Have you ever had a time where you are going to a new school? This year I am going to 6th grade at Russell Middle School. Today we had a mixed up and crazy day but a fun one. Let me tell you about this exquisite day.

Okay, so when we first came in the classroom we still had to have our regular fantastic day until 11:25. So when we got into the awesome classroom of Miss Everts, we had to do our typical morning work. Today it was a spelling sheet. I think the spelling sheet was to prep us up for our spelling test that we had at 9:00. I think I got 100% on it because the only time I have ever gotten a 90% is when I stumbled on the word “buffalo”.

Next, we did poetry. I have always loved poetry. Okay so we started this new poetry book on Monday. Today we worked on list poems and three word form poems. After everyone was done with the poems we went into News Bowl. News Bowl is where the teacher asks you questions about the news.

Then, we went to gym. In gym today we ran the dreaded pacer. The pacer is a running test. We run back and forth, back and forth. It gets tiring after a while. Lastly, before we went to Russell we went into squirt (silent, quiet, uninterrupted, informational reading time). Then at 11:25 we got ready to go and visit Russell Middle School. Luckily it was not raining so we walked to Russell.

At Russell, first we had lunch. The lunch was awesome. We got pizza, like Pizza Hut pizza, not like the pizza we have at Willowdale School. The Russell pizza was better by 100%! Then we went into small little touring groups. We saw the math room, the science and social studies rooms, the music and gym areas, the industrial room, and the cooking and sewing rooms, and the lockers. Luckily the lockers are smaller than we are so we can’t get shoved into one. I feel a lot better now!

Finally, we had to leave Russell and walk back to Willowdale. I am so exited for next year. Well that was my exquisite day.

Hi, I'm Niki, but you already knew that. On Thursday mornings, I usually have a TFK worksheet. But I finished my TFK worksheet in a snap. Mornings aren't usually as exciting as the rest of the day.

Our day is going to be kind of messed up because we had a walk for diabetes, so right now I'm going to math. During math all I really did was work on a study guide for the Chapter 8 test. The study guide was mostly about fractions.

When I got back from math, we had SQUIRT. I'm reading the book New Moon by Stephanie Meyer. It has 22 chapters, but it's still a good book. I think it's a good book because it is very exciting.

It's time for music. During music, we got to play lots of different instruments. My favorite was probably the glockenshpeal.

When I got back from music, we went for the Walk for Diabetes. We walked down to Zorinsky Lake and even got to play on a playground. I played tag with my friends Naomi, Kendra, Stefanie, Lindsey and Yumna.

After the walk, we wrote down some Social Studies notes about the American Revolution. Then we made a timeline about the American Revolution.

Then we had lunch. I sat with Naomi, Kendra, Stefanie, Celeste and Lindsey. We talked and had a normal lunch. Then at recess we sat on a bench and thought of ghost stories. It was pretty windy outside!

When I got back from recess, I grabbed my book and accordion file and went to reading. During reading, we reread the story for the week and did a vocabulary worksheet. Then we did a word ladder and watched a couple Schoolhouse Rock videos.

Then I got a few notes for my parents and I filled out my planner. It looks like our time is up. I hope to write to you again soon.

Hello! I'm here to update you about what happened today in Ms. Everts' 5th grade class. Today wasn't a normal day. We had a field trip the whole school day, even longer (we got back after school ended!) We went to Water Works at Schramm Park. We did many exciting events.

First, we went to the aquarium. They had a huge catfish that was probably 100 pounds. Also, there was a humongous snapping turtle that was 70 years old. There wasn't just fish there; there were also reptiles and animal hides. Ms. Everts had McKenna, Katherine, and me take a picture holding up some hides. It was fun to see all the different types of animals!

Next, we went canoeing. At first it was kind of scary. The canoe was rocking, but once we got the hang of it, it was smooth sailing. Once someone bumped into us and almost tipped our canoe. On the bright side the water was only about 4 feet deep. While we were canoeing we saw some ducks.

