Weekly Reflection: April 26

Reporters: Erin and Patrick   Photographer: Zach

 We put sediment (dirt) in a ice cube and we did experiments. We watched them melt over the days.  This shows a moraine and a few erratics deposited after our "glacier" melted.

 We hammered certain rocks and we watched what would happen to them after a couple of hits to see which rocks were soft and which ones were hard.

Take a look at what happened over time as the rocks got smashed!

Science By Patrick

This week in science we were experimenting with the hardness of rocks. We ground the rocks together and banged them with a hammer.  Some rocks broke down a lot and some rocks didn't break.

Reading by Erin

This week in reading we have been learning about Amelia Earhart and The Wright Brothers. After reading about them, we had to come up with words that describe their personalities. We also also got to watch videos on each one of these people. We had a good time watching the videos and learning about them.

Weekly Reflection: April 19

Reporters: Conor and Ben   Photographer: Nathan

Poetry Workshop with Bill Buczinsky

Mr. Bill talks about poems

Poetry with Mr. Bill by Ben
During this week, Mr. Bill came in and taught us about poetry. First he presented to the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. Then he presented to 1st and 2nd grade. After all that he met with some of the classes in the library and our class was one of them. In the library he taught us that in a book you can take one of the sentences and mix it in your mouth, spit it out, and put it on the table to see if the new sentence makes sense.  If it doesn't than you try it again. He also said that there are no rules in poetry and that made us want to do more poetry.


River Tables by Conor
During this week we added things to our river tables like a rock, a dam, and a larger source of water,
as well as changing the speed. My group did the rock in the middle of the river table. Then we watched the other groups do their things. I thought this was a very fun experiment. The dam had all the water added up and never went over. With my group the water just went around the rock. The group with used more water, the water went fast. The group that tested the speed of the water, the water went speeding. This was very fun.

Weekly Reflection: April 12

Reporters: Maura and Lauren  Photographer: Will

The materials we used for the water tables project.

 After we tested the river tables with water  this is what happened. 

River Tables by Maura
On Friday we set up river tables. We put sand on the first 15cm.  Then we taped a cup with a hole on it, on rulers, on the tin river tables. The river tables had holes in the end so someone had to hold a bucket at the end and let the water plop into it. We propped the river table up with a wooden block. Then we got a cup full of water and poured it in the cup with the hole in it. We watched the water flow through forming the river and ending in the bucket waiting for the water to slowly drain into it. To end the lesson we went on an app called Explain Everything, took a picture of our river table and made a video with captions and arrows. It was lots of fun!


Enrichment Clusters by Lauren
On Friday we had a presentation for an enrichment cluster. Mrs. Corley came in to tell us about the  CDW.  She explained how to get into a business like hers. She told us all about the CDW. One really interesting fact about the CDW is that the building is so big that her custumers drive around in golf carts.  When we were done we got to see some commercials that her company made. After that we got a bag full of CDW products.

Weekly Reflection: February 22

Reporters:  Grace and Charles  Photographer: Lucy

Explorer Research

Sorting and organizing our notes

 Turning our notes into a research paper

Explorer Project by Grace
This week we started our explorer project. We are researching our explorers, typing about our explorers  and then we will be making a website at the end. I think the hard part about this project is researching useful information because some of the websites I found didn't have enough information or repeated information I already had.

Teamwork Challenges by Charles
At gym we are doing challenges using teamwork. For one of the stations 2 people walk on 2 paddles and walk at the same time. Another station is that you walk on one island ( which is just a wooden box)  to a another island but you can't jump to the other island. So you use 2 wooden board  and connect them to the other island. Don't run because I did and slipped and felt hard on the ground. :-} :-)

Weekly Reflection: February 15

Reporters: Lucy and Patrick    Photographer: Erin

Valentine's Day

 Ice cream sundaes  

Having fun 

Valentine's Day  by Patrick

On Valentines day we had a party, played games, made our own ice cream sundaes, and ate pretzels. We played Pictionary. The boys who won got pencils. The girls who won got highlighters. It was really fun!  

Art Institute

The Grand Staircase 

Posing with the Art 

Learning about Pollock 

Paperweight Art

Art Institute by Lucy
Fourth grade went to the Art Institute and we saw lots of art from the artists we studied in Art class. We saw pointillism, marble sculptures, The Thorne Rooms and the paper weight collection. It was so fun!

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.