Weekly Reflection: November 21

Reporters: Amanda and Jakub   Photographer: Sophie

A VERY BUSY WEEK!!!

 This is us doing D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything And Read)

This is us presenting our Native American Relocation Projects.

We started reading The Fourteenth Goldfish about a month ago as part of the Global Read Aloud challenge, and today we just finished it by listening to the author, Jennifer Holm, read aloud the final chapter.The story is about Ellie, a 12 year old girl, who had a goldfish, who she thought, lived for 7 years. But, her mom was just replacing the goldfish when they died. Ellie saw her thirteenth goldfish dead, and that's when her mom finally told her what she did. Ellie's grandfather, Melvin, got a jellyfish liquid that can make people young, and Melvin made himself 13 again. Many things happen in this book, and I suggest you read it. Its a great book!

We were learning about Native Americans for the last 5 weeks. We were studying about specific tribes. Then we took a quiz about the specific tribes. Then we moved the tribes into a different region. We had to study the new region and we had to write about what the new region tribes wear, eat, and live in. We had to find skills that our tribe had in their own region that made it easier to adapt to the new region. We also had to find disadvantages for our tribe in their new region.  We also had to make a presentation for the class on google slides.

Weekly Reflection: November 14

Reporters: Kaitlyn and Reese    Photographer: Anthony

Veterans' Day Assembly

This when the veterans came to our school. 

We had a awesome assembly on Tuesday November 11. Retired veterans came to our school to talk about what it was like to be in the army. Kids from all grades asked questions to the General. The General talked about how his most accomplished badge was his parachuting badge. You had to complete 4 jumps to earn the badge. There is a 5th jump too, but you are guaranteed to get the badge if you complete the 4th jump. If you get hurt on the 5th jump you still earn the badge.  Thanks to all veterans for serving our country and giving us freedom!

This week in the LMC we completed our Native American tribe chart. We described the land, climate, natural resources, food, clothing, and housing. Every one did a different task for their tribe. Every group had a different tribe. Each tribe shared knowledge of their tribe with the other groups.  Groups will use this knowledge for our Relocation Project. 

Field Museum 2014

Reporters: Caden and Grant

Field Trip to the Field Museum

 Mrs. Cioni's Class

 Patton 4th Grade

Mrs. Cioni's Class

On Monday we had a field trip to the Field Museum! We had a tour and saw a bunch of awesome things. First we headed over to the Early America section. We learned about different Native American tribes. We saw a giant bison. Then, we went in an actual Native American house. It was called the Pawnee lodge. They told us about how the Native Americans lived in the lodge. Next, we learned about the bison hunt. There were lots of cool clay models that showed us what it looked like. After that, we were able to see a bunch of Native American artifacts. We took pictures of the artifacts and wrote them down on a sheet of paper. Then, we went to eat lunch. After lunch, they took us to the mummy exhibit. There, we saw mummies and some cool replicas. We also got to see Sue the T-rex! We learned about how the elephants are becoming endangered because people are hunting them for their tusks. We also saw Sue's actual head! We had the best day ever!

Fun facts:
The real head of Sue is so heavy (600 pounds) that they put it in a glass case and couldn't put it on the real model!

Native American children didn't go to school, instead they had to help do chores.

One bison could feed a person for one whole year!

Many families lived in the lodge at once.

In the lodge, they always had a fire burning, yet not many houses burned down.

No one has ever found a left hand of a t-rex.

Only two right hands of t-rex's were ever found.

The person who found Sue was named Sue. That's how Sue got her name.

More elephants are being born with no tusks.

Weekly Reflection: November 7

Reporters: Caden and Tina     Photographer: Charlie

Stuffed Animals Day

Unit 3 For History Alive

     Today we finished our unit on Early America.  We also played jeopardy to study for our unit 3 test.  We learned about 7 different regions. Regions: Northwest Coast, California-Intermountains, Plateaus, Southwest, Great Plains, Eastern Woodlands, Southeast. We learned about how Native Americans had to adapt to their surroundings.


      Also we started printing and recording our personal narratives. On Monday author, Barb Rosenstock, visited us and told us about writing. She also told us about people who are damaging national parks. She told us that a BABY sequoia  tree is the size of our commons and people are cutting them down to make toothpicks! TOOTHPICKS!

     On Friday we had a stuff animal  day! We got 50 stars! We were able to bring our own stuffed animal to school. We also watched a video about Veterans' Day.

Weekly Reflection: October 30

Reporters: Grace and Brooke    Photographer: Max

Reading Buddies and Early America

Making pumpkin glyphs with our Reading Buddies.

 Using text features to figure out Early American artifacts.

Working in a group for History Alive. 

HISTORY ALIVE: In history alive we are learning about Early America. We learned about places in Early America. We learned about different tribes, geography, and their artifacts like what they lived in and what their tools were. 

READING BUDDIES: We worked with our first grade reading buddies this Tuesday! We made paper pumpkins showing our favorite fall things! We had loads of fun and hope we do something like that again!!!

Weekly Reflection: October 24

Reporters: Aidan and Grant  Photographer: Alli

                                             

All dressed up to go to the symphony.

Today, we went to see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform Hallowed Haunts. All the fourth and fifth graders at Patton school went. We listened to the songs, Fire Bird, In The Hall Of The Mountain King, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Fairies and Giants, Harry Potter, and Uranus The Magician. In the performance, there was also a play. We sat on the second balcony. Mr. Larson was there! We saw cool things on the way, like statues and the Art Institute. We even saw the Bean! At the show, all of the performers dressed up in costumes. There was a crazy "magician" that was in the play. There were cool lights that shined on the roof. We all dressed up in nice cloths. It was very fancy and there were musical symbols in the carpet! We got to sit in velvet chairs and got to listen to some great music!

Weekly Reflection: October 17

Reporters: Jake and Grace  Photographer: Amanda

This week's V.I.P. book recommendation.

MATTER AT HOME

Over the past 3 weeks each student has been working on their matter at home project. A matter at home project is where each student studied a scientist and did an extension of one our lessons.One popular extension was melting chocolate. On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday each student shared their hard work.  Some scientists we studied were Marie Curie,  Zacharias Jonson and Archimedes.  Some extensions we did were Quicksand, Describing Matter and Mixing Liquids.