A Fun Week

This week we are going to have guest readers each morning. We are finishing reading The Sign of the Beaver so we get to watch the movie! We have been working on our reading fair projects in class and creating some Native American masterpieces. Ask your child about the fun symbolism project we made out of model magic! Check out our class webpage at Teacherweb.com to find out vocabulary words and homework assignments! Weasel will be back from Disneyworld Tuesday so maybe Laura will bring us some pictures of his trip to post on our blog!

I can no longer access our blog from school! They periodically block sites that aren't educational. So I will try to load the recent slideshows that I have e-mailed this weekend and post them on our page. We had such a fun week. We created Native American molas, learned about irregular and regular verbs and played "Who Wants to Sit in the Teacher's Chair?". We have famous author, Bobby Norfolk, visiting MSE this Monday. He is always entertaining and the kids will love hearing his stories. Have a great weekend and check out my other webpage at Teacherweb.com to see next week's spelling and vocabulary words.

School Picture Day

Today the kids have been so excited about picture day! We read a silly story called School Picture Day and also visited the library. Being a fifth grade teacher allows you to hear some great lines "out of the mouths of babes". Here are a few:
Student: Mrs. North- you are so pretty.
Mrs. North: Why, thank you!
Student: You look just like the dog on the Taco Bell commercial because he has orange hair and eyes that bug out too.

Student: I am turning into a new leaf.
Mrs. North: That's over. You are turning over a new leaf.
Student: Where is it?

Student: Is that an ice cream cone that the Statue of Liberty is holding?
Student: Does Bill Cosby sing "White Christmas"?

Modern Comforts

Today the big topic in class was modern comforts. In our new book, The Sign of the Beaver, the main character is twelve years old but able to take care of himself for seven weeks in the wilderness alone. After much discussion about how I rely on air conditioning, TV, my cell phone and my car, the kids came to the same general consensus- Mrs. North is a wimp. You know what? They are exactly right. I am signing off to go sit on the couch and watch some TV.