Friday's Newsletter

Here's Friday's newsletter. The letter gets done right before the kids leave on Friday, so it usually takes me part of Monday to get it online and sent out electronically, in case you were wondering.

Mr. B

Independent Writers' Guild

Here are the blog posts from last week's writer's groups. The kids will edit the blog posts this week.

Take Care-

Mr. B

Arias’s Blog news This week in math, we’ve been learning about bar graphs and line graphs. The 2 things that the graph has is Y axis, and X axis. Y goes up and down, and X goes left and right. This week we also are starting an artist act every week. Go acting! We all acted like the Earth, well Alex was the Sun. How boiling for a guy like Alex! We’ll be starting to do Solar System models really soon. Sweet SCIENCE !! I hope everyone loved New Years and Martin Luther King J.r. Day. We finally finished George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt. I wonder if we’ll get to read George And The Big Bang. This week in our red history books, we read about Powhatan, the man who had to help the English people in the middle of Tsenacomacoh, [John Ralph], and the person he married, [Pocahontas] I hope everyone also enjoyed the spelling bee. It was pretty good to have Kyle, Nyah, Arias, Emily Bowman, Alex, and Simon do the school spelling bee. The Battle of the books, and the Rad River Ropers show are going to happen this February! I can’t wait until that will happen. This has been a very special week, and especially since we will be having some of our classmates competing in these events really soon. I will think about this every time we an amazing event.

Ileiv Math
Today in math we had a test on chapter 8 on ratios, rates and proportions. we also had a pre-test on angles and shape.
-Nyah :)

Ileiv Reading
Starting yesterday in reading we are working on Greek and Latin etymology. It hasn’t been a walk in the park but, It is a good challenge. I think i speak for everyone when I say it’s very interesting. I know i am happy with it.
-KATESTER!!! =D



Alaskan weather has finally caught up. It’s been just freezing could out side. Even with snow pats, gloves, a sweater, snow boots, and a hat it’s still cold! Might as well live in Antarctica. For the past two days we’ve had indoor recess.( at least it has not been windy)

- Jill

Ms. Iliev’s reading
Today in Ms. Iliev’s reading we studied Etymology (the study of words). We’ve been working with Greek and Latin roots. Geo, Terr, Mall, Ject, Jet and Aqua are just a few of these different roots. They all come from a book called Words On The Vine . It’s actually quite fun

For the past few weeks in Iliev reading we have been working on stories. The stories we have been writing are all fiction. The stories are due by the Ms.Iliev’s next report card. I hope they get done in time!

Ms. Iliev’s math

Today in Ms. Iliev’s math we had a test on chapter 8[which was about ratios and changing fractions and decimals to percentages] in the McDougal Littel math book.
Also we had a pretest on chapter 9 [which is about geometry.]


This blog is brought to you by,
Emily B. and Kyle FR.

Emily N. and Hannah’s blog post
lliev math:
Today in Ms. Iliev’s we took a math test on chapter eight which was about percentages, ratios, and proportions. We also pre-tested for chapter nine which was about angles. That’s what we did in Ms.Iliev’s. lliev Reading:Today we worked on Greek and Latin roots. I worked with my learning partner on -cur which means run. We are currently working on -ject which means throw.
Berkey Reading:
For Mr.Berkey’s Reading group we read our orange books and we answered questions for Mr.Berkey to grade us. Berkey Math: In Mr.Berkeys math group we started to do line graphs.
Geography:
Today we played geography games. Geography games are educational games about geography.

-Emily N. & hannah

Solar Systems

Last week Mr. Berkey's class worked on solar systems. Thought you all might be interested in showing your parents some photos of them. You guys did a GREAT job!

:-) Mrs. Berkey

Forgot Digital Letter!

Here is the letter from Friday! Sorry for the delay.

On Friday we took our history quiz and no one scored under a 'B.' I think we'll do more quizzes in Social Studies from here on out.

On Friday afternoon we finished our solar system models. I'll take pictures in the morning and put them on the blog tomorrow. I also need to publish the blog posts from the students last week so they can edit them this week. The solar systems came out really neat and the fifth graders taught their second grade reader buddies about the solar system using the very models they made. I was really proud of the kids.

I hope your weekend is going well. It is a half-day at school tomorrow - Early Relase Monday.

Take Care,

Adam

This Week's Newsletter

Dear Parents-

Here is the newsletter I sent out today. It's shorter than usual, so there isn't a page missing this week. It's just one page, one side.

Remember, there is no school on Monday. The kids did really well with testing this week. They deserve a Monday off.

Take Care Out There-

Mr. B

I'm Back

I am back in the class and teaching again. I'd like to report that the behavior for my class over both days was very good. Almost every single student gave 100% respect. I honestly thought that by the second day behavior would start to fall apart, but the subs were very pleased.

I am proud that I can leave my class behind for a couple of days and know that they will do what is necessary to learn. You should be proud too. You've got some great kids, and they are doing some great things.

I missed the kids a lot while I was gone, but I did catch up on quite a bit of grading. If I work my butt off this week there should be some progress reports by Monday.

Take Care Out There-

Mr. B

Out One More Day

I will be back on Wednesday morning. I hope ROSR is being upheld in my absence. See you Wednesday kiddos!

Mr. Berkey is out of town

I'm sorry for the short notice. I've got an ill uncle in Ketchikan, so I am currently in a plane in Wrangell, about to fly to Ketchikan. I will be gone Monday and quite likely Tuesday. If I am gone Tuesday we will not have math club. You will know more as I know more.

Again, I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

Sincerely,

Mr. B

Updated Newsletter For 1-6

I'm so sorry I haven't been blogging more. I have been running non-stop since school began again. The kids from my class have been wonderfully behaved. This is not the norm in our school right now. However, my students have chosen to get right back to work and to return to a classroom based on creating a respectful learning environment.

I'm very, very proud of them. Take care out there.

Mr. B