A Familiar Face

Hello 5th grade stars!

I hope you've all had a fabulous, restful, and enriching summer. Are you ready to begin middle school this fall? I know you'll all do well! I wanted to let you know about an unexpected visitor that stopped by my classroom the other day while I was preparing for the new school year. The visitor was furry, and enjoyed sniffing about the classroom. Here's a picture of him in the classroom library. Yep, it's Rowdy! He loves the new classroom and told me to wish you all luck in 6th grade! Go get 'em!

Vote for Stephen Foster Elementary!

If you've got a facebook account help us out and vote for Stephen Foster Elementary to win $500,000! You can vote 5 times. The contest ends September 3, 2010. Thank you!

Ms. L's new blog

I will be teaching 3rd grade next year. Please visit my new class and me at my new blog.

Remember you can add it to your favorites. :)

Last Day of 5th Grade

This will be one of the last posts on this blog. The 5th Grade Stars are currently enjoying their summer vacation and will soon be 6th Grade Stars at a few middle schools around town. I wish them the best of luck and know that they will do well and take care of each other!

Have a great summer!

P.S. Even though there won't be new posts you can always visit this blog to relive 5th grade memories and look at old pictures. Don't forget you can come visit your old teacher too. :)

Ms. Lipsky's Class 5th Grade Memories and Bloopers

It's been a great year. At Jubilation we will watch a nice slideshow of 5th grade memories, but here are the funny, blooper photos from this year.

So what are some of your favorite 5th grade moments? What will you miss about elementary school and Stephen Foster? What are you looking forward to about middle school? What are you summer plans?

Ms. Lipsky and Stephen Foster will miss you all!!!

THE LIFE OF A FENCER by: james m

"WOW!" "WATCH OUT JESSIE! YOU ARE ABOUT TO GET JABBED IN THE BACK BY THE OTHER FENCING TEAM! OOPS! TO LATE SORRY!" WHY DID YOU DO THAT JAMES? I HAD HIM!" I ignored him because all my attention was on Nickolas, Jessie's twin bro. He was standing at the end of the fencing ring. But in a blink of an eye he lunged his sword at me! I blocked it. Then he went for my leg.I missed the block and he hit me! And I was out of the game for a year...

...ONE YEAR LATTER...

I was walking to the fencing ring hoping to beat Nickolas (unlike the last time.) but I know I can do it because I've been practicing all year long, I've improved my strength to. So as I walked in to the ring I found out who my first opponent was, and if you were thinking Nickolas you were correct it was him. but no one was cheering for me which really got me down. as he was going in for the kill, I saw my sister Taylor and Jessie starting to cheer for me! That perked me up so much I gave Nickolas a upper cut, and jabbed him in the stomach! But my strand of luck was over because Nickolas commanded his team to attack me! But at that moment Taylor and Jessie came to my aid. So we picked them off one by one, well that made nick mad and he lunged his sword at me I got the block and hit him!! I was a new champion and a great fighter.

spoiler alert the life of harry potter by NICK

Harry's mum and dad were killed by this man named Tom. Tom is called Lord Voldermort he killed them. Harry had to stay with aAunt Petunia tand Uncle Vernon and there son Dudley. They were mean to Harry. He goes to Hogwarts every year with his best friend Ron , Hermine , Ginny , Neville , Luna , Fred and George. FIN

PITBULLS BY JAMES L

I'm writing about how people make pitbulls fight. It is wrong! There is no reason for it. One people take avantage of pitbulls because people know that they are protective dogs. It is against the law but people still do it and sometimes it kills pitbulls and they can't do any thing about it. When people are fighting pitbulls they either get injured bad or sometimes even killed and the owners don't even care at all. If I had the right I would only give the great dogs to great owners that won't hurt them just people that will care for them great. And I would make them protected like an endangered species. Here is a picture of a pitbull if you don't know what they look like.

Update on Rowdy Blackjack

Remember Rowdy? Well, he is not as little as he used to be. He now weighs 10 pounds and loves to run, play fetch, and bark at squirrels. Here's a picture of Rowdy on his most recent car trip to Atlanta. That's his favorite toy next to him.

