Mr. Stapleford is the best! He is a pure comedian and a wonderful teacher. In homeroom, he teaches us many things. He always says "Don’t be embarrassed if you don’t get it." You will be embarrassed in the year of course, but it will help you gain confidence. He wants us to learn all the countries of the world, and he says if we memorize them all, he will carve our name into the wall in our classroom. He always has chalk dust on his hands. He has a chalkboard and a smartboard. In our reading class, we will get out of our comfort zone because in reading he does not want us to read like a robot. Instead,  he wants us to read like an actor, he wants us to make voices and emotions. We have to make him feel the emotions that we are doing. He really inspires us to be confident and fearless!

    Mr. Stapleford teaches math. He does a good job at teaching math because he makes it easy to understand. He gives us homework to do almost every day except for weekends. Mr. S. uses his computers for Excel and also other work we do on the internet. He often uses the computer to show us some interesting things on the internet.  He has us play math games to sharpen our math skills.  Mr. S. does a good job at math because he makes just the normal math session into a very funny and hilarious time. He is strict, but fair.

    In Social Studies this year, Ms. Douglas is teaching us about archeology. We went on a dig in Vergennes that is by the waterfalls. It used to be a shipyard. We are learning about how to find and use primary resources. We will write a research paper with her this year. Ms. Douglas will help some students that want to participate in Vermont History Day.

    We have been doing a lot with water in Ms. Elson's class. We are studying pollution and how to purify the water. We studied the ocean and species that live in the ocean. We do a lot of experiments with her. We have tried many experiments including one where we had to remove dye from water. 

    This year we have gone on amazing field trips, with so many more to come. This year, Mr. S.,  Ms. Douglas, and Ms. Elson have taken us on a whale watch and little field trips such as Little Otter Creek and things like that. At the end of the year we are going on a huge field trip to Canada. Just hearing about the Canada trip makes us excited.