After that we did Pollution Solution. It talked about the different types of pollution involving water. For it there was a little, model town. In the town there was a farm, houses, a factory, a golf course, and a sewer sanitation center. The different things that polluted the water were dirt, oil, pesticides, and fertilizer.

When we were finished with that we walked up a gigantic hill to get to the picnic area. I was happy that there weren't any bees around. During our eating time Ms. Everts took pictures of different groups of people and a class picture.

Then, we did a water cycle game. First, you start at a place where water is held. Then, you roll the die to find out where you're going next and repeat. It taught us that we still have the same amount of water as before.

Next came learning about trees. We learned that if you take a bag and put it over a branch the tree's water would come out into the bag. We talked about the different layer of the tree.

Last, we learned how Metropolitan Utility District (MUD) cleans our water. First they have the big particles settle to the bottom. Then, they filter it. After that they clean it. We did a test to see how many Nitrates were in the different glasses of water. What you do is stick a special stick in the water, and it will change colors. The darker the pink it was, the more Nitrates.

This day was very fun and unusual. I can't wait for our next field trip.

So the day was a normal day, right? “No, not by a long shot.” I, as it just so happened to be, had roving reporter.

The day started with a spelling sheet on my desk. That was a cheerful start to the day, and talk about a grand slam! Anyway, the worksheet was on suffixes.

Next, we have social studies. Today we learned about the victory at Yorktown in the revolutionary war. We also learned about the Treaty to Paris and how that truly put an end to the revolutionary war. Our homework was a small peace of paper to put a picture on and a bigger peace of paper to put a small paragraph on. They were attached to each other. We each got subjects and I got the Declaration of Independence.

After that, we have gym, otherwise known as PE! We had to run the mile. My time was 13 min. and 51 sec. You see I’m just not a physical person. So after gym we had squirt. In squirt I read HALO: THE FALL OF REACH.

Following squirt, we had math. In math we learned multiplying fractions by whole numbers and dividing whole numbers by fractions. As an in class project Mrs. Beard had us make posters for these concepts. My partner was Joe. We also got a worksheet with 25 problems on it.

We had an early lunch today. Our regular lunch is at 12:55, but we traded lunch because of 2nd gradtesting schedule. At lunch we played ninja (a strategic game) then we got extra recess and repeated the process.

In reading we read our new story, King Midas and the Golden Touch. Then we talked about vocabulary words. (THAT WAS BORING!!!!!) “Then to our dissatisfaction we got, yet, another worksheet.” – Quoted from my sister.

To end the day we got 8 assignments and had a wonderful afternoon!
(Sarcasm… ha…ha…ha.)

Today was one of the best days yet! If you keep reading about my day then I will assure you that you will know why today was such a great day.

Today in spelling my class had our spelling pre-test. A pre-test is a test you have on Monday to see what words you have on your big spelling test on Friday.

In social studies we read about the colonist and how they had to get ready for battle. But as we read America should not have won against the British because the British had better weapons, more experience, more money to pay for the things they needed like clothes, shoes, food, etc. Plus the British had lots more training then the Colonist had.

In math my class learned how to divide whole numbers into fractions. It is really quite simple. Let’s just say that we were dividing 14 divided by one seventh. You would do 14x7=98 then you would do 98x1. So the answer to 14 divided by one seventh is 98.

Today in reading my class took our reading test on the short story called The Mystery of St. Matthews Island. When you got done with your test our reading teacher said we could read a short story about vegetables. Once everyone was done with their test she said that we were going to check our reading test papers. When our tests were all corrected we watched a movie about surviving in a tundra.

Also today was John’s birthday. He gave each and every person a Krispy Kream doughnut. They were all glazed and they were all yummy!

So as you can see this was a really great day. My favorite part of the day was when I ate my glazed doughnut! Have a good day!

Hi, I’m going to tell you about my day at school. To start off I check in for lunch and do the spelling worksheet on my desk as usual. I finish it before 9:00. Since today is Friday we have to take the spelling test.

