Book Club Projects

Book Clubs! We had book clubs a couple weeks ago we all read books that the teacher   assigned us. Some people Read 1 book or 2 books. And we made posters which were video taped and you can watch them on the blog and we read them just in a couple and we all had kinds of ideas for the posters like one group made a message in a bottle and another group made a toilet theme because there book was about a boy in the girls bathroom. And at the beginning of reading we would meet with are groups and we could only read to a certain part that the group decided on. some people got to 2 books some only got to 1 and some
never finished their book.

Revolution VS Rotation Jigsaws

Today we were going to teach our class  while they were also teaching us we each got a partner who had the same planet but the rest of the class all had different 

                     We got into two circles .we roatated left every 5 minnets we each told each other about our planet so we each learned a lot more than what we did when we enters our circles

            So there for we may not be the math geniuses of the planets but we problem made it for the little geniouse of the school.   

                     By Crysta 

Circuits

A couple of weeks ago we got to make simple circuits that involved one battery, a lightbulb, and two wires. We learned that for a circuit to work you must have a complete loop. It was very fun to learn about circuits and how they work. Some people struggled at first but eventually everybody knew how to complete a simple circuit.

It helped us learn about and how to make circuits when we actually got to make them ourselves. It's a lot more fun to learn science when we get to do a lot of hands on stuff like making circuits. We also learned about complex circuits and how they work. I think making the circuits helped people learn.

Once we completed the simple circuits we were given a couple different items and we learned about insulators and conductors. We got to see which items conducted and which items insulated. Most wood and rubber stuff insulated and most metal stuff conducted. It was a lot of fun.

Flag Economics

We did this project where each group had certain construction paper to make a flag with. It was so much fun.. When we got to the end we all learned that day supply and demand is hard

Science night

Science night was held on February 17,2015. During science night we had the high school robotics team came over to help and give a demonstration on a machine they were working on. We ran many different stations such as magnets, balance, guestimation, and ooblek. The animal room was very fun because we had the Kansas city zoo come in and share some pets along with Mrs.Sims who brought in our class pets to see as well. Some 5th graders stayed after to help like i did. We were in charge of setting up stations. When science night started everyone was told to go into the gym for a thank you to the inventors cub inventors. After the thank you to them science night began. every 15 minutes an inventor group would give their presentation to people in the library. Every person in inventors club made an invention to present that night. there were three people who would give there separate presentations then there would be a short intermission for the next three people to share. We had twelve amazing inventions that night by Calvin, Makinna, Audrey, Kylan, Ava, Jarrett, Brendon, Keegan, Jace, Connor, Madison, Aden, and me. my twin sister and I (Audrey is twin) we made an invention together and presented it together. Science night was a success for Mrs.Sims who made that amazing night all possible.


-Abi :)

Inside Circle, Outside Circle

This is called ( Inside circle-Outside circle) how it works is we have an inside and outside circle 

The inside stays in one place and doesn't move at all, on the other hand the outside circle moves person. To find information about anything but we were collecting imformation about plants and the sun.and we had about one minuet to be at each person to collect imformation. And when the time was up it went( ding ding) it was a new way to to find imformation

Four Person Interview

First                                                Four Corners!!!!!!!!!

A few days ago we did a group discution it was called four corners. In four corners you share information about things that you think is the correct information and you wright it on a paper explaning what the question.

Lunch Meetings and Goals

I am writing this because i want to talk about my lunch meeting with Mrs.Sims

my post is about my wig/ wildly important goals, you should read it because my goals are important.

Today at lunch me and lilli were in are classroom talking about our wig

we talked about my and lillis goals ,both of mine are spend more time with family and get better at reading and writing.

For the next 2 weeks our class will meet with her and talk about it with our partners

So me and lilli will check every friday to see if we did our goals

Dominic

Celery Experiment

Coolest expeirement ever!

Ok, so what we did was we took blue die and stuck the end of the celery stick inside the test tube with the blue die colored water and sit there for two days and took them out and broke them as you can see. Plus the little tubes that sucked up the water sucked up the blue colored water so when we broke the celery the tubes had blue die in them!

 

This is gage he is now testing his hypothisis!

This is Landon  and Dawson they just broke and as you can see the tubes are blue and the closer you broke it by the leaves the darker the tubes were! 

Here is   Kylan and Emma notice the blue on the napkin you could literally use the celery like a pen!

Look at the peace of celery on the right see the blue.

If you peel the skin it looks really cool!

Simple Machines

                  The Wonders Of Simple Machines!
 So we had fun doing these stations to see what simple machines can realy do. As you can see we had these simple machines lever,screw,gears,pully,wedge,wheel and axle,incline plane.
We spent two days working in these stations. Personlly my favorite was the screw because we had screws and little screw drivers. Any way it was alot of fun!

                                                                                                  By: Landon Wall

Colonies

Before Christmas break we worked on three important colonies. These three colonies were the middle colonies, the England colonies, and the southern colonies. Each student got to decide which colonies they wanted to do. The first day of our projects the southern colonies watched a video on their place of living and how it was ran. The other colonies took notes on their colonies until they got to watch their video. Our goal was to make a brochure on our colony for the settelers to see.(the settelers are not real it is just a fun project.) We had two weeks to finish our brochures. We all got to pick a partner to work with that was in our same colony. We finished our reports on time and had a lot if fun making it with our friends. 

A "hot" experiment

A "hot" experiment

Today we did an experiment using hot wheel cars and two taped meter sticks, it was pretty fun just playing with cars during science! 

