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Play Day 2014

A HUGE thank you to all the PE teachers for making this year's Play Day such a wonderfully fun event!!!

Rock Star of the Week, Nate!

Nate's Rock Star Wordle

Jade and Noemi's Weekly Update...

Hi, this is Noemi and Jade telling you about our fantastic week. Unfortunately, the school year will be over soon, so this will be the last Weekly Update. We had many highlights of our week as our week had been great. Some awesome things were visiting the Middle School library, the very last Grammar Challenge of the entire school year, and play day. These were the things that really stood out in our week. Hopefully, everyone enjoyed the week and had a great time.    

We are almost at the end of the school year, which means that we are going to have to go into Middle School soon. Which means we are going to have a different library, that means that we got to visit the Middle School library! There were about three classes that got to visit the library at the same time, which meant that it was super crowded. We all thought that the library looked really cool. It was definitely bigger than the library that we had for the past three years. The Middle School library also had many cool designs painted on the walls. One room had the solar system painted on the walls. The best part about moving into Middle School is that you can check out ten books at a time and you can check books out for summer vacation. The middle school library is huge! Some of the teachers showed us a video of the three finalists for Book Idol, the winner of the book contest was… The Hunger Games! Click here to watch the video. We had lots of fun there and we all (hopefully) are looking forward to moving into Middle School.

Our whole class was super excited and nervous for our very last grammar challenge for the whole entire year! In case you’re wondering, the Grammar Challenge is a competition between the boys and the girls, in which we correct grammar mistakes and compete for points. This round would determine whether the girls or the boys would win after four long weeks of competition. The speakers for this week were Noemi, who was representing the girls’ team, and Johan, who was representing the boys’ team. A big round of applause for our fantastic speakers! We battled it out and at the end the girls won for the third time this school year! That meant that the girls’ team won a Subway party! Congratulations to the girls’ team and boys’ team for trying their best and doing really well.

What time of the year do the Elementary students get to have fun and play on the High school field? What is full of water, buckets, and popsicles? 5...4...3...2...1...Play Day! Every year, all the grades from kindergarten~4th grade gets to head down to the high school field for 90 minutes. The 5th grade students got an extra 15 minutes. There are tons of different stations such as: Musical buckets, tug-a-war, and relay races. Here is what some of the kids who participated in playday thought were really enjoyable: “ I like the sponge race”, “ I thought that musical buckets was a ton of fun”, and “ Out of all the things that were available at playday, my favourite station was when the classes went against each other in tug-a-war.” It seems like everyone enjoyed Play Day. However, we are in 5th grade and there is no Play Day in Middle School. This was our last Play Day and we definitely enjoyed it.

This week has been super fun, and sadly it’s over. Throughout the week we have had an awesome visit to the Middle School library, the final Grammar Challenge, and Play Day! This is the last Weekly Update of the school year which means that it is the end of the year soon. Mrs. Clayton will be moving soon. We will all miss our wonderful teacher and the students that are moving (Julia, Alyssa, and Meaghan). Good luck to them at their new school. We hope that this week week has been as enjoyable for everyone as it was for us. Good luck and have fun in 6th grade!

Where Are You?

Where in your life have you stepped outside of your comfort zone and experiences some magic?  Maybe at school or playing a sport or trying something new?  I challenge you to step out of your comfort zone and find where the magic happens!  Let us know when you've experience a bit of magic in your world!

Rock Star of the Week, Luis!

Luis' Rock Star Wordle

Who'd Have Thought?

I'm guilty of buying this product.  I never knew it was producing so much waste!  Maybe it's time for me to think about buying things that have more biodegradable packaging.  What do you think?

Vainavi and Julia's Weekly Update....

Hi, this is Julia and Vainavi here with reports about this week’s Weekly Update. This week went by so smoothly and quickly, we almost couldn’t keep track of all the things we were doing! During this week some things that stood out were Spirit Week, our Topic 13 math test, and Social Studies presentations. We know that everyone in this whole class must have some part of this week that they really enjoyed, so keep reading to see if your thoughts about this week matched ours!

Throughout the week, we had a special event going on called Spirit Week. Student Council created a quick video to tell us more about this fantastical event. Click here if you want to see it. The video was all about what event we would be doing on which days, and what to wear on that specific day. We had Color Day (Monday), Career Day (Tuesday), Earth Day (Wednesday), Character Day (Thursday), and Sports Day (Friday) during the week.

