time. After that we read chapter 4 of our book Call
it Courage. Then we responded to that chapter in our
response packet. It is a good book.
At 2:00 we did our
planner and went to our lockers. We lined up on our
lockers and talked to each other. Then we went to gym.
We did our fitness then played pinball. In pinball we
have to kick it and try to hit the pins over. Then the
bell rang and we went home.
September
30th
by Erin
Morning time
Today in class we have a good time with Mrs. Nettling!
First, this morning we did warm up, went to the
restroom, and went to book fair. At book fair you get
money and buy any book that’s there. Mrs. Nettling got a
list of books for our own classroom library. We went
over our math homework this morning too. That was our
morning in Mrs. Nettling’s class.
Math Lesson
Today in math we learned and talked about angle
measures. It was a good educational lesson of math. We
had a math quiz about rays, lines, points, and lastly
line segments. We also had questions from students, for
awhile I was confused but now I understand! That was our
math lesson for today.
Free Time
Next, we had lunch. It was good. We had Walking Taco,
Green Beans, Cinnamon Apples, Breadstick, and lastly
Milk to drink. When a teacher let us throw away our
trash we went to recess. I had so much fun playing with
my friends at recess.
Social Studies
I had a good time learning in Social Studies.
We learned about archeologist and when people first
moved to our land. To help us like Social Studies better
if we didn’t like it Mrs. Nettling said, “think of
Social Studies as a story from long ago and imagine
you’re there.” After that, we also watched three movies
to help us understand what we are learning.
We watched one about archeology, Bill Nye, and we
watched a clip about Sunwatch Indian village, our field
trip tomorrow! That was our awesome social studies
lesson.
Wrap it Up Time!
After our Social Studies lesson we had to wrap up and go
to music class. In music class we learned about some of
the rap for the U.S.A. Later, the announcements came on
and the “Bus and Bowl” program left to get on the bus.
When the bell rang for the other students we darted out
the door, got our bags and we were long gone. That was
our awesome day in class with Mrs. Nettling!
Top
Secret (Reading)
When
we got out of the house we played a game called
“chunky”. In chunky, one person throws a little disc and
the rest of the people try to hit it with an arrow.
It’s harder than you think.
learned
about intersecting lines and the degrees of their angles. We
figured out that if one side is 60 degrees the opposite or
vertical angle is 60 degrees too. Mrs. Nettling told us
always to tear out our homework while she‘s telling us to,
so we don’t forget to. We had a crazy day!
After warm-up we went to work with the Lego Robotics. Mrs. Nettling
said, “Our goal is to have this Taskbot finished by today.” She also
showed us a team competition video and it was really neat. The
challenge that year was “A Mission to Mars” and this year’s
challenge is “Smart Move”. We spent more time with the Lego’s today
than we usually do and that made it an exceptionally fun day. Lego
Robotics are awesome!
Today
at school we checked drops in a bucket then we did our homework.
We cut out our game activity and played polygon capture. Our
teacher taught us how to play. You play by having a deck of
cards, a pile of polygons, and a teammate. We had a lot of fun!
