5th Grade Guest Authors

Earlier this year, the 5th grade students wrote children's books with the theme "overcoming fear". Eight books were selected to have the author go and read the stories to all of Birch's first grade students. What fun! Nice writing and illustrations!

Fabulous Flipbooks!

Fifth graders really showed off their animation skills in these fun flipbooks - They were actually created in PowerPoint with tiny changes on each slide so it makes objects appear to be moving. Click HERE to view the animated movies.

Mr. X: Math Magician "Wows" Us!

We were lucky enough to have a surprise visit from Mr. X this week. He amazed us with his mathematical performance! All of his magic has a math foundation. As a former gifted and talented teacher (30 years), he related his performance and tricks to problem-solving and critical thinking especially for our class! Check out the video for a peek at the performance. Thanks Mr. X!