News
This is your main page for finding out what is happening in the classroom.
All the news fit to print and more...
MCAS dates
ELA tests
Tuesday, April 10th, Thursday, April 12th
MATH tests
Thursday, May 17th, Friday, May 18th
SCIENCE tests
Monday, May 21st, Tuesday, May 22nd
Memorial Day Event
Friday, May 25th - Memorial Day Ceremony
Brooks School Gym
9:00 - 10:00am
All parents and family welcome to this Patriotic event!
The Eggdrop Challenge
See if your egg perishes when cruel Mr. Allen chucks it off the roof of the school!
Friday, May 25th
1:45pm - 2:15pm
Lower playground at the Brooks!
Parents welcome.
Follow the link to see the Eggdrop challenge from a few years ago!
End-of-year Open Mic Night
Friday, June 1st
Brooks Cafetorium.
6:00 - 7:30pm
Come and play...or just watch.
Keep the new tradition going strong...
Fifth-Grade Junior Olympics
Monday, June 4th (rain date June 6th)
9:00 - 12:30pm
Hormel Stadium
Parents are welcome at this wonderful annual event designed for prospective Middle School students to meet other students while engaging in good-spirited physical endeavor.
The aim is not so much to encourage competitive behavior as to support and promote collegiality and the expansion of social horizons for all students as the Middle School future approaches.
This is always a great and exciting event.
Come along and support our cherubs!
Royall House trip
Thursday, June 7th
11:00 - 12:30pm
This short trip is an annual event mandated and organized by the administration.
It's free and every fifth grade in Medford visits. We travel by big yellow bus, so a permission slip will be sent home.
Awesome history in our own back yard...
Fifth Grade Kimball Farm Field Trip
All fifth grade classes will visit the Park on
Friday, June 8th.
Come and celebrate our fantastic year.
Bus leaves at 9:00am. Return to school at 2:30pm
All students should bring lunch and snack.
Confirmed Chaperones (the more the merrier!):
End of the year Show
Wednesday, June 13th.
6:00pm and 7:30pm
Please make Show reservations by writing to me here letting me know:
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Which show you want to attend?
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How many will be in your party?
Seating will be done in the order that reservations were made!
Please note that graduate students will be allowed to come to the show. They will be seated only after all current class families are seated!
Follow the link to find out about our two-week long Project Period!
Mark it in your calendar, and please keep your student in school for the whole period!
Moving-On Ceremony
Thursday, June 14th
Time: 5:30 pm in the Gymnasium at the Brooks
Followed by the Student Party: 6 - 9 pm!
A fantastic culminating celebration for the Fifth Grade students: A brilliant ceremony, dressing-up, collecting 'Moving-On' certificates and yearbooks, chowing down on fantastic nosh, and all of this is followed by a giant disco-dance party, as well as cake, a gymnasium and lots of laughs without too many adults in the way!
What's not to love?
Field Day
Friday, June 15th
Playstead Park (and Brooks School)
9:00am -2:00pm
Great fun for all!!
Last-Day Party!!
When:
Wednesday, June 20th
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Where:
Casa Crotty-Gay
Who:
The 'graduating' class of 2018 and their families!
Say goodbye to Elementary school and hello to summer with the students and their families!
Be there or be somewhere else!
Important Links:
Parent Guide To Homework
Homework help for those who want it.
I think that grade five homework, like that of grade six and beyond,
can be an area of stress for many students and their families. Here
is a page to help you understand my homework expectations.
Specialist Timetables
A list of all the classes the students
take part in outside the usual classroom setting.
The year so far...
This is the page for all the links that go cold on the news page. It will grow into a chronological list of the primary events of our year together.
Science-class teacher plan
This is the route to the 'Specialist Class' page.
This page is for the students and parents of Ms. O'Donnell to find out about what happens during the Science class!