1.5.2015 DAY ONE HUNDRED AND TWO

Well hey there strangers!! Happy New Year & 1st day back to school! I hope you all enjoyed your breaks to the FULLEST...I know I did. I spent lots of time with family & friends, worked on my new house, & went to the Belk Bowl in Charlotte (man was that ugly ha!). Thank you all again for all of the amazing gifts I received for Christmas...that was too kind! I'm so happy to have you all as students for the next few weeks & look forward to watching each of you grow. I love that we got off to a fresh start today with thinking about our New Year's Resolutions! Today went as smooth as ever & I hope that can continue in the coming weeks :) You ALL are amazing & work so hard each and every day...CHEERS TO YOU! 

**Oakley loving his Christmas gift from me**

**Cousins on my dad's side**

**uncle, aunt, BIRD, myself, dad, & mom @ NASCAR Hall of Fame FAN APPRECIATION PARTY**

**Freezing our booties off at the game**

I have talked with Mrs. Thomas & she had baby Harrison Bradley Thomas at 9:41 AM weighing 5lbs 13 oz. & 18" long!! I will be visiting tomorrow with her & will post some pictures on the blog for everyone to see :) HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRISON!! XOXO
It's also Mrs. Thomas' birthday TOMORROW...how crazy is that?! What a early precious birthday gift she got today :) 

**She pops babies out AND sends flowers all in one day!! Thanks again Mrs. T :)**

I hope you all have a lovely Monday evening & PLEASE stay warm out there! I'm dripping my faucets tonight....CHILLY WEATHER! BURRR. And to think it's going to be WARMER in Utah Thursday than here! I will be going to Utah Thursday-Sunday so there will be a sub these days. I have everything planned out as normal for the kiddos so everything should be good to go! But any-who; stay warm, build a fire, drink hot chocolate, & cozy up with a blanket tonight!! 

LANGUAGE ARTS:
Today we look in depth at what a "resolution" actually is. We came up with a few examples as a class & then jot down what we (as a student) could work on in the year 2015. We looked back at what we did in 2014 & what we were excited to learn about in the new year. On Wednesday we will be posting each of our resolutions up in the classroom to hold ourselves accountable & even come up with a resolution for the WHOLE class :)
HOMEWORK: Work on finishing your book Study Guides (I will let you know a due date for those Wednesday). Work on your BOOK PROJECTS...(Remember: If you finished your book before break- book project is due January 15. If you finished your book up over break- your book project is due January 22.) 

SCIENCE
HOMEWORK: None.

SOCIAL STUDIES
HOMEWORK: None.

MATH:
Today we reviewed what we were learning the week before Christmas break. We practiced finding common factors, completing prime factorization, and started on finding the greatest common factor of 2 numbers. There are a few links below on these skills you can play & watch online at home :)
HOMEWORK: None.

RELIGION:
HOMEWORK: Read pgs. 63-65 & complete the Activity on pg. 65.


MATH LINKS:
SHOOT GAME  VIDEO

REMINDERS: 
* Overdue book are due in the Library tomorrow.
* There will be a uniform check TOMORROW...come prepared :)


xoxo -Ms. Ray

12.21.14 DAY EIGHTY-SEVEN

Hello there 5th graders!! I hope you all have enjoyed your Christmas Breaks so far! We had such a great time on Friday on our last day of school in 2014! We played Christmas games before going down to see the adorable K-3 Christmas program. When we came back up to the classroom Mrs. Thomas was there to greet us!! We were all so excited to see her again & I know she loved seeing her babies :) Our party was a lot of fun & very "emotional" as Kayla put it. We had to say good bye to our dear friend Isabelle & also send off Mrs. Thomas to get her rest for baby Harrison! All in all it was a great day & I know you guys enjoyed it thoroughly…you should've seen the classroom after dismissal HA! I want to thank you all for the great gifts I received…they were such a surprise & awesome gifts I'm already using! Below I'm going to list the rest of our Advent Calendar days & hopefully you all can do those over your break with your family & friends. I also have a few pictures from Friday that are pretty hilarious as well :) Thank you to the parents who came and helped during our Christmas party…we couldn't have done it without you!! I want you all to ENJOY your Christmas break & remember…Santa is watching :)

Advent Calendar 

Talk to you all very soon!!

xoxo- Ms. Ray

12.18.14 DAY EIGHTY-FOUR

SHEW!!! I don't know about you guys but today was a super busy one! We had our last Mass as a school today before Christmas break. It was a great Mass talking about how Jesus is our #1 gift during the Christmas holiday (and ALWAYS). You can't spell CHRISTmas without CHRIST in it :) 

Isabelle worked on her blog for today & you can find it HERE. She was so kind enough to bring in TWO cookie cakes for us for treats since we will all miss her after tomorrow. YUMMY!! We wish luck to you & your family with your big move!! 

