Friday, January 31, 2014

Where has the time gone?!?


         It's been awhile since I've posted, but we are still very busy at work!  Over the past couple weeks, we've focused on division in math and are ready to move on.  As I previously mentioned, from this point forward, your child will mainly see division in the way of review and it won't be heavily emphasized again until 5th grade.  We will however, teach students the traditional way to solve division problems at the end of the school year.  On Monday, our entire fourth grade class, put on a wonderful Wax Museum for our school and for the PTO meeting attendees.  In science, we've moved from Light to Magnetism and next, Electricity.  In reading and writing, we are leaning about different types of poetry, figurative language that poets often use and students will start to dabble in a bit poetry writing themselves.  I'm going to post pictures below of the Wax Museum, Light investigations that we've completed in class and pictures from when we worked with Ms. Sharon Lone to build Snap Circuits.  













Friday, December 20, 2013

Day 5 of Wax Museum Presentations

Here are our final historical figures for the Wax Museum....

                                           Marco Polo

                                                     John Marshall


                                                    John Cabot


                                                     Queen Isabella

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Day 4 of Wax Museum Presentations

Today, we learned about the following historical figures...
   

                                         Sitting Bull

                                         Dred Scott


                                                     Rosa Parks


                                                   Samuel Adams

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

The Wax Museum Presents... Day 3

Here are the historical figures from today...

                                        Hernando de Soto

                                                    Pocohantas


                                                  Christopher Columbus

                                           
                                                    Amelia Earhart

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Day 2 of Wax Museum Presentations

Here are the pictures of the students that presented their historical figures in class today.  Check back tomorrow to see the others. 

                                         Daniel Boone

                                                   Ferdinand Magellan 


                                                   Harriet Tubman

                                                    Marco Polo


                                                    Abraham Lincoln

Let the Light Shine

Today, we started a brief unit on Light.  Below are a few links to websites that your child will find interesting and will help them to learn more about Light.


http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/light.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP3EY2tToQs

Monday, December 16, 2013

Wax Museum Presentations have begun....

Today, we had the first group of students present their historical figures to the class and everyone did an outstanding job!  Below you will find the pictures of our presenters from today.  Come back each day to see your child's picture. 

                                            Laura Ingalls Wilder

                                           Sojourner Truth

                                                        Leif Ericsson 

                                                         Davy Crockett


                                                      Christopher Columbus