Harris Burdick Gone Missing

This week we have been working on solving the mystery of Harris Burdick. We've been making tons of fun stuff. On Tuesday we got to find a picture and put together a fun drama scene in the dark using flashlights ! And today we got to make a bulletin board or go to the computer lab and work down there also on Ask.com,Google maps,Harris Burdick.com And a whole bunch of other things in order to finding clues to find Harris Burdick. We also did a fun thing were we took a magazine and cut off pieces and put them on a page and we took a paper dog and hid it in the picture. This week was very fun and im very sad that school is  almost over. And if you want to see the storyof what we think happened scroll down.




The story of what we think happened to Harris Burdick








One day a person named Harris Burdick walked into a publishing office and showed a man named Peter Wenders Pictures that Harris drew and gave him 14 pictures and told him he did it him self. He said, "very good I'm blown away!" He asked if he could see the story for these pictures and Harris said "sure!" And he left but the next day no one saw him ever again.But you know how when you have a really good drawing and when the person passes away the picture costs more $ (money)? what if Mr.Wenders KILLED Harris Burdick, sold the pictures, and got tons of money for it?


By, Katie

Fritz the Dog

We are finishing our year in language arts with an author's study of Chris Van Allsburg! Chris Van Allsburg is famous for such titles as Jumanji and The Polar Express, which have both been made into notable movies. He is known for "leaking his stories onto the pages" both through the words and his world famous illustrations, making inferences a key part of understanding his stories. We are finishing our study of The Wretched Stone and it is completely playing with our imaginations! We have created a classroom tree and are about to create a classroom book based on the book The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. We are having a blast and loving the imaginative stories!

One of the parts we've enjoyed the most about our study is finding "Fritz the Dog" in every single story Chris Van Allsburg writes. Some are especially tricky to find! If anyone has a dog who looks like "Fritz the Dog" (or just has a dog of any kind) above and would like to help our class with a TOP SECRET adventure, contact me right away! It would include the dog coming to school during an afternoon!

MCA roundup week #1

Great job 5th grade! Reading MCA IIIs have just finished and all of your hard work paid off! I saw students using our "Secret Strategy," looking for evidence to support your answers, reading each passage twice, and double checking your answers carefully. I am proud of you and hope that you get to see that you passed the goal of a higher test score this year!

Next week and the week following, we will have two days of computer-based math MCA IIIs on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Remember to bring a calculator, head phones (many students are still without headphones-needed for the computer-based test! Please bring by TOMORROW!), and #2 pencils (not mechanical pencils). Get plenty of rest, a healthy breakfast and lunch.

Parents, we test at 1:45 in the afternoon, so next week would not be an ideal time to schedule picking your child up early for any reason!

Hoppy Spring Break!

I hope you all enjoy the *brief* break in the action. I will be gone next week through Wednesday, so if you call my room and cannot get ahold of me, that is why. We have a terrific guest teacher during this time-a well-seasoned veteran! And they will be making an adorable motivational bulletin board for our upcoming MCA tests! We've been working so hard to prepare for testing that we'll give ourselves a little pep talk!

I will not post this week's grades until next week so more students can turn in their late work :) They know who they are as I already wrote their names on the board. Enjoy extra time spent with your family! I'm so thankful for each of your children in our class and am already beginning to miss them as I think of next year! Agh! This is all going too quickly!

Bug and a wish

I learned that I could work as a team and get my work handed in. I learned that I could get really good at art and be an artist. I learned that if I follow directions and practice alot I can get a good grade on my MCA test.

The highlight of this week was learning that if I practice enough I can get a better grade on the MCA test.

I wish I could change the schedule to have more art. I really like art because it gives me a way to express myself. I'm looking forward to learning how to be an artist and how to paint and draw pictures.

Reported By: Tatyana

3 Quarters Down, One to Go!

Report cards came home today so be sure to look at it with your child, sign the envelope and send back by Friday! Please call or email me with any questions concerning grades. I'll be more than happy to go through those with you.

Also-with somewhere between 2 and 8 kids gone from our class each day for the past week, we're doing out best to sanitize everything, but sickness is spreading quickly! You may want to sanitize those doorknobs and handles!

Our new way of doing spelling and our brawn match with Mrs.Woods class, By: Cole Hay

This week we started a new way to do spelling. We get three work sheets a week we get two on root words and another on a review we learned the root words trans and sub.Then on Friday we take a review test we get ten words and we have to use them in a sentence and at the end of the test we get a extra score word or we can use that word to get ten for ten in case we got one wrong. Also this last Friday we took a recess break outside and Mrs.Woods class was out there with a kickball so we challenged them to a brawn game it was a very equal match we both pushed hard but in the end it was a draw.
By Cole H.