**DON"T FORGET**

• Red/Green Christmas wear is allowed tomorrow. You may wear jeans or your school pants as bottoms. Girls may wear Christmas dresses or skirts. And all are invited to wear a nice red or green (Christmas or plain) sweater.
• The K-3 Christmas Program is from 9:00 AM- 10:30ish AM.
• Our Christmas parties are from 10:45-11:45
• EARLY DISMISSAL @ 12:00...woop woop!
• Mrs. Thomas will be able to come by for a little bit tomorrow...yayyyy!!!

DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A SNOWMAN?!

LANGUAGE ARTS:
We worked on finishing our Reading TV Commercials & presented them in front the class. We also picked what we would like to do for our Reading Book Projects...due dates are below.
HOMEWORK: Finish reading your books over break. If you were done with your book by today, your Book Projects are due January 15. If you need to finish reading over break, your projects are due January 22. Everyone has a study guide/ guided questions that should be completed BEFORE presenting your book projects. All book tests are going to be after Christmas break BEFORE the projects are due. 
**The Famous Stanley & James and the Giant Peach books are to do a typed summary of the book for their study/review guides over break**

MATH:
 Learning Target- I CAN find the prime factorization of a number & the Greatest Common Factor of 2 numbers.
In Math #1 we did more practice using factors & factor trees.
In Math #2 we corrected our homework & played a JEOPARDY GAME over what we have learned this week. We also practiced GCM with THIS game! Play them at home too :)
HOMEWORK: NONE.



Have an amazing Thursday evening!! I can't wait to see you all in your beautiful Christmas clothes :)

xo- Ms. Ray

12.17.14 DAY EIGHTY-THREE

HAPPY WEDNESDAY 5TH GRADE!! We had a very busy day today learning lots of new things :) Isabelle did the blog below...tomorrow she will be bringing in treats for us since this is her last week with us. Only 1 1/2 more days of school until Christmas Break! Will you all be doing anything fun?? I'm going to UL's bowl game :) **UL football fan & UK basketball fan** (I get a lot of grief from it!) HA!

I hope you all enjoy your evening and listed below is the homework for each subject for tonight...

LANGUAGE ARTS:

LEARNING TARGET: I CAN make inferences in pictures & texts. 

We started discussing how we can make inferences in pictures...tomorrow we will focus on making inferences in texts. We also worked with our reading groups & some groups received their Study Guide Questions to work on during this time. They also started making LIVE Television Commercials for their books...they're having a BLAST with that :) We will hopefully have time to present them tomorrow. 

HOMEWORK: Try to finish books by Tomorrow. Book projects are due Jan. 15 if book finished by tomorrow, Jan. 22 if you have to finish reading over break. Electronic Reading Logs due tomorrow.

SCIENCE:

HOMEWORK: none

SOCIAL STUDIES:

HOMEWORK: Read Lesson 3 in Ch. 4 and do 1-4 Review Questions @ the end of the lesson.

MATH: We touched base again with Prime Factorization & started looking at finding the greatest common factor of numbers. There are a few links I've attached at the bottom of the blog for extra help with those!

LEARNING TARGET: Math #1- I CAN find the factors of a number, identify prime & composite numbers, & find the prime factorization of numbers.

HOMEWORK: Redo Factor worksheet if didn't get all correct.

LEARNING TARGET: Math #2- I CAN list the common factors & find the greatest common factor of two or more numbers.

HOMEWORK:GCF worksheet.

RELIGION:

HOMEWORK: Study for test that is tomorrow.

Math Links:

Flocabulary Song

SHMOOP

See you all bright & early in the morning!! 

-Ms. Ray

Isabelle's Blog Post

Isabelle's Blog Post

Does your elf hide somewhere where it is hard to fine?
Does your elf hide somewhere where it is easy to find?
Does your elf hide somewhere it is funny?



 

Can you Believe it's almost Christmas. Only 8 more days till Christmas. My favorite part about Christmas is that you get to spend time with your family and friends and also give to other people. Down below we will be doing a vote on what we like to do during break.

 

 

 

 

What are you doing over the Christmas holiday..............

• Baking cookies:3
• Decorating:2
• Gingerbread houses:0
• Seeing Family:2

• Other:3
• Everything:20 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the winner is ......................

 

 

 

 

 

EVERYTHING!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEE YOU TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!

