Week of November 26

Social Studies: We each picked a president.  Then we looked up facts about him.  We had to find out years when he was president, his birth and death, his family, his pets, his wins and loses, achievements, home state, important things they did, important events they went to, hobbies, strange facts, nicknames, the party he was in, and his vice president and we could find more if we wanted to.  Then we typed a PowerPoint about him.  

Math: The 3rd graders are working on line plots and reading graphs.  The 4th graders are working on division and stuff.  The math we are working on is really fun.  But I think it should be more exciting.  Math is fun!

Library: We have been checking out books, building forts out of pillows, and reading books together.  

Recess: We are still trying to earn back 4-square, but we also have other games like tag.  

Music: This week we are working on our winter program and we have some fun stuff planned out for you guys.  There's some action, fun, and last but not least, music!

Writing: Some people are finishing their "If I were President" story.  Other people are free writing.  The stories are very creative.  That means we are the Creativores.  

PE: We played battleship.  We really need to work on team work.  We played island tag.  

Language Arts: We are trying to finish up reading our chapter books and we are almost done! First we read the chapter.  Second we write words and a summary.  Last we answer a questions and move onto another chapter.

Art: This week we are doing something SECRET but we can tell you about the other stuff like writing, science, social studies, and the other stuff.  

Math Games: Mrs. Price has let us choose from a variety of math games including multiplication war.  

Here is our turkey fruit from the Thanksgiving Feast!  

Week of November 13

Language Arts:  We are still working on the election books.  We started a new method of reading them.  It is reading completely independent.

Math: We had a lot of fun this week with math.  We learned about factors and multiples.  The fourth graders were multiplying 2 and 3 digit numbers.

Writing:  We have been writing a story about what we would do or change if we ever become president.  It is very very very very very fun!

Science: We made two things bubble and we found out what liquids mix and what doesn't mix.  We learned about density of liquids and made layers.  We are now creating our own projects.  

Social Studies: We have been learning about all the presidents by reading a story with funny phrases.  We had a test on them today.

French: We have been learning about how to say numbers in French.

PE: PE is fun but we have had some problems.  We also played games like battle ship and hamburger.  We sometimes played 4 square to try to earn it back for recess.  

Week of November 5th

It was an exciting week for the Creators.  After many weeks of long, hard work, we were rewarded with a win in both the race for Head of School and Secretary.  Our flyers, commercials, buttons, t-shirts, speeches, and signs all paid off for the Endeavor Party.  We were all excellent winners, nicely congratulating the Pig Party on a job well-done.  Here are our Endeavor Party leaders.

Math: We learned how to multiply big numbers like 62 x 7 and bigger ones.  We also started a new fact practice on a website.  

Science: We tested to see what happens when you mix Sierra Mist with Smarties, Skittles, Mentos and jelly beans.  It didn't go as high as we expected.  

Language Arts: This week we wrote our book reports.  We had to write the characters, setting, problem, solution, and summary.  We also had to write 2 paragraphs to find similarities and differences with our current book and another one we have read.  

Social Studies: We also started learning the presidents in order.  To learn them, we are using this funny book called Yo, Millard Fillmore!  This book tells a funny story and gives certain words to help us remember.  It is fun!

Week of October 26

Social Studies: We are almost done with the election.  We had a debate in Gathering on Friday.  We also showed our commercials to the school.  We have a good feeling that we are going to win.

Language Arts: Most people are reading chapters 8 and 9 in their books.  We also worked on our book reports.  We had to do a summary and our best paragraph writing.

Math: We did x 11s and x 12s.  Mrs. Price showed us a trick with 11s that is kind of fun!  We also did the stock market game and it was awesome.  

Writing: We are writing about "If I Were President."  We have to write 5 paragraphs from the outlines we made.  We are doing great.

Science: In science, we are working still on Chemistry.  We did some experiments and we went through the Scientific Method.  We mixed Borax, baking soda, and vinegar.  It only fizzed and didn't blow up like we thought it would.

Gathering: This week was our First Friday Gathering.  We said the pledge and sang the Star Spangled Banner and made a video to send to Mrs. Dumler's husband and the others in his troop in Afghanistan.  We also had a debate for our election coming up.  We went to special classes.  

Homework: For homework we've been working on our packet like usual.  Also, some people asked for extra homework pages so they worked on that too.

Brownie Points: We have 4 brownie points.  That means 8 more to go!

Halloween: We had a great Halloween parade and party.  We worked on fun pages that day that worked on math and other things.  Some of us also made a cool ghost picture with our feet.