After the spelling test we went into Social Studies. In Social Studies we read a few pages out of the book and had a worksheet about women and their husband’s in the war.

In Math we graded our worksheet from last night. Luckily we did not get any homework! That is all we did in math.

At 10:25 we went to gym. In gym we went outside and ran 9 laps around the playground. When we finished running we went back inside and played baseball with a partner.

Next was silent, quiet, uninterrupted, independent, reading, time. This means S.Q.U.I.R.T. The book I’m reading is The Old Willis Place. When squirt was finished we rotated into Reading.

In reading we read The Mystery of Saint Matthew Island the story is exciting. For homework we had to write five test questions, I finished it in class. Also we had a little extra reading time.

My stomach is grumbling that must mean it’s time for lunch. Well it is finally! For lunch I had a Chicken Patty Sandwich. This was delicious. At recess I played kickball with my friends.

Since today was Law Day, we did a play about Law Day. It was about Snow White. That took up most of our day.

To top it off we got to have a little extra recess. For the last fifteen minutes of the day.
Finally time to go home and enjoy the weekend of no school. BRIING BRIING! `

What a wonderful Thursday isn’t it? Today I was roving reporter and I was exited! We had a sub for all 3 classes. Funny, huh. We also had a field trip to Lakeside retirement home, but that was only for swing choir. I thought it was very fun. For music we had recess. I know weird, but we were suppose to make up our gym time because we need exercise.

In S.S we had a sub, of course. Anyway we read some pages in our book. We also looked at this picture. I liked it, but it was in our book. We wrote notes and had a worksheet, which was a review over everything. For me it was easy.

Math we had a sub. We had a lesson about multiplying mix numbers. We also had a worksheet and the sub checked the worksheets as we worked.

In reading, we read a story called the Mystery of Saint Mathew Island. After the story ended, we talked about the mysteries in the story. After that we were given a vocabulary worksheet to work on.

To conclude the day, we sat in the room and had free time, but what I want to tell you the most is that I had a fun time on Thursday. I hope you enjoyed my roving report. Thank you for listening and goodbye.

Sadly we are back to school no more baseball games or fun days this week, but anyway this is what we did today.

First we read our TIME FOR KIDS [TFK] pamphlet. The topics this week were the volcano in Iceland, the tragedy in Poland, and the kid who is 13 and already has a college scholarship to be a quarterback for COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM. Then at 9:00 we started to walk down to the gym for our 4th and 5th grade assembly. We meet a man named Bruce. He is an author, photographer, and a lot of other things. He was telling us to pursue our dreams no matter how big they might be. He also talked about his trip to southern México.

Next, we have social studies. We read about the Declaration of Independence. Then we did a two-sided worksheet on understanding what each of the five people said who wrote the Declaration of Independence. On the other side was agree or disagree questions like - the 2nd continental congress met in the southern colonies? Agree or disagree? Than we had to tell why we agreed or disagreed with the statements.

Then we went to math. In math the first thing we did was watch a video about three kids and one bird-thing trying to solve a riddle using fractions. Finally we finished math with a worksheet on multiplying fractions.

In reading today we checked our contraction/Earth Day word page. Following that we completed a worksheet on pronouns, and then we checked it.

Finally, we reached the end of the school day and in a little bit we get to go home!!!

Go Royals!!! Well not exactly. You see, I stayed at school because safety patrol got to go there for all the safety protection they gave to Willowdale. The few people who stayed at Willowdale had an even better time!

Our day started by helping Mrs. Yee’s kindergarten class. We corrected their spelling and math. They did a great job! I read with a kid named Ty. After that we went to Mrs. Huryta to check the kid’s spelling lists. Also I read with another kid.

After the 5th graders were done helping, we played games while the 3rd graders took a reading test. I played Boggle with Will. It was hard to get the pieces into their spots in Boggle.

We got lost on the way to Mrs. Avery’s classroom. They showed us where they were, and we went back to Mrs. Avery’s class. In that class, 1st graders showed us a story they had. They told us their stories and wrote them down on a piece of paper.

