Weekly Reflection: February 4-8

Reporters: Erin and Zach  Photographer: Conor

Heroes Project: Multiage Research

                                                     This is a photo of Jackie Robinson.

                                                     This is photo of Albert Einstein.

This is a picture of Martin Luther King Jr. .

Heroes Project by Erin
This week we were with our 3rd and 2nd grade friends. We were studying many heroes, and had to learn about them. We had to make a Prezi about them. We got to present the Prezi in front of the other groups. We all had a lot of fun!

Enrichment Clusters by Zach
In class this week we did an enrichment cluster. In my group that I am in we are doing animation.We are supposed to do a PSA or a commercial. Some people are doing a PSA about recycling or about Patton. Maybe something that makes us learn like reading.

Weekly Reflection: January 28-February 1

Reporters: Conor and Ben   Photographer: Nathan

 

Making Prezis about Amerigo Vespucci.

Enrichment Clusters by Conor
Enrichment clusters are all about your interests and what you like. My cluster is Deep Sea Discovery. We've been finding out ways to save sea life.  Our project is trying to put buckets around the school to collect  money in them, to save sea life.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Assembly by Ben
When we went to the assembly we watched 4 actors act out Laura Ingall's books. They acted as if the were traveling to different places on the prairie. At the end one of the girls goes to a blind college because she is blind. Also on the very end the other girl goes off to be a teacher and the mom and the dad are stuck at home all sad that there children are gone.

Weekly Reflection: January 18

Reporters: Nathan and Maura    Photographer: Lauren

Exploring a Sunken Ship

 We got to pretend that we were swimming to a ship wreck from a long time ago and pick out artifacts.

Students swimming to get artifacts.

 After we got the artifacts we got to look into our History Alive books, look for the artifact, and write down why this artifact was important.

This is our History Alive book it was a very important part of this activity.

Enrichment Clusters by Maura
The whole fourth grade is doing different clubs. There are different categories that you could've gotten into from doing a survey: sketching and drawing (art), under the sea discovery, sports, and computer animation. We can learn about the different jobs that people do in these categories. We are learning a lot and it's so much fun!


Artifacts by Nathan
In Social Studies we pretended we were scuba divers and "swam" to get artifacts from when the New World was discovered.  Then we found out more about them and how the explorers used them.  We found out about an astrolabe and other artifacts.

Weekly Reflection: January 11

Reporters: Lauren and Lachlan(substitute reporter)    Photographer: Lachlan

TASK: DESIGNING A CIRCUIT

 Drawing the schematic

 Building the circuit

The circuit worked

Building a Circuit by Lauren and Lachlan

This week in class we got to plan and make a schematic of the circuit we were going to make.  We needed three batteries, two light bulbs, two switches (or one) and wires.  We hooked up the wires to the batteries and bulbs and we had to turn the switch on and off to make it work.  We could build a series circuit or a parallel circuit.

Weekly Reflection: December 21

Reporters: Lachlan and Madison    Photographer: Sakurako

 Exploring Conductors and Insulators

Taking apart the parts of the motor 

Exploring Movement !!!

Human conductors completing a circuit

Energy Ball by Lachlan
This week we played with this energy ball. Humans are conductors because they are made of water. If you touch the two brass wires the sound goes off in the energy ball. The whole class connected hands and two people touched the two brass wires and the sound went off.  When there was a break in our human chain the sound stopped.

Opening a Motor by Madison
This week in science we took apart a motor. Taking apart the motor wasn't so hard but putting it back together was. No group did it correct the first time they tried!  We had to make sure that all parts of the circuit were touching so that the circuit was complete.

Weekly Reflection: December 14

Reporters: Sakurako and Hannah   Photographer: Josh

Lightbulb Time!

Discovering how it is done. 

 Lightbulb!

 Check it out, guys!

Electricity by Sakurako
Last week we did a project with a lightbulb, batteries and the wires. We discovered that if the wire was on the lightbulb and the battery it would light up. We also learned that it was a circuit through the wire to the battery, through the other wire, to the lightbulb, into the small wires in the bulb. Then the wires heat up to make light. This was an exiting and awesome class project.    

Food Drive by Hannah
All of student council helped on this caring project.  Students brought in food for people who don't have a lot of food.   We had a assembly to learn about the food pantry. It is a great thing those Panthers did. We donated more food than any school.

Weekly Reflection: December 7

Reporters: Joshua and Susie    Photographer: Grace

Static Electricity Experiments

A piece of string was attracted to a paper towel.

Paper towel being rubbed against a plastic table cloth. 

A styrofoam peanut was attracted to a comb.

Heroes Matter by Susie
This week we did a project with the 2nd and 3rd graders. We got assigned a hero and had to research him or her on pebblego.com or facts4me.com. Then we typed our research up on a Google Doc. We could see everyone working on the Google Doc as we worked. Even though there were some difficulties, we had tons of fun working with each other!

Miss Struebing by Josh
Miss Struebing, our student teacher in music, is going off to pursue her dream of becoming a music teacher. We all wish her well and will miss her a lot. Her games such as Chicken on The Fence Post and others are fun memories to us all. Good luck and best wishes to you, Miss Struebing!