Our Week in a Nutshell

This week we celebrated Teacher Appreciation Week.  I am so grateful for all my students. Each day we would find little treats either in our mailboxes, on our desks, or in the teacher's room.  We really felt so appreciated and loved. 

Thank you to our principal, our PTO, our students and their families for a great week.

Fourth Grade News

Our 4th graders had a busy week.  They practiced speeches, prepared research papers and finally on Friday, they transformed into Famous Rhode Islanders for our annual Live Wax Museum.  They did a fantastic job representing the person they chose.  The entire school came to view them and listen to the speeches they prepared.  It was a great way to end our informational unit. 

 We had historians and politicians.

  Business owners were represented, as well as, actresses and actors, sports figures, authors, and many other celebrities.

We were even in the presence of the former Miss Rhode Island, Alexandra Coppa.

She came to see one of our 4th graders represent her.  She was even able to wear her crown and sash.  It was a great day.  All their hard work paid off. Thank you Allie for coming to our school and making a lot of the girls happy!!!

The students also were able to read their compliments or favorite memories written by other classmates.  They enjoyed reading about what other students thought of them.  It brought many smiles to their faces. 

We are also continuing to read, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.  They are pair reading and discussing the story as they go along. 

Our wall of books (#bookaday) has really grown.  The children have been listening to the books being read aloud to them and then go off to do an activity related to the book.  One example is when I read Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. The children then wrote their own version of what they wanted falling from the sky and created illustrations to go along with it.

Many wonderful writing pieces are being created from the books that are shared in class.  I have really seen progress with the details they are adding to their writing.  Opinion writing is our last genre of the year.  We are brainstorming, adding details and giving evidence to the opinion pieces.

Fifth Grade News

 Our 5th graders are also hard at work.  We are finishing up our last Summit project in English class.  This week they were grouped according to where they were in the process.  For example, we have groups of students reading their book, some completing checkpoints and others working on the final draft of their book review.  No matter what they are working on, they are engaged and focused.  They are meeting goals and passing content assessments.  We are going to finish the year strong. 

Fifth graders also worked on Opinion pieces and will continue to do more writing.  

We are busy completing tasks, finalizing pieces of our writing and getting ready to move on to the next chapter of our adventures.  The end of the school year is coming to an end, quickly.  It's hard to believe that in a few weeks we will be on summer break.