Tales Of A 4-5 Something

Did you know that we had a Halloween Fun House way back in October? Every year around Halloween, our school has a Halloween Fun House. Mr. Nelson and Lauren work hard to make the day fun and there are a couple different stations. At one station there is a bucket that you bounce ping pong balls that look like eyeballs into. You can shoot basketballs into a hoop covered in spider webs. There is also a tunnel that is accessed by scooters that you slide through at the speed of light and there are cool lights inside the tunnel. There are hoppies that you bounce around a track with and this year there was a creepy skeleton at the end that would sneak up on you. It's one of the funnest events of the year! We're all having the time of our lives in 4-5.  Cooper and Esther

In 4-5 we have worked hard every Wednesday preparing for the winter concert 🎵. We meet in the Chorus Room in the Arts Building. We were supposed to sing in December but a lot of people were sick so we have a new day. Come see it on January 4th! In our performance, we are singing songs like The Mountains Are Calling Me, a song written by Tom Shelton. We also are singing our Mountain Mini Medley consisting of songs like The Climb by Miley Cyrus and other songs that we must keep secret. It is cool to do a medley because that is usually for the Middle School but because it is Waynflete's 125th birthday we are adding a special twist to our concert.  Happy holidays!!!! Written by Sylvan and Katherine 

Our 4-5 community took a field trip to Tortilleria Pachanga . We went to learn about how tortillas are made. The corn comes from Maine and when the crop is bad it comes from other states like Illinois. When the corn gets to her store, Lynne soaks the corn, then she grinds it, and then they form it into dough balls. There is a wooden thing called a press that flattens the dough into the round tortillas. When there is a bunch, the tortillas are put in a machine that will heat them and then they are bagged. We got to make the doug balls, press them and put them into a pan to cook it. The tortillas were AMAZING with a bit of cheese and salsa. If you have the opportunity, I would say find them in a store! The tortillerias are a 10/10. Come back to the blog for more awesomeness. Thank you for being amazing and supporting our 4-5 blog. Teagan and Anna  

Our school year has something called a trimester. Every so often our classes change. Sometimes we have movement, Spanish, and music but other times we have art, math in the mornings, and so much more. This change takes a bit of getting used to, but it also gives the students a chance to learn more. We just started art, but we sadly no longer have movement. Everyone looks forward to a new class that they haven’t had yet. 4-5 also just got into the rhythm of clubs! We have a variety from supernatural club, to tabletop games club. We also have art clubs. All these clubs were made by students. Every club meets once a week, for three weeks, then like our trimesters our clubs change with new activities and projects. Every kid wants their club to be accepted to get into the rotations. If the teachers feel that this club would not be as good fit or there are so many it gets postponed. Right now we are in our second trimester for classes and clubs, but clubs rotate much more than our classes i...

Tim’s homestation (and all the other 4-5 homestations) met their buddies! Tim’s homestation is partners with Meghan’s homestation, also known as the garden habitat. My buddy's name is Sonny and Ruby’s buddy's name is Callahan. When we meet with our buddies we get to play games, read with them, do math with them and get to walk around the Piney Woods. We will meet with our buddies every other Wednesday. Right now 4th and 5th graders are making board games for their buddies in the library!!! Our board games are connected to what we are learning about in themes class. We meet with our buddies for around 35 minutes.Today we will see our buddies again and we will read Bear Came Along. Do you know that story? Ruby and Elsie

On Tuesday September 28, 2023 all of Waynflete School gathered at Waynhenge and the Piney Woods. Goeff Wagg, the Head of School, gave us an opening speech for the start of convocation. Our school is a 125 years old this year so this was an extra special Convocation.  Each division has a speaker and Ellie, our representative for 4-5 gave the second speech. Ellie shared about being with a community and being brave. After a few more speeches Geoff Wagg told us the teachers and advisors that have served Waynflete for many many years. John, the Computer Science and Design teacher, made a puzzle for all the teachers and advisors that served us for all those years. And since he’s an engineer, he made it light up in a Waynflete green. At Waynflete the oldest serving teacher was Susan Nelson who has been a teacher at Waynflete for 48 years! Geoff rang the gong to signal the end of convocation with the help of some students.  We like Convocation because it is the the first time in t...

