Students were given 20 strands of pasta, 10 miniature marshmallows and 5 standard size marshmallows. Their challenge: design and build the tallest tower that can hold a golf ball on top. The winning pair; Mikayla and Roger build a tower ____ inches tall. Their success lied in their planning and collaborating. Great work! Throughout the process of building their creations students quickly learned of the thinking, talking, testing and re-doing that was involved. The next day they were to use the knowledge they learned to apply to a new challenge. This time they were given 20 strands of pasta and as many mini marshmallows they needed to build the strongest tower. Strength of the tower was tested by placing pennies in a cup on top. David D. and Elizabeth created the winning tower, holding 46 pennies. Impressive! All students worked hard, learned lots and had fun! The final days of fifth grade are coming to an end...boo hoo! As of May 19th there were 24 days left before these young lads and ladies will be promoted to grade six. To add some fun and engagement to the end of the year each of the remaining 24 days a student is randomly picked to "bust" or "pop" a balloon. With each bust a student must retrieve a slip of paper with an activity for the day. Scholars, What are some of your favorite activities (so far)? What activity would you write on a slip of paper if you were the teacher? On Tuesday our class went to the Freedom Trail. We learned all about Boston's history. We learned about people like Sam Adams and John Hancock and also took a tour around some of Boston's historic sites. We ended our tour at Faneuil Hall and got to eat lunch a Quincy market. Submitted by Ben Pictures submitted by Rachel's mom, Hairong Chen and Jenny Deane, Charlie's mom. Thank you!
On the 12 of May, 2014 the Terrapins went to Brigham Hill Farm in North Grafton to do some volunteer work. We watched a slide show about the farm's mission and then went out to the fields to do some planting.There was so much to do. We had to dig holes for the plants, collect trash, distribute plants and, of course, plant the plants. We rotated through jobs until we finished our jobs. Ms. Kilpatrick's class in particular planted cabbage, a lot of cabbage! After we were done we washed up and enjoyed a nice lunch in the shade. We had a great time and all want to go back again.
Submitted by Mikayla On Friday it was Colonial Day! Kids dressed up as colonials and played colonial games along with colonial lunch. There were many activities such as candle making, tin punching, ink writing, etc. The fifth graders learned a lot and hopefully had a wonderful time! Written by Helen L. In science, we visited the Jason Digital Mines. We mined minerals, and tested their luster, streak, hardness, and more. In the end, we took a quiz to define what mineral we mined. It was a lot of fun! Written by Caroline W. Scholars, I hope you had as much fun experimenting and sharing as your visitors did observing and listening to your hard work. Write a summary capturing the excitement of Science Showcase in the comments. Matt Tavares The fifth grade was very fortunate to have an author visit. Author and illustator Matt Tavares came to talk about the process of becoming an author. Zachary's Ball, Mudd Ball, and Becoming Babe Ruth are just a few of his works. He illustrated and wrote these books. He illustates books for other authors, such as Lady Liberty, by Doreen Rappaport. To welcome him, our class made a poster for him that we hung in the auditoriam. Matt even signed Mud Ball, another one of his books, for our class! All of the books that Matt Tavares writes are about baseball. He gave us an interesting tip on how to draw sports players; have somebody model for you, take pictures of them, and then use the pictures for guide lines of your illustrations. Thank you so much Matt Tavares! By Caroline |
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