Welcome to the weekly blog by Rebecca and Brooke.  This week the 5th grade had the chance to sign up for Battle of the Books.  The Battle of the Books is a program for kids to read.  Then in April, Mrs. Grubb's team will get to compete with other Howard County elementary schools.  We also had our first Book Club on Thursday night.  The book we read was Hatchet.  In book club we discussed Brian (the main character) and how he changed throughout the book.  This week the 5th grade also got to start their Mix N' Match Me.  We are learning about similes and metaphors in class.  In the Mix N' Match Me, each student got to choose 9 adjective to descrie themselves.  Then they had to turn those adjective into similes and metaphors.  For example, one adjective could be athletic and the simile could be "I am as athletic as a gazelle running bounding across a field".

Lastly, we learned what our Christmas play theme is.  We will give you a hint...it is the anniversary of a classic Christmas movie.  The 5th grade definitely had a phenomenal week!

Mrs. Benzing's class did a lot this week.  One thing we did was a special science thing.  What we did was we each had an ingredient, and we had to squirt it into a bowl.  After that we had to try to put that ingerdient back in the bottle.  Mrs. Vance was trying to teach us when we say mean statements, we can apoligize but we can't take it back.  

We had a meeting called the Road to Middle School where we talked to the a few sixth graders about what kind of schedule they had, what sports did their school have, and how long did the teachers give them to get to class.  It will help fifth grade transition nicely to middle school.  The third graders, fourth graders, and fifth graders could have come.  It was optional though. 

 Lastly, we did a newscast.  The newscast was a video filming where Mrs. Benzing's class talked about events.  Some of the events we talked were The road to middle school, the Pope traveling, hurricane Joaquin, and illegal fishing.  So that is some ot the events that happened this week.  By: Morgan Hicks and Rebecca Haskey

In Mrs. Benzing's class we had an all school chapel with our book buddies to celebrate St.John's Parish day School 50th anniversary.  We had to make a birthday card for St. John's anniversary and we put a poem inside the card and had everybody sign it.  This week we met our book buddies from Ms. Pontier's class,  made friendship neckalaces with them, and read books to them.

We started our Newscast project which has current events, weather reporter, breaking news , and interviewing.  We are also finishing up our Spanish project where you look up a famous Hispanic person and research that person and then present the project on PowerPoint.