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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

5th Grader wins SIFMA State Award and National Recognition

SIFMA Foundation, McGraw Hill Financial Announce

Massachusetts State Winner of InvestWrite® Competition

Capital Markets Expert is a Fifth Grader!

· Thomas Brosnan of Memorial Elementary School, Burlington, MA wins state distinction in the SIFMA Foundation’s InvestWrite® essay competition with McGraw Hill Financial. InvestWrite, made possible in 2013 and 2014 by McGraw Hill Financial, challenges 4th - 12th graders to analyze investments and recommend portfolio allocations targeting financial goals.

Thomas Brosnan is among 20,000 students nationwide who take the InvestWrite challenge each year, developing the personal financial savvy needed to make real-world financial decisions.

· Brosnan and teacher Valerie Burns will be recognized at an event at Memorial Elementary School on June 10, 2014.

Burlington, MA, June 10, 2014 – It takes years to build up the financial savvy to navigate the markets. But Thomas Brosnan is decades ahead of the game, having just won distinction as the first place Massachusetts state winner in the SIFMA Foundation’s InvestWrite® essay competition with McGraw Hill Financial. Brosnan, in fifth grade at Memorial Elementary School, Burlington, MA claims this recognition in the elementary school division in the Spring 2014 competition. In addition, Brosnan ranked eighth place nationally.

CONGRATS TJ!

Sunday, June 8, 2014

232 Crew Visits the Middle School

5th graders went over to Marshall Simmons Middle School on Tuesday, June 2nd to attend an orientation for incoming 6th graders! Soon to be middle schoolers......

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

American Revolution Glogs are due.

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5th graders have been working on their American Revolution Glogster projects all month. Students will want to log onto Glogster this week at home and make sure they have all the necessary items. Under the Social Studies tab of this blog are many American Revolution websites that can be used if any student needs more information. The website is : http://edu.glogster.com/ and all students know how to log on.

Below is the rubric that will be used for grading. Mrs. Burns class will start presentations on Thursday and Mrs. Harlow's class will start presentations on Friday of this week. Please contact Mrs. Burns with any questions.

Glogster Rubric

Task: Using Glogster, create a snapshot of your person or event. Include the following information: Due 5/23/14	2 Points Good	4 Points Better	6 Points Best
Post at least four pictures of your person/event with a caption under/beside each describing the photo.	Four Pictures without captions and show the same kind of image.	Four pictures with captions, and show the same kind of image.	Four pictures with captions, showing different kind of images. (Ex. battle scene, portrait of person involved, flag, etc.)
Use the 5W’s to include all important information. Who, What, When, Why, Where	4 Ws with little detail included.	5 Ws with the very basic information included.	5Ws with all important details are included and free from grammatical and spelling errors.
Bibliography At least one book and one web-site			All resources listed including images.

Friday, May 2, 2014

Volleyball Champions!

Today the 5th graders got a hard won victory over the Terrific Teacher team. Congrats 5th Graders!

National Anthem sung beautifully!

The coin toss.

The Champions!

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

STOCK MARKET GAME FINAL RESULTS ARE IN....

This was our 1st time EVER participating in the Stock Market Game and 4 out of our 5 teams made the top 50 teams in the state and all teams made the top 100! Excellent effort from all teams. All the teams were very close to each other with $109,120.28 being the winner of the Stock Market Game for the state- only $9,711.21 more than Memorial's top team.
Congratulations to all of Memorial's teams...here are the results below.

Team JSMA #1 at Memorial (Jensine, Makenna, Adelaide and Sydney P)
Total Equity at end of game : $99,409.07 and ranked 32nd in the state!!!

Team Money Makers #2 at Memorial (Aarav, Shashank, Yianni and Kris)
Total Equity at end of game: $99, 115.34 and ranked 37th in the state!!

Team Stock Monkeys #3 at Memorial ( Sydney H, Colleen, Chloe, and Jenna)
Total Equity at end of game: $98,905.62 and ranked 44th in the state!!

Team Stock IARI #4 at Memorial ( Sam, Brendan, Nihal and Billy)
Total Equity at end of game: $98,278.65 and ranked 48th in the state!!

Team Stock $TOCK$QUAD #5 at Memorial ( TJ, Max, Sami and Georgish)
Total Equity at end of game: $95,595.12 and ranked 71st in the state!!