Farewell to Fifth
Looking back on Lizzy Haddon, and forward to Middle School
Spring Happenings
Classroom Curriculum
Math Centers
In our last math review we played Math Bingo. In Math Bingo you have to complete a game before the timer has run out. We worked in partners so that we could play games that involved multiple people like Connect Four and Memory. There were 14 total games that you had to complete to fill the Bingo board. If you won, you got to play a certain amount of on a fun math game we play called Prodigy! To get time to play you had to either get a row which gives you 5 minutes of Prodigy, complete a column which gives you 10 minutes, or complete the whole board which gives you 20 minutes. The two free spaces in the middle helped us a lot to get our goal and most partners used them to their advantage.
In the last few weeks we had a big math review. Some of the math review centers we did were Battleship, Shape City, Design Plan, and Decimaland. In Battleship, you ask your partner a coordinate pair then your partner says "hit" or "miss" and if you hit it then you get to go again and if you miss you don’t. The first person who sinks all of the ships first wins. For Design Plan, we made a building and sketched it out on graph paper and found the area of it. Then for Shape City, our whole class had to make a 3D building of our design plan and this made up all the buildings that are in a city. For Decimaland, we played a board game like Candyland and we drew a card with a decimal math problem. If we got it right, then we would move one a space forward.
--Steven Kennedy
We even got to play some of our Math Review Center Games on Grandfriend's Day (pictures below)!
Book Clubs
Having reading groups helps us become better at reading by discussing the book with others, being able to read at a pace that helps understand the book, and being able to share our learning and thoughts/opinions about the book with others. We love being able to have the chance to discuss books with our fellow classmates.
--Brooke Undlin
The rest of my group members and I got assigned the book Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. The book is about a family who is immortal and they meet a little girl who helps them through a murder, a kidnapping, and a jailbreak, but I don’t want to give to much away. Each group did a commercial project. We made and filmed a commercial to convince people to read our book. We had a planning sheet and came up with a script to read off of for the commercial. My group’s commercial was telling everyone in our class how good our book was. We performed a skit that involved the plot of our book and how much fun the book was to read. The teacher filmed them as we performed it. Some groups did funny skits and some did serious skits. We told information about our book and worked it into a skit. In our book it had a spring that if you drank from it you would become immortal. So our group came up with the slogan: Spring right into a good book! Also there is a big again and again part where they brought up the wheel of life and time, so we made sure to incorporate that into our skit. We had a great time in our book clubs!
--Evie Bisirri
For my book club, we read Freak the Mighty. It is about this kid named Max and his problem is his body is growing faster than his brain. Then he meets this kid named Kevin and Kevin’s problem is his brain is growing while his body has a disability, but when they are together, they go slaying dragons, frolicking through the meadows and hunting for treasure. Our book group, The Mighty Freaks, made a schedule saying how many chapters we have to read each day or each week.
--Luke Foley
The book I read was A Long Way From Chicago, written by Richard Peck. The book is about a brother and sister from Chicago that visit their grandma in the wild west during the great depression. Their grandma is a thrill seeking clever old woman who is always getting in trouble. The seven summers that the children have to experience are crazy. Miss Hubert decided on what book the groups read by book tasting. The book tasting is when we get a menu that asks us what we rate each book. Then Miss Hubert will decide by what everyone rates each book, she will do her best to get you first choice but if not it would be second or third. This is a great way to make groups because then you have a better chance of getting a book you enjoy.
--Chloe Williams
Recently, after our third round of book clubs, Miss Hubert told us that we had to make a commercial. In the commercial we had to tell about our book to get someone to read it like a real commercial. We would get our whole group and work together to make it while Miss Hubert filmed it.
One of the books was Maniac Magge. Maniac Magge is written by Jerry Spinelli and is a realistic fiction story. In the story, Jeffery Magge is 12 and has a life that is normal until his parents passed away. This led Jeffery to go live with his aunt and uncle, but soon after he is on the run finding knew friends and a knew family. Will Jeffery belong?
