Bromwell Elementary School
A U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon School
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Home About Our School BROMWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (214) Telephone: Ms. Jody Cohn, Principal |
A-1: Ms. Sullivan's Fifth Grade Classroom
Welcome to our Fifth Grade Class! I’m sure you are as excited as I am to start off with a rewarding school year. Let me introduce myself... I was born in Korea and was adopted into a military family. My father served in the Air Force therefore, I have traveled to several different countries. My mother is a beautiful Korean lady who has taught me the Korean culture while growing up. I am bilingual in Korean and in English. My love for learning and education has driven me to become a teacher ever since I was little. I have fallen in love with teaching 5th grade after my first year at Bromwell. I am so blessed to be at a very driven school with wonderful staff members. I live at home with my husband, Nick and dog, Diesel in
Littleton. I absolutely love
Italian and seafood dishes. My
weaknesses are chocolate and cherries.
My favorite books are the Harry Potter Series. Something to look forward to... You will work very hard in fifth grade, but have lots of fun at
the same time. I have a saying, "Don’t make excuses. Make
improvements." I will teach
reading, and language arts to my homeroom class. My wonderful colleague, Leslie Dodge, and I teach the social
studies, science and math. The
fifth graders will participate in an American Independence Program, a
Congressional Hearing and Geography Bowl with Mrs. Dodge for social
studies. In our class, you will
participate in many fun experiments for the science unit along with solving
environmental mysteries and looking at real lungs and hearts. We also take an end of year outdoor
education trip to the YMCA camp of the Rockies in Estes Park. Both fifth grade classrooms have a lot of fun projects to work
on this year. Each trimester we’ll have three book reports focused as a project
centered on 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 each trimester with a fun "Novel Tea"
celebration. Both classes join
together at lunch to commemorate the victory of our reading achievements. Every week or so, both classes will choose a class wizard.
Everyone in the class will write down some things they like about this person.
This will be featured on our Wizard 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. All 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. We have students write in their agendas each night. We ask that these be signed each day by the parents. We also send home evaluations for our classes every Monday. We 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. I am available by e-mail at anna_johnson@dpsk12.org. |
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