Holiday Party

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!! We're cleaning the class room at the second, its snowing out side, and today we are having a holiday party.
We have popcorn, punch, goody bags, and other things on the table for the party, and every buddy is exited, one reason is probably games, and the fun foods. parents can come if thy like, so please come! Thank You, And Have A Merry Christmas.
amber t

Wintertime fun attack

Mery Christmas!This week we were having lots of fun.We were doing lots of cleaning up fore TODAY.If you did not know, today there is a party.We are going to do games letters to our buddy class,and HAVE FUN!lot's of it.Yesterday we had christmas dinner for lunch.It was tasty.Mr.walden is trying hard to make it a good party.
Megan h

This Week

Hi. My name is Alex, and I'm the blogwriter. This week we had THREE tests this week! The tests were: Science, Math, and Social Studies. If your child was getting bad grades in any of these subjects, they had a chance to bring their grades up. Now I need to hope for the best. (I need my Social Studies grade to come up.)
If you don't see your child's agenda, they will have to write a two page about responsibility. Also, if your child forgets their homework or doesn't pay attention to dress code, they have to write a two page paper also. Today there's going to be something called Hot Shot Blitz which is basketball, and a teacher that gets a pie thrown in there face!
Mr. Walden gets it thrown in his face! This day has been really fun for the class. Well, fun for me.

Almost Thanksgiving!

Hi my name is Drake and this week in Mr.Walden's class Sam is our lihgthouse leader and we're all excited because it's one day till Thankgiving day think about all the turkey and stuffing yum and getting ready for the cold! Also, our class just finished Charly and the Chocolate Factory in our lituature circles and we're going to watch the movie. Oh and I forgot to mention we got a betta fesh his name is Mc Fishtank.

When you put your finger near his tank he will follow your finger and our class is having a reveiw on rounding. Well thats all that is hapening in our class this week.(: (: (:

im back:)

Hi! Its Amberly again!Anyway, we are learning a new type of taking notes.Cornell notes I think.I can't remember what they're called!By the way we are (again)learning to take notes for science/social studies time.As of writing this,its only morning work.so what were doing this week is a mystery.But last week we finally finished Charlie and the Chocolate Factory By Rhold Dhal. I can't wait to see what book I'm readig next!I said I'm becase we'll be splitting into groups, all groups reading different books.This is starting to get long , so i'll stop here.But be sure to keep reading our awsome class blog! bye!

School In General

I know that you parents that are reading this remember the day that your best friend in the world, the one you can trust with your life, promised that she would play with you at Recess and then just ditches you and leaves you hanging on the wire. I dislike when people do that especially when it is your best friend. Today Mr. Walden played football like he does any other day that he is hyped up and ready to go. Mr. Walden is a guy that if he is not feeling good you better not be a silly person at the wrong time or you might get in trouble. At Recess it is so fun!!!
Mr. Walden keeps saying that he will bring in a fish for 2 Weeks and it has not happened. If you read this plaese comment for Mr. Walden to read to encourage him to bring in the fish tank. We all get really excited when he says that and it does not happen. It is 3:15. Mr. Walden is giving out tickets like crazy because we are having a book auction next week ............ well that is what he said. In fact he just said he is going to pay us because we went outside to do a science experement were we had to observe things. Well got to go see you later.!!!!!!!!!!!;}

Post later,
Lexi Scott 5th grade;}

P.S. We had a problem with bullying and had to have a talk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;}

(It's on the way Lexi, I SWEAR!--- Mr. Walden)

Pusuasive Papers

TESTS!!!!!!

Hello,my name is Amber Tilton. To day is November 5Th 2010, Friday. our music teacher is absent, and we don't have a substitute yet. Today we have two tests, social studies test, and a spelling test. We have already had the spelling test, so now all we have is a social studies test. right now we have cultures, but sense the music teacher in absent the choir kids have to stay in class, there are six kids in choir in our class two reading books. three righting in books, and me making a blog. The light house leader is Eric Lee, and next weeks light house leader is Dominic Webster. Tank you for reading, and please come read the next blog, Amber Tilton

Chris Speaks!

