The Best Part of 5th Grade Is...

We had a great year in Room 11B and we did a lot of amazing things! I wanted to capture everything we did, and get the students' perspective on what was their favorite part of 5th grade was. Thank you for sharing your students with me this year. I enjoyed each and every day I had with them, and I can't wait to hear about all the amazing things they are going to do in middle school, and beyond.

The Best Part of 5th Grade Is...

(please excuse some of the audio in the interviews)

The Amazing Race Across the States

For the past few weeks our class has been road-tripping across the United States to learn more about our country's states, national parks, monuments, and other interesting sights. The students were broken up into 10 teams and had to make a route that traveled through 20 states, either traveling from San Diego, California to Bangor, Maine or Seattle, Washington to Miami, Florida.

Along their travels they made postcards, brochures, and souvenirs, they kept a journal of the things they saw along the way, they calculated their daily mileage and travel time, and encountered a daily "fate" which could either result in extra mileage or severe delays due to weather, car problems, or any number of incidents.

As a retrospective, the teams have been putting together a map of their route and highlighting their "Top 20 Sights". Take a look at the team maps by using the links below.

Team 1	Team 2	Team 3	Team 4	Team 5
Map	Map	Map	Map	Map

Team 6	Team 7	Team 8	Team 9	Team 10
Map	Map	Map	Map	Map

Team 1- Kina, Sarada, Nikita
Team 2- Shivani, Akanksha, Aashritha
Team 3- Anvita, Vaishali, Esha
Team 4- Noelle, Maille, Emily, Alicia
Team 5- Kendall, Simona, Victoria, Dalynn
Team 6- Connor, Sri, Xiuyuan
Team 7- Julian, Vedant, Meron
Team 8- Zachary, Dante, Div
Team 9- Cody, Joey, Sathya
Team 10- Adelric, Andrew, Matthew, Paolo