greek mythology figure of the day

By Lucia McGehee
Hello peoples!!

The Greek Mythology figure of the day is... Chaos!

Chaos was here before anything.
In some story's, Chaos gave birth to Gaia, Mother Earth.
He's sort of like space.

3 strange facts you didn't need to know today

• According to Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets Harry would have been 30 years old today
• Most genes are switch genes telling other genes what to do. Otherwise it would take a very long time for animals to adapt.This being said, we could look like cows.
• There is a park in Japan where you have to pay a meter to sit on a bench and when the time runs out on the meter metal spikes shoot through the seat.
  

Horiscope of the day

The Joke of the day
What animal do you not want to play cards with?
Answer: Cheetah

Horiscope:
Capricorn

Game of the day is:
Mario Galaxy by Nintendo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Galaxy

Poems

Camp

Campers are singing,
Their voices are ringing,
At the dinner table,
and at the horse stable,
Then I get in my bed
with songs in my head,
And start dreaming.

Tuesday Homework 10/5/2010

Language Arts- read for 30 minutes
Math- Prime Factors
Science- continue to work on your Mixtures Packet
Social Studies- None for Pena and Thompson-- Ogren has What's in a Name Packet

**Please look for email or flyer about Parent Teacher Conferences!!

Word of the day!

The word of the day today is freaquently!!!!!

Definition:[free-kwuhnt-lee]

–adverb

often; many times; at short intervals.

by Zoe and Tahlia

Animal of the Day

The animal of the day is the AFRICAN BULL ELEPHANT
Marlie Frasier
The African bull elephant seldom mates before they are 20 years old. At that age they are not fully mature but he can still equally compete with older elephants.

Dog Breed of the Day

Breed of the Day: Sookie the Catahoula Leopard Dog

Homework for Monday- 10/4

Happy Birthday to Zoe and Kevin!!
Homework!
Language Arts- Read for 30 minutes!
Math- Mixed up Multiplication Chart
Science- Mixture Packet- due Friday!
Social Studies- NONE!

Event--
Picture Day is Friday!!

ACL starts Friday and goes through Sunday!!

9/20- 9/25 News and HW

Homework

Language Arts- read your library book

Math- compatible numbers review and quiz

Students can also expect 1 sheet of math homework each night

Science- Water cycle packet- due Friday

Social Studies- none at the moment

Weekly Homework 9/13- 9/17

Homework

Language Arts- Historical Fiction book report is due on Thursday the 16th

Math- Rounding whole numbers and decimals sheet per night

Science- Elements Packet or Challenge Matter Research Homework- due Friday

Social Studies- U.S. Map Test on Wednesday-- pre/practice test on Tuesday-- **STUDY!

News and Events

Science benchmark test on Tuesday

Dieciseis Fiesta on Thursday at 6:30-- 5th grade parents please bring cheese or bean and cheese quesadillas or tacos.

Spanish classes starting!

Ballet Folklorico performance in the cafeteria at 9:15 on Thursday

New Week and New Homework and News

Homework and News

Language Arts- read historical fiction book and work on book report-- the final book report is due next Thursday, 9/16.

Math- we are working on decimal place value this week-- homework will focus on this concept all week. **E- packet is due on Wednesday and a new one will be given out.

Science- the weekly science packet is due Friday and it is all about matter and understanding the periodic table.

Social Studies- Patriotic Symbols Project is due Friday-- this includes both the 3-D model, note pages, and the final written report.

8/24 HW

Our homework for today...

Language Arts- read daily for at least 20 minutes

Math- multiplication facts 6-8

Science and Social Studies- none for now

Parent HW- cafeteria form, residence form, and student info packet- due Friday please!

Science HW will start tomorrow-- be ready for this!

Thanks for another AWESOME day!!

First Day of 5th Grade HW

We had an amazing first day of 5th grade!

Here is our homework and our parents have some homework too!

Language Arts- read for at least 20 minutes

Math- Multi. facts 2-5

Science and social studies- NONE

Parent HW- student info packet- due Friday!

Monday 11/17- New Weekly HW

Hi everybody!
Here is all our new weekly homework--
Lang. Arts: Quickfire with spelling words- due on Friday!
Science: Science packet on Heat Energy-- due on Friday!

Also, in language arts we have a spelling sheet that is due tomorrow and in math, we need to finish our fraction flag.

BLANTON TRIP!! Tomorrow we are going on our 2nd fieldtrip to the Blanton Art Museum!
All the students need to bring their lunch because we will be eating lunch at a different time.