Hey my name is chris H. sorry we didnt make a blog for so long. well, lets get started. Tomorrow our class is doing a social studies test and a spelling test. The charater trait of this month is involment to be involed in your class room, world , and community . we are also working on our persuasive paper. well bye now .

After fall break

Today we split up into band choir and general music. In art we continued our "art to remember". In reading we all got a book called "charlie and the chocolate factory". In p.e. our old gym teacher came back because she had a baby on the first school friday and couldn't come to school for six weeks. We got penpals today on the pages are tigers. Todays homework is math page 166 12-16. A colts camp thing is coming two weeks from thursday.

Isaiah --Lighthouse Leader

Whats new??????:)

hi im Amberly. i am text:) no, its the person writing the text.today is the last day untill fall break.i cant wait to do nothing at all.and today we had THE FIRST PARTY OF THE YEAR!!!! we popped balloons,bobbed for apples,and ate pie!btw vote for your fav. haiku here.mine isnt up yet:(. any way keep reading this blog for more stuff from my friends. see u after fall break!!!

p.S.

iF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO THIS SCHOOL COME ON IN AND REGISTER

Time for our annual 5th grade Haiku contest!

Please vote for your favorite Haiku, and we will post results here after the break. Please vote carefully, fantastic cash and prizes will be awarded! Remember, a Haiku is a poem about nature that has 3 lines of 5 syllables, 7 syllables and 5 syllables.


Cold
The cold dreadful air,
The deep cover of angels,
The wind shivering.

Spring
Flowers bloom, sun shines
Spring’s sun melts the freezing snow
Grass is turning green

Wind fun
Wind taped my window .
Crisp leaves filled the air.
Fall fun is coming.

The December Snow.
The breeze hits my cheek
As I sit on the snow fall
I love the December snow

Snakes
Snakes are cool creatures.
Watch them climb up big, tall, trees.
I like these creatures.

Spring is here
Spring knocks on my door
To the cold I say no more
Rightful golden sun

Beach
The sand is very hot
But the water is very cool
the waves are very high

Trees
A peach made a thump.
The leaves fell softly to the ground.
Leaves overlapped the ground.

The summer
The sun beating down
The heat of the sun feels good
What a great summer

Spring2
The flowers blossom
And the birds in the trees sing
And the grass is green.

Trees2
The trees have no leaves
The leaves are up to my knees
The bees aren’t pleased

Springtime
Bears come up from sleep
Plants come up springtime ground
The sun comes up warm

Fall
The fall is so sweet.
The weather is not like heat.
The fall is like a ball.

Winter
Snow is very cool.
People can’t go to the pool.
So they can’t splash!

Trees3
Leaves fall off of trees
They turn yellow, green, and brown
And some are crunchy

Autumn
The leaves fall down
As I bite into a apple
As the strong wind blows

Snow
The glittery snow
The snow is so fragile
You could eat it up

Winter Sparks
Nice Clear Winter Night
Sparks Shine through The Cul De Sac
Shows Clear Snow Filled Sky

Fall is coming.
Fall break is coming,
The leaves on tree’s are falling,
It’s a lot colder.

Summer of peace
Summer is peaceful.
Summer is filled with fun kids.
Summer has some peace.

Class Celebration-Thursday September 29th, 2:00pm

Parents,

Many of you have asked how you could help with our class party, in addition to 3 or 4 pumpkin pies, we would also be very appreciative if some of you could bring in water, apple cider, milk or other drinks. We also will need approximately 25 apples. Please let us know if you are planning on supplying any of these things so that we can plan accordingly.

Thanks so much,

Mr. Walden

fall break is close

Hi my name is akelah i am the light house leader for this week. Today we took 3 tests in 3 different subject. We are very close to fall break it is next week we are off for about 10 days off!!!! I hope that we all do very good on our test. Also our report card are coming out on next friday. Well this week we have been leaning and columbus and the indians back in the early 15 hundreds in S.S.this week and ,our body parts like cells and organs. Well i am going to let you go i ran out of ideas .oh we are staring poems next week !!!!!!LOL

Jaylah-- Our Lighthouse Leader

hi my name is Jaylah. we are working on our personal narritives. We get to start typing them today and I am so excited. In math we are working on fractions. Something else we are doing is in social studies and science we are splitting the time up so we can learn half and half. Science is really fun we get to eat things. We have done to science classes so far.Mr.walden said he got a lot of new books and is going to see if he con get another book shelve and put it in the classroom. Well that is all.

