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.  

Week of October 22

Writing: Already people are working on their second story some people are already done!!!! They are on their third of course... 

Math: Last week we investigated making squares using tangrams.  We had to make different sized squares and then figure out the area of them.  Some were really easy.  We could just use the small square and put them on top of the squares we made.  We knew those were just the squares used for square roots.  Some squares we couldn't measure like that though.  We had to break the small square into triangles and then measure using the triangles.  We found that there were squares made of 2, 8, 32, and 72 square units.  It was cool to discover this and try to find the square root of these numbers.  

Reading: For reading people have been working hard and there still working on their story's.  Hopefully we get new books in about a couple of months, years or even days... HOPEFULLY!

Science: This week we made gloup and are still studying chemistry. We also made bouncy balls.  

Social Studies:We are still working on the election. So far, We've told our speeches to the the fifth grade class, the kindergarten class, first grade class, and the second grade class. After the speeches, we gave them flyers and pins that said,"Vote for Olivia and Zoe" and has a picture of them. We've already registered voters. Last week, we visited the republican headquarters, Jake Fey and Debbie Regala.

Democratic Senator Debbie Regala and City Councilman (running for State Rep) Jake Fey speak

Republican Headquarters

Lunch at the Downtown Tacoma Farmers' Market

Brownie Points: We had a brownie party on Tuesday and they had white chocolate chips. Today we earned 2 brownie points. I hope we can have another brownie party soon!

Book fair: Our school has started a book fair and it is very very fun! The books are Scholastic books and there are many other things like erasers, pens, posters, and of course BOOKS!!!!!

Seabury Students reading the Declaration of Independence on the way back to school!

Week of October 8

Social Studies: Olivia and Zoe are our class's nominees for the election for the Head of School and Secretary.  We made 60+ posters and we got our political party jobs.  We have a team in charge of voter registration, publicity people working on flyers and commercials, campaign managers, and speech writers.  Our party name is the Endeavor (means to work hard) Party and our slogan is "Building a Better School."  We are hoping to win the election on November 6th.

Math: We are still working on stocks.  We have learned that the stock market is crazy.  Our teams are now ranked 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 out of 11 teams.  "It is becoming the Great Depression." 

Everyone took tests this week.  The purple group was working on decimals and the green group worked on addition and subtraction.  

Writing: A lot of people are publishing their story.  Some are still editing and some are already free writing.

Language Arts: We continued reading our books this week.  Everyone is on at least chapter 4.  

Science: We are making a Periodic Table of Elements.  We are looking for the elements on the website chemicool.com, where we can find the number of neutrons, protons, and electrons, who found the element, and the uses for it.

Recess: New 4-Square rules are posted on the windows.  We hope this will reduce the arguments over it.  Now other games are being played too.  

Spelling: We have been having tests over the spelling of the words and the meaning of them.  We have read some really cool stories in our Wordly Wise packets.

French: We are doing Halloween activities.  We are learning more French every day.

Library: We got some new books.  Some people got their adventure books, but not many.  

Performing Arts: We are doing a bunch of games and vocal warm ups.  We have a song of the month.  We are composing our own theme songs using the instruments there and she is going to record them.

PE: We  have been doing a lot of stations and working with other people.  We have played a lot of fun games and last PE, everyone made a goal and almost everyone accomplished their goal. 

Weekly Wisdom: This week's WW is "Always do your best, certainly not less."
  
Stop signs: We started using stop signs this week for when people are doing something wrong.  They say, "Please stop what you are doing and make a better choice."  If we get 3 stop signs, we owe million dollars or recess.  

Week of October 1st

Reading: Lately our class has been assigned a type of book.  First a mystery, next an adventure.  When we were supposed to turn in our book, we do a report and a presentation.  Super fun!!!

Math: The math we are doing is really fun.  3rd graders are doing rounding of whole numbers and adding and subtracting them and the 4th graders are doing decimals and answering questions from their math book and the Smart Board.  The 3rd graders like what they are doing.  I am not sure if the 4th graders like what they are doing because I am not one yet.  

Stock Market Game: We just started but we are doing great!  We are all really excited.  There are 11 teams in the area and one of our teams is in 1st place right now.

Writing: Most of us are already done with "The Case of the Missing Summer Vacation" and are publishing!  I mean, it's only been a few days and we're already at publishing!!!

Social Studies: This week for Social Studies we have been working on what Obama and Romney are going to do for Health Care, Energy, Equal Rights, and all that kind of stuff.  Also we watched the debate of Obama and Romney which was very cool for the Creators!

Science: This week we watched a few videos and we drew atoms.  We are in the middle of making the Periodic Table.  

Art: We are working on op art.  We made pop out hands, an opposite stripe page, where you trace objects and then draw stripes and make the objects opposite.  We also did a free style picture where we have to make everything pop out.  To look at the pictures you can come look in the Creators classroom.  

Brownie Points: This week in our class we had a ... BROWNIE PARTY!  We loved the brownies with caramel and chocolate...mmm!

First Friday: The first Friday of every month is very fun.  On the first Thursday of the school year, we chose three things we wanted to do.  We could chose from, for example: drama, cooking, art, French games, library, or chess.  All sorts of stuff!  Then on the first Friday of every month we get to after Gathering, go outside to recess and snack, and then we go to the class we wanted to go to first on our list.  These classes aren't regular classes.  We don't get to go to cooking class on regular days.  In Art we get to do extra cool crafts that we don't usually get to do and other fun stuff!  The first Friday of every month is super fun!