Mark Your Calendars

News & Upcoming Events for the Month of May:

• 5th to 6th WMS Transition Meeting: Wed. May 1st 7:00 pm
• Math MCAS: Tues. May 7th & Thurs. May 9th
• Florence Adler Walk: Saturday, May 11th
• Science MCAS: Mon. May 13th & Wed. May 15th
• Field Day: Thurs. May 30th
• Field Study: Walking Tour of Boston, Friday May 31st

Biography Project

Are you ready? We are about to begin our 5th grade biography project!

The big picture for this project is that you need to read about your person and really get to know them, take notes, write up a mock interview, and then on JUNE 14th, you will dress up as that person and we will hold a biography convention in the gym. 

Each week we will have mini-lessons so that you can gain a better understanding of how to read biographies and so you can learn how to write a quality research paper on a given topic. Each week you will have time in class to work on this project. There will be many hours spent in-class on this project, however YOU ARE EXPECTED TO DO SOME WORK ON THIS PROJECT OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL! We will try to be very clear about what is expected so both you and your parents know what to do and when to do it.  If you have any questions, please ask! I've attached the link to the Biography Website so be sure to check it out!

Biography Site

Poetry

We've become young poets while reading and writing lots of fun and beautiful poems. We are in the middle of our poetry project.The project is, each student picks a theme and you have to create an anthology of 6 poems about your theme and you have to write 3 original poems about the same topic.  We will share our poetry projects soon!

Here's the link to our poetry website!

5th Grade Poetry Site

Boston Massacre Files

Can you figure out for certain what happened the night of March 5, 1770?

Do the images and eye witnesses tell the same story about what happened?

Are the sources reliable?

Click the link to check out the Boston Massacre Files.

Boston Massacre Files

Five Things (Elements of a Short Story)

What's Up In Room 11

           
                                   
                                                            Heading Home Basket
            Our Classroom collected many items to fill a donation basket to be presented for the Heading Home organization. Heading Home provides permanent housing and support services to low-income, homeless and formerly homeless families and individuals in and around the communities of Boston, Cambridge and beyond.

           The Heading Home Basket provides items needed when moving into a new home and will help a family's experience of moving into a new home more welcoming.  Our classroom filled a bathroom basket.  The items we collected were, bath towels, hand towels, soap, shower curains, shower liners, shower rings and, some other bathroom objects. We had a huge basket full of bath items to be presented to a family in need.

                                                           
                                                         The Fifth Grade Play
         This year for the fifth grade play we are doing, "The Trial Of The Big Bad Wolf"!  The play is on March 7th at 7:00 pm.  There will be lots of acting, singing and dancing. Our whole grade will participate. We have been working very hard with all the rehearsals and can't wait to put on a great play for the school and our families. Hope to see the teachers do their role in the play!

Book Groups                     

           We are reading the book The Year The Swallow Came Early. Every week we meet on Thursdays and talk about what happened in the book since we last met. Also, every week we take notes which means we write down questions, connections, predictions, inferences and visual images. Also, we do lots of lifting lines from the text. Lift a line is when you find a line in the text that means something to you or made you think. All of the girls in our book group love the book! We really enjoy Ms. Mattson's selection of books!

Snowman Project

           During  math with Mr. Gees we each had to make a snowman that weighed less than 50 lbs and costed less than $25. But it was hard because each snowball cost different amount of money and different weights all the accessories cost and weighed different amounts. We learned that 16 oz is equal to a pound. Mr. Gees is the best math teacher known to this day! (We also learned Mr. Gees will live to be a thousand years old!)

By: Emma & Makayla

❤AMAZING ANNOUNCEMENTS❤

❤ 2/28 Assessment cafe (6:30 pm at Happy Hollow)

❤ 3/7 Fifth Grade Play (7:00 pm)

❤ 3/8 Screening of “Race to Nowhere”
❤ 3/15 Happy Hollow Talent Olympics

❤ 3/24 WPSF Spelling Bee