We completed our study of Canada and Mexico.  We created Google presentations and created videos from the presentation using Animoto.  See examples below.

We had a visit from Pike and Officer Johnson.

Our trip to JA Skinner State Park

We had a beautiful day.  The Summit House porch was open for the first time in 4 years.  We enjoyed the view, played a game, completed an activity with Ms. Traub and took some time to write our thoughts about the day.  

 Ms. Gini Traub,  Regional Environmental Education Coordinator,  taught us about the formation of the park and had a great activity for us to do.  Thank you Ms. Traub!

Welcome to Grade 4! 2014-2015 School year. We started the year with the daily class routine and using our agenda for organization. In writing we have worked on using a graphic organizer, introduction including a lead and thesis statement, organize our story into paragraphs,and transition words to link our ideas and sentences to write a personal narrative. In reading we discussed just right books and monitoring our thinking while we read using stick on notes and making tracks. In science we started with our study of erosion and weathering and how the earth is constantly changing.

 Reminders: 
Tuesday, October 7: Recycling Plant trip
Thursday, October 9: JA Skinner State Park trip 

Great find at the beach!

Science experiment with erosion and weathering

Using Netbooks in the classroom

Math Problem solving

June

We wrote and created a play based on our immigration stories.  The play was inspired by the Chinese immigrants who came to America through Angel Island.  It was an amazing journey to complete this play which was part of our school wide Cultural Day at Coburn School.

Below is the play and our immigration stories.

Week of May 16

Students researched an animal and they collaborated to combine their  research to create a video.
 See the videos below.

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

 ― Toni Morrison


 We completed our books about "our toys come alive". This writing project included the use of Google Docs and Google presentation which enabled us to create, collaborate, share and publish our writing.

 

 


 








Also fourth grade teacher Mrs. Sullivan was interviewed on Connecting Point. She discussed her book she wrote, The Rag Doll.