Rainy Day Activities

With the wonderful rain finally hitting us, we have been forced to stay inside for numerous days in a row. While many of their classmates were busy drawing, reading, and playing competitive tournaments of Uno... Kai, Jonah, and Petar took to creating a pretty awesome card house during their lunch recess. Nice work guys!

Guest Blogger- Curtis

Fractions

By Curtis

After Module 2, we have started a new module in math. This module is all about fractions. We will learn about equivalent fractions, making like units pictorially, making like units numerically, and other ways to use fractions. This is a very short module, but is important. Have a happy new module!

Spelling Bee Representatives

Congratulations to our class' 4 finalists who are moving on to the next round in Mohr's Spelling Bee. We are so excited for you!

Soumya, Jayani, Lionel, Anjali 

Module 3

As we begin Module 3 and start diving into adding and subtracting fractions, I wanted to make sure you remember where to locate the resources available to you.

Ms. Wilcox's Videos

Videos will be posted when needed

Mr. Habecker's Videos

These help you with each lesson's homework

Spelling Bee

The Spelling Bee written test for 5th grade will be held tomorrow, Tuesday, right after school. Our science specialist, Mrs. McCarthy will be administering the test. Students should go to the MPR if they are interested in participating.

If you are interested in the 450 word list, that is for the following round, it can be found HERE.

Good luck spellers!

Can Food Drive

Holiday Can Food Drive

December 8th - 12th

Our class is participating in the Friends Helping Friends Holiday Can Food Drive. With your donations, we will be able to put baskets full of food together that we can donate to local families in need this holiday season.  Our class is signed up to bring 

boxes of granola bars.

Thank you for your support!

Hour of Code

We are participating in the Hour of Code this year, which is the week of December 8th. Today, the students were able to preview coding by creating games, cards, art, and much more. Next week we will be coding in the computer lab, as well as in our classroom using devices for our second BYOD day.

Students-- 

HERE is the link to the different games and activities you can try with coding. I can't wait to see what you are able to create!

Parents--

If you are interested in learning more about the Hour of Code, please go HERE and explore the site Code.org. They are hoping that students across the United States will get in one hour of coding next week.  To see what the Hour of Code looked like last year here in PUSD, check out the video below.

Guest Blogger- Bridget

Keith Haring

By Bridget

Photo by Aayushi

This week our guest blogger is about a person from art with Mrs. Davidson. The person was a man named Keith Haring who was a street artist. His street art was simple and all of them each had life in it such as hearts or people. In all of his art there was movement. All of his pictures were very colorful and had big, thick lines. For his signature he drew a picture that's called Radiant Baby. Almost all street artists have to put a signature so if a person made a piece of art that looked like his or her, people will know that if it was their art or not. If they put their name as a signature people will know that it was him or her and probably get sent to jail. After awhile people found out that it was him and he got sent to jail. Once he got out of jail he continued on with his art but it wasn't street art. His art wasn't popular until a long time and he made lots of money.