The first day we talked about friction, which is the force that makes things stop when they go on a different surface which makes the two rub together and slow down. We also talked about Gravity, the force that holds us down on the earth. Then we taped the meter sticks and made a hypothesis about if the number of books would effect how far the car rolls. 

The second day we did the experiment by stacking books to put the meter stick on and rolling the car down the sticks. 

And after we did all that we calculated the averages and made a bar graph showing our averages. So we had an awesome time doing and learning about force and motion in this fun way.

 By:Archie

The drunk goggles

I am writing this because i wanted to share about when we all put on 'drunk goggles.'You should read this because it was funny because we could not walk a straight line.The lesson was to try to walk a straight line in the 'drunk goggles.'The activity was to have fun while trying to walk straight,it was hard. I thought it was really fun because some of us fell and walked complitly off the line, and some did good.If you tried this with a bunch of friends you would have a good and fun time doing it.I would try to do a wavey line and try to get i it right.

drinking is a bad thing if you drink alot, if you drink one every once in a while that would be better to do. If you drink under age it is bad because your body is growing at the time.You should only drink if you're 21 or older.Drinking and driving is bad because you can kill or injure you or someone else, it can turn into a disaster.

Dominic

Vertabrate prezi projects

In science we were learning about the five vertebrates. The teacher thought instead of doing a boring presentation on paper, we would make a technical presentation with www.Prezi.com. In these projects we were split into five groups. Each group was chosen a vertebrate to present with their prezi.The five vertebrates we studied were amphibians,reptiles,birds,fish, and mammals.The requirments were to have where is there habitat,are they born alive or hatched.life cycle,if they breath in their lungs or gills,and the body covering.

In this projects we learned about vertebrates in a very fun way.In this project we learned to use habit six:synergize. The teacher thought that it would be best if we would do a fun project while using the 7 habits with others. So basically we got schooled by our 5th grade teacher Mrs.Sims.So we got schooled by our teacher, IN SCHOOL!!!

In conclusion, all of us learned about how to work together and still have a learning expirence. This shows to every student that thinks school stinks is wrong. Ask Mrs.Sims class if school is fun. They will all say it is with Mrs.sims.




-Abi :)


MAMMALS:
BIRDS:
FISH:
REPTILES:
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The history of famous explorers

During social studies we are working on research on different people like : john Cabot,vasco Nunez de balboa,Ferdinand Magellan, and Fransico Vazquez Coronado. We have find the country they represents, Summary, drawing, travel route, and a "Did you know". You have a partner, and a computer to get your information. I'm writing this to tell you about what we were doing in social studies last week. This is about how hard we were working in social studies with a partner. The project was about famous travelers from long ago. In our projects we had to search up our travelers home town flag. For example: Spain. In the lesson we learned how to correctly research people from the past. Everyone learned about people they have never heard of before. My partner didn't even know who Fransico Vasquez Coronado was until we researched him for a week. Now everyone in the class learned something new. In conclusion, people should get researching on people from the past to see what they can learn.

-Abi 😄

Ghostbusters Board

Our bulletin board design team (Jenny,Abi ,&Addie )we prepared and accomplished doing a task of making a bulletin board design of the class's favorite movie, "GHOSTBUSTERS !"

SS rotations

At the newspapers and Primary sources station,we looked at newspaper articles to get information on different tribes of Native Americans. These newspapers are very old.This station was at table 3.

At the mini laptops station, we had to search the the internet for facts. Each one of us looked at different sites. This was at the desk.

At the library books, we could read different books about Native Americans. This was at the Library.

 

At the textbook student website station, the group that was there used only one computer to write down facts. There are five tribes to write down facts on. The computer was at the carpet.

At this staion, there are articles that were on paper to read for facts. All the articles were different. This was at table 5.

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Water Cycle

Today in science we learned about the water cycle. We learned what the water cycle is and what it does. We also made our own water cycle using a water vapor maker. Everybody got to touch the vapor and learn how it was made.

In the video on top you can see us talking about water vapor.Water vapor is the gas version of water.

In the bottom left we are trying to show how the water cycle works with steam. Steam and vapor are kind of the same, but aren't the same thing. 

Steam is a gas. It is hot and happens when water particles escape from boiling water. When it cools it will condense into water drops again. That's why the top of stove or coffee make sometimes has water drops on it, because steam escaped but got cool again. 

Vapor is a gas that is the same temperate as the air. It is particles of water that have "dissolved" into the air. It can condense again too, like on the side of a glass, because water in the air condenses when it gets cooler. 

In the botton right video we filled the turtle tank with water vapor and left the heat lamp on. We are giving the turtle a steam bath and also when we opened the door we got to feel the humidity.  What we learned from this is that there is water vapor all around us, and when we feel "humid" we are feeling the vapor. Even though most of the time you can't see it. 

-Mackenzie & Jenny

Our class Mission Statment

We the people of Mrs. Sims class, in order to form a more perfect school year, establish good friendships, insure there are good role models at Sni-a-bar, provide leadership for our school, promote funniness and coolness at the right times and in nice ways in right place, secure an education for all of our futures, ordain and establish this Mission Statement for our 5th grade class. 

Why writers write class video

Today we made a class video it was about why writers write. And we did a little example called P I E
(Stands for Persuade, Inform, Entertain) We enjoyed being creative.

We made the video as a class and then our class videographer, Dominic, uploaded it and put it on YouTube for us to share to you. It is unlisted, so it can only be seen by people with a link. 

-Jaedha