The view from Mr. Walden's room.

OUR VIEW ! Thanks to all of the volunteers who helped with this cool project!

the third blog

The third blog of the year !!!!! Hi, my name is Lexi. So far this year has been great. Mr.Walden is so nice !!!!! Today we are takig two tests. We are taking a math test and a reading test. We have a noooooooooooooooooooiiiiisy bulldozer out side our window. You can see a picture below of what they are doing to our beautiful school. I mean our school is already beautiful as it is why do they have to make not beautiful with showing bulldozers in the morning when all the parents come in. Mr.Walden has a filletO'fish and we get to hear it every now and then. When we take a test like right now we hear the bulldozers beeep during a test. If you dont go to this school yet and you are reading my blog look me up on our school website and get the addrress to our school and come in and cheek it out. I am in the last class room in the hall next to the music room. There is a closet beetween the music room and our room. The kidergarteners sing we are going on a bear hunt and every day at 9:55 we hear a loud scream that means that they found the bear but not literally. I sit next to a guy name Hunter Kennedy. We do math sheets and we are timed we get two minutes to do 60 problems. I did it!!!!!!!!! Mr.Walden writes the word recess and if we lose all of the letters we lose recess!! (But we haven't lost any yet :)well I have to go see you later!!!!!!!!byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blog is up and running ! (thanks Ms. Woo !)

Hi I'm Hannah today is picture day and I'm not so happy about it. During school we have started reading The Abucus Contest.In social studies we are trying to memorize the fifty states.This morning we did a crossword puzzle on them and yesterday we did a worksheet naming them. Also we have been practicing multiplcation and have made a multiplcation chart. Oh and there is a bulldozer outside our window they are building a rain garden. And tomorow they are having a party for the lighthouse leaders. We have just started centers for math fact families and games. And in October we are going to start band choir and general music. And right now we are having snack time. And this Friday we don't have school and next monday eighther yippeee. GOODBYE!!!!

First Blog of the YEAR!!

Good Morning! This is our first blog of the year and we are writing as a class. The class is happy about our ticket system-- we get tickets when things go good-- we pay tickets when we mess up. Our class is lucky and super awesome because we get special blue lockers-- everyone else has the same old boring red lockers... yuck! We are all scared of Mr. Walden because he is soooo mean. Someone save us!!! (okay, not really)

We had an exciting week we all got to meet our penpals. We also went to this wonder lab museum. We got a panflit from school for 1 free person on thurs. We also got to see Mr. Stallard's class play for reading. Then next week we are having 2 field trips 1 is only the afternoon gym class is going to the bowling feild trip on Wed. and then 2 we are having the Chrildren's Museam on Fri. that's the news for this week bye!




An ICS student,
Katie Sorenson

NWEA continues....

Hi my names Tyler and I haven't wrote the blog for a while now. We just did our second test yesterday for N.W.E.A. It was math , our class did awesome. Which was good we were all happy including Mr.Walden. We gave ourselves a round of applause. If you get 2 out of 3 you are in a drawing for an Ipod shuffle. Many people are already there and even if you only get one you still go in a drawing for a lunch of your choice. The way we keep track of what we get is called the bug club you put your goals on it and if you get your goal or go over it you get highlighted with a different color. Readings orange Maths blue I don't know what Language Arts is because we haven't taken the test yet thats all for now.

