Snow days

Hi my name is nathan and i've done the blog before and i like it.Ok what we've been doing in class is in reading we've been talking about today is How to be mature about things.We read a story called The search. Being mature was the theme. In Social Studies we've been doing this rubric and we got to get all the information and fill it out. In science we took a test yesterday and i hope everyone did good. In math were learning about outcomes in like 1 in a hundred and all that stuff. Its been real nasty outside and Mr.Walden said to bring a coat gloves and a hat.Oh and if you have sweaters and long sleeve under shirts.Its almost Christmas again.



Nathan Meriwether

Happy December

Hey! Im Elijah and I will be writing the blog today. Happy December! We have started working on our Social Studies project about the reigions. They are the SE, the NE, the Pacific, the Midwest, and the SW. We will be getting our regions assigned to us today or Friday (hopefully.) We have also been looking at inferances about our reading story , Jumping Mouse. We also have started working on some divison (and harder divison) in math. We are haveing quite too many lectures about are behavior and responsobillity lately. We all hope that can change some time soon :). I hope you all have a wonderful weakend (even though today is Thursday.) And I hope you can stay warm this weekend. :)
- Elijah W.

Wonderful Wednesday

Hi! I am Tyler Lo and I will be doing the blog today. Yesterday band students had a performance I think it went great. Here are the songs we did Bingo Polka, Yuki (snow), and Alpha Overture. We combined with the advanced band to do Siberian Sleighride. Advanced band also did Final Impact, Bruce Canyon Overture, and a couple more that I can't remember. Today in music class we talked about the performance and shirts. Tonight kindergarten and 1st grade have a performance. Tommorrow night 2nd, 3rd, and 4th have a performance. Christmas is coming up! YAY! Make sure you are getting your agenda signed. Do your homework too. Well that is all I have to say today.

What have we been doing?

Last week in math we were learning fractions. We are doing so well in math and paying attention!Mr. Walden is so great with us. In reading we get to choose what to read like;Island, Dive,Swindle,and No more dead dogs!After we read the books we get to play the games the class has created. we have already told the class they can't take the books home. Today we have read about The story of the jumping mouse. We were talking about inferring and what it was telling us in the story.we aren't finished with the story yet.I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and weekend!

--By:Cheyenne Snyder.

Physical Elements of Geography

Thanksgiving is here

Hi I'm Sydney. And this week our lighthouse leader is CATHERINE ARNOLD .This week we worked on a Social Studies,we were doing a project and we had to make like a prarie and things like that. My partner and I made the prarie my partner was Katie Sorenson.Or project looks great.

In math we are doing stem and leaf plots. Sydney has new glasses YEAH!!!!

the no title blog...

Hi my name is Larenz. We have been witnessing some cold weathers so bring a jacket. We have been doing our math quizzes (FINALLY).Our teacher the famous Mr. Walden said we might go outside (AWESOME).We are still doing the food drive and if you want to help you can just bring in some canned foods. In reading we are summarizing the pages of the great APPOLO11. Where the first men on the earth took the fist step on the moon. That great time is almost here the two best holidays it is Thanksgiving and Christmas and that means food and family and presents. Well that is all for today bye.

---larenz

OUR FIELD TRIP! & Food Drive

We all went to the Ruth Lilly's health center. We went on November 17th which was Tuesday. Some parts were gross when they were talking about our body parts and babies. They were also talking about how we have changes in our voices and attitudes. It took a long time to get in the rooms because alot of other people were there too. We weren't there very long like our other field trips were back then but it was worth it! We were there for 3 whole hours!! We had a great time. On Wednesday we made cards for our friend Alex. Mrs. Welsh is going to send one every day of the week!!! We can't wait to see him again! We have been doing a food drive for people in need . So if you can just have your child bring in a store purchased item like a can food or a box of mac-and-cheese box. It has to have ingredients on it !!

--Katie

On our field trip to Ruth Lilly.

Happy Friday the 13th

Hi,im Meghan.Yesterday band had a field trip to Lucas Oil Stadium,it was exciting!Today we were told in reading that after Christmas break we would be starting our novels again.Than we had a spelling test.Also,we have a TEST today for math.I know we have all studied very hard.Also,i have great news.Mr.Walden is back,and everyone is glad to see him.In other news Thanksgiving is coming up.I would check your school calender,because it will tell you the days we get off of school.In gym were doing gymnastic stuff.In art were weaving.Thank you for reading the blog today.

---meghan

A treat for the kids is playing tricks on the teachers.

Several teachers stopped by to wish us a happy Fall.

And a ghoul too! (scary!!)

Mrs. Venekamp isn't too sure about this....

Trick AND Treat

Ms. Welsh is a good sport while bobbing for apples...

