Force and Motion Games 2025
Force and Motion Games 2025
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This year we continued the tradition of making our force and motion games. Students were tasked to use only used materials (no buying allowed!) to create some type of game that was playable by at least one person and must contain 3 forces. One of the forces HAD to be gravity, the other two was up to them!
J&J created J&J's Mini Golf! They received 5 stars from the players of their game. J explained that players must use the ramp to score.
V and C made The Marvelous Marble Maze with a big marble maze and a tiny marble maze that ended on a golf course. They gave away pencils as prizes if guests hit a pencil on their course! Altogether they got 270 stars.
L, E, and S created The One And Only Hamster Wheel. Students used gravity to keep a ball within a hand made maze. They tried to see how many laps they could make before the bell rang! They got a lot of 4 ratings and one 5!
Z, F, and S created Spectacular Mini Golf that used mini hockey sticks to shoot their ball through a PVC tube into their hole! They mostly got 5 stars... and several hole in ones!
O and J created Furious Field Hockey! Students played inside a rink made of library books with no shoes on! If players made the ball into a cup they got double points! They were rated 5 stars!
B, L,and R created a marble bowling game. They used ping pong balls and a stress ball to knock down paper cups! They received 5 stars!
N created a throwing and catching game! It was difficult to catch the ball during the game, but folks were successful. She got a lot of 4 ratings.
L, E, and S created The One And Only Hamster Wheel. Students used gravity to keep a ball within a hand made maze. They tried to see how many laps they could make before the bell rang! They got a lot of 4 ratings and one 5!
Kid Quotes:
"That was really fun, Mrs. B!"
"Making the games was hard, but playing them was even harder!" "Making the games was fun, but playing them was even funner!" "Funner is not a word." "UGH!"
"Go Marble Mazes! Also, we all mostly got 5 stars!"
"Thank you for teaching us forces and motion."
Time Travel Day
Time Travel Day
We didn't keep up with the blog regularly this year, but we are back to post our end of the year fun!
Today students got to choose from any decade, past, present, or future to come to school dressed as! We began the day by reverting our desk and classroom back to how it was at the beginning of the year. We were on a tidying mission! Then we did a super fun activity where we learned about "Brain Rot" of the Y2K era. It was pretty dope and made us LOL! We made survival guides for future students in Mrs. Boose's class, and colored a giant Brain Rot Graveyard banner to lay some of our favorite phrases to rest. We are leaving Chicken Jockey and SIX SEVVENNNN in the past.
Force and Motion Games
Force and Motion Games
After learning about and observing motion in the wild, students were tasked with creating a game that featured at least one motion.
Once students brainstormed their game, they used materials found in the classroom to build their games. They then wrote about the motion involved, including the types of force that players had to use during the game. We all learned more about pushes, pulls, and gravity!
Next students will be learning about speed and direction, followed by friction! Stay tuned... I'm seeing hot wheels in our future! Vroom Vroom!
B, W, and S made a basketball-esque game. Connecting it to the wall was a blast!
O, P, and M made a table tennis game out of popsicle sticks and paper plates!
E, S, and J made a ski ball game with solo cups and posterboard.
R made a knock down game with pins and a ball made of foil!
C, A, and L made a board game with various creatures that moved around the board!
B made a paper airplane target game, equipped with glitter and gold foil!
Not pictured-- a super awesome soccer game by J and an incredible board game by V!
StarBOOKS Cafe
StarBOOKS Cafe
Today we had a book tasting with a coffee shop theme! Students enjoyed time to explore specially curated books and refreshments, including specialty hot chocolate! While exploring, students wrote down wishlists for themselves and for the classroom. Please ask them about their cafe day and what they are excited to read next!
Social Emotional Learning Update (SEL)
Social Emotional Learning Update (SEL)
This week's SEL theme was on creativity. We discussed how the word "creativity" is used a lot, but that it can mean and be used differently. Our curriculum gave us a quote early in the week that we weren't sure we agreed with. The quote is by Amit Kalantri and it says, "Creativity is admired only if it solves the problem."
On the third day of our unit, students were tasked with 3 problems to solve. They were given a scenario and could only use materials found within the classroom to creatively solve the problem.
Scenario one was about train tracks going missing, the second was about marshmallows, and the third was about aging paper. Please check out the outcome of our STEM challenges!
By the end of our challenge, we determined that creativity is not only admired if it solves a problem-- sometimes, and quite often, creative solutions are admired even if the "solution" fails and the problem continues.
