Angel Island Trailers

We had an amazing trip to Angel Island December 4-5. For this trip, we reenacted life as Civil War soldiers at Camp Reynolds in 1863-1866. We cooked our own food, practiced marching, and lived by lantern light at night!

For pictures of our adventures, visit www.instagram.com/mrsrohrbacker.

This week, the students worked with their Angel Island squads to make iMovie trailers about our trip. Here are their awesome projects!

Squad 1

Squad 2 

Squad 3

Squad 4 

Squad 5

As you can see, we had an incredible time! 

Friday Update 11/21/14

This is AJ and Paul. This is our wonderful and interesting week!!! :D

On Thursday was our last day of Music class with Ms.Allie from PFAA. We had a short performance and we invited Ms.Steinlein’s class to watch us perform. It was fun to have music class with Ms.Allie!

We have been learning about the Civil War on Angel Island. We learned that there are eight ranks in the army. They are General, Colonel, Major, Captain, Lieutenant, Sergeant, Corporal, and Private. We are going on a field trip to Angel Island on December 4th. We practiced marching in the gym during P.E. The Corporals in our class our Paul, AJ, Emily, Will, and Melina. The Corporals are student leaders in their squad. We are staying overnight. All of us get to take a night hike.

We gave presentations about the Civil War.

Here are our presentations:

Angel Island Cadence

I am fighting for the North,

Training, marching, back and forth,

Soldiers here are full of fear,

Hoping Confederates won’t come near.

Sound off - 1, 2

Sound off - 3, 4

Sound off - 1, 2, 3, 4 !!!

We march all day single file

Up and down Angel Isle.

Makin’ sure there comes the day,

Stars and stripes are here to stay!!!

( Sound Off )

That was are Wonderful interesting week!!

Hope you had an awesome time reading our Blog this week!

Friday Update 11/14/14

 Hi! This is Bella and Emily! We have had two great weeks of awesomeness. Here are some of the awesome things we have done.

GLAD Demonstration

By Bella

It was crazy! Two guests came and taught us and 25 teachers about the human body with GLAD.

We learned about the human body. It was fun! We did team tasks where they would give us something like make a team chant, and then we would make a song for our group.

This is my group  

                             

They’re working hard

Last Friday, we had the Fall Festival!

 This Week

By Emily

This week we have had so much fun learning new instruments  in music lessons with Mrs.Allie. We even got to have music twice!

  Fitness Friday was super fun especially when it even started to rain a little bit!

  We also have started to learn about the Civil War for our upcoming Angel Island field trip.

   On Friday we even got to Skype with Kate Messner. She has written a lot of books including Capture the Flag, Eye of the Storm, and Over and Under the Snow.  

Our class is super excited because next week we find out who the corporals and squads for Angel Island are. Also it is almost fall break! Yeah!

Friday Update 10/31/14

Hello, this is Marissa and Alanna writing what we did this week!

This week was Red Ribbon Week and spirit week!

On Tuesday it was twin day! You had to wear matching clothing with your friend!

On Wednesday, we dressed up wacky with mismatched clothes. Especially Alanna.

On Wednesday we had market day and we bought things that second grade made with fake money. They did a really good job at making the things they sold. They also did nails, face painting, and tattoos which were really good.

On Halloween, it was cool seeing all the different costumes and how creative people were. We played Halloween Math Bingo and Halloween Jot Thoughts. We got cookies, ring pops, chips, and we passed out the candy grams which were either a popcorn hand or a lollipop. Alanna tricked everybody by giving them a little package with a candy wrapper and one piece of candy.

It was a super fun week because all week we had spirit days so we could dress up.

Have a Happy Halloween and get a lot of candy!!!!!  

Friday Update 10/24/14

Hi! This is Hannah and Will! Here is our Friday Update about what we did this week:

Hannah: On Monday we used chromebooks with the Kinder buddies.

We showed the kindergarteners how to type and they wrote their cute

little stories. Then we read them picture books! ;-)

Will: So at star academy we have kind kids club or KKC so kid president declared it is socktober. (Here is a link to the Socktober website.) We are having a warm things drive to help the homeless.

