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January 28-February 1, 2013

This week was wickedly awesome!

This week in Math, we continued dividing with decimals. The whole class is getting pretty good, and everybody understands the whole concept. Plus, we have all been reviewing our division skills because we had a test on Friday. The first part of the test was easy because it was just dividing problems like 24/4 and 27/3. Then it stepped it up a notch. The second part of the test was only normal long division with remainders, but for the third part we had to write the remainders as fractions (it was as easy as plain ol’ long division). Though for the next portion, we had to write our remainders as decimals, so it’s a good thing we studied! The rest of the test went in this order: divide by tens, dividing decimals, division models, factors, and two story problems. So, all in all, Math was a great subject this week!

Here is what we did in our fun-tastic week in Language Arts. To start off the week, we did another Working with Words. Plus, we did more Author’s Purpose. Author’s Purpose worksheet, that is. Most people like doing it. As well as that, guess what we did? Inference on Study Island! Can you infer what I mean? We did not have Language Arts on Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday because we were not here. Today, guess what we’re doing? (Drum roll, please). Author’s Purpose on Study Island! You won’t believe what else we did! We learned about a new kind of book genre—Mystery! Mystery books can be either scary mystery, puzzle mystery, or many more that I don’t know. Plus, our class did a worksheet on a mystery story! We are going to do lots of mystery worksheets, since we are doing things about mysteries. Well, I hope our week isn’t such a mystery to you anymore! See you next week only at Weekly Wiki. So that concludes our Stupendous Language Arts Week.

Wow! This week in Science was fantastic! To start off with, we had no school on Monday so that means our Science test on Force and Motion got moved to next week on Tuesday! In other words, some people got lucky because a few of us weren’t ready yet. I don’t understand why some people wouldn’t be ready though because everyday we practice the vocabulary on the Smartboard. We practice vocabulary because our whole test is vocabulary, but they are easy. On Wednesday, after we practiced, we did an easy assignment. All we had to do was pretty much know our vocabulary. Plus, we got to use our books. On Friday we reviewed some more and did a super easy assignment. We also went on our laptops and played review games that Mrs. Tomlin made for us to review the vocabulary words. All in all, this week in Science was better than a king sized Snickers bar!!

This week we had no school on Monday because it got cancelled due to bad roads. We also had a two hour delay on Tuesday due to bad roads again. On Tuesday we also got to select two free books in memory of Josh Gibbs, a former student at Onsted who passed away 10 years ago. Then on Thursday, we didn’t have school because we had Parent Teacher Conferences! So, we basically only had two and a half days of school! Hip, Hip, Hooray! Parker got awarded Student of the Month on Friday for January! The goal was peaceful conflict resolution. We also had a division test on Friday. Mrs. Tomlin thinks she feels one hundred percents in her blood! The next test is on Tuesday and it is a science test. Everybody study this weekend!

If you didn’t hear us the first time, this week was wickedly awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Ashlyn, Vivian, Brooke, and Melisa

January 21-25, 2013

This week in Science, we learned about magnets and how they work. Magnets have two poles, a north pole and a south pole. If you have ever played with magnets when you were younger, you may have noticed that sometimes two sides or end of a magnet push away from each other. That happens because two of the same directions were facing each other. So, in other words, that means that either both the north poles or both of the south poles were facing each other. The two magnets will repel for this reason. You may have also noticed that sometimes they would pull together. That is because you had the north pole and the south pole facing each other. Therefore, they attract. We also learned about Sir Isaac Newton’s Law of Gravitation: the force of gravity between two objects increases with the mass of the objects and decreases with the distance between them. Last, we learned about force and motion. A force is a push or a pull, and motion is the movement of an object from one place to another. An example of force and motion would be picking up your pencil. You are pulling it towards you, so the covers force, and you are moving the pencil from your desk to your hand, so that covers motion. That’s what we learned in Science this week.

In our amazing, fun-filled week in Language Arts, here is what we did. To start off the week, we finished our Disappointing story writings. They turned out very good. On that same day, we did an inference ditto. Don’t remember what inference is? Well, here’s a refresher. Inference is basically like predicting what will happen next. Now we do inference cards, too. As well as that, we did some fun inference riddles. Plus, we got to make our own! Here is an example: I use paper. I use writing. I am weekly. What am I? The answer is: Weekly Wiki. Oh, and guess what else? We partner edited our Disappointing story, complete with a check list! Our class also got to re-write our story and turn in both copies. That was hard for the people who had long writings! But, of course, __today__ we __obviously__ did Weekly Wiki. To top that off, we did an author’s purpose worksheet. What has letters, words, and is at an end? This Weekly Wiki! I hope you enjoyed hearing about our cool week in Language Arts.

Math was AWESOME this week! This is why it was so awesome. Believe it or not, but we’re still doing timed tests and a lot of people are getting down to 30 seconds! One thing that we learned this week was dividing 3 digits by 2 digits with decimals. Here’s how you do it. First, you do what you normally do. Then, when you have it all done and you have a remainder, you put a decimal behind the end of the number you are dividing into. Next, you put a zero behind it. Now you bring the zero down. Lastly, you keep putting zeros until you have added three. That gives you your decimal answer. But if you get a number that keeps repeating, put a line over that number. This week in Math we also did dividing 4 digits by 2 digits. I know we already did that, but here is the catch. We did it so off the start you would go into the second number, but now we are also going into the third number. You do just what you normally do. We did that the next day, but you didn’t know if it was going to go into the second digit or the third digit. The last thing we did in math was dividing with decimals. It’s easy—all you have to do is do everything the same except you put the decimal where it has the same amount of numbers behind it. That’s what we did in Math and that’s why Math was awesome this week.

