Roderick Review (Week 17) 12/19/16-12/23/16

Roderick Review (Week 17) 12/19/16-12/23/16

Students in 4T reflected about the impact that "kindness" can have on those around us as well as ourselves.  The pictures that follow were taken during a silent activity where students were able to spread kindness to others in their classroom by writing positive statements on "corners" that students would then use to complete their shape.

Look who stopped by!  

Former principal, Mr. Grenham!  We are glad you stopped by to visit us!

Take a look...A Christmas Carol Productions in Sixth Grade!

Math and Problem Solving Highlights...

Reader's Theater...

We are one festive community!

Wait until you hear our band in January!

Friday was pajama day!

Student musicians entertained the staff at the staff
holiday breakfast on Thursday

The Polar Express stops by Roderick School as a station stop!

Happy Holidays to you all and best wishes for a very happy and healthy New Year!  We will see you when school resumes on TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2017!

Roderick Review (Week 16) 12/12/16-12/16/16

Roderick Review (Week 16) 12/12/16-12/16/16

What's on the Fourth Grade Math Menu?  Place Value games similar to the old-fashioned card game "Top it" or "War" help students to compare the values of numbers in  standard form and word form.

Fourth graders in their reading groups are taking note of the new words they encounter, deciphering the meaning in context, and using the dictionary, when needed, to verify.

A sixth grader reviewing vocabulary through Quizlet live!  

Using Quizlet live, students work in ever-changing collaborative teams to review vocabulary words in a highly engaging, fast-paced format!

Using Kahoot, students are reviewing important science concepts and then they receive immediate feedback by seeing the graphic display such as the one seen here.

Fifth graders are beginning to write on the Chromebooks after planning their writing.

Dr. Murphy, School Committee Chair, and our Superintendent, Dr. Cameron thank our two student ambassadors for reporting out to the School Committee this past Tuesday.

The students shared what each grade has been focusing on this month.

Fifth graders in Ms. Downing's class are participating in a service project and are getting ready to deliver what they have collected!

Students are building fluency with their math facts.

Roderick Review (Week 15) 12/5/16-12/9/16

Roderick Review (Week 15) 12/5/16-12/9/16

Take a look at what Roderick students have been working on this week!

Fourth graders were identifying the author's purpose during Library class.

Fourth graders are beginning their biography unit.

Fourth graders are learning how to identify the "cause" and "effect" in  various situations.

Fourth Graders are identifying the character traits AND noticing how characters can change in the story depending upon which other characters they are interacting with.

Ms. Sharick recorded so many ideas from the readers in 4K!

Sgt. Smith is getting to know the students he will be working with this year during D.A.R.E.

The sixth graders also had a chance to get to know Sgt. Smith.

Fifth graders are working hard to deepen their thinking while they solve math problems and are employing strategies to help them to share their math thinking with others.

Fourth graders here are graphing their progress based upon the most recent multiplication fluency assessment.

Fifth graders are sharing their math thinking and classmates help to identify the positive strategies that the mathematician has employed while solving the problem.  (This is step one of the four steps shared.)

In the pictures that follow, fifth graders were creatively presenting information without talking to "show" the meaning of vocabulary words.

A comic strip...

A pictorial representation...

...and a dramatic representation just to share a few!

NEXT ALL SCHOOL SPIRIT DAY....

Friday, December 16th!

COLOR DAY!  Each class is represented by wearing a different color.  We will be collecting items for the Wrentham Food Pantry.  Check the images below to see what color you might want to wear!

Roderick Review (Week 14) 11/28/16-12/2/16

Roderick Review (Week 14) 11/28/16-12/2/16

Parent-Teacher Conferences
Thank you to all of our teachers and families who set time aside for the Fall Parent-Teacher conferences this week!  It is so important to keep the conversation going so that our students see the home-school partnership in action.  As the "Unity" poem describes below, this ongoing relationship between home and school helps to provide the necessary support for students to learn, grow, and succeed and develop an insatiable desire to continue learning throughout their lives.

UNITY

by Cleo V.  Swarat

I dreamed I stood in a studio
And watched two sculptors there,
The clay they used was a young child’s mind
And they fashioned it with care.

One was a teacher:
the tools she used were books and music and art;
One was a parent
With a guiding hand and gentle loving heart.

And when at last their work was done,
They were proud of what they had wrought.
For the things they had worked into the child
Could never be sold or bought!

And each agreed she would have failed
if she had worked alone.
For behind the parent stood the school,
and behind the teacher stood the home!

Thankful Hearts from Caring Kids (Part 2)

As you recall from last week's blog entry, the fourth graders were working on a service project to benefit those currently serving in the military.  After many, many generous donations before Thanksgiving, students assembled 33  boxes!  Below are the pictures from today when the boxes were shipped off!

Fifth Grade Social Studies...

Fifth graders are currently "exploring" explorers!  In the pictures below, students are measuring just how big the viking ships actually were.

Thank you, Student Council!
Today, we received a thank you letter from the Ellie Fund for the contribution of $583.00 that we raised back in October.  Thank you, Student Council Representatives, and thank you to the Roderick School Community for your generous donations to the Ellie Fund!  Student Council, you had a plan and carried it out so well, making it seem effortless even though I know that you put  a lot of effort into making this fundraiser a success.  Each of you made a difference!  Thank you!  

What's next for Student Council?
We are looking forward to COLOR DAY on Friday, December 16th!  Each class is assigned a special color to wear and we will be looking to collect items for the Wrentham Food Pantry!  Let's be sure to show our true colors on this day!

WRENTHAM FOOD PANTRY...

Just a reminder that we are collecting items for the Wrentham Food pantry in the lobbies at both schools.  You may drop items off at any time.  Thank you for your support!