Welcome to our fifth grade blog page! Our year is passing faster every week. We have about 16 Mondays left for this year.

Today we are working on Snowman Construction Company. The students are drawing snowmen. They have a list of materials with prices and weight. The Snowman can only cost $25 and weigh only 50 pounds. The Snowmen will be displayed out in the hall.

March 30 will be Open House Night. The students will have work displayed in the hall for parents to see.

Reading TAKS takes place on Tuesday, March 3, 2009.

Math TAKS takes place on Tuesday, April 7, 2009.

Science TAKS takes place on Thursday, April 30, 2009

We are preparing for all of these tests, in the classroom, in tutorials, and some students working at home.

RABBITS, RABBITS, AND MORE RABBITS! HOW MANY RABBITS ARE THERE? WHEN YOU KNOW, KEEP IT TO YOURSELF AND ONLY TELL MRS. HAWKINS!!!

We have computer lab once a week in our math class. The students are working very hard on Apangea Learning. This is a math program that lets them work math problems and use the laptops in our math room. The students gets points for their hard work and can win prizes. Students can also work on Apangea at home on their home computers.

Let us know how you like Apangea Learning Lab!

Do you want to wear uniforms to school? Are you for it? Are you against it? What colors would you consider? What styles? What shoes?

What do you think about math? Is it hard? Easy? Fun? What do you like best about math? What do you like least? Is there something in math ( fractions, decimals, etc…) you just don’t get? Or is there something you REALLY like?? Coordinates? Logic? Buzz? Too High/Too Low? Blackout? Poison Chips? Let me know…