Our Week In Review.

This is Jai's hydro powered invention.

What a quick week!  We started off with a snow day, and the excitement continued to build all week.

This week, we continued to learn about fractions. We began the next unit, multiplying fractions by whole numbers.  The children are slowly becoming more and more confident with this concept.  After vacation, we will review this concept before moving on to discovering the relationship between fractions and decimals. 

During Social Studies, we began to learn about the Southeast Region of the U.S. We will continue with some research about the SE after vacation, and will have another open notes/open folder quiz after vacation. Students should have a study guide at home.

As you know, we celebrated World Read Aloud Day with our new first grade friends!  Below are some pictures of us reading and then painting.  We also had a wonderful opportunity to Skype with author Jennifer Swanson. You can see a video of our Skype on Twitter.

Remember to check out our slideshow of pictures, created by the 4th graders, here.

Our Washington, D.C. projects were fantastic!  We had a gallery walk, and shared some thoughts about our peers' projects.  Some students completed the extra credit! Way to go!

MLK Memorial- made out of recycled materials!  Way to reuse!

Washington Monument- more recycled materials ~ created with a pizza box!

A recycled Pringles can served as the base of this Washington Monument!

We FINALLY had Creative Arts Friday!  During technology the students worked on recording their videos.  Stay tuned for these!  During Poetry Workshop, the students wrote raps!  PBL time focused on National Park research.  We were very happy to be back!

Here is a sneak peek of a video from Mrs. E. Williams' class!