We did sidewalk chalk where the parents pick us up at we had to write kind things like have a good day or you’re awesome and we are doing random acts of kindness.

                    Mrs. Hines had us write with sidewalk chalk, some kinds messages!

Will: Author Jenny Lundquist came to our 5th grade class and talked about her books Seeing Cinderella, Plastic Polly, Princess With The Opal Mask, and The Opal Crown.

She talk to us also about being a writer and how long it takes to write a book.

Here is a link to her Amazon page.

Hannah: We had girls lunch with Mrs. Hines and Mrs. Curtis. They talked about friendship and thinking before you speak, and things that friends do, that may hurt, and how to avoid it. Also, we talked about sincere apologies, and what they can do.

They had us watch a video about kindness and how words can hurt.

                           So then we picked a partner and wrote a nice adjective about them.

                            (artistic beautiful: above and kind, witty and creative on the bottom)

                                            Everybody had good stuff to say.

We get out early every day next week!

Anyways, don’t forget spirit week is next week! It is going to be RAD!

:-)  

Aliyah and Melina's Trip to Monterey

         MONTEREY TRIP

HI EVERYBODY THIS IS ALIYAH AND MELINA. OVER THE WEEKEND WE WENT TO MONTEREY CALIFORNIA. THIS IS HOW IT WENT: WE CAMPED IN WATSONVILLE. WHEN WE GOT THERE IT WAS DARK SO WE MADE DESSERT (ORANGE CAKE). LATER ON OUR GIRL SCOUT TROOP LEADER MRS.LESLIE TOOK US TO THE PARK.

ON SATURDAY WE WENT TO MONTEREY AQUARIUM. WE SAW MANY CREATURES. OUR FAVORITES WERE- SEA OTTERS, PENGUINS, JELLYFISH, AND OCTOPUS.WE SAW THEM FEED THE OTTERS . WE LEARNED HOW JELLYFISH REPRODUCE THEY DON’T MATE THEY SHOOT THEIR CELL ANDS SPERMS. WE WENT TO THE BEACH  AND HAD LUNCH. IT WAS COOL.

                        

ON SUNDAY WE WENT SAILING IT WAS SO FUN WE SAW SEA OTTERS ON THEIR BACKS AND DOLPHINS JUMPING NEXT TO OUR BOAT . IT WAS AWESOME .                           

Friday Update 10/10/14

Hi this is Mimi and Arielle. We are so awesome - we are writing this blog for you!

This is our ghost door designed by Maddy and created by Maddy, Mia, and Karoliena. We did a vote with the class to choose which door design we would put up on our door. The whole school was doing it, and my personal favorite is Mrs. Luhrsen’s doors. She had some kind of creature with a monocle and a leech on her other door. You have to see it for yourself to actually know what I’m talking about.

-MiMi

Down below there are some pictures showing our eyes on our book Wonder. It’s from people from the book’s point of view. You show what you think they will see from their own perspective.

-Arielle

This was done by Diana.

This was done by Maggie.

This was done by Paul.

Our counselor, Mrs. Hines, started a Kind Kids Club. It’s where awesome kids go to be kind to people. October is the month 5th graders get to be in Kind Kids Club. 1st graders did it in September. 5th graders have to do at least 20 kind thing to help people out. 1st graders had to do at least 10 kind things.

-Arielle

Link to Mrs. Hines’ blog post about kindness - (Click here to learn more about the importance of kindness and what first grade did for their Kind Kids Club month in September!)

On Thursday we had our Enrichment Showcase Extravaganza! If I do recall, it was in the cafeteria right after lunch. The four different enrichments were:

#1. Script-writing, led by Mrs. Luhrsen.

#2. Speech led by Mr. Fassler

#3. Art led by my most favorite teacher ever who is so very awesome Mrs. Rohrbacker!

#4 Is engineering led by Ms. Bullock.

The conclusion is everybody had a good time!☺

-MiMi

Have a great fall break! We will see you in a week and don’t forget to be kind and awesome!