Right now we have a new assignment called B2M but in this assignment we are learning to make our own reading schedule so we are prepared for 6th grade. We got to choose how many pages we read and for how long.
--Margo Roades
B2M
Our new book that we are reading is different then we have been doing, because we have been doing book clubs where we meet and talk about our book together. With our new book we are doing it independently. We get to make a schedule that says which day we read, how many minutes we have to read, how many pages we read. We got to chose most of these things as long as we get the book done by a certain day. If you are wondering how we chose which book, we got first we had a list of books then miss Hubert read a little bit of each book and we would rate the books from 1-5 1 being the least interesting to you and 5 being I HAVE TO READ THIS NOW. For most of us, the highest rated book was the one we read. After we read them, I think Miss Hubert is going to have us watch the movie to compare them.
--Elise Gramigna
Science
In our latest science unit, our class explored the hidden world of microorganisms, learned about how microscopes and magnifying glasses work, and took a closer look at many items and got to see them from a whole new perspective. It was quite an adventure!
Our living specimens were my favorite part of this science unit. We learned how to use slides to contain specimens. Our specimens all lived in water, so we used well slides, a special type of slide used for holding water. To the naked eye, the water didn’t look like it contained microorganisms. But when we looked under the microscope, we found a whole new world! Everyone was amazed at what they saw. We saw one organism after another under the microscope. It was incredible.
Learning about microscopes and magnifying glasses was fascinating. We learned that lenses bend light to make an object look bigger. We discovered this was true when we experimented with different glass shapes to see if they would make an object larger or not. We saw many objects Ms. Hubert had brought in under the microscope; and we even looked at our own hair! We also learned the parts of a microscope--from the arm to the base.
Finally, to conclude our science unit, we brought in objects we wanted to take a peek at under the microscope. We looked at many things from hair bands to lights. The latest science unit was an amazing experience for everyone!
--Asher Fred
Social Studies
In social studies, we learned about three colonies called Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth. When we learned about Roanoke, the colony of the coast of North Carolina, we learned that they were running out of food and eventually the whole settlement went missing. The only thing they left was a word on tree: CROATOAN. When we learned about Jamestown, we learned that they made a representative government. When we learned about Plymouth we learned that they made a Mayflower Compact as their Government.
--Connor Williams
New Project
The New Social studies project is where you research and make a billboard advertising one of the original colonies. Some important things you have to know about your colony are the reason for founding, geography, economy and government of your colony. Then you make a billboard with a group that makes you persuade whoever is looking at it by including a slogan and reasons to come to your colony, like job opportunities, and obviously you draw it and make your billboard. Later you share it to the class so you can learn about others colony too.
--Michael McCool
School Activities
Community Meeting
Some of those quotes were looked up online and were choosen because they were very meaningful. Everyone got to do one thing at the community meeting. If you did not get to do a quote then you either did 10 things you should say more often, closing, or introduction. For ten things you should say more often you got a sign that said something on it from Kid President's things you should say more often, or you got to share your own list.
--Allie Kubikian
Spring Concert
In late May, Lizzy Haddon had it’s annual spring concert, including 4th and 5th grade chorus, 4-5 grade band, and 3-5 grade orchestra. We performed songs in the middle school auditorium. The orchestra did 3 songs including the Rocky theme and Let It Go from Frozen. Band did a blues song and We Will Rock You. The chorus did a Broadway themed performance. Everyone had practice multiple times every week, and was very excited about their performances.
--Bennett Wright
UPCOMING EVENTS
For the last two weeks of school every week will be full of events. We have a long schedule to follow for these next weeks!
June 4-8 will be school spirit week. Show your school spirit by dressing up like each days style!
June 7th is our school’s Rita’s fundraiser. Come support our school! We also have our 5th grade promotion at 6:30. 5th graders will be heading for some awards!
Early dismissals will be on Wednesday June 13, Thursday June 14, and Friday June 15.
Field day will be Wednesday June 13. Our entire school will be running in the field doing fun activities.
The 5th grade scavenger hunt will be at 9:00 on June 14.
