We, as a staff, pledge to work as a team and to be positive and constructive role models. A typical day for a fifth grade class at the Tynan starts with journal writing. We then spend time reading from one of the stories in our series or a novel. Reading and writing are integrated at our school. At times, we listen to the story on tape.
Time is provided for responding to the reading through writing.
Our trip to the Aquarium the day before is discussed and we share our writing and math projects that have been part of our thematic study of the ocean. Through this novel, students will read and learn about the Revolutionary War and its impact on a boy of their age. We then go to the computer lab where we begin to research our project in social studies. We end our day with silent reading of a local newspaper. There were 471 students enrolled at the end of the 1999-2000 school year.