Weekly Reflection: January 16

Reporters: Kaitlyn and Sophie    Photographer: Reese

Guest Speaker: Mr. Spaid

In school field trip with Mr.Spaid, an electrician

Mr. Spaid came to teach 4th grade about electricity and his job as an electrician, as well as electrical safety. We learned that there is AC(alternating current) and DC(direct current). He showed us how to light a lightbulb with different colored wires-blue, red, green, and white. He showed us devices that could tell us the amps in a lightbulb. He brought in all sorts of wires and plugs to show us. He also showed us how a light switch works. There are also 2 wires in 1 cord. 1 wire sends the electrons and 1 wire brings them back. We learned a lot from Mr. Spaid.

New Lesson in History

In school we are starting a new lesson in history about explorers. Mrs. Cioni put a ''boat" on the floor. There were separate parts on the ship. Each part had a picture of either a technology that they used back in the olden days that helped them travel in the right direction, a New World product which was something they found in the New World like tobacco, or a motive which is a reason they wanted to go to the New World like to spread their faith and to claim the land. 

Weekly Reflection: January 9

Reporter: Olivia    Photographer: Tina

Making a motor run in science.

  Coming back to school was hard. We all wanted to stay under the covers even the teachers. We were all "asleep," and we all wished it was still break. This was the shortest week of the school year (so far) because we had 2 snow days. This was a fun week for us because we had snow days & got to play with science.

  This week we got back into science. We are learning about electricity. We've been having fun making circuits and lighting light bulbs. But, we are still learning stuff about electricity. Some circuits power  other things like the energy of movement or sound.