Our Final Week

The learning didn't end until the last moment in room 24!  We had a terrific week to finish up fourth grade. On Monday, we began our final week with our last grade level Morning Meeting.  Mrs. Williams taught us our relaxation pose.  Next we had a visit from our Engineer in Residence, Mr. Adams.  He reminded us about the engineering process.  We then worked in groups to create "hands-free" flashlights.  Each design was very different, and all our circuits worked!  After designing, we created advertisements to highlight our products.  We shared our designs with the other fourth grade classes.

During the last week, we have been working on writing scripts. Each team wrote a script for a "deleted scene" from Charlotte's Web.  On Tuesday, we had the chance to perform our deleted scenes for Mrs. Williams' class, along with Mrs. Toye, Mrs. Bodkins, and Mrs. Marano.  Check out our performances below.

Our last day was bittersweet! The children are ready for their next adventure, but their teacher is not ready to say goodbye.  One of our final activities was to create this slideshow of our 4th grade memories.  I hope you enjoy it!

Thank you!

T-Shirt of the Day

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What a Week!

Our week was filled with AMAZING and fun adventures.

This week, we wrapped up our study of the United States with our USA Roundup!  Students had the chance to learn about the National Parks of the US, Immigration, and each student even had the opportunity to mine for gems, just like the 49ers!

Tuesday we participated in the AMAZING RACE.  Teams had the chance to lasso cows, participate in a Native American foot race, and even build sand castles.  Your child can share a lot more about this day.  Miss Farrell took many  more photos, and you can see them in this dropbox.

Later on Tuesday, we celebrated Mrs. Toye's retirement.  The songs and poems were wonderful.

Wednesday and Thursday we celebrated the end of our final Interactive Read Aloud, Charlotte's Web.  We enjoyed our "county fair" snacks!  We created a line plot and discussed the data.  We compared Charlotte's Web the movie with the books- there were many differences!  Our STEM challenge was to create a working ferris wheel.  All teams in our class and in Mrs. Williams' class were able to do this.  We all agreed that if we had a few more days to redesign, we would fix our bucket seats so that people could really sit in the seats.  We also participated in our second BREAKOUT!  What a success!

Our Pig Puzzle

We Did It!

Many thanks to Mr. Houlihan for coming into school on Thursday to share his knowledge of electricity.  We learned a lot about how electricity gets to our homes.  Thank you!