I cannot believe that June is so close! We are at the beginning of the end!!

Here are some highlights of last week. Students have been working so hard with their writing and their sight words. We have written in our journals and learned new poems. 

We made frog puppets when we learned about the life cycle of a frog and sang the song Five Green and Speckled Frogs. We will sing it more this week before the puppets come home!

On Friday Mrs. Andrews and Gavin came in to read us a story called Clark the Shark. It was a great book! Thanks for coming in and reading to us!!

Some creations during free play. 

Important things coming up:

* Library- Wednesday the 31st. Please get in any books you may have at home!

* June 6- Make Way For Ducklings trip to Boston. Students will need sneakers or other comfortable shoes to walk in. We do a lot of walking. Please plan on sending your child a bagged lunch that day  with bags that can be thrown away. 

* June 9- Field day- We will play games on the back field at Francis Wyman. Please send your child in sneakers that day as they will be running around. You can send in an extra water bottle too labeled with their names!!

* June 20- Walk to Simonds Park. You are welcome to meet us there or walk with us. Please send in the form if you haven't already done so regarding lunch. We will dismiss from the park, and students who attend an after school program will be brought back to the school. 

As the weather (hopefully!!) gets warmer, students are welcome to bring in a water bottle, labeled with their name to drink in class. Our room tends to get very hot because of the hard top area outside our windows. 

Special Activity with Mrs. McDonald

Today Mrs. McDonald came into our classroom as a guest teacher. She read us a story about a duck and a gander who had a competition. 

We talked about feathers and described them. 

We played freeze dance to see if we could be as still as Duck and Gander were. 

We made our own ducks and ganders and wrote about them. 

Thank you Mrs. McDonald for coming in and doing this fun activity with us! We really enjoyed it. 

Roller Coasters!

This week we created our very own Roller Coasters after reading the book Roller Coaster by Marla Frazee. Then we wrote about how we would feel before and after riding a roller coaster. 

New Stations in the Learning Commons

On Tuesday we got to explore the new stations in the Learning Commons. We worked together to make some fun things!

Trying to get the ball into the correct spot.

Creating with Legos.

Building with sticks and clips

writing our first name in code

Origami cats and dogs  

Field Day!

Field Day- Volunteers Needed!

Field Day at Francis Wyman will take place on Friday, June 9th. The rain date is scheduled for Friday, June 16th. The P.E. staff is looking for parent volunteers for either one or both of the sessions to help supervise the activities and work the water stations. Check in for the first session (K,1,2) is 8:00AM and check in for the second session (Grades 3-5) is at 10:45AM. Anyone volunteering for Field Day must have a current CORI report on file. Please email Neil Rebelo at rebelo@bpsk12.org or Carol Nicholas at nicholas@bpsk12.org with any questions. 

Magnet Show with Mr. Musselman

On Wednesday Mr. Musselman from the Science Center came in and talked to us about magnets!

Discussing the poles of a magnet.

Fishing for things that are attracted to magnets. 

Learning about an electromagnet- and trying to pull it apart!

Thanks Mr. Musselman! We really enjoyed learning about magnets!

May 12, 2017

This week we learned about the three main parts of an insect. Ask your student if a spider is an insect and why not! We wrote in our journals about insects we have seen at our houses, we drew and labeled the life cycle of a butterfly and we drew an insect and labeled it’s parts. Students seem to really be enjoying this unit.

At the book table students started an individual innovation of their own version The Very Busy Spider. They are thinking of their own animals to talk to the spider and what they might want to do with the spider. Their fluency is coming along nicely with this book and I love hearing their different ideas.

We have been working very hard on sight words. Keep practicing at home too!

I will be testing students on sight words and their math addition and subtraction facts soon! Please keep practicing at home- they need to be able to do the math facts in under 3 seconds without their fingers.

Students have been busy writing their personal narratives. It has been nice to hear their  different stories about their lives. I am sure you will be impressed when they take their folders home at the end of the year.

We had help today from our 4th grade buddies. They helped us with some special writing I am sure you will see Sunday if you haven’t seen already!

Today we had some very special guests in our classroom! Joey’s Grammy and Auntie Stephanie came in to visit the class and read us two stories! Thanks for coming in!

Highlights from the 5th grade concert!