Next came the computer lab came after Mrs. Avery’s class. In the lab, Brandon, Jacob, Will, and I played music on Garage Band. Jacob and I both made up piano songs. Jacob’s song had a funny twist. Mine was hard to play for anyone but me. We stayed there for an hour until lunch rolled in.

Those of us kids who didn’t go to the Royals game got the whole room to ourselves. Recess was amazing because the playground was OURS!

We went to Miss. Fidler’s class after lunch and recess. We helped her class with four science experiments. When we were done with the experiments, it was time for 2nd grade recess and 5th grade extra recess.

After the extra recess, the kids from the Royals game came back. They thought we had a bad day, but boy were they wrong! They figured out we had a blast. Those who went to the game said the Royals lost. So, we had a great day overall!

Oh, joy it's Monday. Time to get up early. When I got to school there was a worksheet. After that we had a spelling pretest. Oh it’s guidance time. For guidance, we went to the computer lab. We listed things about ourselves. Then we printed it. Next up is bus evacuation.

The bus ladies talked to us about bus safety then we jumped off the bus to 'safety.' Going inside now. Now we get to stand on risers, sing, and play an instrument. Why? We are practicing for our 5th grade concert. We perform for the school today.

Math is next. Each class only had 25 min., so we actually only graded our homework. Reading, that's next. We just did our 3-minute read, and read.

After lunch/recess, we had our concert! First the choir, then band, and now the whole 5th grade!

Now we’re back in the classroom, and we are all chatty but eventually, we went into study hall. Time to go home and rest because I have a baseball game tomorrow!

First when we come in we check in for lunch. We have a spelling worksheet on our desk to work on. We have from 8:35 to 9:00 to work on any homework that is not done or work on our spelling worksheet.

Then we have two tests. One is a spelling test, and the other is a word master test. Word masters are words that are not words that you use in every day life. Like the word rout, which is a noun, that means an over whelming defeat. First, we took the spelling test and then we took the word masters test.

After we took those tests we went into science. In science we watched a movie about the wars in the American Revolution. It was very interesting. After we watched the movie we had two worksheets to work on. One was on the wars in the northern part of the 13 colonies and the other one was on the wars in the middle colonies.

Next we went to music to practice our songs for our musical on Tuesday. The 5th grade practiced for one whole hour. Wow!

Since our music practice was one hour we had to go right to math. In math today we did a spiral review. We took notes on multiplying fractions by whole numbers. At the end of math our teacher gave us a two-sided worksheet.

After math we have lunch and lunch recess. Today our recess was outside.

Next, we have reading. We checked our worksheet from Wednesday. After the worksheet we checked a letter that had texting slang, like cu l8r. Then at the end of reading our teacher gave us a worksheet on alphabet time and conjunctions.

Finally, it’s the end of the day. The last 30 minutes we get to work on our homework. We went to all of our classes, science, music, math, and reading and went to lunch! Seven hours and five minutes of school is like one year, but my day was the most exciting day ever!

Happy Earth Day! Hi, I am going to tell you about our day today. Today we were going bowling, but before we left we had to work hard to get our tasks done. When we came in to the classroom we had a worksheet that had two puzzles. One was a word search and the other one you had to make as many words as you could with the letters in Earth Day. We had special guests coming at 9:00.

At 9:00 we went into one classroom and middle school students came and talked to us about the middle school we are going to! We split up into groups and the middle school students talked to us about the periods, food, lockers, teachers, and any other questions we had. They were really helpful.

It was almost time for our bowling trip, but not yet, so we went into the classroom and did a word master game. Then we went to music with the whole fifth grade and practiced for our fifth grade spring concert. We got back and had our silent reading time, which we call SQUIRT! Only 20 minutes until our field trip!!!!!!!