DALE EARNHARDT DEVSTATING RACE

Dale Earnhardt was one of the best Nascar drivers. On Febraury 18, 2001 at the Daytona 500 on the last lap everything was over. He crashed. He got a basilar skull fraction. Dale was married and had children. His sponser was Goodwrench. He was the #3 car. It was a sad moment.

By James

JIMMY JOHNSON. by Josh

Do you like Jimmy Jonson? I think he is the best. He is #48 in the NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES. Jeff Gordon is Jimmy Jonson's teammate.He is#24 in the SPRINT CUP SERIES. If you watch NASCAR,who do you like better Jimmy Jonson or Tonw Stewert? I like Jimmy Jonson better.Oh,Tony Stewert drives the Office Depot #14 car.Now all the action comes from the CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES. My favorite driver is Mike Skinner. I forgot what # he was but he is great.

History on Tony Hawk ,by james

Pro skate border Tony Hawk was born on may 12 ,1968. Tony's birth place is Sandiego, California. His parents names are Frank and Nancy Hawk. Tony has 3 siblings there names are, Lenore, Patricia, & Steve Hawk. He all so has 4 kids there names are Riley, Spencer, Keenan, & kadence Hawk.

When he was a kid Tony's older bro gave him a fiberglass skate Bord that changed his life for ever,and by that I mean he started skating more & more, and soon got better & better, and when he got good ( and I mean good.) it changed his personal FOREVER. By the time he was 14 he was a pro, at 16 he was the best skate border EVER.

poems from Tori {ROLLING DOWN THE HILL}

I'm rolling rolling down down a hill . Rolling on warm warm grass . Then splish splash in a puddle.Soon passed many bushes and into the park. All of a sudden BAM into a tree . Like mom always said ," Never roll down a hill."

poetry by, von

THE HOUSES

Two trees in the forest one burns down yet the other still stands.

Families move while their home disintegrates.

HUNGRY

The wind will blow the earth will shake still will my stomach ache?

Can't wait till dinner time and the taste of chicken rolled in thyme.

Can't wait to use my feet to go in the kitchen to get something to eat.

( but I would rather have sushi)

LIGHTNING

A bright strike of heat and light.

A bomb of fire so great in height.

A positive and negative charge,

So awesome and so large.

Two differEnt opinions about Tebow

JAMES'S opinion

Tim Tebow is one of the best college ball players ever. He won two championships and a heisman. He was drafted for the denver broncos they should be glad he is on the team.He was born in jacksonville FL.Lets see how he does.

BYRON'S opinion


Former Flordia QB drafted to denver. He won't make it. He's good and all but thats in college.NFL is not a good choice for tebow.Im a gator fan but he probley should have not signed but thats my opinion.

EOD,byAlex

The EOD stands for explosive ordnance disposle. In the EOD you need a lot of training. You deal with bombs, explosives, missiles, and things like that. You will need a military degree. Its also one of the longer classes. The EOD is the job for me.

camp crystal

Watz up my name is Tatyana am talking about camp crystal.When ms,Lipsky started to tell us about camp crystal almost fainted.I was so shocked.We did activities my two favorites were archery.I love when we did tweedy with the tubes.I was sad when we left i almots cried.

Beatiful Butterflies

Watz up our name is

Amber, jade, Garicia we decided to write this on the blog because we thought that we should tell you about our butterflies. We have been raising butterflies in our classroom. In the class we watched in the larva into the pupa and then the imago(adult).Then finally the beautiful butterfly. We waited about a week in a half . We were very excited . Every day we came to the back table and seen if they had hatched yet. Then one morning,we came into the room and we saw 4 little butterflies flying every where,going wild. But there was one that went into his/her cocoon late. Then on May 3,2010 it hatched. And it was a happy day for them.