The first weeks of school have started and everybody is buzzing with excitement.  We are happy to see friends that we have not seen over the summer and to start our classes including PE, library, math, movement, lit, and many more. For people who are new, they are making new friends so they can have fun and not feel left out.  One of our highlights so far is PE because it is fun and it gets our energy out. In lit, we are learning about CAFE (Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanded vocabulary) which help us grow as readers. We also started the DIRT Project(Daily Independent Reading Time) and some of us have already finished some books! Tim is also reading to us. We started All Four Stars which is about Gladys who loves to cook and tries to make creme brûlée with a blow torch and burns down the kitchen curtains. At recess we love the new playground. Some people do gymnastics, some play soccer, and others read. We also have learned about how we can help the environment. W...

Our blog this week is about IP’s which stand for Independent Project. Each 4-5 student chooses a topic related to one of our many studies, which include salt marsh, mills, and black history (which there are some blogs about.) During your IP you go to the library and pick out 3-5 topics and a little later your advisor will tell you what you got. Next, you will take notes from your book and some online articles then when you are done taking notes you move to a computer and make an essay then you will make a visual aid to present to all of 4-5! We learn so much and we like writing the paper.  Cooper and Teagan

We began learning about the industrial revolution and a few weeks ago we started making boots. Boots is a time where we make believe we are cobblers in the 1800’s. We had a total of four boot times in Tim’s homestation. During boots one we were relaxed, ate snacks, and listened to music. During boots two we had to double production because word had spread about our boots. This led to lower quality boots and we didn't have snacks or music. During boots three we almost tripled the amount from boots two but we were working hard. It was stressful. During boots four we decided to try a different approach to making boots and tried an assembly line format. We made even more boots. The boots weren't real boots. One of the teachers, Nancy, made us some paper boots that we could color and decorate. Since we are studying the industrial revolution, it made sense to study the agrarian lifestyle too. In the agrarian lifestyle, people would use their own resources and tools. People would trad...

The DIRT project stands for daily independent reading time. This project has a lot to it! It includes 7 peer reviews [to talk about the books you’ve read with a classmate], 7 exit interviews with Tim, 2 book chats [to talk about a book with the whole class], 2 book reviews/book reports. And of course you need to read 7 books from 7 different genres all before the end of the school year. Many of the class have already finished their DIRT projects. And others are well on their way to finishing. Some of the books that have been read and have been recommended are The Canyon's Edge, Flying The Dragon and Alone. Not only do we grow as readers we become better speakers and writers and we learn how to organize our time. This blog comes to you from Isaac and Grover

In the 4-5 community we are doing a very fun project! Because it was black history month it lit a spark for the teachers and we started a super important project. We each researched a person of color. Josephine Baker, Michelle Obama, Toni Morrison and more! We did our research on our iPads, practiced taking notes, and when we came to the conclusion we put the story on the paper. When we finished Tim edits we started our drawings! Our writing and illustrations are in the lobby! Come and check them out!   Josie and Hudson

We were lucky and went to see the EC play. The EC play is a play performed by Early Childhood students. This year the play was about a missing trophy. A hockey team had just won a game and left their trophy by the rink for the night. When they came back the next day their trophy was missing. Turns out two seagulls had seen the trophy and wanted it so they took it. The seagulls gave it to a narwhal, the narwhal gave it to some pirates, and they took it to an island and buried it. Meanwhile, the hockey team called in a team of detectives. The detectives found the pirates and told them about the missing trophy and the pirates said that they were really sorry for taking the trophy. They returned the trophy and everyone was happy! Grover and Elizabeth

We got to see Juanna who told us about what life was like in Guatemala. She told us about how school was different there. The students at the school she teaches at get 5 hours of school instead of 7 hours like we have here. But they get 2 hours of lunch instead of 40 minutes and they get to go home for lunch or to a store. She told us about how the seasons are different. Instead of all 4 seasons they have a wet season and a dry season. She let us ask questions and since she could not speak English we would ask our question then Senora Meagan would translate it in Spanish so that Juanna could understand. It was a really cool experience! Maggie and Elizabeth

I like writing poetry and wrote these haiku over the summer when I was bored before camp. It is exciting to think that other people will read my writing. Lucia   Beach Rocks shifting under waves                      Sunburned shoulders face the sky In every movement  Gulls   Swooping and soaring  Gliding high over the waves  Hungry forever                                                                           Seaweed Slippery and wet  Laying out on the wet rocks Shifting with the tides Wa...

Omnikin ball is a game we play in PE. You play by having four teams of blue, red, yellow and green. The teams gather in the middle of the gym. The coaches throw up the ball and say ‘omnikin' and shout a team color. The team that is called tries to catch the ball and one member would hit the ball up again and say another team color. That team would catch the ball and do the same the green team did and they would call a different team. It is like one big chain reaction and we really like. Josie and Cooper