This week for Special Events, we had the day off so that the teachers could have a Professional Development Day. We also had inside recess all week because of the very cold temperatures. Lastly, Mrs. Tomlin was gone one day to go to a Reading Workshop. Even teachers have to keep learning.

By Ashlyn, Vivian, and Joe

January 14-18, 2013

This week was amazing!

In our amazing week in Science, we learned all about forces. Forces are a push or a pull. You can make things move with forces, like if you push a toy car, you are exerting a force on it. But you can also exert a force on something, but it does not move. That means it is usually a solid, unmovable object, such as a wall or a boulder. We also learned about inertia. It sounds magical. Inertia is combined with gravity to keep the planets from flying off into space and keeps them in orbit around the sun. Our class also did a ditto on our space vocabulary words. They are: force, inertia (magical), friction, speed, acceleration, deceleration, and velocity. As well as that, we learned about balanced and unbalanced forces. Mrs. Tomlin showed video clips that sound as magical as inertia! So, that concludes our fun, interesting week in Science.

Math was also awesome this week. This week in Math, we learned how to divide 4 digits by 2 digits and write our remainder as a decimal. Do you know how to divide 4 digits by 2 digits because if you don’t, I’ll show you. If you have 7625 divided by 33, you follow the same steps as when you multiply by a one digit number and you end up with the answer 231 with a remainder of 2. That is how you divide by a 2 digit number. If you don’t know how to turn your remainder into a decimal, then I’ll show you. So, you do your normal dividing. Then when you get to the remainder, you put a decimal down after the number you are dividing and then you add a zero and drop it down by your remainder. You keep on dividing and you add and drop down a zero three times. Now, I’ll show you what that answer would look like—532.645. That is how you turn your remainder into a decimal. That is why Math was awesome this week.

This week in Language Arts was fantastic! To start off with, we started another story about a disappointing experience. We are trying to mainly focus on using good transition words, sensory details, and dialogue. Our class had to think of three things that disappointed us, and then we narrowed it down to one idea. Mrs. Tomlin wants it done by next week, so we have to make all of it count! Next, we did a few worksheets on inference. On Friday we did an inference riddles worksheet with ten questions. There were two questions that most people didn’t get. The first one wanted to know where the Mayflower landed. The second one wanted to know who make the American flag. Mrs. Tomlin was very surprised that we didn’t know those two questions! Lastly, we did a Working with Words ditto with the prefixes, suffixes, and the root word. All in all, this week in Language Arts was as awesome as chocolate cake!

This week Mrs. Upp came into our room and she talked about what to do if you’re in a bad situation. Then on Thursday we had a Lockdown Drill. What you had to do is half of the class had to sit by the sink and the other half had to sit on the other side of the bookshelves. Mrs. Tomlin had to put a book cart in front of the door and lock it. Then we had to sit and be very quiet. Do you want to know what the drill was for? It was practice to be prepared if a gunman came to our school. So, what exciting thing happened to you this week?

This week was cool!

By Vivian, Sean, Brooke, and Tara

January 7-13, 2013

This week was test-terrific!

Can you guess what we did this week in Math? Well, at the beginning of the week we estimated products, and we also divided by multiples of 10! They were both really fun! But, then on Wednesday, we did dividing 3 digits by 2 digits. Do you want to know how to do it? Here it is. What you do is say you have 436 divided by 33. Well, you would round 33 to the nearest place just to help you, say 30. Then you would take 43 from the 436 and round that to a number that 30 could go into, like 40. Thirty goes into 40 one time, so that gives you an idea where to start. So, 43 divided by 33 is 1. Then you follow the steps just like in regular division. Next, you would multiply, subtract, and then bring down, and you do that again and you will get a remainder. So, finally you check by multiplying just to make sure you got the right answer! I know right, it’s easy!

This week in Language Arts was spectacular! To start off, we learned how to put quotation marks in the correct place. For example, “Mrs. Tomlin, will you help me with yesterday’s math homework?” asked one on her students. That would be a good example because the first thing her student asked is in capital letters. That is one of the things you have to have if someone is speaking. Also, there are quotation marks before Mrs. and after homework. If there wasn’t a quotation mark before Mrs., it wouldn’t show that someone was talking. There is a quotation mark after homework to show the last word she said. Third, there is a comma after homework to separate what was said from who said it. Lastly, there has to be a period at the end of the sentence. This week we also finished our unforgettable story that happened to us at either recess or gym. Another thing we did was learn five new Big Words on Monday. They were international, nationalities, national, independence, and independent. On Wednesday we did the worksheet on them. In conclusion, this week in Language Arts was the best of them all!!

This week in Social Studies, we learned there was a war between France and Spain over the land that is now Florida. The battle was very bloody. Many people lost their lives. Ships brought supplies of guns, gun powder, and many other weapons. There were two forts—one French and one Spanish. They were named Fort Caroline and St. Augustine. But, Spain won the battle. There were more struggles for control of the New World. We also learned about Robert de La Salle. La Salle claimed land for France which was the Mississippi River. La Salle didn’t only dream of wealth, but of a French empire of trading posts, forts, and settlements. La Salle’s men thought he was crazy and killed him.

This week was very important. Can you guess why? Well, maybe you have already heard, but this week was NWEA week. In case you don’t know, NWEA is a computer test that we take three times a year—once in the fall, once in the winter, and once in the spring. We take the reading and math portions, each in the same week. One reason we take this test is so that our teachers can see how much our reading and math skills have improved during the school year. Another thing that happened this week is that Mrs. Davis, our principal, started making announcements over the speakers in the morning. First, we start with the Pledge, then she tells us a fact, and last, she ends the announcement by telling us, “Make it a great day, or not. The choice is yours.” That’s all of the special events that happened this week.

By Tara, Brooke, Isaac H. and Ashlyn