Finally Friday

Hello, this is Sami reporting to you live from Mr. Walden's 5th grade class. Now to catch you up on what's been happening, Tyler Lo, and Sam were inducted into National Elementary Honor Society (NEHS), Sam is our Lighthouse Leader, we finished up the 50 states( had the quiz, homework,etc.), and in reading we've finished up our books ( Toilet Paper Tigers, Swindle, Island, Dive, and No More Dead Dogs) now we're finishing up our projects. In Social Studies we're in chapter 7 , it is starting to get pretty cold so PLEASE bring a jacket. Nov. 26-27 we have Thanksgiving Vacation.



Quick Quiz, who was inducted into NEHS? Answer: Sam and Tyler Lo. Who is Lighthouse Leader? Answer: Sam. What do we need to bring? Answer: Jacket.

If you got all these right you either A: know how to read or B: Know Mr. Walden's Class pretty well!

54 days left until Christmas

The ok week

Hi my name is Nathan this my 2nd time writing the blog but im ok. You might know that im Lighthouse Leader this week im happy. Everybody remember to study for test in Social Studies tomorrow. Study your math 2 its important. I hope everyone studies because we've been studying all week. I hope everyone passes. We should be reading our reading books to read.

Catherine returns for Blog # 2 !!

Hi,and welcome back to another blog entry and this is Catherine.Today in Spanish we had to turn in our homework from last week and she only recieved five sheets!That was sad.We have been learning our states this week.Mr.Walden gets more funny by the mili-seconds!And so do we. Well anyway,we have only like,twenty kids in our class today! We're missing four kids! Poor us. :( At least we only have four missing,the kindergarteners have like, ten missing! ) W-O-W.

--Catherine

hey its a happy Monday yahoo

Hi this is Jazmine. Today is a Monday and what's happening in school right now is Katie just got back from Florida and we're getting her caught up with math and reading and every thing so anyway so we're learning so far in math is how to divide decimals. So in reading we're doing liturature circals. So last week we might with our kindergarten buddys again but I wasn't with them a couple weeks ago though so last week we= all of us even our kindergarten buddys got to go in the woods at our school and they all told us that they never been in the woods before so found a bunch of pretty,colorfull leaves the colors we saw was green,red,sandy gray,orind,brown,burnt leafes,rosey red,yellow. So anyway so we all got to show every one what kind of leaves we all got I picked two and one of mine was burnt and so I showed it to Zach and we both thought it was eather racoons paw print's or a cats paw print or a dogs paw print but I also piced the pirttiest one out of all of them I pick one that was a valintines color wich is a dark redish pink it was really pritty and my partners both piced the other pritty leafes jenna picked a big one and a small one they all were pritty but we don't have any pictures of them all thought but they all was cool. So when it was time to line up the kindergarterners lined up perfectly and we lined up badly but we still had fun though so we went back into our room and put our coghts away and lined

Taylor can't think of a title!!

Hello my name is Taylor.We've been working on factors this week. Were almost done with our reading books. Were reading Island, Dive, Swindle, Liar Liar Pants on Fire. Anyway We have 2 tests on Friday. Those tests are math factors and social studies the 13 colonies. I can name all of the 13 colonies, but I won't to because I just don't want to. We had to write 5-vocab words that we didn't understand in our reading books and write it out to see what it meant. Weer gonna switch books in reading on Monday. Dive is gonna read Island, Island is gonna read Dive, Swindle's gonna read Liar Liar Pants on Fire and you know the rest. The whole class is getting better in multiplication and in division. A B-Day is coming up and that's mine and Tyler my brother's. My favorite thing is a video game, but I already have enough. O.k. Bye.

taylor...

Halloween time

Hi my name is Nathan and we're working on division in math all week. We reading our literature books so far I think everyone is doing good so far. In language we're learning about prefixes and suffixes we're doing good. In Social Studies we're learning about the 13th colonies. Everyone is exited for our fall party and its the weekend and we're watchin a movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas" scary. The book fair is ending this week a lot of people bought diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days. We're going to have candy, juice, cookies, games, activities. I think were going to have a great time. The book fair is ending at 6:30.


---Nathan M

I'm scared to post this....

