uess what kind of day it was on Friday! It was Willowdale Spirit Day!
On Willowdale Spirit Day you’re suppose to dress up in red, white, and blue or Willowdale clothes. We dress up in red, white, blue because those are our school colors and the nation’s colors. Also, if you dressed up for it you would have to pay a quarter because we are raising money for the United Way. And whoever's class makes the most money gets a secret prize. Also in our class if you pay a quarter you get a ticket.
Willowdale Spirit Day was the last day of our school Spirit Week. Spirit week was a week of school that we dressed up to raise money for the United Way. A lot of people did today.
Dressing up was most fun thing we did on Friday!

Jenny said, “I think it was fun and made our day better.” Well, you’re probably wondering what was fun and made our day better? Buddies! To begin with, this year we get First Grade students as our buddies. Buddies are when two classes from different grades get together and read, do activities, or worksheets. By the end of the year we are good friends.
Today with our buddies we did a Halloween activity and read. First we gave them frightening Halloween cards we made for them to introduce ourselves. Then, every person got a bag of Sweet Tart candy bones and a worksheet. The worksheet had math problems on it. We had to divide the bones into different sections. There were skulls and leg bones. After we divided them we had to do addition problems with them. Then came the best part--we got to eat the bones! Then we read spooky books like Georgie’s Halloween..
Today we had a super day with our buddies. From the candy to the books to getting to know our First Grade Buddies.

What is the number one and three killer of all American's?
The answer is: heart disease and stroke.
Today was a special day for our school. We participated in the Jump Rope for Heart. When we got outside, our gym teacher, Mrs. Lindeman had us jump rope with the kindergartners. After 45 minutes of jumping, the kindergartners had to go inside. We (the 5th graders) stayed and jumped for another 45 minutes. We were hot and sweaty when we got done.
All the money that we raise will be contributed to the American Heart Association.
Thank you to all you jumpy Willowdale Wildcats for your participation and donations!

Ahhh! Everyone has crazy and wacky hair! Why? Was it Crazy Hair/Hat Day here at Willowdale?
Here at school some people had their hair standing up every where, others had total frizz, and some even colored it in some funky sort of way! Some hair was purple and some was painted yellow. Everyone's hair was so cool.
Some people had fun hats. Some people wore their Cat in the Hat hats and other types too.
For the whole week we dress up differently and today just happens to be Crazy Hair/Hat Day. Every student that participates has to pay a quarter to dress up. We are raising money for the less fortunate and the United Way.
“It is a fun way to raise money for a good cause,” stated Lindsay.
Crazy hair day was so much fun!
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Today we were tired because it was the first day of the week, we were in our comfortable, soft pajamas, and we had just come back from our week long, fantastic break.
The day was like it always was until we got to “Super Social Studies!” We started out by filling out a sheet answering questions about explorers like how they got paid, why they explorered and who we knew that was an explorer. Then we read from the book. As were were reading we were learning about explorers through history.
Soon Mrs. Anderson came in. She talked to us about the Wax Museum project we are going to be doing.She also talked about how each person in our class is going to study about one explorer, read facts about them, then dress up like them for the museum.
Today our class learned so much in 1 hour of Social Studies. It started out just like an ordinary day today, except we were much more comfortable, got excited to learn and will soon become someone else from long ago!

“RESPECT” we all sang in our most amazing voices! Today, the day before our week long break, we had music and we continued to get ready for our musical. The musical is called, “You and Me.”
Kaitlyn said,” It is a great play with awesome actions!” I think that she is 100% correct!
I think that we are going to have as much fun performing it as the people do watching it. Omar is probably the person who is into the music and actions the most!
Our play is about treating people the way you want to be treated. I hope you enjoy the musical as much as I think you will!

Surprise! Surprise! Our class got a special surprise visit from Ms. Sanborn's family at the end of the day.
To be more specific, Ms. Sanborn's brother, mother, niece, and nephew from New Hampshire came to visit and wanted to see where she worked thirty minutes before school got out, wow! Lucky us! Eva and Max (her 2 and half year old niece and four month year old nephew) They were the center of everyone's attention.
Eva painted a pretty picture with our watercolor paints while Max was just sitting down, hanging out, laughing at the people talking to him. What a giggly, happy baby. All of the sudden, Eva wanted some Cheetos that everyone was happy to get for her. Before long it was 3:25 and time to clean up, then go back to sit at our desks for a couple of minutes which gave us time just to watch Max and Eva while we got ready to go home. Eva was in Ms. Sanborn's big blue chair when the bell rang, which was the absolute cutest. Everyone waved good-bye to Eva and Max, but then someone asked for a hug from Eva! It was adorable and then everyone had to have a hug. While some people lined up to go home, others stayed to adore them both.
Kaitlyn laughed, "I thought it was fun and exciting to meet Ms. Sanborn's family."
It was an adorable afternoon filled with two cute little kids. We will all regret going home before Ms. Sanborn's family did. It was a fantastic way to end a day.

“Turn your math journal to pages 61-62 and switch journals.”, said Ms.Sanborn. Today we corrected pages 61-62. I missed 1 on page 62. But it was okay. My partner Alex helped me in the pages and I helped him.
Next we did pages 61-66. I think I did okay on those pages.I don't know for sure yet because we are grading those pages tomorrow. So now you know what we did in math today and one more thing do the best you can in math.

Say cheese! Today the whole school had picture day.
Days and days before Ms. Sanborn kept telling us we had to look good today, over and over again.
Our class took pictures around 10:25, but we watched and heard everyone else all morning long. We didn’t take the whole class picture we only took singles, which meant we went into the empty 5th grade room to take them.
We lined up and held our picture envelopes. The picture man called each one of us up, by the wrong name of course, sat us down, turned us to the side, made us smile and sent us back to the room, which was next door.
We then continued working while Ms. S called us over to the couch to take another photo. She said it was because it was the only day we looked good. Check it out on our web page to see if you agree with her.

