We are excited to work with all of you this upcoming school year. 

It is a true gift to work as an educator. Thank you for sharing your child with us!

We will have a Google Classroom this year for all daily communications. 

All students are a part of our google classroom already, so please ask them to show you all of the fun things we are doing! 

 If you are a student, during the first few weeks we will teach you how to navigate our Google Classroom. We will work slowly together to ensure YOU can navigate all of our technology tools independently, without parent help. We will all have bumps along the way, but by you learning to do this on your own (and with my support as your teacher), it will set us up for a successful year together with tons of meaningful, engaging, and interactive instruction happening every single day! :)

If you are a parent, we suggest to just log in as the child 1 time per week (under your child's Google log in) to stay in touch with what we are doing in class. We will post photos of what we are learning, so it is a great platform which might spark your curiosity in our work and provide an opportunity to ask your child each day about what we are learning in school! :) As a parent, please do not post on the classroom. This space is designated for students and teachers to share learning.

Our 5th Grade Science Program features instruction and investigations dedicated to building scientific literacy, created by the FOSS Elementary Science program.

5th grade scientists will participate in hands-on investigations, class discussions and readings, and individual recording and note-taking.  Using consistent classroom practices and procedures, our objective is to build:

• Familiarity with the natural world, its diversity, and its interdependence.
   

• Understanding the disciplinary core ideas and the cross-cutting concepts of science, such as patterns; cause and effect; scale, proportion, and quantity; systems and system models; energy and matter—flows, cycles, and conservation; structure and function; and stability and change.
   

• Knowledge that science and engineering, technology, and mathematics are interdependent human enterprises and, as such, have implied strengths and limitations.
   

• Ability to reason scientifically.
   

• Awareness of how to use scientific knowledge and scientific and engineering practices for personal and social purposes.

Check out these websites!

The Kid Should See This- Search our Science Topics to Explore

Make a Quadrilateral 

Pattern Block Designs