------------------------CLASSPARTY-PLUS STILL READING GROUPS---------------------
Tomorrow is going to be are awards and all that good stuff. there is going to be food,games,movies alot of cool stuff.We are watching a Walt DisneyPictures Presents NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS in 3D it s gonna be so scary. the times were on the newsletter that your kid got last night. come!Or else ill get you Mu Wah Ha Ha Ha!Im not kidding.BOO!On the sheet there what healthy snacks your child can bring in for the party.Well thats all I gotta pretty much say about the party.So about reading, as you were told yesterday by Larenz (nice guy) we are having literature circles . your child has been assigned with there classmates to read a Gordan Korman books we have Dive,Swindle,Island,Liar Liar Pants on Fire,and No More Dead Dogs.They are all very good books.Well I hope so I trusted Mr.Walden dont tell him I said that.He might get mad.Boo!Just seeing if your on your toes or did I eat them?Im out to get you for now my identity is sealed.Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!P.S abot the movie it is at 12:30P.M Friday,Oct.16th.Location the scariest room in the whole school Mr. Waldens 5th grade class don't let him trick you he is not as mean as he seems or is he.Watch out though don't stare into his eyes he will hypmatize you to go to his house and sit in hot boiling water and then eat you.Boo!Happy early Holloween I may not be able to get on the blog ever again bye






your advisor forMr.Waldens class
tyler,

Reading Response Journal for "Island" by Gordon Korman

We're baaaaaaaaack !

Hi my name is larenz were back at school YAAAAAY! were doing some division in math and were doing literature circles all of the groups have books by the famous GORDON KORMAN. In social studies we had to do all of the capitols in the U.S.A which took reeeeaaaaaly long and we had to do the thirteen colonies.The book fair is open to YIPPY! be sure to go by there and get some books.In science were learning about photosynthesis try saying that five times fast. Well thats all folks bye

--Larenz

Fall Break Is here !!

HI,today im the the writer,Lorenzo.We have been doing many things like getting kindergartens to mentor(help).We are still doing algbra.Were doing novels after fall break.Samantha is back.WOOOHOO!WE switched desk spots in our classroom.Now were doing Bloomington,IN letters.Previosly,we did Utah letters.FALL BREAK IS HERE!Its for ten days.Be fun,be safe,be active.After fall break is our second quarter.Algebra is easy for this fifth grade class.Ten days is big.Its already six weeks.Wow time goes by fast.Seriosly.Its going to be cold.Have a good fall break. And wear school approved sweaters and long sleeved shirts after break-- no shorts!

--Lorenzo

Meepster can't think of a blog title...

Hello!Welcome to our class blog! This time me(Jarrett) will be writing. So, let's see... We finally got to meet up with the kindergarteners. We did a little chart to help us know our partners better.Half of us went to Mrs.Bykowski's room and some of us stayed in our room. Earlier we did a morning test for multiplication AND addition. We normally do multiplication, but this time Walden tried to trick us. Alot of us finished easily. We plan on making very funny videos for the blog. We don't know when,and if, we will make them. And fall break starts on Friday! We will have alot of fun in Social Studies and Math today. Thanks for reading our blog!

Please return your parent/teacher conference forms.

Hi. Welcome to another blog. We need the parent/teacher confrence forms back. Also we want the scholastic book order forms. Remember if you order online our class gets a free book. We are finishing our penpal letters. We are having a practice quiz in math. We will have the real chapter test sometime this week. I think we will do good on it. We have not been doing anything in reading so there is no homework. Anybody who has passed all their competencies doesn't have to bring in instruments,and no practice sheet. The kids who aren't done 75 minutes practice sheet. Everybody could've passed the spelling test if they studied. But half didn't pass. I regret that I have to do the blog now because I am running out of ideas. We have a birthday today or a birthday party today. Parents there are candy-grams for sale. You will get a sheet of paper about it. Aleast give them $0.50 for candy-grams. We have been doing outlines for chapters 4 and 5 in social studies.

--Billy

Our class is very serious about this blog....

Get well soon Cheyenne and Carla!

BEST WEEK EVER!!!

This week we have been doing letters for Mr. Ehrgott like business letters. I think that this week has been a so, so week because some people got on yellow or red but no bickering or nobody has been sent to Mr. Mcfadden. It has been a great fun week because Mr. Walden has been nice to everyone ever since school has started BUT NOT HAPPY ABOUT PEOPLE ON YELLOW AND RED. Mr. walden has been pushing us on our math flashcards. He wants us to know our multiplication facts by the end of the 2009. We have upcoming news like book fairs and book order forms for schoolastic are coming home on friday/ tonight. Our order forms for our book fair is coming home after our fallbreak is over.BOO!!!!!!.

---Katie

Thursday 9/24 blog, or, "Sydney couldn't think of a title"

HAPPY THURSDAY !!

This week we have been working on algebra in math. We are writing in Language Arts also. We all have been writing to our penpals it is realy interesting. And it is fun beacause we don't know what there going to write back. We are also geting along reaLly well. And our Light House Leader is Katie. I think Katie is going to be a awsome Light House Leader beacause she is always nice to people and she dosen't move her clip. Our class has a green box that if you want to put an interesting fact you write it down and the teacher reads them to the class.Every time we gvet a new Light House Leader they type our class blog. And Katie is next. GO KATIE.

