Time for Kids - Year-Round School

According to the National Association for Year-Round Education , about 3,000 schools in the United States have year-round programs. What is your opinion on this? Do you think our school should be year-round? Explain why you think this.

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How do we "show, not tell"? This picture shows a girl that is excited. Use words to describe what a person looks like, sounds like, and feels like when they are excited.

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Time for Kids: September

Read the article "Fighting the Flames" and post a comment about what you thought while reading it.

Field Day 2009

Hopkins Elementary School's Field Day was a lot of fun because lot's of parents, friends, and students had smiles on their faces the whole day. Mrs. Hester, P.E teacher, says " I know a bunch of ya are asking Why are we having Field Day so early in the school year?" She responds to herself, "Because I or you don't have to worry about these terrible weather conditions." Mrs. Hester is absolutely correct.

We had Field Day on September 11, The reason why: people who were killed on 911- to celebrate their lives and most importantly to have fun!If you don't know what Field Day is it is a lot of events where you participate in activities. The fifth graders get to choose their own station and help the younger kids with their Field Day. Lot's of fifth grade students said it was awesome. I asked fellow students what they thought about Field day and one girl named Amy said, "I thought Field Day was awesome and fun." I thought that was great too.

Each station had a state on them and a few fun facts about them. I thought the football station was the best station but a lot of them were great. Thank-you Mrs. Hester!! On Field Day Hopkins Elementary school gave free water bottles out to each kid in the school so after Field Day we can recycle them and hopefully get a bunch of money to our school. Each student who participated in Field Day had a passport. The reason you get a passport is the state at each station has a stamp. The stamp is a symbol of that state. So at the end of Field Day you should have eight stamps. Great ideas Mr. Brueckner and Mrs. Hester! If you would like to learn more about our field day go to: **WWW.littletonpublicschools.com\**HopkinsElementaryschoolI would like to thank Mrs. Hester, Mr. Brueckner, the fifth graders, [ they rock!] and all other helpers of Field Day.


- By Scott

September 4, 2009

Why Laptops are so Important to the Classroom

Laptops are important in the classroom for many reasons. Some of the reasons are we use it for math, free writing, to log in what we are reading, write down the things we are excited for 5th grade, more writing, and much more.

One of the websites we go to is http://www.mrsurbanek.wikispaces.com/ where we do most of the school work. At math time, we go into the website to do math games at one of our math centers of the math rotations. This helps us practice and improve our math skills. At writing time, we free write about whatever we want. Also, we go on a website called http://www.writingroadmap2.com/, where we do writing on a topic the teacher, Mrs. Urbanek, gives us. Then we write about what we are excited for in fifth grade on the wiki. Then we do a book review on books we read once a month. My class focuses on fat questions, which are thinking questions. We have to restate it.

Laptops can be used as a dictionary when we write. It can also save paper. We can use it for research when we are on the internet.
I think laptops are the most important thing in fifth grade. We use it for a lot of subjects in the classroom. This is why laptops are important.

----Athena