June 15 will be the Awards Assembly at 9:00 for us 5th graders.
June 15 will also be the last day of school! Happy Summer!
--Cleo Cottone
Field Trips
Camp Ockanickon
On May 18, we went to this place by the name of Camp Ockanickon. We did a ton of fun stuff like canoeing and archery. We also did this one thing called team building where we did something that one of the camp counselors told us to do.
It was also really fun because all three schools: Tatem, Elizabeth Haddon and Central went and we got to meet a lot of the friends that we have in other schools.
--Liam Paterson
Hi fellow friends, as you may know we were on a field trip. Our destination was Camp Ockanickon, or as we liked to call it “Camp O”. Camp O is a day camp that we went to. During this trip, we learned about teamwork. We had stations, like Team Building, archery, canoeing and more. My Favorite part of Camp O was when we went to the swamp. At the swamp, the main goal was to get across the swamp without falling in. When I got there I thought it looked very easy but as a matter of fact it was not. I fell in the first time I when acrossed. You may be thinking that falling in to musty smelling, brown water that had bugs around the whole thing is super gross, but it was super fun.
--Miranda Case
Philly Walking Tour
--Maddie Kehner
Reflections
The MOST IMPORTANT THING I Learned in Fifth Grade:
"The most important thing I learned this year is to do things before you have to. No one wants to do homework but when you do it right away, now you don’t have to. I learned to always do the things that benefit you the most. Not just completing the task, but doing the one that helps you and doing the thing you don’t want to do." --Harry Barnes
"The most important thing I learned in 5th grade was that “No one is born hating another person. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally.”- Nelson Mandela. Which also goes along with the quote, “Everyone has at least a little good in them.” This quote was an important thing I learned this year because if you ever think that someone might be bad and that you shouldn’t be friends because of what you think they act like you can always remember those quotes and remember that they can be taught the right way by seeing the right from you, and taught to act that way, and that they will always have some good in them." --Enya Carthy
My FAVORITE PART of my Fifth Grade Year:
"My favorite thing is Motivation Monday which is something we do every Monday. Basically, Miss Hubert puts up a motivational saying or a quote. When it's time for writing we reflect on it. For example, one of our Motivation Mondays was “If you had only 3 wishes but they couldn't be for yourself, what would you wish for?"
I said I would wish for everyone to spread their uniqueness in their own way. I would do this because it's important to show who you are. I show myself by spreading art around the world. Motivation Monday is a great idea for school because it can get you motivated for the rest of the week." --Maria Burns
"My favorite thing about 5th grade is having fun with my classmates. Everyday my classmates and I always have so much fun with learning, we always tell jokes and make each other laugh. Miss Hubert also has fun with this we always play games in math, and do skits and projects in reading. Also in science we are doing a project of a billboard to persuade people to move to our colony. All of these activities are really fun and makes all of us happy. 5th grade is so fun." --Brady Mink
Looking Ahead to HMS
What I Am MOST EXCITED For in Middle School:
"We as fifth graders have learned so much, and even though I will miss Elizabeth Haddon I am still very excited for middle school next year. I am really excited to meet new students and get to know new people and teachers and being more independent and responsible and learning a whole bunch of new things. I am also excited about being in a different school. I know that everyone will have a good time at middle school and everyone is excited to meet new people and teachers and will enjoy middle school." --Katherine Asher
"This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for; Lizzy Haddon’s fifth-graders are finally going to middle school!!! I’ll miss my teachers here, but this is a new chapter for everyone. I’m super excited, and I’m ready! Here’s why I’m excited to go to middle school: Next year I’ll be able to branch out and try new things. When we were in elementary school everyone knew who their friends were, what their interests were. Now that we’re going to middle school, we have opportunities that could change us. New people, new classes, new lockers, new clubs, and our new lives. We might not be close with friends anymore; so make new ones! We might not be interested in our favorite hobbies anymore; so try something totally adventurous- you never know if you’ll like it! Everyone has the chance to start something new. Anything’s possible in middle school." --Chloe Dinh