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Reading Buddy Day! Thank you 11th graders for coming to our class and reading with us!
We love reading buddy day!
Students took turns reading together.
We reviewed our spelling words using Bananagrams. This was a big hit!
Wear-a-hat-to-school day!
Country Projects: We spent the week sharing our research and painting our display boards.
Students are learning how to play the recorder in music class!
Book Character Day! So fun to see all the costumes!
Book Character Day!
Book Character Day!
Book Character Day!
Our guest reader was Mrs. Reasoner!
Team Libya! The students did a great job painting the display boards.
Reading Week!
We love reading week!
We gathered information about the countries we are studying in our country booklets.
Week of reading
“You’ve got a pizza my heart!” Making valentines for our families
We decorated boxes to put our valentines treats in
Students creatively decorated their boxes
Ready to fill the box with valentine treats!
Due to rainy weather, we had a lot of indoor recess times. Students enjoyed playing games such as bananagrams, dominoes, and pick-up sticks
Our science investigation this week was about chemical reactions.
We modeled chemical weathering by acid rain by soaking basalt, sandstone, limestone, and marble in white vinegar.
Students are learning how to play guitar chords!
Working in collaborative rotational stations have been a hit in 4.2!
Reading Buddy! The 4th graders read picture books to kindergarten students.
Reading Buddy time! This pair got the globe out to check out where their story setting was located on the globe!
Adding final touches to the Opinion Writing Essays.
We have begun our new unit on Rocks, Soil and Landforms in science! Here, students are investigating what makes up various types of soil.
New week, New books!
Investigating light wave properties with flashlights and mirrors.
4.2 ! (2018-2019)
We have the best view out of our classroom!
Vocabulary review games
Multi-step word problems are a challenge, but collaborating together builds our confidence and problem solving skills!
Our first read-aloud of the school year! The students LOVED this book and they still talk about it in January!
Our learning space
Have you heard about what Humpty-Dumpty did AFTER the fall? I love this picture book because it encourages us to get back up and never give up reaching for our goals.
Ready to learn!
Students working together to prepare for the culture fair.
Stream table experiment. Our focus question for the investigation was, "How does weathered rock move from one place to another?"
Team Burkina Faso working together on their presentation board.
We used fraction strips to talk about equivalent fractions.
Reading Buddy Time!
During our stream table investigation, we observed what happens to the sand when we pour water through the "valley".
More reading buddy pictures!
Reading buddy time with the kindergarten friends!
Planning together for the culture fair board.
"What if we add a slope to the stream-table? What would happen to erosion and deposition of weathered materials?"
Creating a pie chart for the country project poster.
Helping the librarians put books back onto the library shelves! We have been learning about eh Dewey Decimal System of Nonfiction classification.
Tuesdays are exciting because we get to check out new books from the library!
Partner discussions and study guides to prepare for the science test!
Working together to write down mealworm observations!
Here is orange team rejoicing in the moment they completed their math amazing race challenge!
Observing guppy structures and behaviors!
Mathematics amazing race
Here is the green team celebrating the completion of the math amazing g race challenge
“We found it Miss Barkman!!”
The students persevered through the math challenge.
Reading about Food chains and Food webs
Discussing together to build the food chain using flashcards!
Reading buddy time!
Learning about a lake environment food chain
Students quickly discovered that "food chains" are very complex and not a "straight line." It is more like a web.
Reading buddies!
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