In December 2014, 5th grade classrooms held
Portfolio Breakfasts to show student work done in the
fall. In Room 221 students read “Poems of Good
Relation” composed during their study of Native
Americans. They displayed “Circuit Boards,” a project
in the Science unit on energy. The boards were
constructed during a field trip to the Edgerton Center
at MIT.
Social Studies writing included an opinion
piece about the Boston Massacre. The project
included a classroom enactment of the Boston
Massacre Trial using primary source documents.
In Room 220, students shared a collection of odes
written to honor ordinary objects they respect. They
displayed webs that compared Native northwest
culture and physical environment to their own. They
also shared pre-investigative writing about their
individually chosen I-Search topics (from the history
of candy to cheetahs to a comparison of Italy and the
United States).