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BROMWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (214) Telephone: Mr. Jonathan Wolfer, Principal |
A-2: Mrs. Dodge's Fifth Grade Classroom Welcome to Mrs. Dodge's class! We have a wonderful group of fifth grade students who support and motivate each other to kind deeds, deeper learning and a fun experience each day. I am so pleased to have you in my class this year. I'm sure you have heard how much fun fifth-graders have. In my class, we have reading parties at the end of each trimester called Novel Teas. These are celebrations for the reading that students do during that time period. We put on a Poetry Extravaganza at the end of the school year. We have fun book shares that are not only centered on different genres but also include projects on different aspects of reading (character study, plot, setting, sequencing events, and so on). We also have fun projects in social studies. We start the year with a Geographical Me poster and end it with a Congressional Hearing in downtown Denver at the City and County Building. In the middle of the year, we put on an Independence Play centered on the Revolutionary war time period of our country. We play a game called Geography Bowl in history rather than take tests. You will continue your Everyday Math journey and learn a lot of new math concepts.
Of course, at the end of the school year we will head up to Estes Park for a three-day learning adventure. This trip includes swimming, roller-skating, hiking, and much, much more. I know you will have fun helping with our fundraisers throughout the year to help make our trip costs more reasonable.
I'm also sure that you have heard that you will work hard in my class. That is also true. But it is work that will help you grow and learn. When you leave fifth grade, you will be ready to join the advances sixth-grade programs for which so many of you will be applying.
So, I look forward to beginning our fun adventure. "Fifth grade rocks!" one of my fifth graders once commented. I have to agree! Welcome to my class.
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Weekly Schedule  DODGING THE ISSUES Teaching here at Bromwell blesses me thoroughly. I have always loved teaching, and this year marks my twenty-eighth year in the classrom. I have eleven years experience with sixth graders, three with seventh graders, one with fourth graders and this is my seventh year with fifth graders. I've taught special education students for seven years. I have done day care for 18 years, mostly in the summer. I have run fun preschool programs. I have taught aerobic classes for twenty-three years. I have also spoken for women's groups all across the state of Colorado and into Nebraska and Wyoming as well. As you can see, I really like teaching all kinds of people of all ages. I teach the language arts (reading, spelling, grammar, and writing), and math to my home room fifth grade students as well as shouldering the responsibility of teaching the social studies classes for all the fifth graders. I will be covering the history and geography of the early development of our country. We have a lot of fun projects to work on this year. Each quarter we will have two book reports focused as a project centered around a certain genre of book. For example, the first report, a clue game, is a mystery and involves making a game board to follow the sequence of the story. The second report is an historical fiction and the students will create a doll to represent their character in time. The third genre is a biography and the students will create a newspaper article to describe the important person's life. We end second quarter with a holiday book report. Every week or so, we will be choosing a Top Banana. Everyone in the class will write down some things they like about this person. Their picture will be featured on our Top Banana bulletin board and they will get a lunch in the room with friends. Come in and see our wonderful honoree. We have caption contests each week in our classroom. An unusual picture goes up on our board and the students have an opportunity to write a caption that they think goes with it. Al the other students vote on their favorite saying on Friday. We have a dictionary word contest each Friday as well. Each student finds a word in the dictionary for which he/she doesn't know the definition. They write the true definition down in addition to three false definitions. They try to be the student that fools the most people with their false definitions. It is important to me to keep in contact with the parents of the students in my classroom. I have students write in their agendas each night. I ask that these be signed each day by the parents. I also send home evaluations for my class every Monday. I request that these be signed by the parents as well. This is a great communications tool for the parents and me to use to keep up on the events and assignments given in class.  PERSONAL DODGE BITS I have a wonderful family. My two sons are grown and married, so now I have four children. They both live in Colorado, so I get to see them a lot. Craig and Jennifer Dodge live in Englewood. Craig works with a mortgage insurance company and he and his wife, Jennifer, fellowship with the Next Generation Church here in Denver. Jen works at the Aurora Public Library. They have blessed me with grandmotherhood, and my precious grand daughter is almost two years old. Bruce and Jamie Dodge are more into the business world. Bruce works for Best Buy as the business computer coordinator for the company. He is completing his degree in business, and Jamie is a registered nurse. They fellowship with South East Christian Church in Parker. I have been married to my husband Bill for 33 years. We are active in our church located in Aurora. Bill also works for DPS in the curriculum department. He is very patient with his on the go wife. We have two special little dogs that live with us. We call them our children, but our boys refuse to call them sister and brother. We have a Miniature Schnauzer named Rascal and a Shih Tzu named Scruffy. FROM THE PRINCIPAL Mrs. Dodge is an experienced and devoted teacher who has consistently high expectations for her students. She spends countless hours outside of the classroom on district and school task forces, which work to the benefit of our staff and our students. - Mr. Wolfer  Contact me via e-mail at leslie_dodge@dpsk12.org
Contact my grade-level partner, Cathy Oglesby, at cathy_oglesby@dpsk12.org
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