First was Color Day. We had to dress up in only one color straight from head to toe. What we mean by “head to toe” is that everything is in one color from the top of your head all the way down to your toes. It was really fun seeing people and what color they had the most in their wardrobe to wear! Some people thought that this was a free dress day and wore so many different colors. We don’t want to mention names though... Mychal. It was both of our favorite parts of the week.

The following day we had Career Day. That is when we dress up as what we want to be when we grow up. Lots of people in our class dressed up as a teacher, but there were some outfits that were more unique and those were: a lacrosse player, a mad scientist, an actress, a student (also very popular), a ninja, a vet, an ice skater, and an engineer. They were all great costumes, and it really expressed people’s spirit. We were told not to have props though some people still brought a few in. Overall it was a very fun day!

After that, it was Earth Day, a day when we dress up in green, blue, brown, in other words, colors of the earth. Another choice was that we could wear a shirt that said messages related to earth. Lots of people chose to wear green, but some wore blue as well. This was very fun, and we hoped people picked up some trash on that day!

Next was Character Day. That is when we can dress up as a person from a book, T.V. show, or movie. Surprisingly a lot of people participated with full spirit. Both of us agree that it would be hard to dress up as somebody from a book, a T.V. show, and possibly a movie. Lots of people from all over Intermediate School dressed up as Katniss, from the Hunger Games, and others dressed up as things both of us didn’t know about. It was really fun seeing what characters people love, and the way those people dressed up like. Some people in our class didn’t want to dress up, but realized that they were dressed up. What I mean is the people like Vainavi, Nate, and some others were dressed up from a book called the S.A.S. Yearbook! Thursday was really fun for a lot of people, and we would love to do this again.

And finally, we had Sports Day. That is when we can wear a jersey from a team that we could have been on, or a team that is famous from any sport. Most people wore their Fighting Fish shirts, and others also wore shirts from other sports. It was cool to see what sports people have done in their life, and also fun to see what games people have gone too. This was the last day of Spirit Week, and both of us wished it were Spirit Month instead! Maybe someday we will have Spirit Month.

On the same day of Career Day, we also had our Topic 13 math test. The unit was all about Units Of Measure and everyone seemed quite comfortable with all the conversions and steps. How it worked, was that we had to basically convert units of mass, capacity, and length. If a unit is smaller, then we would have to divide to get the answer of the unit that was bigger. And of course the opposite, if a unit were greater, we would have to multiply to find the value of the unit that was smaller. Here is a quick question to see if you know how this topic works. How many millimeters are 50 centimeters? 5...4...3...2...1... 500 millimeters! Centimeters are greater than millimeters so we would multiply in this case 10 (because there are 10 millimeters in one centimeter). Now, if we were to say what is 500 grams into kilograms are, that would be 5. Since our unit is greater, we have to divide 100 grams go into kilograms (there are 100 grams in one kilogram), so the product would be 5. Everyone did a commendable job on their test, and we wish them a best of luck for the next one they will have!

Also, throughout the week, we had Social Studies presentations going on. What each person in our class had to do was research a historical place in Singapore, and then do a presentation on that place. On Monday, our first brave and totally not scared (or were they?) boys came up and shared their presentation to the class. Declan was the first to go, and both of us agreed it would NOT be fun to go first, but somebody would have to, and that was him. Followed after Declan was Kasym. Both Declan and Kasym didn’t look scared, but even if they were, they did a GREAT job! Then, during the rest of the week, a bunch of other people went. They also did a really good job! There are still lots more people that have to go, so best of luck!

As you can see, this week was pretty fun, and it went by so quickly (probably because of Spirit Week). Now there are only three more weeks of school left (awwww)! These were the best highlights of the week. Next week Amber and Meaghan will be writing, so stay tuned. Did your favorite highlights match ours?

Kid President Returns...

Is there anything better than a Kid President video?  I think not!

Done It Again!

A HUMONGOUS THANK YOU to Greg and his thoughtful mom for making some delicious brownie treats for us to enjoy before our Puzzle test today.  They sure were tasty!

Sir Nicholas Winton...

Sir Nicholas Winton rescued and found homes for almost 700 Jewish children destined for a Nazi death camp during World War II.  This clip takes place 50 years after the rescue.  Watch to find out how they thanked him.

Good Advice..

Rock Star of the Week, Meaghan!

Meaghan's Rock Star Wordle

Goofballs!

Mr. Kimzey's Science Lab....'nuf said!