GR5_Story+of+Our+Learning

Personal Essay by Charlotte McDonald ==//Toward the end of the year last year my friends would talk about who they wanted for fifth grade the following year. They all wanted Belli/Pugh. I didn't know why at the time but throughout the year I started to know and by the end of the year reflecting back I knew exactly why. Rather than just reading out of a textbook or doing worksheets we made our learning come alive. We would also learn things in the most fun way such as experimenting in science to having a real town meeting in ELA. Mrs.Belli and Ms.Pugh not only taught us but we taught them. Also they didn't teach us just academics they taught us what to do in real life situations. They taught me to speak my mind by having Thursday meeting with complements, concerns, and apologies. They taught me how to take risks and if you fail you're failing better by having the courage to take that risk. They taught me how to get deeper in my thinking using thinking routines. I used to think that being different is weird and I didn't know who i was supposed to be. Now i think/know that different is spontaneous and Im not "supposed' to be anyone just be me! This team has shared joys and laughs and sadness and pain. Joys and laughter's from Mrs. Belli's stories/adventures to achieving our team goals. Sadness and pain when we got deeper into learning about the cold bloody wars such as the French and Indian and the Revolutionary. Also how a person can not only be in a physical fight or war but mental ones too. We also learned how to get inside a book and feel what the character feels from the pain and loneliness Brian Robeson felt or the confusion of Jonathon when he didn't know who he should trust. By the end of the year this team was no team any longer it was a family. Maybe it was the teachers, or maybe it was the kids, or maybe it was just BP5. //==

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**End of the Year Reflections"Story of Our Learning"**


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 * Eleanor's Youtube Video**
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Ethan's PPT "Story of Our Learning"


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