 

 



12.16.2014 DAY EIGHTY-TWO

Good afternoon families!! Yes...I'm one of those that isn't too fond of cold weather! I looks like it will be here before we know it though! As you know, today was resource day for the kiddos. They had PE in the classroom since the K-3 Christmas Program was going on today...they did great with the change :) Isabelle has been working on her blog the past 2 days and you can get that HERE! 

I figured I could take this time for everyone to get to know a little about me since I'll be here a couple months! (Keep that baby nice & warm Mrs. Thomas!) 

I was born and raised here in Louisville, Ky & went to Catholic schools growing up. I attended St. Pius X for grade school, Assumption High School, then moved to Lexington, Ky to UK. I was at UK for a year and a half before moving back to wear my roots are. I then attended Galen College of Nursing and received my LPN Nursing Degree. (I currently work at Baptist East Hospital and they have been wonderful with allowing me to take on this long term substitute position!). In 2010 I decided to go back to school to get my Elementary Education Degree. I graduated 2 years ago from Spalding University & have been subbing ever since. My goal is to land a permanent teaching position for the Archdiocese of Louisville!

                                                                                                            

                          

Some fun facts about myself:

* I just bought my very 1st house (ME, MYSELF, & I) in September!

* My little sister, Audrey (only sibbling) just got married this past summer to Jacob (Louisville Fire Fighter) in St. Marteen!

* I with out a doubt am obsessed with my nephew...the DOG (Oakley);)

I absolutely LOVE working with children & am so excited for this amazing opportunity to teach 5th grade at SMA! I can't wait to get to know the kids even better!! With that said, I will have access to Mrs. Thomas' e-mail if you need to contact me for any reason while she is out :)

LANGUAGE ARTS:

HOMEWORK: Try to finish reading your books by Thursday. Online Reading Logs due Friday.

MATH: I CAN find the factors of a number.  2) I CAN identify prime and composite numbers.  3) I can find the prime factorization of numbers.

HOMEWORK: 3 Factor worksheets due tomorrow.

RELIGION:

HOMEWORK: Study Guides & activity due tomorrow.

Below are a few links we used in Math from yesterday's lesson!

PRIME VIDEO

PRIME FACTORIZATION VIDEO

I hope everyone has a nice afternoon & stays warm out there!! We all can't wait for Friday...Christmas is most definitely in the air!! 

xo -Ms. Ray

12.15.14 - Day EIGHY - ONE

Hey there & happy Monday afternoon before Christmas break! Just 4 more days until an exciting Christmas break!! I know the kids are ready for it! We have a NEW blogger for this week (Isabelle)! We let her pick which job she would like to have this week since this is her last week with us :( We will miss her sweet face so so much! 

So if you haven't guessed yet, this is Ms. Ray blogging (for the first time) ;) I'm going to do my very best to keep things exactly the way they are for Mrs. Thomas while she is gone. I'm so excited to be blogging with all the families while I'm here! I know I've already met some of you, but I'm trilled to get to know everyone! 

Our Christmas party is from 10:45-11:45 this Friday morning…the kids are allowed to wear red or green Christmas sweatshirts/ sweaters with jeans. Friday is also a 12:00 dismissal day…woohoo!!

Mrs. Thomas and I talked about READING PROJECTS yesterday afternoon. If your student is finished with their reading books by THIS Thursday, their book projects will be due January 15, 2014. As always, they will pick what they would like to do for a project so they can work on it over Christmas break. If students are NOT finished with their books by THIS Thursday, then their projects will be due January 22, 2014. They should finish reading it over Christmas break. 

I'm so excited for the Christmas party on Friday & am praying that Mrs. Thomas will be able to make it!! 

LANGUAGE ARTS BLOCK:
Today we did some Winter Writing Prompts from our Advent Calendar…we will start back with Literature Circles on Wednesday. 
HOMEWORK: finish reading books.

MATH: 
1.) I CAN find the factors of a number. 2.) I CAN identify prime and composite numbers. 3.) I CAN find the prime factorization of numbers. 
I introduces this new Fraction Sense unit to the classes on Friday. Today we did a review over what we learned by going over important definitions & several examples of each of our I CAN statements. We all took notes in our Math notebooks together. On Friday the classes watched a few introductory videos & completed a few practice worksheets.
HOMEWORK: Three practice worksheets on factors, prime & composite numbers, and prime factorization. (due Wednesday)

REMINDERS: 
**Stories for Library are due tomorrow. 
**Music quiz tomorrow. 
**Electronic Reading Logs due Thursday. 

I hope you ALL have a great Monday evening & talk to you soon!!

-Ms. Ray