Script Writing

Below are some snippets from the book-club script writing session today. 

5th Graders will perform their skits next Monday before the holiday party! (1:10pm)

IMPORTANT DATES for UPCOMING EVENTS in 5th GRADE!

December 10 - Early Release Day... Students are dismissed from school at 12:10pm

December 17 - All-City Holiday Concert... 7pm at PHS (performers to arrive at 6:30pm)

December 22 - Class Holiday Party... Book Club Skits will start things off, 1pm to 2pm-ish

December 23 - Early Release Day... Students are dismissed from school at 12:10pm

No fun photos for this one. Sorry!

5th Graders Story Boarding Their First Drafts of the Newest Personal Narratives...

Nutrition Brochures

On Thursday, our 5th-ers shared their nutrition brochures with the 1st graders next door. (This is a photo of Hauken and Rosayla debriefing afterward about how their presentations went...)

Mountain of Mulch!

5th Graders helped to spread mulch around the brand new backyard playground structures this week...

Halloween Party!

I'm afraid my camera is acting up and most of my photos didn't come out. But here is a good one from last Friday's festivities...

Thank you to all of our amazing party planners! And thank you to everyone who brought in food and other fun Halloween stuff! It was a blast!

See you soon at Parent-Teacher conferences...

Kailyn's Labor-intensive Day!

Kailyn and James and Marcus and several other fifth graders rolled huge stumps onto the natural trail. 

The stumps will be used to form a circular seating area for an "outdoor classroom."

Leverage

Members of a Thursday afternoon group have made it their mission to

move this boulder. So far they've researched a few methods for moving heavy objects and we're all impressed by the power of a simple lever...

Hannaford Visit

We met with Ms. Kerman today. She's the dietitian at Hannaford.

Among other things, she talked to us about making informed, healthy food choices (and that can mean different things for different people).

She sent us on a scavenger hunt to gather food for a full day of meals. Marcus and Michael did some thoughtful puzzling over possible snack choices.

* Also, Thank you very much to all our chaperones! - Today Ms. Pardo, Ms. Pettis and Ms. Richards joined us! Hooray!

Carter's B-day Party!

Even though Carter can't be seen in this photo, we're dancing in his honor. A fun time was had by all!

2nd Trip to North Mill Pond

On the shore of the North Mill Pond, we relocated our original sites and sketched the same spot again, a month later. We compared these new sketches with the first ones to look for any changes...

A couple more Africa photos...

Top photo: buffalo grazing with a few passengers along for the ride.

Bottom: Shoebill Crane. This one is about 3 feet tall. A very wonderful, strange bird!

Welcome to the 2014-2015 5th Grade Blog!

To kick it off, here are some of the images from the beginning of our school year...

Marcus on the balance board.

Fun at snack time...

Retreating to the AC in the teachers lounge for some cool reading in late August.

More comfortable reading on a nice afternoon.

Maybe the very best way to read of them all.

Getting ready to clean up the New Franklin Nature Trail!

Estimating together.

Some serious writing happening here in 5th grade...

Stay tuned for more soon!