Tales Of A 4-5 Something

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