ICS student,
Tyler lynn

fun days

hi my name is jazmine and on the 26th of May were going on our field trip to meet our penpals then were going to the science museme. Were going to have sooooo much fun and we're going to bloomington to meet them so yah were going to have soo much fun. Were haveing nwea testing this week and next week we need to be respectfull to the people whos taking the nwea. Any way we are lerning how to write informational papers in launguge arts. We had a citizens test and 7 people were citizens out of 24. we are having soo much fun at school with the best teacher ever which would be Mr.Walden. Its almost the end of the year and then were moving to 6th grade which the 6 and higher grade is now going to the Irvington high school on arlington now which is right by my house.
scincerly,
jazminejackson\ jazminee jackson lol

billy can write too!

Hi. I'm Billy and I haven't wrote the blog in a while. We just started NWEA and our first test will be on Wednesday. We are reading books in groups. We are reading Island of the Blue Green Fish Creatures,The Cay,Sign of the Beaver,and Caddie Woodlawn. We will be going to Grandview School to meet our buddies. We will be doing math groups for what we don't get. In Social Studies we are taking a citizenship test what immigrants have to take when they come here to become a citizen. In science we are making a car that must hold a egg and have wheels of some sort.We will race these down a ramp! Whoever's egg doesn't break will go on to the next round and so forth.

Hi it's me Nathan again. i'm happy to be writing the blog. Now i'm going to tell you what we have been doing in class. In reading we're back to our literature books again. we have The sign of the beaver, The cay, Hatchet, Caddie Woodlawn, and Island of the Blue Dolphins. In science we just took a test it was about Outerspace and i thought if you studied you would have done good. In Gym we learned a new game called toppleball and it was fun we went outside and played it. In art we're working on these cylinders with clay and we put designs on them to look really cool. In math were working on how to divide decimals. i think the first day our class didn't get it, but when we went over it we got it. We're taking another test in spelling this Friday. In social studies were learning how were lucky to be born in the united states and its going good. I think were all looking forward to our field trip. i've got to go-- bye.

WHY DON'T YOU LEARN 6TH GRADE STUFF

Hello people :/
Today Mr.Walden's class will learn 6th grade math.We will be learning how to divide decimals by decimals and dividing fractions!We will also finish up our pen pal letters and persuasie papers.(parents be prepared for lots of your children to stay up later. to put up a good arguement.)
Finally Istep is over.=) Some people have to make it up because they were late or absent. :o
Some of our students are also doing research on allergies. They will present their research to the class ....... sometime. >:o <--- Sneeze face/ Anyway I heard that someone is doing pollen and another is dust mites.Finally it is SPRING YEEEEEEEEEEEE AAAAAAAAAAAAAA HHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Please keep your kids out of the house and playing .....outside .......... with their friends........and dogs. Sincerly,
Smiley Face :)
;O ^^ $$
U (also known as Zach H.)

Blog Of The Day

Hi,My name is Carla,and this is my first time writing the blog.Today's the last day for ISTEP! I-Step has been very complicated for some students,for the others it's really easy.What we've been doing in ISTEP is Math,L.A,and Social Studies.There's two sessions of all of them.
In reading,we're on chapter 10.The books that we're reading are Hatchet,The Sign of the Beaver,Caddie Woodlawn,The Cay,and Island of the Blue Dolphins.We have these reflection papers that we do every night after we are done reading.Mr.Walden calls the Island of the Blue Dolfins,"Island of the Blue-Green Turtles" Or something like that.

IMMA FIRIN' MAH LAZARZ!!!

Hey, this is Jarrett. this is what...my 10,000th time writing the blog?
So in art we are making these cool clay cylinders to make signatures. People used them for thousands of years.History lesson: In the olden times,people had cylinders strung around their neck for two purposes. The first was to sign "receipts" and other household items that they bought. The second was to ward off evil spirits.
Also, in band, we are playing 3 songs,two of which are VERY hard. The easiest would have to be America the Beatiful. At first we were horrible, but we improved. The hardest would be our newest, The Tempest. It's very fast paced, and Fire Dance, our other hard one isn't quite as fast, but still hard. A few people (including me) are thinking what would happen if we combined The Tempest and Fire Dance. I think it would be the BEASTLIEST SONG OF ALL TIME, but very,very fast. And the parts for certain instruments are hard. The clarinets have to repeat the same note for like 30 four-beat measures with no breath marks or rests!
Also, Mr.Walden is going to make our subjects a bit more fun to learn. Supposedly, we're going to have our subjects like Jeopardy. ( Starts to hum theme song) What else is going on... Weather is warming up, so hardly any more jackets... Although with warmer weather means rain... I don't know why, but I always liked rain. Still do. So, along with the Jeopardy thing, Mr.Walden plans to take it easy on us for getting in trouble. We can still get refferalls and such, but no more recess taken away! Woohoo! (insert all possible happy smile face emoticons here) Also for the those of you who recognize the title...
(insert picture of Doctor Octagonapus here later)

