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!