Fifth Grade is Having a Great Spring!

This has been an active time in 5th grade!

The students did a play about the Trojan Horse at our Grandparents Day celebration. The whole class participated in making a four pot planter for the Grandparents day auction.

On February 27th two of our students, Abigail and Will, participated in a tennis tournament along with the rest of our middle school tennis team. The team performed very well, Abigail won 1st place in singles!

We had six 5th graders who participated in the regional Science Olympiad competition in Fort Worth on February 29th. We had a field trip to the Science and History Museum on the Friday before the competition. The kids had a blast doing hands-on activities including sitting on a bed of nails! On Saturday, all the students did well and we had some medal winners from our class. Daniel and Cooper received 2nd place medals for the Reach for the Stars competition, and Olivia and her partner Katherine received a 3rd place medal for Ornithology.

In music, the kids are in the last stages of preparation for the spring play. This year’s production is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The play will be presented at the Sullivan Center on Texarkana High School’s campus.

We are excited about this week’s Engineering and Science Festival. Our 5th-8th graders are doing different booths to demonstrate science and engineering to the rest of our school. Our class is doing a variety of activities including Herpetology, Ornithology, roller coaster design, and germ detection/ prevention. Our students have worked hard to find engaging ways to show science to younger students.

Spring break is next week, and we are looking forward to the break as well as all of the upcoming spring events.