5B Classroom News: Week of January 14th

A note from Mrs. Burke:

Students learned more about the structures of matter this week. The posters they made to help them understand the difference between a solid, liquid,and gas can be found later in this post. They have also been learning how to write an opinion piece about the American Revolution in language arts. Miss Keel came to our classroom to continue her lesson on cyber bullying. Our Random Acts of Kindness bulletin board is still having a positive impact. Keep reading to see what our student reporters wrote about this week.

Science:  Structures of Matter

What have you learned about solids, liquids and gasses that helped you create your Structures of Matter poster?

What I learned in science is that there's liquid, gas, and solids.

-Cash

It’s fun to learn about matter. So far I learned a lot about solids, liquids, and gases.

-Jack

What I have learned about solids is that a solid is, “a state of matter that has a definite volume and a definite shape. “Some examples of solids are me, carrots, paper, and pencils. What I have learned about liquids is that a liquid is, “a state of matter that has a definite volume but does not have a definite shape. “Some examples of liquids are milk, water, liquid soap, olive oil, juice, and vinegar. What I have learned about gasses is that a gas is, “a state of matter that doesn’t have a definite volume or shape.” Some examples of gasses are steam, smoke, water vapor, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and sulfur dioxide. Solids, liquids and gasses are very interesting and I can’t wait to learn more about them!

-Flynn

That you can melt an ice cube for like an hour and it will go from a solid to a liquid to a gas.

-Zachary

Solids, liquids, and gases are all states of matter. We had to think of what the

matter of pictures out of a magazine were.

-Aubree

Bulletin Board:  Random Acts of Kindness

What are some random acts of kindness you have done this past week?

Some random acts of kindness I did this past week were helping

someone organize their cubby and playing with someone different at recess.

-Madison

Some random acts of kindness I've done are draw a picture for a teacher, help

three people, and the one I got today was organize someones cubby for them.

-Lyndsey

Some random acts of kindness I did this week were cleaning the classroom, writing a teacher a thank you note, and helping a teacher put stuff away.  

-Abby

Some random acts of kindness that I did this past week were holding the

door, helping a classmate clean their cubby, and playing with someone new at recess.

-Madylyn

Some random acts of kindness I have done this past week were holding

the door for someone, helping someone with a project, clean up a mess I

didn’t make, encourage two people to do their best, and sharpen someone’s

pencil and colored pencil. Stay kind!

-Flynn

Some of the random acts of kindness are compliment 5 people and help

someone with their project.

-Owen

Some random acts of kindness that I’ve done this past week were: Compliment

someones outfit and hold the door for someone.

-Zachary

One of them was to help clean up the classroom. Another one was to make

a new friend. The last one I got was to play with someone at recess I haven't

played with before.

-Aubree

Class with Ms. Keel

What did you learn during class with Ms. Keel this week?

We learned about cyber bullying.   

-Jayden

What we learned during class with Miss. Keel this week is to be aware of your social thinking. She also talked to us about thinking before we say because once we say something we can’t take it back. You should always be aware of what you say because if you say the wrong thing at the wrong time, you can hurt one or more people’s feelings.

-Flynn

In class with Ms. Keel, we learned more about cyber-bullying and how much

time we spend on computers. We need to socialize more with people like family.

I’m not the one that likes to go to parties. But hanging out with family, I could

improve on. We WERE starting a schedule of “No device day” on Thursdays.

Being social can help you get caught up with hanging out with friends more.

We should (as 10-11 year olds) be able to communicate on our own. But it

always seems like our parents are forcing us to get off. You should WANT to

spend time with family and friends.

-Braelyn

What I learned during class with Ms.Keel is that you should think some things rather than say them.

-Zachary

We learned about social thinking and how we should think before saying things, and how a lot of people lose their social thinking when only playing video games.

-Aubree

5B Classroom News: Week of January 7th

A note from Mrs. Burke:
Happy New Year!  2019 is off to a great start in 5B.  Students have been practicing random acts of kindness, are continuing to learn about the American Revolution, as well as learning about the structures of matter through an investigation.  Keep reading to see what our classroom reporters wrote about this week.