--Sydney

Conquistadors

The Aztecs did not fare well in our "Historically accurate reenactment". Nathan, Samantha, Sam, Taylor, Jarrett, Zach were our victorious Spaniards in 1521. Carla, Jazmine, Tyler and Lara wish the Aztecs had worn better armor.

Happy Wednesday

Welcome back to Mr.Walden's fifth grade class blog. In reading class we are learning poems and what they mean.We are working a Robert Frost poem.We started final draft for our penpals letters and also we are learnig how to write business letters. In science class we are haveing a test on the heart and how the body works.

Tuesday we did a study guide and studied in class everyone should do good.We are working on algebra and variables and as we move along we do harder and harder problems but they are getting easier and easier for us. The class has been doing good haven't any big class problems or talks lately. That is a good thing.

-Lara

Pictures have arrived.

Tuesday is our Spanish day, so no fun blog entries today... Just boring old mr. Walden.  Tune in tommorrow for our regularly scheduled post. Feel free to ask the kids to explain " Grita" to you tonight ( pronounced greet-a). 
Pictures have arrived and were sent home today.  If you did not recieve pictures that you were expecting, please contact mr. Walden at mwalden@ics-charter.org.   Re-takes will happen after fall break-- a notice will be sent home in Friday folders with more info.   

Penpal practice!

Welcome to another blog writing today is Monday. If you try to get on power school, it is still shut down because the server crashed at the high school. In writing we have penpals. We are learning how to write a letter and what questions to ask them. They are in Utah right by the Great Salt Lake.

In math we are still doing algebra its pretty hard because this morning we had a paper on algebra and really nobody could do it. In Science we are learning about the sequence of blood flow. We just had a test about it last week. In Social Studies I dont know if were still learning about about Marco Polo,Leif Ericsson, and all the other famous explorors because we just had a test about them and I think that that the whole class did great.

---Chad

Cara and Catherine talk about explorers

Mr. McFadden Taking a photo of Katie, our Lighthouse Leader for next week.

Cara can't think of a title for our blog today.

Welcome to another blog writing. Today is Friday. If you have not yet heard, power school is down for now. In language arts we are not doing poems any more ,now we are writing to a school in Utah. We are learning about headings, salutations, the body of the letter, the closing, and signature.
In math we are doing algebraic expressions.That is pretty easy.
In science we are learning about the human body especially the heart and blood flow.
In social studies we are learning about famous travelers like Marco Polo, Zheng He,Vasco de Gama, Eric the Red, Leif Ericsson (if you did not already know he is Eric the Red's son that is why his last name is Ericsson), and Amerigo Vespucci.
Tyler and Frank are back in school and feeling better.We had every one in school today!!!Have a good weekend !!!!
NO HOMEWORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

---cara

Trying our best during NWEA testing.

We need your vote!

Welcome again to another blog writing. We are trying to get people who have fallen behind at the same speed. We need to make sure that all students have their agendas and that it is signed. Also we are trying to do harder algebra. We are learning about variables and how to use math in real life. We also have a new student named Carla Golder. She is fitting right in with the class.

In Language Arts we are still doing poems, but they are math poems.In class we made our own math poems.We will post some poems we made. We are finally done with N.W.E.A tests. Overall we did pretty good in N.W.E.A tests. Some scores went down some went up.We are hoping next time all scores will go up.

We will also post some videos of our interviews for social studies and we will post links to other websites for we can practice multiplication so we get better.

Today we will post our haikus. Please vote for your favorite poem--- the person with the most votes gets 5 bonus classroom tickets! (please vote fairly not just for your own kid thank you).

--Zach

HOMEWORK 9/17/09

**CHECK BACK OFTEN FOR UPDATES!!

Math- We worked on Algebraic Expression s on page 104.

Social Studies- Quiz today- wish us luck!

Language Arts- Spelling test on Friday

Get well soon Tyler and Frank!

Our first blogger hard at work!

Welcome to our Blog!

Welcome to Mr.Walden's fifth grade class blog. We are probably the funniest class in our school. We love to have fun, be crazy and be creative. We have just recently started on poems, algebra, and our blog of course. On our first day of school this year Mr.Walden said , "I hope this year we have fun and be ourselves." Our making of our blog has been making our whole class very anxious about it. Mr.Walden has been teaching us poems and said that we are very good at it too. We all think Mr.Walden is very funny and nice. He always jokes around with us. We have been doing little interviews with the class in Social Studies this week and last. We got the choice of doing Eric the Red , Leif Ericsson , Marco Polo , Mansa Musa , Zheng He , Prince Henry , or Vasco de Gama. We have a lot of fun with that. We have also had a lot of fun with poems. Robert Frost is one of the famous poets we have read about, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes and random ones from regular poem books. We love our class!