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Welcome to our grade 5 teacher and student weblog. We attend Nettleton Elementary School in Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.A. Check out our site to learn about our classroom, read our writings and give us some feedback. To add comments, just click on the comment link below a post. If you comment, please tell us who you are and where you are from. Your comments need teacher-approval before they show up on the blog. Our class likes to follow a blog comment recipe. You can write about something you saw or heard, something you liked, something to add or fix, or a question to make the writer think.

by Jay Monson, Grade 5 Teacher

Related Links

•	Our City
•	Our School District
•	Our School
•	Our Classroom Wiki
•	Our Classroom Bookmarks
•	Mr. Milloy's Class Weblog, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
•	Mr. Ahlness' Class Weblog, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
•	Mr. Smith's Class Weblog, Hannibal, Missouri U.S.A.
•	Mr. Meyer's Class Weblog, Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.
•	Melville Intermediate School Weblog, Hamilton, New Zealand
•	Mr. Johnston's Class Weblog, Glasgow, Scotland
•	Mamaroneck Avenue School Weblog, Mamaroneck, New York, U.S.A.
•	Our Good Reads
•	Solar System Games
•	PMP Certification
•	Youth Group Games

Teacher Assignments

Teacher Entries

Here We Are!		9/3
Goodbye For Now		7/17
2011-2012 Grade 5 Curriculum Calendar		5/20
This End-of-the-Year in Notes:		5/20
Important Upcoming Dates and Events:		5/20
List 5, 10, all

Student Entries

MR	Basketball	5/30
RS	River Reeds	5/29
RS	Fire	5/29
RS	Winds	5/29
RS	Waves	5/29
AK	Achivements of my Hopes and Dreams	5/9
KK	hopes and dreams	5/9
NS	hopes and dreams narrative	5/9
IB	Hopes and Dreams: The Narrative	5/9
HF	Flowers	5/6
HF	dragons	5/6
JC	Hopes and dreams narrative	5/3
RS	2011-2012 Hopes and Dreams Narrative	5/3
HF	stars poem	4/27
HF	Water (Poem)	4/27
JSG	Bacon Strips	4/27
AK	A poem about a poem!	4/26
AK	Music	4/26
AK	Earth	4/23
AK	Music	4/23
RS	Cow Woes	3/30
RS	Cat Woes	3/30
IB	Fred the Unicorn	3/30
DB	PEZ I Like	3/30
MR	Halloween	3/30
List 25, 50, all

Conditions of Use

Important Upcoming Dates and Events: • March 29th: Happy Birthday Michael A.!
• March 30th: MCA Science Tests 1:15-3:15 p.m.
• April 1st: End of Third Quarter! All work due!
• April 6-8th: Mr. Monson gone to a conference in Atlanta, GA
• April 12-14th: MCA Reading Tests
• April 14th: Healthy Hillsiders Fitness Fair and Pasta Feed (4:30-7:30)
• April 16th: Fitger’s 5K 9:00 a.m.
• April 17th: Happy Birthday Lucy!
• April 18-22nd: Spring Break-No School
• April 27-29th: MCA Math Tests

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Mr. Monson, through several links from other blogs I ended up on your site. I was immediately curious because you work with 5th grade, which I do also. As I explored your blog I noticed your picture, which reminded me of Lake Superior. I then saw the link to "our city". Again, I smiled as I remembered my 4 years at UMD. I then moved back to your background and found it interesting that I now teach in Southern Minnesota, in Owatonna, about 30 minutes from MSU. I hope that our classes can do some blogging together during the year. I will be pushing my class to check out your blog. Have a great year!
Comment Posted on September 15, 2011 at 09:11 PM by Matt McCartney

Great work Jay Monson , its helpful to remember the events dates.
Comment Posted on March 30, 2011 at 02:02 AM by Online High School Diploma

My Classes & Students

-	Grade 5 Students
	•	AA
	•	AK
	•	AS
	•	DB
	•	DD
	•	DP
	•	HF
	•	IB
	•	JC
	•	JF
	•	JH
	•	JS
	•	JW
	•	KD
	•	KD
	•	KH
	•	KK
	•	MR
	•	NE
	•	NS
	•	PP
	•	RS
	•	TK

About the Blogger

My name is Jay Monson and I started teaching elementary school in the Mankato Public Schools in 1994. There I taught grades 2, 4, and 6. I moved north to Duluth in 1999 and have since taught grades 4, 5, 3-5 Title I Reading and Math, and K-6 Technology Integration.

My formal education includes a Bachelors of Science (Teaching) degree from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 1994 and a Masters of Education degree with a concentration in Educational Computing and Technology from University of Minnesota, Duluth in 2004. I have also been trained and trained others in teaching gifted and talented students, technology integration strategies, classroom management philosophies such as Responsive Classroom and Judicious Discipline, math and reading remediation methods, and various curricular area pilot programs.

I enjoy backpacking, canoeing, kayaking, and running the roads and trails of Northern Minnesota and the U.S. On any given day you may find me on the Superior Hiking Trail, on Lake Superior, or hanging out in the woods with my wife and Nettleton kindergarten teacher, Sara, and our chocolate lab, Jack.

I fell in love with blogging and the opportunities it offers to kids. I enjoy using technology to write, share, and communicate. I currently hang out with creative fifth grade kids as we learn to become peaceful, productive citizens of our world community.

Our students follow a technology acceptable use policy and sign a blogger contract. If you have any questions or comments please e-mail me at: Jay.Monson@duluth.k12.mn.us.

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