5th Grade Performance

Below is a link to the 5th Grade Performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_inXdd9_b5s

Members of the Community are reminded...

The fifth grade has begun to read The Giver by Lois Lowry.  This is our final novel of the year and a fan favorite!  Ask your daughter about The Community and the rules, rituals, and daily activities that take place within the boundaries of this dystopian society!

Tinker and Techxploration

This year's Tinker and Techxploration was a lot of fun for grades Kindergarten through 5th grade!  Students explored a variety of stations such as:  Leap Motion, Beam, Makey Makey, Alexa Dance Party, MakeUp Genious, SnapChat, Engineering the Tallest Tower, and more.  The girls even were able to look at and ask questions about Teslas!  A special thank your to all of the parent volunteers who made this day possible!

The Mystery of Roanoke

C R O A T O A N

What does it mean?

(www.history.com)

Unfortunately, just like calorie free chocolate, the answer to the question, "What EXACTLY happened to the missing colony of Roanoke?" doesn't exist.  The good news is your daughters have to been doing research using various primary sources to try and figure out this history mystery!  Check out their findings below.  

The girls have come up with some theories based on their research and I'm sure they would love to share their thoughts with you and hear what you think really happened to John White's missing colony.

  

Art_Before and After

There is nothing better in art than to see how much more you can see in your own self! Fifth grade completed self-portrait drawings after a series of mini lessons emphasizing different observational skills (value, proportion, mark-making, and contour line). They compared their drawings to what they "saw" before - baseline self-portraits from earlier this fall. You, too, will see much more! Take a look!

The Amazing Human Body!

We began our study of the human body by learning that it is made up of cells.  As we investigated the muscle and skeletal systems, we discovered how they are held together and how they work. Dissecting a chicken leg allowed us to examine bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons, and cartilage.

Then we had the opportunity to figure out how they all work together by constructing our own models of a human arm. We were given a variety of materials as we explored resources to see how others have made similar models. 

We drew up our own plans and made a prototype. 

Based on what we found with the prototype, we made our final models. It was fun seeing the final models work similar to real arms!

Here are our finished models!