NEWS
By Bonita Formwalt | May 13, 1992
It's time for the big test. Students in grades three and eight are taking the Maryland School Performance Assessment Program this week, and the fifth grade will be tested (excuse me, assessed) next week. The following is a sample fifth-grade question:A teacher is planning a picnic at an ice cream store with her class. It takes 1 1/2 hours to walk to the store and back to the school. If the students must be back by 3 p.m. for dismissal, what time should the class leave to start their trip?
NEWS
By BONITA FORMWALT | December 15, 1993
Books by Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary shared shelf space with a new generation of writers at the Point Pleasant Elementary School Authors' Tea last week. Budding authors from the fifth grade discussed their poetry and prose with visitors, pausing only to sign autographs.The idea for the tea evolved as teacher Maurine Larkin searched for a way to pique the students' interest in writing. She began to think in terms of how professional writers create and promote their finished work."A tea was something that a real-life writer might do when they had finished writing a story or a book," said Larkin.
NEWS
By Anne Haddad and Anne Haddad,Sun Staff Writer | July 21, 1994
For the first time, Elmer Wolfe Elementary School in Union Bridge will have a fifth grade in September.The county Board of Education voted last night to overturn recommendations to the contrary by its top administrator.The 4-1 decision by the Carroll school board forces the administration to find a place for the preschool program at Elmer Wolfe, to make room for the fifth grade, and to notify parents of affected 4-year-olds.Board members said they are committed to elementary schools that go up to fifth grade and an "ancillary" program such as preschool should not displace students in kindergarten through grade five.
NEWS
By Anne Haddad and Anne Haddad,Sun Staff Writer | July 14, 1994
A Union Bridge mother wants to make one thing clear: Not everyone agrees with the six parents leading the push to start a fifth grade at Elmer Wolfe Elementary School so those children don't have to attend New Windsor Middle School.Elmer Wolfe is the only school in the county that doesn't yet have a fifth grade. It never has had one, but it will in September 1995 when expansion and renovation begin.The six parents appealing to the school board don't want to wait that long: Their children will be in fifth grade in the fall, and they maintain that they're too young to be plunged into a school with grades six through eight.
NEWS
By Stephanie Desmon and Stephanie Desmon,SUN STAFF | December 2, 2001
He knows each one of their faces, knows which ones excel at math and which need to review their addition and subtraction. He knows their mothers, their fathers, their dogs. He knows when to push and when to let the fifth-grade frenzy take over for a while. Robert A. Bell knows these children better than some of their parents do. He has been their teacher at Edmondson Heights Elementary School in Baltimore County for five years, since the first grade. He has held on to the same class longer than any known public schoolteacher in the country.
EXPLORE
August 5, 2013
The Joppatowne Woman's Club hosted an art show for students from kindergarten to fifth grade. Proudly displaying her "Best in Show" is Kayla Caine-Ward.