News

News about Mr. Chase's Class, by Mr. Chase's Class!
BASKETBALL MANIA!

The kids in fifth grade have started playing basketball during recess. Their place to play is on the four square courts. Several kids in our class, including JA, JH, ZR, MH, and TH have been dominating the game, making shot after shot, steal after steal, and rebound after rebound... Here comes Mr. Chase's class! Watch out!

Written by TH and ZR

New Season by J.H.
===The new tile hockey season has started. So far, the Titans have just done a trade of John for Matt and Cory, and Cory has been dropped, and picked up by the one-and-only Stingers. Right now, the teams are Teddy, Eric, and Cory on the Stingers, James, and Matt on the Titans, Zach, and Beck on the Sea Ravens, John, and Chase(team unknown). So far, the Stingers are leading the league again, but no team has a loss yet either(except for the Sea Ravens)! Let's hope the new season is a good one for other teams to go to the championship, and have a chance of winning the title of champions. I wonder if Titans will do it again. I guess we'll just have to keep playing to find out! Tile Hockey Championship By SJ=== Lately in the past 2 days the U.T.H.L has been trying to have a final champion of the season between the Stingers and the Titans. It has been a tie game so far so some players are getting annoyed! Who do you think will win?

Wiki Restored. Finally! By: ZR The Wiki is restored! Thanks to all of the faithful wikiers who have achieved the class goal. Even new authors have been joining in! Don't forget to check out some other student created Wiki pages such as Writers' Gallery, Quotes, Drawings, Poetry Workshop,and the Book Club!include component="history" page="News" limit="10" Here's a list of all the include component="editors" days="50" imageSize="small" showUsername="true" Wiki changes to show our progress as a class! (Bottom, top 10 writers)

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Today during class, students got to pick a book out of three to read. The major hit of the books was/is __My Brother Sam is Dead.__ What is it about this book that made more then half the class want to read it? We will have to wait until the first "check-in" of all books and readers. Have fun reading! :)======

The U.T.H.L.By J.H. So far, right now people have been voting to stay inside for recess instead of going outside. They say that they don't have boots, but I feel the real reason is that people either want to play, or watch the U.T.H.L the coolest game ever! What is the U.T.H.L.? It's what we call the United Tile Hockey League. It's a league where people use their own customized sticks, and play hockey in the classroom with a puck, and a goal. It seems it's getting many people's attention right now. The records of the teams right now are: Titans-1-1, Wolverines-0-2, Sea Hawks-1-1, and the unknown newcomer team-2-0. Some people may ask who is the made-up, newcomer team. The way you'll have to find out is to watch the games that happen live in the classroom every recess. They'll be located in 2 open fields. I hope you'll be successful.

C.S.'s New name! The other day beecherchase asked C.S. if he/she knows her/his name. C.S. said yes. Then beecherchase asked why did you spell it Cofy. Now everybody is getting tricked by Cofy and his new name. Can anyone can stop the cofster? he might be even more powerful then bob :) NO HE WON'T!

MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HANUKKAH, AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

THIS IS REPORTER TEDGER CALLING IN TO ALL EDITORS! HAVE A HAPPY TWELVE DAY BREAK FROM SCHOOL (MAKE SURE TO READ ALSO)!

ANYWAY, ZR HAS PRETTY MUCH SAVED THE WIKI'S EXISTANCE, WITH THE HELP OF MR. CHASE! I THINK ZR DESERVES A ROUND OF APPLAUSE!!! LET'S GO ZR!! LET'S GO ZR!! LET'S GO ZR!! OK, FINE, I THINK YOU GET THE POINT NOW...HAVE LOTS OF FUN IN THE SIXTY EIGHT INCHES OF SNOW WE WILL GET ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY!!!!!