Finally it was time. We all lined up and went out to the bus and we drove down. It was a fun ride. My friends and I were taking pictures! ☺ We finally got there and went to our lanes. In my group there was Katherine, Macy, Lane, and I. I had so much fun! I am not much of a bowler, but I did well. I got a strike, a spare and another strike in a row! Lane and I were bouncing off the walls! At first it was normal bowling, but then they turned off the lights and turned on the disco balls and crazy lights! Before we knew it, it was 2:30 and time to leave. When we got back we got a Time for Kids worksheet. Then when we finished that we had study hall and did NewsBowl, which is where we have to pick a topic, like national news, world news, sports, arts and entertainment, etc. We packed up and went home. What a day! I had fun.

Hey today I am going to tell you about my very own day at Willowdale Elementary. Most days are the same, but this day is much, much different.

The day started out with a little worksheet we had on our desk, and it was nothing big but I didn’t get done until the end of the day.

After that we had to play this game about word masters. We had little cards that say a word and a definition. Let me say one thing, it is not the easiest game in the world, but after playing it a few times it gets easier.

Now comes a thing that I really enjoy doing, it is music rehearsal. I like to sing because it is something I am really, really good at. We started by just trying to get in the right spots and that took us in different directions. After we got in our spots it was about 11:00, and we only had about 20 minutes left of practice. The rest of it was just singing and playing the recorders, and I had a good time.

Then we went and got on the bus. Today we went bowling, and my friends and I had a blast. We bowled for a little bit then we ate and then we went and bowled and danced a lot. Like I mean we danced more than we bowled. Everything was so much fun until it was time to go. That was boring but I got over it. It’``s true I did.

Then it was the end of the day and we all went home and had great evening.

Today I thought was another ordinary day and it was. When I got to school it was raining. I got my Cello out of my mom’s car and ran inside. The bell rang and hurried quickly down the hall, hung my backpack up, and went to my classroom. When I got in the board said to check in and have my planner out. There was a Time for Kids magazine on our desks to read for the morning. Then it was almost time for social studies, but then I had to go to math Olympiad, that is an advanced math group.

I missed social studies, but someone filled me in on the 2nd Continental Congress and the battle at Bunker Hill. I still had to copy down all the notes. In Math Olympiad the subject we’re doing is learning more about the G.P.S. and how they work. I still like calling them Global Positioning Systems. I think it was much more fun.

In math we did multiplying fractions with whole numbers. When we actually got in we did a math warm up to get our brains thinking. The good thing is that we just starting learning about that subject so we don’t have any homework. I had to leave a little early because of Orchestra. I left for orchestra at ten forty-five.

When orchestra got over we were late for reading, but we got almost all of the assignment done. The assignment was to do these analogy houses like synonyms and part to whole. I’m just about done with mine.

At of the day I packed up and waited to go then the bell rang. We got out at two o’clock because it was a Wednesday. I got home and started typing this Roving Reporter.

Hi, I’m Kelvin. I’ll be your roving reporter for the day. I was quite late for the day. In the morning we did a worksheet about what makes you happy like what sound makes you happy. Then we went to social studies. In social studies we made a chain from strips we filled out yesterday. The strips were about the Revolutionary War.

In math we checked yesterday’s worksheet about subtracting mixed fractions. Then we reviewed game that we had learned a few days ago. It's like blackjack, but we used fractions and we tried to get to two instead of 21. My partner was Hunter. We were against McKenna and Sidney. After the game we had to clean up, and we learned how to estimate fractions then to add or subtract them. Then we got a worksheet about estimating fractions. It was two sided.

In reading class we took our second part of our reading test. It was computerized. It had a lot of questions. When we were done we went to the couch and read a book, while waiting for others to finish. We could chew gum during the ELO.

Then we went to fill out our planners. We had time to work on homework. I read a book. Finally, we went to lunch. At lunch I had pizza sticks. Then we went recess. At recess I played tag with a lot of people. I went to swing after I played tag. The whistle blew. The teachers let us play for another 40 minutes. Then we had more time to study called study hall. Finally, we went to practice for our fifth grade concert. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing that the bell. Well good-bye for now!