We learned that brown crayon and water won't make the paper look aged, but that the wax in the crayon will make the paper water resistent! Creativity didn't solve the problem, but we still admire the process and outcome!
The Class Nail Business
The Class Nail Business
By: Lana
Have you ever gotten your nails done by a kid? Well our class has a successful nail business and the workers are kids! Our employees include Laney, Hattie, Emma, Lucy and Laurel. Every day they bring nail polish, Nail polish remover, nail stickers, etc from their house.They work hard every day painting peoples nails. They spend their whole recess painting other people's nails! These nice “ladies” have the best nail business!
The Creepy Crickets, the Impeccable Isopods, and the Mysterious Mustard
The Creepy Crickets, the Impeccable Isopods, and the Mysterious Mustard
By: Laurel
Our class made Eco Towers. Part of them were terrariums with plants, crickets, and isopods. You may know them all as the Creepy crickets, the impeccable isopods, and of course the mysterious mustard. Starting with the creepy crickets, many crickets tried to jump out of the terrariums. 2 were successful. Olivia, Nadia, and I had one of our crickets eat the other cricket. It was unsuccessful in the attempt of the murder now our Cricket is twitching. Now for the impeccable isopods. Isopods are a fancy word for Rollie Pollie. The isopods didn't really do much but in some of the terrariums they have made little holes in the ground or curled up in the little ball. I think they were scared of the crickets Or as Lana calls them crockets.The mysterious mustard is a plant that looks sort of brown and is very tiny. They look like tiny little spheres and are very hard to count. Another plant is the ryegrass Which sort of looks like tiny Blades of grass. One more plant that we put in is Alfalfa seeds which are yellowish orange-ish and are very small and are also very hard to count.
Esperanza Roses Internet Vs. Reality
Esperanza Roses Internet Vs. Reality
Our paper roses did NOT turn out the way we expected them to. Don't ever be afraid to start over!
Volume Zoo
Volume Zoo
By: Lana
These amazing Math animals are very fun to make. Our class made animals out of BOXES! Students needed to bring in boxes of all different sizes and choose some for their desired animal. These animals aren't as easy as you might think, we had to cover boxes in construction paper into the shape of our animal and decorate it. But, the hardest part was finding the volume of each box that we chose. In conclusion, these projects were really fun to make and helped us learn more about volume.
Human Body Projects
Human Body Projects
Written by Lily E
In our class we did a human body system project. We first took notes about each body system in our journals. After that we got into groups for each human body system. Then our teacher, Ms. Boose, gave us some yellow paper to kind of try to get an idea of what we want for the final poster. When everyone finished the planning, they moved on to work on the poster. Each group would have to first trace one of their partners to get the shape of a body. Everyone had to draw something different. If you got the skeletal system you would have to draw all the different bones for your poster, if you had the respiratory system you would have to draw the lungs, mouth, ect. Once you have the basic idea of what you want the main part of the poster to be, you would have to label and define what it does to keep your body healthy and alive. Once a group finished Ms. Boose would hang it in the hallway.
Airplane STEM Projects
Airplane STEM Projects
Written by Oliva R
In our class, we did a paper airplane STEM project. It started out when our teacher, Mrs. Boose, gave out colorful pieces of paper to make airplanes and then to see which one flew the best in each group. Once we found out which ones flew the best, we took our airplanes to fly out in the hallway so that we could get the coordinates for our line graphs. Our question was to figure out if adding paper clips affected how our airplanes soared. Each time we flew our airplanes, we’d add another paper clip to it to see how it traveled. Then, it was time to start making our posters with the data we collected when flying the airplanes. For my group, the paper clips made our airplane fly farther every single time we flew it. On every poster, each group had to draw a line graph and show how the paper clips affected how their airplanes flew. Overall, I think all of our posters were amazing!
5th Grade Survival Guides
5th Grade Survival Guides
We are working on posting this year's survival guides, but having technical difficulty with the Canvas to Google transfer. They're amazing, so stay tuned!
End of Year Updates
End of Year Updates
As the year comes to a close, we have so many fun updates! Check out below:
Hospital Day: We reviewed our year with a hospital themed room transformation!
The Garden: We finally have some tomatoes and sun flowers growing! The peppers are coming in HOT! We also have some lemons growing and our zucchini is taking off!
Red Carpet: Well done, guys!
Beach Day: Sadly, we had too much fun to take any pictures!
What a wonderful way to end the year!