SEE YOU LATER, CROCIDILE-IN A WHILE, ALLIGATOR!! WAIT, I GOT THAT WRONG, DIDN'T I... YOU KNOW WHAT-I'M GONNA GET OFF BEFORE I GET ANYTHING ELSE WRONG; BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What has happened? 12-14-09 By:ZR This is the first news update that anyone has done for a long time. In the first week of the Class Wiki there was 6 news updates!! Recently I've been the only Wiking, about twice a week. My updates are unchanged by others and the Wiki is free of more updates. What has happened? To get further insight, a former reporter was asked why he/she has stopped Wiking, along with the rest of the class. He/she said, "It's not as exciting as before" and "It's old." Also, on the bright side, there has been a plan to get more kids on the Wiki, as discussed with Mr. Chase there will soon be homework assignments on the Wiki to keep the Wiki alive, and get it back to it's former glory! 

Snow Day!!!!! 12-9-09 By: ZR Today there is no school. There has been 5 inches of snow, and it's still Fall! Unfortunately or fortunately I think there will be more snow days to come, but every snow day means a day added in the Summer! Uh oh! Summer may not be until August!

Unit Finished! 12-3-09 By: ZR

Today we finished the Basil E. Frankweiler unit with skits of what the last scene could be. So fun!Hooray! ALL skits were fantastic. Every skit was great! The Basil E. Frankweiler book was a first "class" book. We hope all of the "class books" we read will have such great characters!

Reader's Workshop Today during reader's workshop many teachers came into our classroom. A woman from Columbia University came in to teach us that we don't always need to learn something new. We were focused on post-iting ways we haven't tried much. I hope everybody is successful with their goal! Do you you could've spot any places to think of a question and answer it?

What Book will be next? By: ZR, KH, JH You may have seen the article Unit Finished which is about how we finished Basil E. Frankweiler, but we must continue our book club, so what shall the next book be?!! If it's not a series, then maybe just an independent book will solve the problem. Also, make sure the book we choose is [|YOUR LEVEL!!!!!!!] (in this case our level) Think about a book, and remember to read everywhere you go, because it's an adventure in your brain, and most importantly, reading's fun! Also, if you have any suggestions for a new adventurous book of any genre, then just write it down in the column under this passage:

Suggestions: [|The Lightning Thief series]

[|The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness] [|Danny the Champion of the World] [|A Series of Unfortunate Events] [|Eragon] [|The Chronicles of Narnia]

= __[|Artemis Fowl] [|Charlie Bone] Pendragon Ranger's Apprentice__ =

__//** Afterschool Fun **//__  Many people have seen the [|afterschool program] sheet. I have recently joined the basketball program on Tuesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. I highly recommend it. It's the best! We have just started getting our game on! So far the green team is sweeping the court with mad skills, amazing steals, and great ball handling. The green team has already won both of their games. If you're a basketball fan or a fan of the Miami Heat, then join the game, because you'll possibly be the next Dwyane Wade. Remember: Nothing, but nets!


 * //__Paper Game? The Latest News Update__//**

The entire class adores the paper game, but will there be one this Friday, December 4th, 2009? I've talked to many students such as J.H., Z.S., E.G., and J.A., and they say that they prefer the paper game over recess! This paper game is very important to the class. "I'm looking forward to this Friday, because of the chance of our monthly paper game," T.H. says. A specific reason people look forward to this particular Friday is that, "We'll have one paper game every month, because we're behind in Math," beecherchase says. In November, we forgot to have the paper game, so the chances are very likely that we'll have it tomorrow. That's the future news uptade of Friday, December 4th, 2009!! See ya!

Today at the cafeteria every class got banned from sitting with each other for a week. The whole 5th grade was too noisy and the lunch monitors were on their last straw. The week after next week every thing will be normal (I hope!). Back to eating in the classroom. However, some people did not get affected.
 * __Banned From Sitting With Each other for a week__**


 * //__Stink Bug__//** Today in class a big bug was crawling around in our classroom. A student informed us that it was a stink bug crawling under Matt's desk and near Eric. We couldn't crush it because it would have released an odor that would have made the whole classroom stink! That stink bug was pretty weird.