5^th Grade

This year we are going to focus on enhancing creativity and responsibility in the Talented and Gifted classes by being responsible for segments of the BNN, designing and building a web site and building the Yearbook for the Elementary classes.

We will have two field trips. One will be to the National Cowboy Hall of Fame where student will tour 2 exhibits; “Samuel Colt: Arms,
Art and Invention” and “Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection”(please, print and sign the permission slip). The second field trip will be trip to the Van der Laan Dairy. These Field Trips may change should something more interesting come along.

ATTENTION: ANYONE WISHING TO HELP WITH THE ABERNATHY BROTHERS DISPLAY AT THE MUSEUM DURING THE ARTS AND CRAFTS FESTIVAL (SEPT. 22) NEEDS TO CONTACT MRS. CASSIDY AT 305-1101. STUDENTS CAN HELP FOR 30 MINUTES SEGMENTS OR AS LONG AS THEY WISH. THEIR DUTIES WOULD BE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BROTHERS HISTORY. THIS WOULD BE A GREAT COMMUNITY SERVICE FOR ALL STUDENTS.

Activities that any and all students may compete in, students must read the instructions and follow the rules then turn the project into Mrs. Cassidy:

Heritage Week Poster Competition – 4^th – 6^th – Deadline Friday, October 12^th at 5:00 p.m. (if Mrs. Cassidy needs to take to the City she will need the poster no later than October 5^th.

Students can watch Oklahoma Centennial Stories in commemoration of the Centennial.

Students’ are going to have an active participation in the making of BNN each week. So, students will be expected to bring stories hopefully, e-mail me when they need a camera or pictures taken, otherwise, they will be expected to check the calendar a week to 2 weeks ahead so that they can tell me when an Artist in Residence will be present or when classes are studying something unique that would be fun to share with the community.

Another project student’s will be working on is the “ThinkQuest” competition. Students need to go to this site and then study the “Recent Winners – ThinkQuest International 2007”. After checking out all the winners and competitors, students will then study the Rules of the Contest. Once they have completed each of these activities they will form into groups of 5 to 6 students and begin researching and deciding the type of site they want to build for the competition.

The yearbook project will be the responsibility of the Elementary Talented and Gifted students.

Also, each week students will spend 20 to 30 minutes working on Scholastic Math.

Students may play games at The Space Place.

The Challenge of the Seven Cups