500 Books to Read       By Audrey Gay

      Miss Miller’s AM class has a goal; their goal is to read 500 books by the end of the year.  Right now they are in their 4^th week of the third quarter and have read 173 books will they make it I’m going to interview a couple children in the Am class to see what they think.

This is McKenna Silver, she will answer a few questions.

Question: How do you feel about the goal? Is it too big, to small?

McKenna: I think it’s little over I mean there are only 17 kids in this class, and we’re in 5^th grade we’re reading harry potter books, they are pretty big.

Question: What about the class do you know how many kids actually like to read and are actually trying to contribute?

 McKenna: I think about a third of the class is trying to contribute, I also think not a lot of kids like to read and some people are just cheating themselves.

Question: Do you think the class is going to make it to their goal by the end of the year, if not how much do you think they will read?

McKenna: no I don’t think we will complete it, I also think we will only read 250.

Based on what she said she thinks we chose a goal that was too high because not that many people in are class are really committed, or don’t read that fast.

I think that if we keep reading we could read as much as we need to and that we should read for the fun of it, but still count the books.

It’s Pancake/Fraction time!!!!!

It’s fraction time. Everyone uses pies or pizzas to do fractions but we did something better we made pancakes. Pancakes are fun for everyone. How would pancakes help with fractions we asked? But we learned more about fractions then we thought. We learned that fractions help you with everything. You can do 38 mini pancakes. We have 17 people in our class and we all had two pancakes. We figured out that if we have pancake mix and it makes 20 pancakes that you can make one hundred mini pancakes. We got to see them cook. They got twice as big as they were when we poured them on. We had a worksheet that had fraction related questions like if you had a recipe that called for 5 cups how many ounces would you have. So next time you do fractions then use pancakes instead of pie or pizza.

by Mariah Cox
photo: Jay enjoying his fractional pancakes
Special Thanks to Mrs. Mitchell for the great lesson inspiration! Love You - Mean it!

Wonderous Word Wall

Recently we started a word wall on our back door. It shows words that we don’t know and then on the back it shows the definition. If we are reading and see a word that we do not know, we tell Ms. Miller and she will write it on a little strip of paper. Whoever found the word would get to look it up in the dictionary and write the definition on the back. The next day in class we would discuss the word and the definition then hang it up on the word wall. Some words we found so far are: painstakingly, which means taking great pains; very careful; diligent, tumultuous, which means confusedly or violently agitated, and cantankerous, which means a trouble maker bad-tempered, but those are only a few.

Submitted by: Ella Orgain