Happy Friday all!
What an exciting week we have had! We finished up a math assessment to see what we have learned all year and maybe remind us of a few things we should continue reviewing over the summer! We also really got our engineering brains going with our Egg Drop Challenge! It was so great to see the randomly selected groups work together towards a common goal. We learned a lot during our first round and are now re-engineering as part of the STEM process to come up with a new design for our drop next Wednesday. A big thank you to Mr. Thayer for climbing up onto the roof to really bring this experience to life for our students! In Social Studies, this week we talked a great about what it meant to be a Loyalist vs a Patriot. We read about the feelings each side had and then discussed the happenings at the Second Continental Congress. Students now have an understanding of why John Hancock signed his name "loud and proud"! We also had some great discussions about how outnumbered the colonists were in the American Revolution, but how their emotions helped to keep them strong in their fight for Independence. Looking forward to more great conversation next week! Today we had our last visit with our Connections Groups and read The Most Magnificent Thing. Students were then asked to design their own " Most Magnificent Thing" - we definitely have some designers and engineers among us! In Reading, we finished our fantasy unit with students looking at character growth in their independent novels as well as creating flip grid book talks to help get others to want to read this genre. We also worked with Mrs. Fuller to put together our summer reading plans. These will be in student's report card envelopes at the end of the year! We continue our reading of Avi's The Fighting Ground which follows along with our study of the American Revolution! Jonathan was captured by the Hessians this week, ask your child about this book! We are also having some fun reading about Frederick and all of his crazy friends in Lions & Liars by Kate Beasley. Frederick unknowingly ends up at a disciplinary camp for boys and some crazy adventures occur. This is a fun, light-hearted book to end our year together! I hope you all had a wonderful time at the Fifth Grade Celebration. The committee put together an AMAZING event to celebrate each and every one of our Cole School Fifth graders. As Mrs. Burns mentioned, this class is a very kind, caring and empathetic group of students and my wish for them all is that they strong in these characteristics as they move to Middle School. I know I will miss their kind hearts each and every day! Enjoy the weekend! George's Island for us on Monday RAIN OR SHINE! The buses are LEAVING Cole at 9am sharp in order to be sure we are able to secure seats on the boat! Have a wonderful weekend! Cheers! Maura Important Dates to Remember:
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