Monday-On Monday we read about Arizona and Zachary G. did a book talk.  Then we went to the library.  When we came back we had snack.  Then we did a Social Studies project after about explorers.  At the end of the day we packed up and read a book about the presidents.

Tuesday-On Tuesday we had our morning meeting at the beginning of the day.  During the morning meeting we learned about Arkansas.  We also did math groups today.  We went to the computer lab and we learned about Black History month.  At the end of the day we went to art class.

Wednesday-On Wednesday we had a morning meeting and we learned about California.  In Science, we learned about animals.  The names for these animals are vertibrates and invertibrates.  At the end of the day we went to gym class with Mrs. Cronins class.

Thursday-On Thursday we did a morning meeting and we did a practice book two math book.  We also learned about Colorado.  We went to gym today with Mrs. Joyce’s class.

Friday– On Friday we had a morning meeting and we learned about Conneticut.  Today we had music class.  We had a music test today.  We also handed out Valentines.

by Jacklyn E.

Hi boys and girls,

I hope that you are enjoying your vacation!! They always go by so very fast!! I thought that it would be fun to share with each other something that we did over the week off. Remember that you didn’t have to go away to have something to share.

See you all soon.

:O) Mrs. Spata

The week before Spring Break, we came to the end of our Social Studies unit of Exploration. In place of a unit test, we have been keeping all of our projects, assignments, and journal entries together as an “Explorer’s Portfolio”. It was due on Friday and it will be graded using a rubric that I shared with the class. They have been aware since the beginning of the unit of what my expectations were and what they needed to do in order to recieve a 4 out of 4.

I will be sending them home as soon as I can. It will take me a little while to read through all of them carefully and grade them.

:O)

I just wanted to remind everyone that our Fourth Grade Family Math Night is this Tuesday, February 24th from 7:00 to 8:00 PM. Hope that you can come and enjoy some fun math activities with your parents.

:O)

Please post an answer to this question. We will discuss it in class on Thursday. Be sure to show your work!!! I want to see your math and how you solved it.

Winston, Marcus, and Julia collect sports cards. Winston has 400 sports cards. Marcus has three times the amount that Winston has. Julia has the same number as Winston and Marcus combined. How many cards do Marcus and Julia each have?

Unfortunately, I have some bad news about using the Voki.com website. As my student already know, I had to get the district to approve the use of Vokis for my blog (New technology…)After describing the educational plans I had for using them, they allowed the site access through our filter system on the computers.

A Voki can be created without making an account on the site. Without an account, you can not gain access to other parts of the Voki.com site. My plan was for NO accounts to be set up. Therefor, no information would be saved on their site about us. We would have access to what we needed, making a Voki, and that’s all.

In order to create an account you need to be 13 or older. Because of this stipulation (even though we were not creating accounts, or going elsewhere on the site), the district has decided that I should not be using the site with my students.

We did not start any projects yet. We spoke about them and were excited about them, but no one went onto the site yet.

Sorry for getting you all excited about the president project. We’ll find another thing to do on the blog besides making a Voki.

:O) Mrs. Spata

February is Black History month. In class we will be working on research projects that will teach us more about some very important black Americans and how they made an impacted on life as we know it. We will be presenting these to the class so that we can all learn from each other.

Here are a few links that you may want to check out for more Black History Facts.

http://www.factmonster.com/spot/bhm1.html

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/articles/0,6709,97217,00.html

Each student will be researching a president of the United States of America and creating a Voki respresenting him. They will then make a recording of that president’s accomplishments and publish their Voki on this blog.

Keep a look out for them on our new “Presidents” page. Look on the top of your screen for the link.

 :O) Mrs. Spata

 Please post an answer to this question. We will discuss it in class on Thursday. Be sure to show your work!!! I want to see your math and how you solved it.

“Four more laps”, Prince Carl thought as he was rowing in his boat. He stroked the oars 50 times per minute. During practice he timed himself and found out that it takes him 5 minutes to row each lap.” How many more times will Prince Carl stroke the oars before the end of the race?