Hello Best Class Ever,

It has been such a privilege to be your teacher this year. Your hard work, enthusiasm, thoughtfulness, and joy has been such an inspiration to me. I will cherish memories of this amazing year with you forever. I am so proud of how much you have each learned and how much you have each matured. You give me the greatest hope that the world we be a much better place in the future because you will make a difference. Thank you for being so wonderful to teach and spend my days with. Every precious day with you has been an absolute blast! What an unforgettable year! You truly are the best class ever.

Go forth to middle school, rock on, and conquer all the challenges that stand in your way to success. You are destined for greatness!

Love always,
Ms. Kimball

Feel free to share your own end-of-year comments!

A fun day of team activities and competitions, Color Day was an absolute delight. Students hopped in sak races, competed in vigorous tug-of-war battles, hula hooped, attacked each other with foam noodles, and much more. Check out some of the fun below!

To enhance our study of simple machines, engineering design, and the scientific method, we constructed a Rube Goldberg Machine in class. Students voted for the final task to be to shoot an inflatable basketball into our inflatable basketball hoop. An important goal of the project was to work collaboratively and to persevere through challenge. 

Students worked in teams to construct simple machines designed to keep force in motion from section to section. If we had more time, our Rube Goldberg Machine would have gone off without a hitch. Nevertheless, our connections worked, the design was well engineered, and we achieved our goal! 

Enjoy the pictures and video below!

Coming up with an interesting and thoughtful blog prompt each week was always one of my favorite things to do, but it was also challenging. Everyone was reading something different. Prompts had to be general enough so that any text could be used, but also specific enough to make you think critically. I also wanted the prompts to be fun and interesting. I hope you enjoyed responding to the Reading Response Blog this year. I certainly enjoyed reading your responses!

This past week, some students in class came up with some very interesting blog prompts themselves. Thank you children! It was hard to choose just one, so I posted three for you to choose from.

Choose one of the following prompts related to character traits to respond to:

1. If you could chose a character from a book you are reading to be your best friend, who would you chose and why? 
   
2. What are some characteristics of a character that you want and what are some that you do not like about that character?
   
3. Do you think the plot of a story would change if the main character was someone else? Explain your thinking.

I can't wait to read your responses about characters!