Moving out and Moving Up!

Good Morning 4th Graders, In your survey, you created a cool list of things you are excited about.  They were: No lines - Yeah, when you are dismissed from one class, you are responsible for getting yourself to the next one.  You need to still follow rules like quiet voices, no running, and keeping hands to yourself, but 5th graders are pretty ready to handle this all on their own.  Playing soccer - Kids play a lot of soccer at recess! Lockers - See earlier posts, but yes, you'll get a school locker in the Commons Area outside of your team classroom, and a PE locker in the locker room adjacent to the gym.  They are exciting, and you can personalize them a bit with photos and magnets.     More independence! - Yes, you'll get much more independence in middle school, but with independence comes responsibility, and you'll be responsible for making good decisions while being in charge of yourself around the building.  There will be adult supervision wh...

Hello 4th Graders, For today's post, I want to focus on some general areas of wonder.   I saw from your survey (see the diagram below) that you are most interested in the schedule, your lockers, lunch, and the playground.  A fair amount of you had questions in other areas, and hopefully, I answered some of those yesterday.      So let me talk about some of these areas... The Schedule Here is an example of a 5th-grade schedule from this past year.  It will likely be fairly similar next year (assuming we are physically in school without  COVID restrictions that will force us to alter business as usual).     7:45-8:00 Advisory Group (pretty similar to nest) 8:00-10:15 Core time (usually made up of 2 classes and a snack or break of some kind).   10:15-11:00 Chorus/Band or X Block 11:00-11:30 - Lunch and Recess 11:30-1:00 - More Core Time (Broken into different classes or topic areas) 1:00-1:45 -  World Language or PE/Heal...

Good Morning 4th Graders, Here are some answers to your questions directly from some of our awesome 5th graders!   From Boone... What is the best part of Crossett Brook? The best part of Crossett Brook for me is being a little more independent and having two recesses.  What does your schedule look like?  I have Chore 1, recess, music/band, workshop/15-minute chore 2, lunch/ lunch recess, finish chore 2, reading/book club, applied academics, dismissal. How large is the school (I mean the number of students)? 300 something? Where is everything?  I cannot explain this but you will probably figure it out the first week or two. Is it hard to get to all of your classes?  No not at all, I never feel rushed and teachers are nice. Are we going to still have recess?  Yes you will have a 15-minute lunch recess and on my team quest we have 30-minute team recess but it depends on the team you always have lunch recess though no mat...

Hello 4th Graders, Were we not in remote mode, you'd likely have met me by now, but since we're all working from our homes right now, I thought I'd introduce myself from my front yard... Now that you've met me, I wanted to take some time to answer your questions over the next couple of days.  These are questions generated by all of you and for now, they'll be answered by me.  If I can get some responses from current 5th graders, I'll post some of those too!   For today's blog post, I'll focus on your first category:   If you could ask one question of a Crossett Brook Student, what would it be? What is the best part of Crossett Brook?  I've worked at CBMS long enough to know how 5th graders answer this question.  They always say the chocolate milk, the lockers, and not having to walk in lines.  But I secretly think they like most everything about CBMS! What does your schedule look like?  The schedule changes a bit from year to year and w...