-Jarrett-

I can't think of a title......(weekend)

Hi this is Tyler Locander and I'll be writing the blog for today! Today has been going great. Right now is D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything And Read) time. Last night it rained so we can't go outside for recess...... Yesterday alot of people didn't do their reading or reflection paper. Today in band we got to watch a movie (it was funny). The weekend is finally here! Yesterday Mr. Walden left at lunch. We had a subsitute his name was Mr. Mayhew. We can't wait until we get to go outside for recess agian. Today in P.E. we're having free choice Friday. Free choice Friday is every two weeks. It is where we go around and pick what we want(for exp. knockout, hula hooping, jump roping, and some other things i can't think of). Yesterday the blog was hilarious!

BYE

Pencil Farm.

G'day mates! Everyone is finally glad it's spring and just look at the lead and ink blooming below! Too many pencils if you think about it. Sam must have alot of harvesting to do this year. (Plays "Combine Harvester")

Though Sam should have not had these (just way too many) it's still hilarious :). Please give us your opinion on it! Even though it's a few weeks past spring break... welcome back! But don't blame me for not knowing when we last did the blog. I don't really keep track of it.

We have been working on ratios in math and (thankfully) got finished with parent teacher conferences. We are doing persuasive writing in language and working with supply and demand in social studies.

And getting our energy out by going outside for recess. So don't really worry, (well maybe a little.)

So we hope to see you in next week (or day's) blog.

SEE YOU LATER!!

--Elijah W.

Strange Creatures..

As we all know Meghan Sommers is holding a book from the book fair. It has been happening this week (April 2nd -April 9th.) They have lots of books and small writing materials for school. and some you have to take home. This week we did not have a spelling test or pretest but we will have one next week because we've been working on the words for next week's test. The words we've been working on are contractions: it's, they'd, I'll, and conjunctions, pronouns and verbs. Making sure for the parents: we have had very little home work. In social studies we have been doing stuff about prices, demand, and supply. You should ask your children about those words they will tell you a lot. Science is usual --nothing much but we did start a new chapter. Some math home work not much. We haven't had much reading. Friday we had a ""End of the 3rd Quarter Party"!! The party was for certificates for A/ B hono roll,tardy slips/days not here. Well, that's it for this week!!! BYE!

Meghan is scaring her classmates..

Life is easy then tricky

Its me again,Lorenzo P. The class is doing penpal letters to our penpals in Bloomington. Later on, we're going to Bloomington if the class stays good. So now were learning about life that can get hard,budgeting. So we're practicing using money in our life. No were not using real money.Were also doing BookFair.There are two books I want, but its kinda long so I'm going to tell.Were learning about circuts in science. Its kinda easy and a little tricky FOR ME, but Im still learning. Also in music class, the band class is learning something hard. Its called Fire Dance by Douglas Akey. You may of heard or not. Its long and fast and hard. Plus the song has one hundred measures. Im running out of things to say. So this my third time doing the blog and its fun its just hard to think of something. In gym, its survivor week. Its a thing were you can get bandannas thats has a picture of your team and compete other teams. But don't think your will win if you have a good day beacause you have most of the rest of the school on your team and they might have a bad day. So if you were first in the moring, you might be last in the evening. Thats all I've got to say so bye.

Back from Spring Break!

