Making Pasta Salad

This week for our "marbleous" celebration we participated in a cooking class! We made pasta salad! Every student copied down the recipe, so it should be home already.

First we chopped assorted vegetables:

Then we mixed it with pasta, cheese, and dressing and poured it in a bowl:

Then we gobbled it up:

DELICIOUS!



Week of 12/13/10 to 12/16/10 by Druti and Sanjana

         Hi guys! We had so much fun this week. But, we also did work. In math, we are learning how to make various graphs to collect data. In language arts we are reading Esperanza Rising and The Christmas Eve Mystery. On Wednesday, we started book clubs. We are still continuing our fictional stories in writing. We’re also learning how to improve our leads. In social studies, we are learning about the Revolutionary War.

        On Wednesday, the fun began and we made pasta salad for our marble celebration! Since it was Reindeer day in Mrs. Lubonski’s class, we decorated yummy gingerbread men. Mmmmmmmm!! Shreya’s b-day is tomorrow, but we celebrated it today. Happy birthday, Shreya!

    We have a math quiz on Monday. Next Friday, it’s going to be Christmas Eve, which means no school!!!!!! Bring $5 in by next Monday for the exciting holiday party on the 23^rd.

Week of 12/6/10 to12/10/10 by Shayon and Santos

          In our school subjects we are learning a lot. In math we are learning long division. I n social studies we are learning about the colonists in the old days. In reading we are reading Esperonza Rising and The Christmas Mystery and we are writing two or more Thinkmarks about them. In writing we are writing fictional stories

 This week a special event in our class was on Thursday we had a game day where we brought board games to school to play.

Looking ahead to next week we are going to make ginger bread cookies with our buddies and make pasta salad in our class for our marble celebration.

Week of 11/29-12/3 by Oliver and Malavika

Hey, everybody! We are very excited about long division in math. We are reading and learning about non-fiction in reading, and typing our persuasive in writing. And in social studies, well, lets just say its off with your head if you don’t pay your taxes.

We got our report cards this week. Also, we are full of joy to start the holiday season. Only 22 days till Christmas, but who’s counting? 22..21..20..19..18……..

We are looking forward to the half day on Tuesday. We have a math test next Friday. Study, study, study!!!

Week of 11/15-11/19 by Shreya and Ameya

This week in math, we are learning about factors and divisibility. We had a math quiz on Thursday. Our teacher is showing us how to synthesize in reading so we can understand our characters better. We also finished a book named “Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days”. In social studies, we are learning about colonies and colonial maps. Now in writing, we are working on persuasives.

Next week are going to make toilet paper roll turkeys for our kindergarten buddies. Remember to bring in your toilet paper roll!

This week was Ameya’s birthday. He turned eleven.

Next week, Tuesday and Thursday are half days and on Wednesday we’re going to make home made cranberry sauce in class!

Week of 11/8/10 to 11/12/10 by Harsh and Mukhtar

In social studies we are learning about colonial life. In math we are learning to divide with remainders. In reading we have started reading groups again after a 1 week break. We are also learning to synthesize. In writing we are working on fact and opinions.

We had a Walk Two Moons test this Friday. We are also celebrating Keertana’s birthday. We are also having the veterans come to our school and we are having a social studies quiz on Friday as well.

We are having two half days on Tuesday and Thursday. Ameya’s birthday is next week on Wednesday.        

Week of 10/25/10 to 10/29/10 by Sanjana and Jahmir.

            This week we had a great time!!!! In math, we had our chapter test on decimals and went on to the next chapter, division. In Language Arts, We published our personal narratives and made our own covers. In reading, we discussed adjectives. We finished science and began social studies. On Thursday, we had kindergarten buddies. Mrs. Cardoso baked fruit cookies and we had juice with cookies as a snack with the kindergarteners. Mmm!!!!! I hope we have a good time next week too.

            This week, on Friday it was Halloween day. We wore our costumes, had a Halloween Parade, and a Halloween party, with lots of food and games

            We look forward for fall recess. Happy Halloween!!! JJ

Week of 10/18 to 10/22 by Damien and Anthony

         Hello! This week in math we are learning how to multiply decimals and multiply decimals with whole numbers. Also in reading we are making predictions on characters. In writing we are writing personal narratives. In science we just made awesome endangered species brochures! Also we are sprouting new plants! Some of them started to grow! On Friday we met with our Kindergarten buddies.

