Wrapping Things Up!

WOW! What a fantastic year it has been. I can't believe it is already over and the students are on their way to their final year of Elementary school. Here are some of our end of year highlights:

Our final STEM projects were the Lego Hotel and Pipe Cleaner Towers.

Both activities/challenges required a lot of teamwork and planning. They sure have become excellent engineers!

We tie-dyed shirts with sunset colors to match on field day! 

We got to have some reading time with our new book: Mr. Terupt Falls Again.

It is such a good book and I hope the students finish it over the summer!

Field day was a great success of course. We got wet, had fun and spent a lot of time in the sun.

Racing through to the end of the obstacle course.

Bust a move!

Wet relay race!

Giant Twister

The hula hoop master

I want to thank all the All-Stars for working so hard this year. They did a great job at knowing when to work and when to play. That is often difficult for Elementary students, but I think they did a fantastic job. Every student made progress and growth in many areas and it was really due to their hard work and perseverance. I can't thank all of their parents enough for supporting them in their path to a great education. I hope you all have a safe, relaxing and fun Summer Break! I will be moving to Arizona in July, but I hope to hear from all of my 5th grade All-Stars as our busy lives move forward. They will always have a special place in my heart. 

Love,

Mrs. Carr

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Class List of Compliments

Spring Time & The Changing Earth!

 Exciting News: Our Westridge Ballroom team has done an amazing job this year (especially considering this is our first year having a team)!

Two of our very own classmates, Rebekah and Andrew, are on the team. They have practiced so much and I was so proud to see them showcase their talent.

Here is Andrew getting ready to start!

Since we met our class goal in February, which was to have everyone in the Homework Club by the end of the month, we won a breakfast party! The faculty made us delicious pancakes with fruit and sausage. Wow!

I also promised the All-Stars a treat for everyone who was in the HW club by the end of Term 3. They definitely earned their ice cream sandwiches!

We are loving everything there is to learn about the changing of the Earth's surface. In this picture we are demonstrating how fold mountains are formed. The earth's plates push into each other, causing folds and uplift in the plates. 

We also demonstrated fault block mountains with linguine noodles. When you push both ends toward each other they break and one part of the noodle submerges below the other. 

Here are students working hard at creating their personal timeline. We did this to be able to compare our own timeline to the Earth's timeline.

Here we created Earth's timeline on a string and noticed that most of the monumental events (like amphibians, plants and humans first being on the earth) all happened relatively close to each other!

 Afterwards, we drew this depiction of the Earth's timeline on the back of our personal timeline. One student had a great realization. He said, "Our personal timeline would be like the size of an atom on the Earth's timeline!"

We also had the privilege to watch a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream put on by CAS. They did a fantastic job!

Have a wonderful and safe Spring Break!