After spring break already? To me it went by too fast. We're getting to the process of writing a persuasive letter to the president. We all get to write whatever we want to him as long that it is in the persuasive form of the letter. I think it's going to be fun. Hopefully he will read them. Mr. Walden the coolest teacher of all time. He said that The President reads only 10 letters a day. It's a small chance but we're all hoping that he will. Cross your fingers. Something else in social studies : we're learning about the economy and that you need to budget your money or you will run out. In math we're learning about ratios and percentages. In art we are doing this religous cylinder roll. You make a cylinder out of clay and when it drys you mak designs in it and were going to roll it on a flat piece of clay and the design will come off onto the clay it will look really cool. Mrs. Stuckey showed us one that she made it looked awesome. Thats it really. talk to you next time.

sincerily,
Tyler l

We REALLY need to update the blog more often...

So, this is my second time writing the blog. I wrote once waaaaaay back in like the first quarter. Now off with the cheesy intro. We just got back from our kindergarten buddies.( Actually maybe not just now, depends on how late Mr. Walden will post this. =P ) I was rather late today, and Mrs. Jeremy told me that everyone was in the gym. Why you may ask? Well we had a really cool Irish Dancing event. ( No, we didn't dance!) We had a school for Irish Dancing come and do some really cool Irish dances. We are doing some extra time for our state projects right now. (Again, maybe not right now. See above.) We are also practicing our songs( and listening...See above.) for our America concert. OH! We have concerts on Monday and Tuesday. Monday is for Band, and Tuesday is our America concert. And in Art we are also doing this Calendar Contest thing again! It is really fun. The winner gets like $200! We are all working our hardest on that contest. Hmm... What else is there to tell? Oh and if you know your dates, you know what today is!

[Insert cheesy Irish accent]Happy St. Patrick's Day![/End accent]

P.S, Spring Break starts next week! April fools is in the middle of it! Time to think up a classic prank guys!!! Perty Colors!!!!!
P.P.S: Apparently I get to post it. Only took me like 10 minutes. Forget the time jokes above.

Spring Time

It's me Lorenzo again. It's getting towards spring. Wooooo. We're meeting our buddies next week. Were doing something with the buddies,but I don't know. This week, the class is learning measurements like cups, pints, gallons, etc. Its still kinda cool, so bring a jacket with you to school. In science, we didnt learn about science yesterday, instead we ran. Its was a big race. It's was a girls race and a boys race. Chad beat all the boys and Sydney beat all the girls. Then it was Chad vs Sydney. The person who won is..........Chad. Good job to Sydney and Chad. Chad had won. I would call it Race Of The Century. Also during the week in social studies, we were talking about making laws thats should be fair, specific, and most important, has to do with the Constitution. So we made laws of our own to the class. Most of the class said veto(not pass or doesn't like the law)to most of our laws. Mr.Walden said that if he doesn't say veto,the law is going to stay for a week. Gym, two days ago, we ran 28 laps(a mile)around the gym. Yes it was very hard to do, it was still for your health. If you didn't know, we read a book called Shiloh. I don't know if you read or not, its is a good book in my opinion. So bring jackets and say wooo for spring.

-Lorenzo p

Students are puzzled !

Congratulations to Cara, Lara and Jarrett-- They conquered the "brain melter" wooden puzzle. This shows great problem solving ability.. Now if they could only remember to turn in agendas!

My first month at ICS

Hi my name is Tyler but everybody call's me T.J..Im new to this whole thing so i really dont know what to do here. I've been trying to get in here for three years.I've been in IPS for my whole life.So i got to the point where i couldn't go there any more.This school finally accepted me.I've seen some realy cool stuff that they do around here.Mr.Walden is a realy awesome guy.It sound's like they do some really cool stuff here. When I had my first day here and Mr.Erhgott said that Mr.Walden was at home sick with the flu so I Was kind of sad couse I didn't get to meet him on my first day. Miss welsh is a nice science teacher. NWEA teast was hard for my class but we all did good. So that's all for now.I will blog you guys later

---Tyler Sutton T.J.

what we've been doing

Hi my name is Austin .In art class we are drawing jurassic park.In Science class the experiment log is due this friday.In science we are writing to 7 and 8 grade about the science fair.In Social studies we are learning th american revolution. We also learned about the Paul Revere. Sami can read the whole page in the reading book about the Paul Revere.