October blog article by Quinn

Every day some 5th graders go to their kindergarten buddies.What they do with them is go book shopping.The teachers are Mrs. Riley Mrs. B and Mrs. Sieve.First the kindergartener picks a few books but first they have to get a book that has a red strip on it.Then they can pick whichever one they want.Then they go reading.The 5th grader can help the kindergartener pronounce a word that they don't know.”I like it.Being with my buddie is fun.”Says a 5th grader.To any future 5th grader k buddies are going to be fun.The goal for the kindergarteners are to be able to read by the end of the year.THE END. 

News Story: Carving

christian -  Blog Article - Carving

    Yes I can carve now. “Two minutes later” I am done carving, so I can go printmaking. I think I will do orange and yellow…or pink! There are so many colors to choose. What can I do! I will do orange and yellow to make yellow-orange. I think that would look cool. I go up to the orange and there is a tool to get the paint. The tool is black in a cylinder shape and there is a metal thing holding it up. I then roll the tool into the paint three times, and then I roll it into my rubber carving three times. And then I walk to the paper and I put the carving face first onto the paper, and I turn the paper over and I make sure all the paint is on it, but not all of it. I push the corners and I put pressure on it. And then I carefully take the piece of paper off and I look at it and it looks good to me on my first try. So then I redo the whole thing so that I have one whole piece of paper that has a neat pattern!

Personal Narrative: Father's Day by Liam

Father’s Day by Liam

"On Father's Day my sister Ella and I got into a fight when she thought I ruined her oversized chalkboard when really it was water damage. But how would I know that when I'm four! I took too long to come up with a excuse so I said it was a ghost.

She did not believe me so I chased after her and somehow we ended up in the basement. I chased her around the couch and she dove onto the couch and put a pillow over her face. I tried yanking it but it didn't budge so I tried punching it, I heard a crunch noise and suddenly she let go of the pillow, and that's what did it, it knocked her tooth out. She got up and ran to my dad who was working outside.

I knew I was in trouble.

The world stopped when I looked out the kitchen window and saw my sister showing my dad. I hid in my room looking out the window until I heard a door open, I looked to my left, there he was standing in my room doorway starting up the world again.

He had a talk with me, he said if I ever did something like that again I would get in bigger trouble. So technically I didn't get in trouble but I was still sobbing when he said it was a baby tooth.

From that day on even till this day I'd like to go back and show my sister what it looks like so I could show my family what it looked like to get her in trouble for not giving a four year old some slack. And she knew I get mad easily so she was not aloud to make me mad, I'd like to see her get in trouble for once."

pendulums by finley

In the month of October, the 5B science class studied pendulums at the Glenridge elementary school. They studied pendulums so they could understand different forces. They got an assignment to experiment with pendulums.

   What is a pendulum?

A pendulum is something hanging and swinging freely from a fixed point. A grandfather clock might use for timekeeping a pendulum that swings back and forth.

Above is a pendulum. Weight swings back and forth around the vertical axis. The vertical axis is the blue dotted line in the picture above.

There are three forces at work on a pendulum: Gravity, Friction and Opposite Force. Gravity is a force that pulls things down closer to the center of the Earth.  In the picture above gravity is pulling the grey ball down to the ground.  Friction is a force that allows the object to swing freely from the fixed point.  The weaker the friction is, the more freely the ball will swing.

Opposite force is a force that pushes against gravity.  When the ball swings up, the opposite force is pushing against gravity.

October article by Rhadi

My Conference

The first conference in Rhadi’s new school. he wasn’t that nervous at first.They were talking then the teacher (Ms.Barnes) showed them something he did silly, and his parents laughed. he know’s it was with why. he does not know why, but he felt embarrassed.

So he and his mom got out the car and there were grey clouds, raining,and it getting darker by the minute.  So he guessed it was bound for somebody to feel weird?  So when they were going in the school he cracked a couple jokes.  But when they came in the class it was strictly seriousness.  So they talked about the grades and how he was doing socially.

But then she brought up something he did silly on work.  So of course his parents laughed.  And for some reason, he felt kind of embarrassed. He did’nt tell his parents, but they know now.  But he had to get with it, so he laughed to.  And then they talked about the rest,and then when they walked out.  Then his dad said, ”I’m so proud of you, for adjusting to a new school so quick” and he said ”thank you.”  And his mom said ”and thank you for being so quick to agree to have to change schools.” he said ”your welcome” and they walked out of  his first conference in his new school.

October blog article by stella

SCHOOL PHOTOS RETURNED

              By stella

At Glenridge school students got back their photos from picture day. Some people's looked good, some looked fine some looked not so good.

Most students said their photos looked bad. At that time when everybody got their photos back there were a lot of commotion in that room. Madeline said “ Looked like I was photo shopped” she also said “No, my picture is not good” . katie has a different side of the story “Yes, I think my photo looked great, my dress matched the background”.  “It was ok”. Claims Christian.

On October 27 2016 is retake day at Glenridge school.  That is when you retake your picture if you and your family think it is not the best. When everybody got their photos back immediately everyone started talking about their picture most of the people in that classroom did start talking when they got their photos back.In 2017 the same thing probaly will be the same, everyone talking about their photos.

This is one of the many things students talk about at Glenridge school.

October article by Eliot

                                     Art   class

                                                                     By Eliot

It was a B day - basically how the school organizes our specials.  B day is an art day.   So after math and discovery the  class (5B) went downstairs to the bottom floor and lined up at the art room door.  Mrs. Oliver, the art teacher, greeted us as we came into the art room.  She always says, “Good morning!” or “How are you doing?” or “Hi.”

The class sat down at their tables and then when Mrs. Oliver walked into the room she told us what we were going to do for the lesson, and the lesson was creating linoleum designs and then printing the linoleum  design with ink on a piece of paper.    Mrs. Oliver showed us how to create a design and transfer the design from the paper to the linoleum.  So once the class finished their designs they gathered around the table and watched Mrs. Oliver carve out her linoleum design and teach  the class how to do that. So then the class went back to their tables and took the tool Mrs. Oliver used to carve out her linoleum piece.

So Mrs. Oliver told the class not to carve towards us and keep our non-carving hand behind the carving hand so that we would not hurt ourselves, since the carving tool was really sharp.  So the class started carving and some children were still making their design for their linoleum piece.  

So the class carved  and carved and carved until Mrs. Oliver  said it was time to clean up so the class finished what they were on and  put their materials away  and put their linoleum pieces in the center of the table that the children sat at.  Mrs. Oliver dismissed each table to go outside to the playground for recess.

Evan said that it was really fun carving, Ian said that it was fun because it was satisfying, Cha Cha said that it was really fun because she got to use a sharp tool, and Adam said that it was the best art class ever!