Weekly Reflection: February 27

Reporter: Ryane and Olivia  Photographer: Jakub

Field Trip to the Art Institute of Chicago

One group got to create art like Jackson Pollock's masterpiece on their tour.

They got to throw pieces of string to create abstract art.

These are the strings that we got to walk through.

It felt like cold rain.

This is a picture of one of the Thorne Rooms.

This week the 4th graders went on a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago. It was a lot of fun. We got to take a tour with a docent and explore with a group. During our tour we saw a piece of abstract art and a sculpture with dangling tubes that we got to walk through. During our free time some people saw the Thorne rooms and many enjoyed looking at the armor. Some people also went to the touch gallery where we got to touch the sculptures and the plaques were braille. At the end of our free time one group went to the puppet room. They got to play with puppets and put on a show.

Explorers of the New World

 A few weeks ago we started researching explorers of the New World.

We started sorting and glueing our facts.

This is a picture of someone typing their research paper.

At the start of February, we all started researching a specific explorer of the New World. After  researching and organizing our facts, we began to type our paper. We learned a lot about our explorer and are now excited to create a website about our explorer. We are excited to share our knowledge on our websites.

Weekly Reflection: February 6

Reporters: Amanda and Keira

This week we learned about Jackie Robinson. We did a reader's theater where we read about  Jackie Robinson entering the Major Leagues as though we were the real people. He, at first, didn't think he belonged in the Major Leagues. But when they played the Star Spangled Banner at the World Series, he finally felt like her belonged, like the song was playing for him this time.

This month is black history month. We watched a video on some of the famous black people we celebrate like Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglas and how they helped more then 1,000 people escape their owners in the Underground Railway. We learned about Martin Luther King Jr and the marches he lead and the speeches he made. We learned that Jackie Robinson made a speech. f
Rosa Parks would not give her seat to a white person so she was arrested. Barack Obama was the first African American to become the President of America.

We saw a play called Ben and Me. It was about a mouse named Amos and Ben Franklin, and how Amos helped Ben with his experiments with electricity. First Amos went out to find food for his family. Next, he went into a house and met Ben Franklin. Then they started singing about how the pen was more mighty than the sword. They made a contract that stated they would do something for someone in exchange for something else. Then Amos gets tricked into helping Ben with an experiment. The experiment was that Ben was testing to see if lighnting was a form of electricity. They made a contract that ended war. The end.