Cards for Bridges Friends

Links to Library with Shelly! 

Shelly read a great story about a name, The Name Jar, another story about two animals, Two Bobbies.

Summary: The Name Jar: Having just moved from Korea, Unhei so instead of introducing herself on the first day of school, she tells the class that she will choose a name by the following week. But while Unhei practices being a Suzy, Laura, or Amanda, one of her classmates comes to her neighborhood and discovers her real name and its special meaning.
Two Bobbies is about a cat and a dog that were left homeless after Hurricane Katrina.

Straw Rockets before Thanksgiving break

Waves on the beach science lab about the changing of our Earth.

Links to Library:  Shelley read Owen and Mzee.  A great story about a friendship between a turtle and a hippopotamus.  Also, she let us pick out another book to keep. 

Bridges:  Our culminating project

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Empathy and Acceptance are the characteristics the school studied this month.

STEM Week

Earthquake structure:  create a structure that can withstand an earthquake.

Marble Run Challenge:

Create a 3-dimensional free-standing marble run.  The marble must travel at least 40 centimeters.

Winners of the marble challenge for distance.

School cancer walk this week.

  Bridges this week:  Learning how to sew.

We started Links to Library Read aloud program.  The read aloud volunteer makes a commitment to read once a month for 7 months - October through April. The same volunteer will read in the same classroom for the year.  During each classroom visit, the volunteer will read aloud and then offer a variety of books from which each child can choose one book to keep.  By the end of the school year, each student will have a home library of 7 books.  This year we are excited to have Shelley Choquette visiting our class.

Shelley from Links to Links to Library Real Aloud Program

Skinner State Park 2018

This year we are involved in the Bridges Program.  This 7 week program  is a school-community connection.

Welcome to Grade 4

2018-2019

September

The month of September we have worked on routines of the classroom as well as expectations of class and school. This year we have art and music which is different from past years as well as a morning recess. In math we have been piloting a new math series, ReadyMath. This series has an individual online component as well as a practice book for student to write in. In science we have been using the new Stemscopes, a science new program that has hands on activities. We have been studying Rock patterns with the wondering question of If environments change so slowly, how can we know what they used to be like?  In social studies we have worked on map skills.
In writing we worked on introduction with lead (hook), transitions and conclusion to improve our narratives.   In reading we continued our routines of independent reading,  and wrote a letter to share our thinking while we read.

  Please take the time to read with your child.  Your child should read for at least 20 minutes nightly.

Our pre-reading test below. We found out that we should read all directions first before we just start answering questions.

Our first science lab. Working together.