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What Happens In The Classroom At Night?

What happens in the Grade 5 classroom at night?

Eugene: The monkeys and spiders will make armies and fight but sometimes they don’t want to fight so they party all night.  They made too much noise so the cops came and caught some spiders and monkeys. That is probably why the spiders and monkeys might disappear sometimes. 

Bronte: The spiders tap dance on the ceiling. Jaforee becomes visible. Monkeys go out and steal bananas. Cops run around the classroom trying to catch the monkeys. The furniture dances. There is a big disco ball and music. They make a humongous mess. Eventually, the magic of morning fills the classroom and the mess, disco balls, and the magic of night disappears ready to make things chaotic the next night. Everything goes back to normal.
Martin:The monkeys will go out of the classroom and go to the lunchroom and eat everything  and prepare the disco party. After that the monkeys will go to the computer room and play games and watch videos and after it is morning they run back to the classroom.
Darius: The monkeys start having a disco party and go crazy but in the morning the monkey king comes and makes everything back to normal. The monkey king’s magic word is “CENTER” which makes everything back to normal.
Nao: Everyone in the classroom will be crazy and fun.
Liam: Monkeys come alive and they have a Disco party. There are also bananas, cops, and stealing (They only steal bananas). Beware of Grade 5 at night.
Leo: The class monkeys wake up and celebrate their own free time by raising a Disco Party and drink and party as they like.
Matt: The  monkeys come alive and sabotage the internet on several days straight since the internet doesn’t work all that often. On other days, they try to fight for the supreme king and they mock and dance behind Mr. Robus when he is writing our POTD and DSR answers. That is why the answers have mistakes since Mr. Robus has to conk the monkeys on the head and tell them to center. 
Kanon: Monkeys began to move around the classroom. The window opened and spies came in and began a conference with the monkeys all eating bananas that Maurice stole from the market. The next morning, Mr.Robus came into the classroom and slipped on a banana peel.
Runa: The monkeys will go out and steel bananas. Then they get caught by the police. 
Rachelle: Maurice, the monkey thief, prepares to sneak out and steal bananas. While the other critters (Pooh bear, Stretch, Camou, and Oz) have a… DISCO PARTY!!!
Miyu: Mr.Robus’s computer turns on and Maurice and other monkeys play around.
Christine: The monkeys, Maurice, Stretch, Oz, and Camou will play tag and swing around Robustania, and then, they will basically get into a fight, they will throw markers around and pour all the things in our red bin out.  ( That’s why our red-bins get messy when we get back to school in the mornings) Then Maurice goes to steal BANANAS!!!
Henry: The monkeys work on plans to steal tomorrow’s lunch.
Kazuki: They search for leftover food and  start a disco party!
Janelle: I think Maurice, Stretch, Oz, and Camou are having a party, running around and playing while we are not there or maybe even sneak out and steal some bananas!
Becky: The monkeys (Maurice, Stretch, Oz, and Camou), with Maurice in the lead will sneak out of the classroom and steal all the bananas. Then, the police will come with handcuffs and take them all to court. Maurice gets outvoted by the other monkeys saying that he tricked them into doing it. Maurice gets taken to prison and the other monkeys return safely to Robustania. There, they have a DISCO PARTY!, and wake Mr. Robus at 3:00 a.m. causing him to make mistakes in the math answers. 
Phoebe: The monkeys booked a flight to Hawaii and started doing the Hawaiian grass skirt dance. Then they flew back to Taiwan and made even more mess in Robustania, violating a bunch of laws. Then the monkeys started to escape from jail but Maurice accidently fell asleep on the classroom lights, giving all the monkeys away.

Summer Reading List For Those Who Want To Keep Their Brains From Going Stale

Suggested Summer Reading List

It's summer time again and time for all of us to be outside as much as we possibly can. However, given where we live and the unbearable midday heat that we have to deal with most days, you're going to be finding yourselves looking for something to do while you wait for the cooler part of the day to set in between lunch and dinner time.

As you will know, I like to set challenges for myself when it comes to reading and the best way to keep achieving new heights is to keep track of what I have read. Try to remember how many books you read last summer and do what you can to outdo your previous best. 

Below you will find a few recommendations to help you along should you take a look at your own bookshelf and discover that you have read all of the books that it holds. 
Should you struggle to find any of the titles below at your local library or any of the local bookstores, contact each other. Don't forget that Miyu and Kanon had quite a library going in the room throughout the year and could help you with finding out who has books worth reading. Get a book club going until you all meet up again in Grade 6. 

Until then, here's a list of recommendations that I am still working through. 

I.              Books Worth Reading

General:

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder 
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade  by Barthe DeClements

Stuart Little by E.B. White

No Talking by Andrew Clements

The View From Saturday E.L. Konigsburg

Little White Duck: A Childhood in China by Na Liu

Play Makers by Mike Lupica

Big Nate Flips Out by Lincoln Pierce

Drama – Raina Telgemeier

Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

Science Fiction/Fantasy:

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Inheritance Series)

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (series)

Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (series)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan (series)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling                             (series)

Poetry:

A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai

II.            Authors Worth Reading

Kate Dicamillo
Michael Morpurgo
Andrew Clements

Roald Dahl

Pam Munoz Ryan

Judy Blume

Mike Lupica

Lincoln Pierce

Neil Gaiman

Rick Riordan

J.K. Rowling

Cynthia Rylant

Cornelia Funke

Jean Craighead George

C.S. Lewis

J.R.R. Tolkien

Additional book suggestions:

The Hunger Games (Series)

Stargirl (Series)

Wonder

Number the Stars

Bridge to Terabithia

Tuck Everlasting

Esperanza Rising

House on Mango Street

Where the Red Fern Grows

The Red Pony

Ender’s Game (Series)

The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)

Savvy (Series)

Smile

Sisters

The Secret Garden

James and the Giant Peach

Coraline

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Series)

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Series)

Artemis Fowl

Holes

The Little Prince

Matilda

In the mood for a challenge? If you feel you are ready, you may take on the classic authors and their works. Romeo and Juliet, Jane Eyre, Oliver Twist, Little Women, Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, to name a few. But you can’t go wrong with anything by George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, the Bronte sisters, William Shakespeare, or Jane Austen!

TOP RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

1.    Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

2.    Wonder by R.J. Palacio

3.    Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Suggested Summer Reading List 
for ESL Students

Below are 10 books ranked in order from easiest to most difficult. These are all fantastic reads for 5^th grade ESL students. Enjoy!

1. David Gets in Trouble by David Shannon

2. Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

3. Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel  

4. Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes

5. Stuart Little by E.B. White

6. Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne*

7. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

8. Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary*

9. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

10. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

Hours Left of Grade 5

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Last Day of School, June 19th, 2020

Bus students will leave at 12PM
Taxi students will leave at 12:05
Pick up students will be sent to the foyer/gate at 12:10

Have a good summer.

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Roald Dahl - The REAL BFG

Roald Dahl was really tall, and though I can't find any evidence to support my idea. I think he based the character The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) on himself.

How family tragedy turned Roald Dahl into a medical pioneer

After his wife's stroke and his daughter's death from measles, Roald Dahl applied his genius to medicine - making extraordinary breakthroughs. His doctor and friend recalls what he learned while treating the author in the last year of his life

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