Character Day
Character Day
WAAAAY back in Quarter 1 our class blew Boosterthon out of the water! One of our prizes was "Dress as Your Favorite Character Day!" This is our own take as "Book Character Day" as we decided to embrace all characters: Historical, fictional, book, movie, etc. The kiddos did amazing! We voted, and as normal had a 3 way tie! We had to enlist several others to be tie breakers. Eventually it was determined that the "Banana Bros" won... but some say it was rigged!
"Clone Day"
"Clone Day"
Students earned "Clone Day as a Boot Camp prize. I cannot believe that we had so much fun that I forgot to take photos! "Clone Day" is when (participating) students draw a name out of a hat and mimick or clone the friend they chose. For example, Valentina embodied Nathan perfectly, and Chloe F was a fabulous Raina! I did manage to get a few snaps of "Fake Mrs. Boose!" Now we are wondering: Who did it better? I think Kyle may have some competition!
"Dress as the Elderly" Day
"Dress as the Elderly" Day
The class won "Old Person" Day, or more respectfully (but not Kyle), "Dress as the Elderly" Day due to their bootcamp progress. Y'all these kids are CRUSHING IT! I am so proud of their perseverance and dedication to their education. I also want to thank all of the families for supporting our shenanigans. It makes learning so much more fun! PS-- Make sure you take note of our newest teacher: Ms. Kloose! She's the youngest member of the elderly population if I've ever seen one! PPS: Kyle and Kendall tied 3 times for the winner of our dress up contest! Way to go!
Anything BUT a Back Pack April 14
Anything BUT a Back Pack April 14
The kiddos won "Anything BUT a Back Pack" day due to their Boot Camp success! Check out our ideas below!
Garden Update April 3
Garden Update April 3
We have been working hard in the garden and all of our donations came in! We have planted peppers (hot, bell, and sweet,) sunflowers, lettuce, marigolds, Blue Boys, a watermelon, cantaloupe, zucchini, rosemary, and more! We also have a lemon tree and a strawberry bush! Finally, we propogated parts of our Aloe Vera plant to make two additional plants-- we are wondering if they'll grow!
The weeds grow fast and we are still learning how much water to give our plants, what the signs are that they need more water, and how to know when to harvest the fruit/vegetables.
Our next project is to build a fairy garden outside of our classroom window and hang our new bird feeder!
Two major problems right now is that there's a wasp nest by the garden and ANTS! So. Many. Ants!
Check back later for more updates!
Garden Club Begins
Garden Club Begins
This week we began working in the garden. This is our 9th spring with the class garden. So far we are clearing out and taking inventory of our supplies. We hope to begin planting soon! We have several pots, half a bag of soil, wild flower seeds, one bottle of fertilizer, several tomato stands, hand rakes and shovels! We have found worms, slugs, and rather large spider webs. Check back in for an update next week!
Roller Coasters
Roller Coasters
To wrap up our unit on forces and motion, students used house hold and classroom items to build a marble roller coaster. One student reports that, "Me, H, J and A made plans for our roller coaster and then smooshed them all together." Nearly all tracks were successful, but everyone learned from their mistakes along the way! We had a blast!
Harry Potter Daily Profits
Harry Potter Daily Profits
Please check out the following student issues of The Daily Profit created during Harry Potter Week!
StarBooks Cafe Book Tasting
StarBooks Cafe Book Tasting
While students were at specials, our classroom was transformed into a cafe! Students were served snacks and hot chocolate while they previewed and reflected on several high interest books. Our books were categorized into the following genres: Book Club Preview, Staff Favorites, Graphic Novels, Non-Fiction, and Fantasy! We had a blast and (almost) everyone found a book that they were excited to read!
Math Menagerie
Math Menagerie
To conclude our volume unit, students were challenged to build a 3D animal out of rectangular prisms. They found the volume of each individual prism and then added them together to find the total composite volume. Enjoy our photos below!
Top: Ivy and Aaliyah's PandaCorn, Skylar
Bottom: Kendall and Emily's pig, Waddles
Top: Chloe and Raina's Dunocorn, Douglass
Bottom: Jude and Nathan's unicorn, Fabio Sparklemane
Top: Jacob, Gabriel, and Henry's giraffe, Billie
Bottom: Kyle and Bowen's platypus, Perry
Shaelynn and Chloe's unicorn, Stella
Cade and Dominick's Dragon
Phoebe, Jadden, and Madelyn's dragon, Spots
Please enjoy these "5th Grade Survival Guides" to help you prepare for next year or reminisce about the year we are finishing! Most of it is hearsay, made up, or completely false information. I have no idea what these children are talking about!
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