Why did we create the Random Acts of Kindness bulletin board?  What are some acts of kindness you wrote to go into the envelopes on our bulletin board?  What are some random acts of kindness you have done this past week?

We created the kindness board because most of the class isn't being kind to each other and being inappropriate. Mrs. Burke thought a  kindness board will help us be more kind to one another.

-Aubree

We have a bulletin board outside our classroom, 5B. On that bulletin board we have sixteen envelopes filled with cards that have Acts of Kindness suggestions in them. Each envelope has a drawing of an Act of Kindness which every student drew one. Not knowing whose envelope is whose for reasons that others won’t ONLY choose one person. Everyday, every classmate of 5B has to go choose a card out of a random envelope. Once I got a card saying that I should talk to someone I don’t usually talk to! We do this because students have been misbehaving. And the teachers get told too many times. So that’s why we

have the Act of Kindness bulletin board.

-Braelyn

We created the Random Acts Of Kindness bulletin board because a lot of

people were being inappropriate, rude, and unkind to classmates. Some

random acts of kindness I have done this past week were, giving someone

a high five, holding the door, help a teacher, and help someone carry their stuff.

-Madylyn

The reason we created the Random Acts of kindness bulletin board is because we were not doing many kind things. One act of kindness I wrote to go into the envelopes on our bulletin board is sit next to someone different at lunch. Another act of kindness I wrote is play with someone different at recess.  One random act of kindness I have done this past week is compliment someone on their outfit.

-Maximus

We created the Random Acts of Kindness bulletin board because a lot of my

peers were misbehaving. This includes saying bad words, being rude to people,

hurting people, being disrespectful, and taking other people’s belongings. We took envelopes and decorated them, making sure no one could tell which envelope belonged to which person, then we all made little cards with something nice that we should do written on them. We could add a picture if we wanted. Then the teachers randomly stuck the cards in different envelopes. Every morning we are supposed to pick a card from an envelope, and then do what it says. They normally say stuff like make a card for a teacher, or compliment 5 people. This is supposed to make our behavior better, and it is working. Keep calm and be kind!

-Flynn

We created the Random Acts of Kindness bulletin board because there was a lot of bad things people were writing in the communication box about others people's bad behaviors. Some random acts of kindness that I got were talk to someone new and hold something for someone.

-Madison

We created it because we were being rude to each other.

-Jayden

We created random acts because people weren’t being really nice. I wrote, “Hold the door for someone.” I held the door for someone.

-Nevaeh

It's kind of new but it is okay. Some of the cards are ones I like.

-Jack

Draw a picture for a teacher, compliment someone's outfit, and sit next to someone you haven't sat next to at lunch.

-Owen   

Random acts of kindness is fun because we get to do something nice. We get to do something nice for someone.

-Zachary

The Random Acts of Kindness is you pick a card and whatever you get you do it.

-Taylor

Social Studies:  American Revolution

What did you learn from the American Revolution mini-projects that you worked on? For example, the timeline, the Boston Massacre pop up card, and/or the Battle of

Trenton pop-up card?

We made pop up cards. We made them because we thought it would be fun.

It also talked about the Boston Massacre.

-Aubree

That it looked like the Loyalists never liked the Patriots.

-Jack

It is fun.

-Randy

Language Arts:  Broadsides Primary Source Documents

What did you learn from reading the Broadsides on the computer that were written during the American Revolution?

When we looked at the Broadsides on the computers I learned that sometimes instead of using a normal s, they would make a curly line. I also learned that they were mostly written by Patriots.

-Abigail

We learned that there was a lot of slaughtering back in the colonial days. We

also learned a lot of about tons of different people who contributed to the war.

-Aubree

Science:  Structures of Matter

What did you learn about structures of matter from the Oil Rainbows investigation you did this week?  What was your prediction for what would happen when we put the jars in the freezer overnight? Was your prediction correct?

We did an experiment with canola oil and colored ice cubes. We mixed them together and it looked like a lava lamp. We also did predictions of what it was going to look like when it was in the freezer.

-Aubree

In science we are learning about structures of matter and how they work

-Lyndsey

I learned nothing.

-Cash