Mrs. Kalvig’s Creative Kids Newsletter
5th Grade Gazette
Education is the ticket to success!
NOVEMBER
What Are We Doing?
By: Kagan Wallace Stockton
We have been learning how to use IMovie.
We have made a few little movie of the school.
In math we are learning about angles and
using a protractor. In history, we have been
learning about the countries first government.
So far we know that the first government had
no president and each state was independent.
That’s what we have been learning about in
the last two weeks. Have a nice week.
Did You Know?
THE 3RD-5TH GRADE MUSIC
PROGRAM IS DECEMBER
13. YOU WILL MEET IN
MRS. KALVIG’S ROOM AT
5:40. YOUR PARENTS NEED
TO BRING YOU TO THE
CLASSROOM TO PICK UP A
PROGRESS REPORT.
The Importance of Staying Healthy
Not everybody likes exercise, but
exercise is very good for your health.
Exercise gives you exercise and just
keeps your body healthy. There are all
kinds of exercise and they all help you
with different things, like running helps
you to most of the time burn fat while
lifting weights helps you to get stronger.
By Sammy
Facts about elephants
In order to stay healthy you can also
change your diet, you can start to eat
healthier. Eating healthy really helps it
gives you nutrients and strength that
you can’t get from exercising. There are
all kinds of food that can keep you
healthy, milk, broccoli, and a bunch of
vegetables. That’s just you can do to
keep yourself healthy.
The elephant is a large
mammal of the Elephantidae
family.
They are represented by
three extant species: the African
bush elephant, The African forest
elephant and the Asian elephant.
Elephants are the largest living
terrestrial animals.
CHARACTER COUNTS!
By: Kaitlyn Phillips
The character counts student of
the next two weeks is Kaitlyn
Phillips. The word for the next
few weeks is COOPERATION. Kaitlyn
Phillips has shown cooperation by
cooperating in class activities,
helping others, and by including
others. That’s why Kaitlyn Phillips
is our character counts student!!!
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SAILBOATS
Student Council News
BY: PRESIDENT BEA
BY: KAITLYN PHILLIPS
This week in Mrs. Kalvig’s class we have
been learning about sailboats. We have read a
story called Sailing Home. It’s about a girl and
her family and their life living on a boat. Did
you know that the front of a boat is called a
stern and the back is called the bow? A
sailboat depends on the wind to move. They
have a sail sort of like an airplane wing side
ways! A sailboat has a wing at the bottom
called a keel. Wind comes from the air and
pushes the sail one direction and the boat
leans. Why doesn’t the boat tip over? Well
because, water currents push the keel in the
opposite direction witch squeezes the sailboat
together from each sides to keep the boat
straight. It also squeezes it and pushes it
straight ahead. Sometimes a ship can broach,
witch means to tip to one side and is in
danger of sinking. That’s what we learned
about this week in Mrs. Kalvig’s class!
Hello, I would like to
inform you that we are having
a Can Food Drive through
December 14, 2012. It doesn’t
have to be cans, it can also be
oatmeal packs or noodles. The
cans will be given to the
needy people so they can eat.
Student Council will be
collecting the cans from each
room and will count how
many cans each class has. So
please bring cans for the Can
Food Drive. The class that
brings the most cans will win a
Pizza Party in their classroom.
THE INUPIAQ LEARNING FRAMEWORK (ILF)
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ELECTRONICS
Just a quick note to remind you that
electronics (phones, kindles, nooks,
ipads, ipods, etc) are not to be
brought to school. Under no
circumstance, should a student be
given permission for electronics to
be at school and specifically at
recess in the gym or library.
BUS SAFETY WEEK
This week we are going to have a
presentation from the bus barn
about safety. It is important to
remember that riding the bus is a
privilege and we need to follow the
bus driver’s rules. There is no food
or electronics on the bus.
Snow White
This is our classroom snowy owl
named Snow White. She visits us
almost everyday by sitting on the light
pole outside our window. Our snowy
owl is a female because males are
completely white. We are wondering if
she has babies. A clutch size for snowy
owls is 3-11 eggs. One day she
swooped right in front of our window.
We think she was going after her prey.
Did you know?
Unlike most owls, which are nocturnal, snowy
owls are diurnal—they hunt and are active both
day and night.
6-Trait Writing Assessment
It is 6-trait writing time at Ipalook.
This is a writing exam used to score
students on their writing ability.
The students write about a prompt
and then they are graded using a 6trait rubric.
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NO Rec List
Starting September 19th, Ipalook will be
implementing the 'No Rec List' for all
students. If your child is placed on the 'No
Rec List', a fax is sent to BHS, Piuraagvik,
Boys & Girls Club, and the roller rink to be
posted. Your child will not be able to
participate in any after school
extracurricular activities while on the list. If
you have questions regarding this notice,
please call the Ipalook office.
at 852-4711.
ANIMAL FACTS!
ELECTRONICS
Mountain Lion
Mountain lions are a group that
lives together.
Just a quick note to remind you
that electronics (phones, kindles,
nooks, ipads, ipods, etc) are not to
be brought to school. Under no
circumstance, should a student be
given permission for electronics to
be at school and specifically at
recess in the gym or library.
Female mountain lions are the
pride of hunters.
Mountain lions are one of
greatest cats in the world.
By: Sammy Keovilayhong
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