Tidrick Class Blog

Terrific Thursday

This has been a great day for Room 309 and their teacher.  We have been working on our Moving On Projects as well as going down to the lower grade and doing storytelling.  I am so proud of all the students.  I have received evaluations of their stories with words such as "kept the student engaged", "the students loved the story", " the student did an excellent job" and the praises continues. 

Today we played in the First Annual  "Fifth Grade Toilet Bowl"  Kickball Tournament.  Mrs. Caudle and Mrs. Reynolds played and we played the winner.  We won and now are in the championship game with Mrs. Minor who had played Mrs. Matacotta.  Tomorrow during Special Coach Golden is go to official our Championship Game.  The winning teacher will have to wear the "Toilet Roll Necklace" the rest of the day.

We ate lunch in our room. My room moms surprised us with a Birthday Cake (ice cream cake!) for my summer birthday.  We had a great time eating the cake.  The moms also brought a special candy gift for all the students.  They also gave me a special book my students had helped to create.  It was a very special day.  I can not thank them enough for all they have done for my class as well as for me. 
THANK YOU!

Decades Day 2008

Did you ever wonder what it was like in America during World War II or how the Vietnam War affected our country?  Today the fifth graders learned about  what was going on in American form the 1940 to the 1980s.  Today was like a Time Machine.  The fifth grades traveled back in time to  learn about the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.  It was a great day!  All the students were dressed in clothing from their decade.  Our day began on stage as each class did a presentation sharing information about their decade.  We watched dances popular during each decade.  From the Swing to the stroll to the mash-potato, we learned new dances and music. Next, it was back to the classrooms, where the students traveled from room to room  answering scavenger hunts about each decade.  Tonight each student has to interview a parent as a primary source of the 1990. 
All  the fifth grade teachers were very proud of our students.  The students worked very hard on this project from researching their topic to designing presentations to share their information to learning dances, skits, and songs from their decade.  It was great day of learning and visually seeing the changes that took place in our country over 40 years.  Enjoy some of the pictures from today:

1940s

                                                                                                 

         

1950

                                                                                       

   1960

                                                                                             

1970

                              

                                                                      

1980 

Literacy Circles

April 27, 2007

                          Mixed-up files

      

       I enjoyed this book and the people I worked with. The best thing about the book is the form. I think it would be good for Mrs. Tidrick to do this with her next year class. We did a poster and a summary. I think we did a great job on it.  

          Maya

The Kid in the Red Jacket

          This book is really funny.  It involves a six-year-old named Molly and a boy named Howard. What goes on is that Howard moves and meets Molly.   Howard thinks that she is annoying. After we finished the book we did an interview.  We had a couple of questions for each character and we asked a one more person named Pete. We had our questions answered and that was all.

                                                

Madison

                                           Windcatcher

          I loved this book. It was one of the best books I read. I also liked that the book was a mystery and adventure. I love those kinds of books. Also I liked the people in my group. The project we did was a poster and a power point. That was my favorite part. I hope Mrs. Tidrick and the class liked our project!

                                                                     Emina Cemal

Island of the Blue Dolphins

            This group decided to make the island from the story.  They brought in all the materials needed to reproduce the island.  As they presented the book, the students showed the different locations and areas that would part of the book.

                      

Junior Achievement

April 25, 2007

Mrs. Runge (Kevin’s mom) came in to our class Wednesday. Mrs. Runge is our Junior Achievement teacher. She taught us about proprietors, partnerships, entrepreneurs, corporations, and, stockholders. We were being hired by Adina the owner of a car shop. Adina was a one man job, but she needed help. So she hired others. She decided to open a car shop on the other side of town. Leading to a partnership. Then people invested there money in them. So they hired an accountant, and other people that make a business. Then we made a corporation. Mrs. Runge is doing a GREAT job getting us prepared for the future. Thank you so much Mrs. Runge!

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Logan

The Egg Roll

April 1 3, 2007

Today was our Egg Roll.  We have been preparing all week.  We filled two inch plastic eggs with 3 tablespoons of rice and glued it.  We made about 80 eggs!  We also made our rolling area which was a 39 feet  10 inches paper path.  It was measured in feet and inches.  We invited Mrs. Caudle's class to join our Egg Roll.  Everyone seemed to have a good time.  Each student was able to roll two eggs and take the best roll as their score.  Next the student was a spotter for the student rolling and then the score keeper.  Then the student was able to watch their teammates as they rolled.  We were amazed a few students rolled it past the 39 feet 10 inches mark.  That was so exciting!  After the egg roll, we added the scores from each team and then average each team.  Next we took the averages of both teams and averaged them to find a final average for the project. Our final results will be sent to the online project , Egg Roll 2007.  We will have to check next week and see how we compared to other schools who participated. We want to thank Mrs. Caudle’s Class for joining us in this project.  Clicks for Mrs. Caudle  and Logan who took the pictures of our Egg Roll that follow.

                                                                                  

Reward Day

March 28, 2007

     Our reward this nine weeks was a game day.  You had to have 600 dollars in your checking account to be able to come to our reward day.  Several people brought games such as Monopoly, Sorry, Uno, Catch Phrase, Apple, Apple, Racko, and several more.  If you had enough money you could bring a drink and candy.  We also were able use the money in our checkbook to buy things like popcorn, GORP(good old raisins and peanuts), and cookies.  We had to read the rules of the game before playing and we had to get along.  The class had to win and lose graciously.  It was a fun learning day.

Great Projects

Our friends in Mrs. Minor's class did a great project for Black History Month.  They each researched a person and then designed a poster, which has a big hole for their head, on the famous Black American person.  The poster's are awesome.  We know they did a great job with their presentations.  Thanks for sharing them with all of us.  Take a look at their creative posters:

                           

We also adding another ant farm minus extra ants.  They seem to enjoy traveled to another farm.

Career Centers

Today was a great day!  Our class and our book buddies went to the Media Center for Addison's " Primetime Career Centers".  All the centers had to do with different careers.  Everything was hands-on and we learned so much about each career.  We want to thank our counselors for doing such a fantastic job.  It was alot of work to organize the centers and plan all the different activities.  You are the BEST!!!   

Join us in Career Centers:

                                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                              

                                                                            

                                                                          

How do engineers impact our world?

This week is Engineer Week and Casey's Dad came and talked with us about engineers. We were glad that Lockheed Martin encourages him to go and talk about being an engineer. One interesting fact he shared is that more engineers in the United States are retiring than are becoming engineers. He did a wonderful presentation about  the different kinds of engineers.  He also spoke about airplanes.  He gave the students an assortment of materials and they had to design a bridge that could hold a water bottle.   The students did a great job and each group came up with a different design and everyone's bridge was successful. We also learned to make paper airplanes.  We took our planes outside and did a flight test. 

  Come on a virtual tour of today's activities.

                                                                                                       

                                                                                                             

                                                                                             

Career Week

Career Week is going on at school.  Our counselors have been teaching lessons on different careers.  They are holding a Career Fair in the Media Center.  Our class is looking forward to going on Tuesday with our Book Buddies.  Casey's Dad is coming tomorrow because this week is Engineer Week.  After working on the Bridge Project some of the students may be interested in becoming an engineer.

We did a Career Project where the students drew themselves in a career that interests them.  Go on a visual tour of the future workers of America: