October 2016

The class newsletter written and published

by Mr. Phams Fifth Grade Students - Class of 2017
For past newsletters, please go to www.mrpham.org

Drug Free
Pledge
I pledge allegiance to myself
and who I want to be.
'Cause I can make my dreams come
true if I believe in me.
I pledge to stay in school and learn
the things I need to know.
To make the world a better place
for kids like me to grow.
I pledge to keep my dreams alive
and be all that I can be.
I know I can, and that's because
I pledge to stay
Drug Free!
This years Red Ribbon Week was on
the week of October 23-30, 2016. In
our class, we talked about the dangers of
drugs. We all stood up and took the
Drug-Free Pledge. We pledged to grow
up safe, healthy and drug free. We
understood the dangers of drug use and
abuse. We promised to respect ourselves
and spread the word to family and
friends about the importance of being
healthy and drug free.
Room C7 Students
& Teacher

Report cards were sent home on
Wednesday, November 2. Please go over
the report with your child and
encourage your child to either maintain
their effort or try harder in this 2nd
Quarter. Please sign and return the
Report Card Envelope. If you want to
discuss about the report card please
feel free to let me know. I will be happy
to review and answer any questions you
may have.
We will have our Quarter 2 Parent
Conferences after the Thanksgiving
break. I will send home notices in the
coming weeks.
With the promise that you will be
informed of everything thats going on
in the classroom, on Monday each week,
I will send home a Learning Schedule
showing what we are doing in class in
each subject. The Schedule also lists
due dates for projects and test dates.
Please take a look at this schedule and
remind your child to pay attention to
deadlines and know when a test is
coming up. The Weekly Learning
Schedule is also available on our class
website at www.mrpham.org for you to
view or printout another copy if
necessary. Although I always place the
responsibility on the students every
chance I get, I realize that they are still
very young, and at times, need
reminders to be on top of things.
On that note, please make reading
and homework a top priority at home,
provide necessary supplies and a quiet
environment, set aside a time every day
when homework and reading should be
done, provide praise and support, not
allow children to avoid doing their
homework, and contact me if you notice
a problem.
We can do this
Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
October Character Counts
RESPECT
Treat others with respect; follow the Golden Rule.
Be tolerant and accepting of differences. Use
good manners, not bad language. Be considerate
of the feelings of others. Don't threaten, hit or
hurt anyone. Deal peacefully with anger, insults,
and disagreements. Oscar Yasriyah
Oscar and Yasriyah were recognized in our class for
showing the Character RESPECT in October.
Celebrating our
Multiculture
Asian Moon Festival
Many important events are based on
the lunar calendar, and one special day,
the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar
month, is set aside to celebrate the Mid-
Autumn or Moon Festival.
According to the people of Vietnam, this is the day of the year when the
moon shines the largest and brightest. It can occur any evening between late
September and early October. The legend that accompanies this festival tells
the story of Hau Duy, an Imperial officer and expert archer. He was called
upon to shoot nine suns that had suddenly appeared in the sky. He was also
an excellent architect and built a
beautiful jade palace for the goddess of the
Western Heaven. The goddess rewarded him
with a pill of immortality and told to take it
after one year of prayer. At home, Hau
Duys wife, Hang Nga, discovered it.
She swallowed the pill and immediately
soared to the moon. According to the
legend, Hang Ngas beauty is the most
radiant on the evening of the Moon festival.
Today, families get together to celebrate the
Festival. It is a public holiday and adults enjoy
an evening moon gazing while drinking tea and munching on moon cakes.
Children meanwhile, make lanterns out of bamboo and color papers,
parading through the streets singing songs. Houses with doors open will
welcome the children and give out candies or prizes.
In the month of October, our read a story about the traditions of the Moon
Festival. We also made fish lanterns and hung them from the class ceiling.
Mr. Pham made lanterns and paraded with other children when he was a
child. Tony has also attended Lantern Festivals.
 1st Quarter Awards
HONOR
ROLL
STUDENTS
Events and Happenings in Room C7

Sukhpreet Tony Giselle Tristika

Red Ribbon Week
Door Design competition
We, the six students
in Group 5,
submitted a door
design to decorate
Christopher Avant Alexandra Eric Liyah our class door for
Red Ribbon Week.
A.R. STUDENTS Alexander, Micah, Liyah, Sukhpreet, The theme was You
Tristika, Daniel, Christopher, Ciara, Giselle, Jaden, Eric,
Only Live Once: Be
Avant, Savannah, Alexandra, Tony
Drug Free. After a
CITIZENSHIP Oscar, Yasriyah class vote, our
HIGHEST MAP ACHIEVEMENT design was chosen
Reading: Christopher
out of the 6 groups
Math: Tony Science: Eric
designs. We used the
class skeleton to
Halloween 2016 show how drugs can
This years Halloween was a lot of fun. affect your life. Our
We had a Halloween ROACH on whole group worked
October 31 and watched a movie. together to create the
We also have Halloween decorations in the door. The judging
classroom like the skeletons, lighted pumpkins, was done on Friday, October 28 and our class won first
and hanging spiders. We like Halloween place in the 5-8 grade category. Our reward was cookies
because we can go house to house getting and hot chocolate. This contest was really fun!
candies. We can dress up in all kinds of costumes. We The Zombie Queens - Gissele T., Ciara, Savannah,
also wont have homework on Halloween. It was a fun Tristika, Khulood, Giselle P.
Halloween! Our class would like to thank to all the
parents and students who brought goodies to share with
us for our ROACH. Science
The Ghostbusters Camp
Salim, Liyah, Sukhpreet, Evan, Eric, Alexandra
On the week of October 17, 18 students in our class
went to Science Camp at La Honda Santa Cruz
Mountains for a week of learning about nature and the
Accelerated Reader outdoors. We did a lot of fun stuff like hiking, made
fires, and play nature games. Our daily schedule starts at
Accelerated Reader is a program at Rio where you read 7am, follows by breakfast, then outdoor activities until
a book and take a quiz to see if you understand the lunch. After lunch, its b.o.b. time (body on bunk). After
book. Books have different grade levels depending on b.o.b. time, we have apple time, recess, dinner, campfire
the vocabulary in the book. There are 3 goals that you activities and then go to sleep. We also got to see a lot of
have to achieve. 1 is your book grade level. The 2nd banana slugs.
goal is the points. The third goal is the percent correct. Science camp was great and we enjoyed it. Thank
You need 85% correct to make the goal. We read in you to our parents for letting us go and a special thank
class and at home everyday to achieve our AR goals. you to Ms. Martinez and Mr. Coulter for taking us.
The Soul Keepers Dabbing Zombies
Javin, Tony, Avant, Chris, Micah, Mike Matthew, Jaden, Alejandro, Katrina, Estrella
Native American Heritage
During October, we did research about Native
Americans. We each chose a tribe, wrote a report, and
built a diorama.
Tribal Research: We researched the history, housing,
food, hunting, and tools and weapons.
Report: We did a Folder Report on the Indian tribe. It
was fun. We colored their clothes and wrote the tribes
information to create a little booklet.
Diorama: We made houses that the NA lived. We used
paper, cloth, clay, grass, sand, and other materials. Mrs.
Morales and Mrs. Stafford went in and judged our
dioramas. Daniel won 1st place, Eric, 2nd place, Avant,
3rd place, and Christopher, Honorable Mention.
Presentation: The presentation was different than we
expected. What we did for the presentation was we took
our diorama and report and put them on our desks. We
then go around and look at all the dioramas and reports.
The Five Haunted Clowns:
Harjot, Natalia, Amajanai, Yasriyah, Oscar
Please visit our class website to
see more pictures. www.mrpham.org
Technology Update
We spent October using Google docs and Google
slides to create documents and presentations. We also
use the internet for project research. We learned how to
share a file with each other and working on that file at
the same time. We can see the other person typing on the
document. It was very cool.
In November and December, we will continue to use
Google to create a College Research Presentation. Mr.
Pham will teach us how to create our own websites and
upload files and pictures to show everyone what we
have done. Its going to be great.
The Night Chickens
Dalyn, Luke, Alexander, Daniel, Alex
1. Farmer Salim has seventeen turkeys. All but nine broke
through a hole in the fence and wandered away. How
many were left?
2. What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?
3. Name ten parts of the body that spelled with three
letters each.
4. Jaden just bought a live turkey from the farmer's
market for Thanksgiving dinner. He brought the turkey to
show-and-tell in class and asks: "What side of the turkey
has more feathers?" Can you answer that question?
5. If Mama Bull, Papa Bull, and Baby Bull are in the
pasture and Baby Bull gets scared, who would he run to?
6. While wrestling for the same book from the classroom
bookshelf, Luke and Javin accidently ripped off pages 6,
7, 84, 111, 112. Can you tell how many sheets were torn
from the book?
7. A street thats 30 yards long has a chestnut tree every 6
yards on both sides. How many chestnut trees are on the
entire street?
PRIZES! PRIZES! PRIZES!
There will be a prize for every entry. Special prizes
will be awarded for the first 7 that has the most correct
answers.
Drop your answers in PhamMail.
The deadline for answers is November 16, 2016. Prizes
will be given out on 11/18. Solutions and winners will be
posted in Novembers newsletter. Good luck.
Frightful Laughs
What do witches eat at the beach?
- A sandwitch!!!
Why didn't the skeleton go to the ball?
- Because he had nobody to go with! (no BODY)
What's a mummy's favorite music?
- Wrap (rap) music!
What type of roads do skeletons like to live on?
- Dead ends!
This is whats up in the month of November.
November 1 Evans Birthday
November 2 1st Quarter Report Cards issued
November 4 Awards Assembly
November 11 Veterans Day NO SCHOOL
November 16 2nd Quarter Progress Report issued
November 21-25 Thanksgiving break NO SCHOOL