Grade Five Alive!

While we’re all enjoying our spring break, I thought this would be a good time to post this piece about Ruby’s Hawaiian vacation a few months ago.

In January I was lucky enough to go to Hawaii. I will share my favorite parts of my trip.

When my friend, her parents, and I first got there we checked into our first hotel. Later on we went to Maui, but the first island we went to was Honolulu. 

On our first day we unpacked and walked around a bit. My friend and I persuaded her parents to go to an ice cream shop. The ice cream shop had many unusual flavors but my two favorite flavors were macadamia nut (with real macadamia nuts!) and green tea.  It really tasted like green tea.

Then we happened to pass a toy store called Animation Magic that had some cool toys like cactus pups and moofias which me and my friend and I now have a collection of. But, the thing we got the most of is pearls.

When we went to Maui that’s all we wanted was pearls. I also came home with some WebKinz and Japanese food erasers which were very cool. One day my friend and I went to a kids club.  We got to go to the Hawaii Zoo and see alligators and leopards. Then we went to the hotel room and took a nap. Going to a zoo is tiring! 

Finally we went swimming in this cool pool for two hours, and after we went to a luau.

~Ruby

Last night our school held the very first game night for parents, students, and teachers.  We called it Are You Smarter Than A BHMCS Student?  It was adults vs. students.  Everyone passed the remote to the next person until we all had a turn. When someone new stepped up to answer, Ms. C would ask us the question on the projector, and then we had to answer, with the remote, either a, b, c, or d.  Most of the time the students and the adults would answer the same thing.  Uggh! :0  I still had an awesome time though. :)  Everyone pretty much had a great time.  

In between the trivia questions, we had bonus questions and raffles.  When we got a bonus question right, we got a special treat like reece’s, m&m’s, and twizzlers.  And, there were plenty of cool prizes for the winning tickets.  In fact, I was actually one of the people to win!  I was in shock when I found out I had one of the winning raffle tickets because I have never won one of these things before. :]  I looked at all of the prizes and decided to go for the certificate to Cartwheels because there weren’t many other prizes when I went up there. 

There were six people from my class who attended, including me.  Daniela, Kaitlin, Nick, Shawn, and Elias.  Daniela chose the April vacation basket full of fun.  Nick took the Red Sox trivia challenge, which I would have chosen if he didn’t take it.  ^-^   Sadly Kaitlin, Shawn, and Elias didn’t win anything. 

Anyway, the score was close.  At some parts of the night the students were winning by a couple of points, and at other parts during the night, the adults were winning by 1 or 2 points.  It was just one question after the other.  No one had a clue who was going to win.  In the end the  ………………………………………………………………………….  students won with a whopping 70 points to 66 points!!!!!

                                                                            ~ Tori      

Tonight is our variety show!

My friends and I are in the talent show together. We are all wearing sports jerseys and doing a dance to a song called The MCAS. Liana and I are doing round offs while Mariah and Dishinia are doing cartwheels.

Mariah and Deja changed the lyrics to a Hannah Montana song called Nobody’s Perfect.  Some of the lyrics to our song are:

“We’re doing the MCAS, you study the answers, again and again, til we get them right. We’re doing the MCAS, we’re living and learning, and we wont m-ess up this test, we’ll get it perfect.”

And then it goes: 

“Test girls in the house, we’re doing the MCAS, you study the answers, again and again, til we get them right. We’re doing the MCAS, you’re living and learing and we wont m-ess up this test, we’ll get it perfect, word!”

Some of my friends are also in the variety show doing double dutch jump rope. Double dutch is when you have two long ropes, and there are two people swinging the ropes. Then one, two or even three people can jump in. There can be any song when you jump, but you have to switch your feet like “One two, swing with me.” Then, over and over you say, “One two, switch your feet.”

~Genevieve~ 

Today was a an awesome day. We designed our own windmills!

All we needed to make a windmill is a carton, string, cup with a hole punch, material and popsicle sticks for the turbines (or blades), Styrofoam ball for the hub, for the turbines, and a wooden stick for the dowel. Put it all together and you have a windmill and it’s all yours! My partner and I used an octagon shape on our four, medium-sized turbines.

Next get a fan, plug it in, turn it on, and let the windmill go!

After we finished designing it our own way, we tested the windmill working to lift a cup of pennies. The most pennies lifted was almost 100! All of our designs were successful!

~Hannah