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Welcome to Fifth Grade! My name is Sally Mitchell. I am looking forward to my fifth year teaching fifth grade. If you have any questions or concerns, please This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Ms. Mitchell has been teaching has been teaching fifth grade Science at St. Christopher for four years. Before that, she was a Special Ed. Asst. / Instructional Asst. in Londonderry for five years. She has four children -- the oldest is also a teacher and the youngest just graduated high school.

Spring is in the air!!

March came in like a lamb as February left like a lion. I hope the weather was not too much of a hardship for all of you.

The new Eno boards are up and we are learning so much. We are becoming very adventurous as we go from site to site. The kids love going to the board and using the "magic "pen that we write with on the board. I have been scouring different sites in order to enhance the children's learning experiences.

The fifth grade is just starting a unit on biomes, ecosystems, and how to protect all the places where we live. They will be working on a flipbook about all the animals and their habitats and plants that are in the seven biomes that we are studying. They received a rubric that the parents signed acknowledging that they are aware of the project and when it needs to be completed by. We will also be learning about how to prevent pollution in our environment, different energy sources and alternative energy resources. Soon we will be collecting some pond, river, and tap water to perform some experiments to see the different properties of each type.

Math is all about protractors, angles, shapes, and how they relate in our world. Social Studies is very exciting as they learn about Colonial times. In English they will be creating a fantasy book using alot of the skills they have learned this year.

For our Meals-on-wheels project this month the children made prayer beads for the Twenty-third Psalm. They had a lot of fun making them. they are very colorful. We hope the recipients enjoy them.

Check back often as we update some of our Spring (it's coming soon) activities and add some pictures of those activities.

Have a great and hopefully warm Spring,

Mrs. Mitchell and 5M

October Newsletter

The weeks have been flying by. The students have been busy learning new routines, schedules, and having fun on the new playground. The children have learned about the Classification System for all the ornganisms that have been discovered. They know the difference between the Animal Kingdom and the Plant Kingdom. They can tell you why mushrooms are not plants, how a protist can help a cow, and some of the differences between bacterias. Have them explain why trees are tall and moss is not. Some of the children have had fun using spellingcity.com for practice on the spelling words for the week. In Math they have been working on short and long division. They have picked their state for Social Studies and in English they have learned about direct objects, appositives and some new vocabulary words.

The students presented their September bookreports to the class. We had a lot of cute and imaginative puppets as you can see in the pictures. They read books about swans who want to communicate through music, dogs with all sorts of problems, a mouse who wanted to prove she was not the cause of a family problem, a pig who wanted to protect a spider, and a rabbit wants to bring happiness to the "hill".

I would like to thank all the families who contributed and prayed for my friend, Dave, who is in Iraq. Fr. Kelley blessed all the packages that we send to him. Dave has received them. I have not heard from him personally but his wife told me he got them right before Columbus Day.

Have a spooky Halloween,

Mrs. Mitchell and 5M

St. Christopher School