Fifth Grade Funnies

Ms. Miller used to be in fifth grade, too! (Click to enlarge)

She's the one with the bangs and the weird shorts front and center!

New diseases and a new scientist of the month to come in the next couple of days.

Mo-tivators -- Food Pyramid

This week's 80 percent or above-ers are below. The Big Mo herself sends a shout out to St. Marie's class for their 73% class average this week! What hard work!

D'Ascoli
Aliah
Shaiasia
Nautica
Evan
Hemanjali
Leslie

Arias
Yehaziel
Zaquan
Tiffany

St. Marie
Aikia
Ariana
Imani
Jonathan
Jose
Kevin R.
Martin
Roy'ell

Samuels
Diandre
Robert
Marlin

Mo Miller, Mo' Problems

Another single, she drops...

"Mo Miller, Mo' Problems"
by Manuel and Ismael
with outro by Jerry, Bryan, and Zaquan
Southsidebronx TweenSounds
Big Mo Records

THE BIG MO-TIVATION
THE BIG VOCABULARY
THE BIG KNOW QUIZZES
SO PAY ATTENTION IN CLASS!

Mo-tivators -- Metabolism Quiz

This week I'm not listing the class averages because they were too low for the Big Mo. Come on, kids! You can do better than that! Thankfully, two classes had a long list of Mo-tivators. So, who hit the Big Mo (80% or above) on this week's metabolism quiz?

Arias
Neville
Merlin
Manuel

D'Ascoli
James
Ciara
Aliah (100%)
Amanda
Xena (100%)
Albania
Jhoanna
Jarlenis (100%)

Congratulations to first-time Big Mo winners Manuel, Jarlenis, and James! Let's see it next week, too!

Mo-tivators: Digestive System Quiz

How close did each class come this week to hitting the Big Mo, our goal of 80 percent mastery of each week's learning objectives?

#1 Arias (501), 64.8%
#2 Samuels (233), 60.0%
#3 D'Ascoli (500), 56.3%
#4 St. Marie (502), 53.5%
#5 Rios-Beltran (522), 46.7%

Good work, but we've got a long way to go to hit an 80 percent mean!

The week's "Mo-tivators" are below. "Mo-tivators" scored 80 percent or above on the Big Know weekly quiz.

Samuels
Robert

Rios-Beltran
Jonathan
Josue

D'Ascoli
Ciara
Amanda
Aliah
Xena
Shaiasia
Jhoanna
Leslie

Arias
Gaby
Dieshell
Jennifer
Merlin
Yehaziel
Neville
Kelly
Ryeasha
Christopher

St. Marie
Ariana
Edwin
Imani
Kevin R.

What is the Big Mo?

"The Big Mo" is short for mo-tivation. In class we motivate ourselves and others to master 80 percent of 5th grade science standards by the end of the school year. To know whether we are getting closer to our goal, we take a "Big Know" quiz on what we have learned every Thursday. Every week, we hope to hit that magic number, and celebrate the student "Mo-tivators" who do. These quizzes review our new science vocabulary, which we call—can you guess?—"The Big Vo."

To get the Big Mo, we must remember to follow our class rules or "M.O.":

Be polite
In class, work together
Get work done on time
Make the effort
Own your actions