Navigator Upper Elementary (4-6) -

Navigator Winter Music Showcase Our 4th and 5th grade students shared their learning during a musical performance tonight at the Jane Tasch Theater. Thank you to the volunteers and Navigator staff that helped Mrs. Schuster put on this event for our community. We appreciate your support.

Fourth graders playing math football to practice their long division skills.

Happy New Year! Navigator students getting back into their daily school routine after the holiday break.

Fourth grade students engaged in math problems that are posted around the commons.

5th graders are focused on the essential question in science: How do we protect and maintain earth’s natural resources, specifically the Great Lakes Basin?

The 6th grade orchestra came to perform for some of our classes this morning.

Students having a great time at Navigator’s first Dance-A-Thon.

Students having a great time at Navigator’s first Dance-A-Thon.

Mr. Goodfellow’s PE classes are developing basketball skills by engaging in a variety of different activities.

Thanks to Mr. O’Neil for spending the day with us at Navigator Elementary volunteering in our Watch D.O.G.S. Program.

In science, 4th grade students explored how plant and animal structures help an organism. Students recorded this learning process on a KLEWS chart (Know-Learn-Evidence-Wonder-Science vocabulary).

Craft for Kids

In Writer’s Workshop 5th grade some of our students wrote letters to the soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The students wrote such thoughtful cards and drew Christmas drawings.

In art, students created and painted clay bowls.

Thank you Mr. Neuman for spending the day with us with our Navigator Watch D.O.G.S. program.

Mrs. Griscom’s class engaged in literacy instruction including reviewing the meaning and use of morphemes (prefixes, suffixes, Latin and Greek base) and the strategy of repeated reading to gain a deeper comprehension of text.

Mrs. Kanerva class engaged in Makerspace activiites. Students explore and create a project through problem solving and planning using a variety of materials.

Our 4th graders are hard at work on this Monday morning.

Mr. Cogswell’s 5th grade students presented a story to a couple of our 4th grade classrooms through a readers theater script.

Mr. Lemay joined us at Navigator for a second time this year through our Watch DOGS program. We appreciate the strong support from our Navigator community.