END OF THE YEAR IN THE GLANZ/PACKER FIFTH GRADE

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End of the Year in 5th Grade

Field Day and Robotics Projects 

          This year has passed by so, so quickly!  Your wonderful children                           learned so much and have grown by leaps and bounds. Seeing each  
               one of our rising 5th graders kindly and gently help the kindergarten,                     1st, and 2nd graders participated in their field day, said so much about
               about how they have matured during the year. They are truly ready to
               be leaders in middle school.  












To observe the plant life cycle firsthand, each student wrapped a dry bean in  wet cloth and waited for it to open up and then sprout roots and first leaves. Then, each planted the seedling in a cup filled with soil. Once they grew more leaves (due to the photosynthesis going on) flowers developed and a new generation of beans developed on some of the plants before they were taken home.






Robotics Projects

During the second part of the Botany unit, our students worked in groups creating a robot representing each stage of a plant's development. Enjoy these photos and videos of the teams and their robots! 




















For the last project of the Botany unit, each student created a SCRATCH animation project that represented the life cycle of a particular plant that is adapted to living in a particular biome.  Please ask your child to show you his or her individual work. There were a few glitches as students were working on this. Nevertheless, each student demonstrated how much learning occurred during the unit.

It's time for a summer vacation, it's also sad that the year is ending. We enjoyed teaching and learning with your children this year.  We wish each one the best a wonderful summer and success next year and always!




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