        On Thursday we had a science test on vocab words. Also on Wednesday we had chorus.

          Next week on Tuesday we have a math test! Next week we have our Halloween party and parade.  Yes!  We are finally publishing our  personal narratives.

Week of 10/11/10 – 10/15/10 by PJ and Druti

Yippie! It’s Friday- but we had a pretty good week! On Monday, it was a half day due to Staff-In –Service. Mrs. Cardoso was sick Monday and Thursday. Feel better! We had a math quiz on Tuesday and a spelling test today. Now we are learning multiplication with whole numbers and decimals. Our science brochures are due 10/20 (Wednesday). We got more into our new book, The Witchy Worries of Abbie Adams.

          We had our marbleous prize-class kick ball in our pajamas. Also don’t forget the PTA fundraiser has started. You can sell things and win prizes. Can you believe we earned 5 principle proud clouds!!!

          Shreya was the first person to reach $1000 in her checkbook. We are all close to reaching our thousand dollars too!

          Next week, we have a student council meeting and we can go to Sports Club for the first time. Student council meeting is on Monday at 6:15 and sports club is on Thursday at 3:45 to 4:45. Don’t forget to go and see you there!

Week of 10/4 to 10/8 by Wendy and Keertana

        This week is the best weeks in our class .We’re learning multiplication, distributive multiplication and much more in math. In writing we are writing personal narratives and expanding our small moments and we are reading walk two moons. We are finished reading No Talking and started The Witchy Worries of Abbie Adams and we are so excited to finish our new book. In science we just had a test on chapter four and we’re starting our new experiment. We are finished with our marble jar and the prize is a class kickball game.

            We had picture day this week!! We also sent in our Informer covers. Oliver’s birthday was today and he brought in juice. Happy birthday Oliver!

            Our first early closing will be next Monday! I’m sure we’re very excited for Halloween. What will you be?

Week of 9/27-10/1 By Aditya and Tahira

Hello! This is our account of the current week. On Wednesday we had an assembly on Mad Science. The assembly was awesome. They even made a balloon explode in a large fireball! Thursday was a normal day where I think we worked very nicely. Also, we went to the library today. Friday, the last day of the week was great. We visited Mrs. Lubonski’s class today. We read them books on subjects like fall and transportation. At the end of the day, we took out our checkbooks to input our money for the week. When we reach $1000 we win a prize. In the end, this week was really fun!

This week we had an awesome Mad Science assembly! We also look forward to our science test on next Tuesday.

         

Our Biome Projects

Check out the wonderful biomes our class made! 

Week of 9/20 to 9/24 by Nina and Nakia

    In math, we are learning rounding and estimating. In reading, we are reading our books and writing on a post-it about what happened in a part of a book and writing the characters in that part. In read aloud, we are reading Walk Two Moons.  Science we are making projects for each biomes (in groups). Fifth grade has been fun so far and we injoy it.

  We had an assembly on Friday about the Earth.

    We have to work on our book report next week! There will also be a math test Thursday on chapter 1.

Week of 9/13-9/17 by David and Kira

          This week in math we have learned about place value, decimals, comparing numbers, and starting word problems. We will be having a math quiz on Friday. In writing this week we have made heart map (seed ideas) and listing some ideas. In reading we have started Walk Two Moons and a read aloud called No Talking. For science we have gotten a pet fish to start our studies about ecosystems.                

           Our special events this week are Druti and Mrs. Cardoso’s birthdays. Druti’s birthday was on the 15 and Mrs. Cardoso’s birthday was on the 17.

            The hero quilt is due Monday, we’re starting word problems in math and we will start word study homework.

Week of 9/1-9/3 by Our Whole Class

Wow! What a wonderful first week of school! This week we’ve been learning about our classroom, and what’s going on this year! This week has been fun with projects, getting to know each other, setting up supplies, and making new friends.



Next week kindergarten starts. We are excited for this because then we can all patrol. We are also looking forward to the patrol meeting on Wednesday.

Welcome!

Welcome to our class blog! My name is Mrs. Cardoso and I am going to be your child's fifth grade teacher. This is my 5th year teaching at Martin Luther King Elementary School. I taught first grade for the past four years but I am thrilled to be in fifth grade! I can't wait to learn and grow with your children.

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