“Ahhh man, a science test, but at least I knew it was coming!”
This science test was about the different types of cells and their parts. All of the questions were multiple choice. That's a little bit about our science and I'm going to tell you more.
We took the test at 2:30pm; it lasted until 3:00pm. Ms. Sanborn even let us use our science books and Units notebook! That was awesome! That was a very kind thing of Ms. Sanborn to do. I hope everyone used those two materials when they got stuck on a question.
I asked Erin what she thought of the test and she said, "It was pretty easy, but there were some pretty tough ones that I stumbled on, like question fourteen so I was real excited when I got to the tricky questions because I could use my science book and units notebook.”
Now you know what we did in science, all about our science test, when we took it, and how difficult it was.

Who had the most? Who had the least? Who guessed the most right? Today all of Ms. Sanborn's Students that brought a jar for estimation got to guess how many items were in everybody else's containers. The estimation jars were part of their math unit which was all about estimation.
Ms. Sanborn had put all of the containers near the edge of a long table then put a number in front of every jar. There were 23 total containers, and two people brought candy corn, including me. The other containers had many different things to guess, such as cotton balls, Runts, sour Skittles, Marshmallows with a Hershey's kiss in between them, sour Warheads, and Ms. Sanborn even put in a container that had a bunch of different types of candy in it. Some were really difficult, some were easy, I think. We will find out when we go over the answers.
This is the best thing that happened at school on Friday, and I know a lot of people had fun doing it.

Today, like always, Ms. Sanborn was very nice. Today, though it was because she let us pick our own math buddy to study with for the big math test tomorrow. Everyone hurried and picked their friends and so I chose Omar.
To practice we wrote math facts, did multiplication problems like 26 x 35 =’s? Well, it is 910. We also rounded and practiced adding and subtracting with decimals all on our white dry erase boards. Omar and I also did Math Ace, an application on our palms.
Math Ace is a math game that asks you math problems. We decided that when one of us got an answer right, we got to put an X or an O on the Tic Tac Toe application on the other person’s palm.
We did all this because we have a Unit 2 Math Test tomorrow.

All the grades walked outside to line up for the all school Character Counts Picture. There was the Rocking Red Kindergarten, Outstanding Orange 1st, Yelling Yellow 2nd, Blazing Blue 3rd, Green Machine 4th, and of course Powerful Purple 5th. We were all wearing our grade level tye dye t-shirts for our Character Counts picture.
Mitch said, "this is different" and he was right. We didn't do our regular rainbow like we've done for the last couple years, instead we did a starburst. The burst had over 400 people can you believe that! Take a look on the front page of the Willowdale webpage.
Our kick off was superb.

Today in science we began our Sketchy project. Sketchy is like a cartoon that you make yourself on your Palm. Ms Sanborn let us do an amazing cartoon about the different parts of a plant cell.
At first the evens were going to do a different cell, but there were problems with the program and some of our Palms. Some of words were getting cut off the screen and the even numbered kids couldn't find anything about animal cells.
She finally said that everyone could do plant cells in Sketchy. The delay slowed us down, but didn’t stop us."
This is aggravating,” said Brandon. That’s my story for our Sketchy cartoon in science. Goodbye for now I’m going to add a cell wall to mine.

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Welcome to Ochestra! I'm Jenny. Orchestra is fun just ask Claire! Before we get started we must tune our instruments. Our orchestra teacher Mrs. Roland does that. Isn't she nice?
Today we played my favorite song “The French Folk Song.” Ceara suggests reviewing “Let's read "G" "C" "B" and "A".”
Mrs. Roland is all over that. Do we have the test today wondered Clare? Mrs. Roland replied by saying, “DON DON DON, no,” surprisingly.
I thought we could do “Sailor’s Song.” A sigh of relief came out of everybody. “Oh no!” Cried Francisco because it was time to go.
“Just don't let them in all right?”
“All right I won’t let them in.”
Thank goodness because we still had to get packed up.
That was our exciting time in Orchestra.

Hello my name is Caeden, the Roving Reporter for today. We took an extremely hard science test on today. We had questions like do conifers have leaves and are they vascular.
The test was over the Life Science chapter we studied, Chapter 1, pages 1-31. The pages informed us about plants, animals, arthropods, arachnids, protists, archeobacteria, and all the other kingdoms and phylums.
I think that the writing questions were the hardest becuase you really had to think.
This is your Roving Reporter signing off.

How many of you are baseball fans? Today, we studied for our reading test tomorrow about Roberto Clemente, a VERY famous baseball player. Roberto played on the Pittsburgh Pirates. The story said he didn’t play many games one season because he was either sick or hurt. But that same season Clemente turned out to get his 3000th hit on September 30th, 1972. He was just the 11th baseball player to get 3000 hits. He was one of the first Latin Americans to be put in the Hall of Fame. He died that same year he got 3000 hits when his plane crashed into the ocean. His body was never found. He was 38 when he died.
As we studied Ms. Sanborn asked us, "What questions do you think will be on the test tomorrow?" A question someone thought might be on there was, when was he born? The answer is 1934. Another one might be; how did he die? Answer: A plane crash on his way to help earthquake victims.
Roberto was one of the first baseball players from the Dominican Republic and is remembered for helping people a lot whether they were poor, homeless, or just had something bad happen to their city, country, home, or family like the earthquake in Nicaragua.
For all the people who really like baseball and know a lot about Roberto Clemente will think this test is not hard!