Weekly Reflection: December 7

Reporters: Reese and Adam

Photographer: Henry

This a pull back car. We played with it to observe the energy transfers. Motion energy changed to elastic energy, which changed to motion energy and sound energy. 

This week in class:

For science we are learning about energy in action and stored energy, and energy transfers. The forms of energy that we learned about were: electrical, sound, heat, light, motion, elastic, chemical and gravitational energy. If we sorted them into categories then elastic, chemical and gravitational energy would be in stored energy, and electrical, motion, sound, light and heat would be energies in action. The definition of energy is things that are happening now, and the definition of stored energy is things that are not doing anything but waiting to be done/used.

Weekly Reflection: October 12

Reporters: Adam and Kennedy

This week in class...
In science we learned about how plates move and Pangaea. Plates can converge (“collide”), diverge (“separate”),  and transform (“scrape and slide”). We also learned about our geosphere, the crust, mantle, the outer core and the inner core. We learned about volcanoes and why/how they erupt.

Weekly Reflection: October 4

Reporters: Graham and Jaeden
Photographer: Vanessa

We learned if we practice and learn new things, we can make our brains stronger.  

Look how much we have learned so far this year!

This week in class...

We worked on models for the earth like convergent plates, divergent plates and transform plates. We got to pick what we wanted to make the plates with. We could make it with clay and we could put it on plates and all that stuff. We made movies and pic collages and shared what we learned with the class. All of the 60 second presentations were good. We are learning about the crust of the earth, the mantle, the outer core and the inner core. We learned about erosion, deposition, weathering and abrasion.

This week our school started reading “Wishtree” by Katherine Applegate for One Book, One School. It is about a Wishtree named Red, who has a best friend who is a crow (Bongo), and a family of opossums who live in a hollow, and a lonely girl next door who is in need of a friend. She hangs a special wish that will not soon be forgotten. The school is on chapter 10 and people are enjoying it. Our past “One book, One School” books have been “The Wild Robot” and “Nest for Celeste”. The entire school is reading “Wishtree”.

Weekly Reflection: September 28

Reporters: Cici and Grace
Photographer: Evan

River table with 3 holes testing how more water affects the shape of the river.

Can you see what I see? 4 bowling pins, a paper clip, 2 airplanes, a rocket ship, a golden sun, 2 skies of blue, a bird that sings cock-a-doodle-do! We finished this 300 piece puzzle today!! We've been working on it for 3 weeks. Good job, 4-3!

This week in class...

This week in science we did river tables. There were three groups. Control, slope, and amount of water. Control was the group with all the normal variables. It was the group where all the other groups compared theirs too. Slope was the group that had four history books under it. The amount of water was the group that had three holes in their cup. All three rivers made a delta.  

We also learned about non-fiction a text features. We all got to choose a reference non-fiction book. We had to find headings in our book. Then we did a scavenger hunt to locate other text features.

Weekly Reflection: September 21

Reporters: Cayla and Diego
Photographer: Lincoln

We got a class reward and we helped Steve 

breakout of Minecraft. Everyone enjoyed it!

In class this week...

This week we did a Minecraft Breakout. We learned to work together. We had a lot of fun doing a science lab with glaciers. It was awesome. This week most of us had a test of us reading with Mrs.Cioni. We started something called a Weekly Language Review.

Mrs. Corley came in and taught us how to use Chromebooks. Last week we did our first spelling test.

Weekly Reflection: September 14

Reporters: Kendall and Faith
Photographer: Andrew

 These people gave a speech to the class to get voted
for our Student Council rep. They all did a great job!

These are the people that are representing 4-3 in Student Council this year.

This week in class...

We got to do a little speech for Student Council full time rep. We thought it was exciting because we got to vote for 2 people that we'd want to be it. It probably took a lot of courage for them to get up in front of the whole class. We are going to be excited for the person that wins! We also got to vote for 5th graders to be our Student Council presidents and got to find out who won.

Weekly Reflection: September 7

Reporters: Reese and Emily

Photographer: Adam

 Experimenting with waves.  

Using different sources to create waves like making movement with our finger 

and blowing gently on the water.

This week in class...

On Wednesday, we had a Geography test. We studied A LOT so we would be ready for the test. It was fun to learn about latitude and longitude. When it came to the test, some people were very nervous. It was fun learning about the rivers, and mountain ranges, islands, mouths and sources, tributaries, seas, and gulfs. We also learned about the Mississippi River and the Ohio River. Now we all know how to find coordinates on a map. I liked that we took our test on Wednesday and not on Friday! We learned that there are four oceans called the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Arctic Ocean. It was SO much fun to learn about all of this!

Weekly Reflection: August 31

Reporters: Eli and Charlotte
Photographer: Jaeden

This year we are doing a 40 Book Challenge where we will try to read 40 books in 40 weeks. 

The bins are full of books we're going to read!

This week in class...
We studied about maps. We learned about latitude and longitude, the Prime Meridian and the equator, and bodies of water and landforms like the Gulf  of Mexico, The Rocky Mountains and much more. The test will be on Wednesday. We have learned so much this unit about maps is has been an excellent unit. We can’t wait to learn more.

We started The One and Only Ivan. It is about this gorilla, two elephants, and a dog in the mall zoo. They are trying to make people come to the zoo. But what we have read so far, they have not got that many people to come to the zoo. That is what we have read this week.