Hi 4/5 Families!
We hope your summer is going well. We’re starting to get the classroom ready and looking forward excitedly to the coming school year!
Our “veteran” Wheaton intern, Anna Littlehale, will be back this year working with the 4/5 students after a semester in Denmark and before she begins her student teaching in a local public school. She brings her math expertise and enthusiasm for learning to the classroom.
In social studies, we will begin with the post-Civil War period and continue to the present day. Science begins with Life Processes, starting with cells and their functions, moving to plant systems and traits of living things. Students can expect lots of hands-on and project-based learning!
Language Arts will center around the Houghton Mifflin program along with the study of Robert Frost, Maya Angelou and other notable poets. We’ll continue to build our writing portfolios with the Columbia Writing Project processed writing pieces. We look forward to integrating our areas of study with the arts wherever possible.
Miss Anne and Andy will again work closely with us to correlate their plans with our classroom lessons. In Spanish class, students will continue to use their Converso Mucho workbooks, so if somehow your child’s came home in the end-of-the year baggage, please be sure to send it back in at the start of school.
Pinecroft Pals will encourage our students as mentors as the children truly embrace the Pals activities and letter writing. Our weekly classroom jobs foster a sense of responsibility and pride in our school. Some jobs are more favored than others, but all are a good learning experience for the children.
We’ll see you soon at the Ice Cream Social!
Bonnie Corkum & Liz Elia