Persey Harvin,Tim tebow,and Brandon Spikes

Persey Harvin. To me he is the first NFL player to be the greatiest. Persey plays on the Vikings. I think he made the team better. Brandon Spikes is going to make the Paterots better. Tim Tebow wanted to go to the jagwiers but he went to the Broncoes. I think that Ely Manning is better than Paton Manning.

By Josh

Adrian and Fidels Track and Field Meet

We where in the sac and block relay. Fidel won 2nd and 3rd place for the sac relay. Adrian won 1st and 3rd in the sac relay, but none in block relay. Niether did Fidel. But it was off the chain. another kid got injured and had to get sent to the hospital from a broken arm . And one kid almost passed out because of dehydration. But it was still off the chain! It was real fun racing though me and Adrian were tired we liked racing. We needed to drink alot of water so we couldn't have dehydration.

Puberty

In 5th grade we have learned about puberty. Sweat glands produce more sweat. And how your vocal chordes grow and you crack and sqeak alot.How you may start to grow more hair on your head and some under your armpits. How fast girls and boys develop.And that pimples may start to braeak out more if you don't wash your face well.

By Kody

THE AMAZING TRACK AND FIELD.

On April 23,2010 we went to a track and field meet it was agenst all the schools all 5th grade.

Track and field was great .Tug of war came in seconde. We only lost to the same team twice. That was bogus man. We would of been in another compitition but sence we were in the tug of war we had to pull all day long.


From Josh, aka the man

Human Growth and Development

It all started when Ms.Lipsky gave us a paper that was about human growth and development. Two days later,we started to learn about our body's we had a test about it. After it was over the teachers separated us boys in one room and the girls in another room. We learned about puberty,and we also got to learn things that we didn't know.


From Daisy,

Celebrating Earth Day!

Our school decorated brown grocery bags with Earth Day messages. The grocery bags were borrowed from Publix and will be returned so that shoppers requesting "paper" will receive one of our bags and messages. Take a look at the Lipsky Team's Earth Day Bags below.

The idea came from www.EarthDayBags.org visit their site!
Lipsky Team if you could tell the world one message on Earth Day what would it be?

You Can Help TOO!

Click on the below box to play a geography game that donates water to people in need. Play as many times as you'd like!



Click on this link to play vocabulary, math, science, foreign language, or art games. Correct answers donate rice to people in need.

Practice practice!

Just like the Solar System Quiz here is a practice quiz on the environment. Remember to click from question to question.

Environment Quiz

After taking it comment with atleast one fact about the environment or plants and animals that you learned or remembered from this quiz.

Solar System Quiz

Take this solar system quiz for practice. Read all directions before beginning.

Directions: Click on the link below and then click Open (not save or cancel). To get to the next question you will click anywhere on the screen. Do not click to the next question until you have thought of your answer. This is just for practice, you do not need to write down the answers. When you are done return to the blog by going to it through your favorites. Comment with questions about the solar system (that you know the answers to!) that the quiz did not include. Type the questions and answers for others to try. Good luck!!

Solar System Quiz

Hey Science Nerds!

Just kidding. You all have been doing an awesome job lately during science review for FCAT. Here are some fun websites to visit that Ms. Brady shared with me. Try them at school when you finish your work early, or at home.

Erosion games:
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/shapeitup.html
http://www.webrangers.us/activities/rockpark/?id=22

Seasons:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/007299181x/student_view0/chapter2/seasons_interactive.html

Links to lots of science games (scroll down to 5th grade):
http://www.uen.org/3-6interactives/science.shtml

Ms. L was up late last night playing these fun games. Don't be like Ms. L get a good night's sleep before the FCAT.

Camp Crystal Lake (the AFTER post)

Is anyone else still tired? Man, what a trip! Archery, team building, hikes, a hayride, and learning about all different kinds of ecosystems and animals. I know we all enjoyed the s'mores and the dance, but what else? Did you make any new friends?

Comment with three things that you learned and a few things you enjoyed.
Also enjoy these pictures of the Lipsky Team at Camp.

All the 5th grade teachers.

The entire 5th grade.