Fourth Grade News!!

We began our week with our Fourth Grade Community meeting, where the fourth graders received a surprise package!  It was filled with a penguin, a penguin puzzle, and our new Interactive Read Aloud, Mr. Popper's Penguins, by Florence and Richard Atwater.  What a fun way to introduce our book!  We began reading this week, and the children are enjoying reading about Mr. Popper and Captain Cook!

This week, fourth graders were treated to a presentation about the Natives of the Northeast, and about archaeology.  Students participated in an "archaeological dig" right at JFK.  Mrs. Silvia, of the Haffenreffer Museum at Brown University, brought real artifacts, and explained to the students how archaeologists find artifacts and estimate their age.  We look forward to learning more from this program throughout the year.  Thank you to the JFK PCC for funding this awesome experience!

Fourth Graders were also lucky enough to have a visit from author Nick Bruel, author of the Bad Kitty Series.  Mr. Bruel wrote a story with the 3rd, 4th and 5th grader about a "Happy Hamster" who lived in a golden cage.  Your child can fill in the details of this awesome event. Mr. Bruel also signed books for our students, and even did a quick lesson on how to draw a cat face, and change the emotion of the cat with just a few lines.  Thank you to Mrs. Williams for organizing this, and to An Unlikely Story Bookstore in Plainville, who presented this opportunity to us!