It's that time of year again when students get to create a contraption to help an egg from breaking! Can they do it?! I'll post pictures later this week! Below is a link to the flyer that was sent home, along with the material list students need to bring to help their group be successful!
Summer is a GREAT opportunity to continue learning and reading! I will be sending home a packet that shares how the Scholastic Summer Reading Program Works! I have also attached all files incase your copies gets lost over the summer! Thank you for helping your child continue to be a great reader!
The Oregon Trail is a wonderful part of Kansas History! Students got to experience what life was really like traveling on the trail. They worked in cooperative groups "families" as they had to problem solve, use math skills to determine the weight of items they could carry in their wagons, and took a real life simulation at the Kansas History Museum! We had lessons to learn the history of the Oregon Trail and even had fun playing the Oregon Trail Game online.
April was a very busy month for us! Along with state testing, students worked hard writing their last letters to their pen pals in Europe using correct letter format complete with addressed envelopes. They also formated a Diamante Poem using a fun interactive computer program and published them to take home! The fun didn't stop there, they rewrote them onto a kite where they are displayed out in the hall.
See the link attached for information regarding the field trips we will be taking in May!
This week and last week the 4th graders have been correlating Earth Day with the 7th Commandment and learning how God’s creation is meant for all people.
As a service project the class, as a group, has decided to establish a whole school encouragement effort by making recycling signs and posting them around the building. They will also be trying to encourage their families to do the same (recycle)! Today we made two recycling boxes for our classroom, one for paper and another for plastic bottles. We have discussed the many ways recycling is important, created persuasive writing, read books and watched a video on the recycling processes! Students are encouraged to bring in plastic bottles from home. If they are able to collect enough by the first week of May we will use them for some DIY projects and what is left we will recycle! I'm thinking piggy banks! Then that will stem into more hands on PBL (project based learning) fun with money! Also, as soon as the weather lets up we are going to take a community walk and pick up trash to help serve God’s Earth and the community! During February, 4th grade started an exciting unit called, A Wrinkle in Time. It's a book written by Madeleine L'Engles. Disney will be releasing a movie on it March 9th.
We have integrated several state standards from: ELA, Writing, Science (space science), and Math into this unit. Along with utilizing Scholastic materials and lessons! Below are pictures of hot air balloons that we incorporated into the lesson, to help create 3D models, shape design, writing and collaborations between students and other grades! For science the students created planets and took virtual field trips through space and watched a live interview of an astronaut. |
Mrs. Willcott's 4th gradersWe are all a piece of God's plan
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