Mannequin Challenge Fun

Snoopy Squad wanted to try a Mannequin Challenge today at dismissal before our Winter Break. A little bit of careful staging and they did well- almost 30 seconds.  Happy Holidays! Have some fun!

Celebrating Holidays Around the World

Mrs. Burns ELA Class completed their Holiday Around the World presentations this week. Students chose a country they wanted to research and then pretended they had an exchange student staying with them for the holidays. How would they be able to incorporate some of their exchange student's customs and traditions? 5th Grade investigators found out! Here's what we all learned.

Holidays in Armenia By Jon

Chinese New Year By Janice

Holidays in Denmark By Alan M

Diwali By Parker

Holidays in France By Natalie

A Greek Christmas By Pari

Christmas in Greece  By Emerson

Novena in Italy  By Lauren

A Japanese Christmas By Alex L

New Zealand Christmas By Tony

Christmas in Portugal By Taylor

Sweden Holiday By Nolan

Christmas in Ukraine By Angelique

Wiglia in Poland By Talia

Hour of Code and Robots!

Mrs. Burns Amazing Math Class!! We have been celebrating Hour of Code week by working on right lines of code and programming our Ollie Sphere Robots. We will finish up with our robot programming next week.  Here is a video of one of our team's getting Ollie to make a 90 degree turn as well as some photos from all our amazing math teams. Thanks to Mrs. Weldon and Ms. Clifford for all your help!

Gas Smell at Memorial Today

5th Grade Publishing Party

5th Grade Writers in Mrs. Burns' ELA Class got to celebrate their finished narrative stories by toasting all the authors with some champagne (O.K. its was sparking water but we pretended). All the authors have worked very hard on revising and editing their stories to be able to tell you about a moment in their lives they will always remember.  Students then got to walk around the room and read a lot of stories. You can read some of our narrative stories at this link :Kidblog

Congrats Authors!

Solar System Model

Room 232 Snoopy Squad built a scale model of the solar system on the field. The model did not represent size, shape, or orbit but did show distance.

Turkey Trot ! Yeah!

Memorial's Turkey Trot Run Was Last Wednesday.  Many students took the challenge and ran the mile.
Thanks to Ms. Bannon and Mr. Peterson for organizing this event. Here are some of the highlights from our student photographers, Julia & Talia.

We Are Thankful!

5th Graders Gave " We Are Thankful" Speeches for their family members yesterday. They all worked so hard on writing their speeches and practicing their public speaking skills. A great job done by all!

For family members who could not join us yesterday, click below to see your child's speech.

Happy Thanksgiving from the Snoopy Squad!

BFG Global Read Aloud Book Culminating Project: Dream Jars!

Students today in Mrs. Burns ELA class who have recently  finished our Global Read Aloud of the book BFG (Big Friendly Giant ) by Ronald Dahl got to present their Dream Jars.  Students painted their Dream Jar, wrote a dream to put inside using lots of BFG's special words so they could write their dream from the Point of View of the Giant. They even built me a bookcase in the back of our room to showcase all these wonderful jars. Today they did a Gallery Walk of all the Dream Jars and got to read all these amazing dreams. Great job! ( A BIG thank you to Mrs. York for lending us all the paint and brushes :) 

Our Cultural Identity Quilt is Finally Finished!

The last of my 5th Grade Friends finished up their Cultural Identity Quilt Square today and we were able to put it together. Great Job Snoopy Squad!

StarLab!

Snoopy Squad does StarLab. Mr. Musselman came and taught a lesson about how the stars move in the sky.

Fifth Grade Families Are Invited...

Mystery Skype- for the GRA

Mrs. Burns ELA class had a Mystery Skype with Mrs. Schultz at the Taylor Middle School in Columbia, PA today.  The students after guessing the class locations, talked about their town, schools, and of course the book the BFG.

Photos by Desmond M.

Kahoot Champions!

Look at who are our Kahoot Champions were today when our class was reviewing our First Americans: Maya, Aztecs and Incas in Social Studies. Great job Snoopy Squad members.

GRA Skype Book Talk Today

Mrs. Lapage's 4th Grade Class at the Bellview Public School in Brantford, Ontario got to do a Google Hangout with Mrs. Burns ELA Class to discuss the Global Read Aloud book BFG today. We are loving this book!

Harmless Holders Design Challenge

The Mission: to invent a way to safely carry 6 full-size soda cans without using plastic or other harmful materials to animals and the environment. These 5th graders designed their "harmless holders" from eco-friendly materials. Their design was to be easy to use.  Mr. Musselman was able to come by and hear their presentations today. Good job to all design teams!