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Wrapping Up the Year in Fifth Grade

With the school year coming to a close, it's the perfect time to look back on a few events that have taken place over the past few months in fifth grade.

Earth Day 2019
To celebrate Earth Day, fifth and sixth graders made artwork out of recycled materials during Community Time. Students painted garden rocks and created seedling paper earths.

Grant painting his rockmoji.

Mrs. Mueller explaining how to make recycled paper to the students.

Creating paper pulp out of wet, recycled newspaper.

Adding blue and green elements to the paper pulp from recycled construction paper.

Sophia demonstrating the straining process in making recycled paper.

Charlotte and Zayda finish up their earths, ready to add their seedlings!

Garrett, Andrew, and Molly show off their finished work.



Transition Talk
At the start of May, the fifth grade hosted a Transition Talk with the fourth grade students to share their experiences as first-year middle schoolers. The fifth graders were honest, insightful, and helpful in their tips and tricks for how to make the transition upstairs as smooth as possible.
Fourth and fifth graders gather in the fifth grade classroom for a "Transition Talk" about middle school.

Andrew starting the ice breaker activity.

Fourth graders listen intently as the fifth grade share their experiences from this school year.

Fifth grade boys give tips for how to stay organized in middle school when traveling to different classrooms.

Family Time
Finally, on Thursday HCA students met with their families for the last time this year. Each student (Nursery through Grade 7) was given a special HCA beach ball and had each of their family members sign it to wrap up a great year of memories! Later, they enjoyed water ice together. For our class, it was a perfect way to end the first week of finals (four more left!) and signal the start of the holiday weekend. Wishing all of our families a safe and enjoyable Memorial Day Weekend! 







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