The Fifth grade class having a little fun on the playground with their teacher Miss Brooke Neville. Top row from the left are Dravin Burkes, Taylor Pribyl, Tyler Due, Josh Meyer and Troy Kallhoff. Bottom row from the left are: Trenton Vossler, Draven Payne, Andrew Vavra, Savannah Horne, Devin Harrison, Savana Krupicka and Miss Neville.
Exeter-Milligan fifth graders perform a play about the
struggles of “crushes” during their health class. From the left are
Trenton Vossler, Dravin Burkes, Andrew Vavra and Savannah Horne.
The
Exeter-Milligan fifth grade classroom is full of students who are eager to
learn.
New to
Exeter-Milligan, their teacher Brooke Neville, is adjusting well and enjoying
this Milligan classroom. “I have enjoyed the enthusiast personalities of
the fifth-grade class. They are all very charismatic, which makes our
days in school so much more enjoyable.”
In addition
to the essentials, these fifth graders are taking initiative in the
community. Each morning, the students take turns spending a few minutes
calling senior citizens in the community to check in with them. The Telecare
program has been a part of the fifth grade classroom for a number of years and
Neville has embraced the program.
Neville has
also brought active learning to the recent social studies unit. When
learning about the thirteen colonies the students got to chose a “new name”
from a list of girl and boy names that were popular during that time.
“Each student was able to choose their name and that was who they were during
Social Studies every day. They created their own name tags and set them
out on their desk every day. At the end of the unit, we had a little
party where we cooked Johnny Cakes and drank Apple Cider,” according to Neville.
So far
Neville is thrilled with both her classroom and the district, “The staff that
we have here is incredibly supportive and I have felt a lot of support and
communication with the parents too. In some school districts, the
communication causes issues, and I have noticed already in the first quarter
that E-M is a very open and supportive district.”
