GO PINK PENNIES! Our Student Council members led our first Spirit Day event this week. Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, they decided to spearhead a campaign to have a friendly competition between classrooms. Students were welcome to drop in pennies (or any other coins) into the decorated mason jars in each classroom to benefit the Ellie Fund.
On Thursday, October 27, 2016 students and staff wore pink to show their support just like Miss White's class did...
Roderick Writers...
On Thursday, October 27th, Mrs. Bevilacqua's fifth graders were working on revising their writing and were introduced to a few tools to help each student reflect on what they could do to make their writing even better. Students are encouraged to use a checklist to see what elements they could add to their writing such as dialogue or thoughts of the individual characters. Other checklists help students go through a final editing phase such as looking for sentence fragments. What you do not see are the other EIGHT adults in the room! This lesson was part of the writing professional development where the entire fifth grade team observes the lesson and the conference that happened afterwards and then the team gathers along with our consultant/coach to have a chance to debrief, reflect, and plan ahead. This is one of the most powerful professional development experiences provided to teachers.
Pumpkin Parade
Grade 4 students poured their creative juices into this project! How imaginative!
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