"No one has ever become poor by giving."

~Anne Frank~

As fifth grade Book Clubs came to an end today (11/22), each group gave a brief book commercial, advertising their particular novel to potential reading "customers."  A commercial included: the book's title and author, the setting, introduction to the main character and any important supporting characters, a hint of the problem, and a collection of adjectives describing the novel.  The three novels read in clubs were: Number the Stars, Bud, Not Buddy and The Cay. 



               

                                     

Fifth grade archaeologists examined Native American

artifacts in a presentation made by Mrs. Vitali, grandmother of Christopher Childs. Mrs. Vitali lives on a 55 acre farm in Wallingford, CT. The previous owner of the farm discovered about one hundred arrowheads while plowing his field. Fith graders made some guesses as to what this site might have once been with such a large number of arrowsheads unearthed. Possibly a hunting site, an Nativwe American village, the scene of a battle???  Beaded bags made to hold herbs and tobacco were purchased by Mrs. Vitali when she was a young girl visiting North Dakota.

 

In keeping with a 10-year-old tradition, fifth graders hosted the annual "Gobble-Off" with their reading buddies who are invited to hear a round reading of All About Turkeys, followed by a strut and gobble down the turkey track runway. The kinders arrived decked out in their turkey headdresses and joined in the gobble-off fun!
Even Mr. Fixx and Mr. Howe could not resist visiting the flock and showed off some fine stutting and gobbling alongside 5th graders and buddies.

The fifth grade sends heartfelt wishes for a memorable Thanksgiving 2016!