Friday, May 5, 2017

Technology Workshop Videos

During Creative Arts Friday, our fourth graders have been working on creating videos to share information.  We have recorded and edited our first videos!  The videos have been placed into a slideshow by class, and can be viewed by choosing the appropriate link below.  Our next video project will involve using a green screen. Ask your child about this project- the students are very excited!

Videos

Friday, April 28, 2017

Family Field Trip


Author Alert!!! Family Field Trip!!! Join Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Merten and their families at the Northbridge Middle School in Whitinsville, Massachusetts on June 7th at 6:30 p.m. for an author visit with Jarrett J. Krosoczka.  Jarrett Krosoczka is the author of the popular Lunch Lady series.  This is the first book signing for Jarrett in a long time, so the audience will fill up.  Books will be available for purchase at the visit with cash or a check.  If time and weather permits, we will go to West End Creamery for ice cream when we are done.  This event is being hosted by The Whitinsville Social Library and should be a great time.  All family members are welcome to join and cost of books and ice cream are the responsibility of each family.  As this is an "after school hours event," families are responsible for supervising their student or any students that they bring to the event. We look forward to seeing you there!  Please find directions to NMS from JFK here.  Please find directions from NMS to West End Creamery here.

Friday, March 24, 2017

The Bug Hunting Game!

This video goes along great with our adaptations unit! Check it out!

Live Animal Web Cameras

Click on the links below to check out some of the live animal web cams that we view in school. Some of these cameras will lead you to other cameras in a specific zoo or location.





Send us a comment and or a link if you find any other web cams that are exciting and we will add them to this list!

Friday, February 17, 2017

Technology Videos

Our technology videos are starting to come together!  Fourth graders are working on the following types of videos:

  • MATH ~ How to multiply and/or divide numbers
  • TECHNOLOGY ~ How to create a Google Slideshow
  • READING ~ Book trailers - comments on books we love








Click this link for a a sneak peek of a math video, compliments of Mrs. E. Williams' class.


Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Juicy Nibble

Today we learned about some famous people who were born in the southeast region of the US.  BB King was born in Mississippi and was one of the greatest Blues musicians of all time.  He died in May of 2015.  We listened to one of his most popular songs, The Thrill is Gone.  Check out the video below!

Friday, February 10, 2017

Fourth Grade Update












We have continued to build our community with Monday Morning 4th grade meetings. This is a great opportunity for our fourth graders to reconnect with their friends after a weekend, and to start our week of right!

Our mantra for this week was "Effort is Everything", which connects nicely with ~

  • Our Washington, D.C. projects (due Thursday)
  • Our Fraction assessment (Today)
  • The Patriots' Superbowl comeback!
We will be celebrating Valentine's Day on Tuesday with Valentines and a Party in a Bag.  This celebration will be in place of our regular snack.


Wednesday was a beautiful day for outdoor recess (just before the blizzard)!



Friday, January 27, 2017

Family Fun!


Next Saturday is "Take Your Child to the Library," day. It is, "An international initiative that encourages families everywhere to take their children to their local library," (Connecticut Library Consortium). I hope that you are able to get to the library with your family!  Click here for more information about this fun day.

Friday, January 20, 2017

Poetry Workshop

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We are writing free verse poems in the style of Robert Frost and will be using paper snowflakes as a muse for our verse.  Here is a link to the online snowflakes that we experimented with in class today.
Have Fun!

Saturday, January 14, 2017

Fourth Grade News

Fourth Graders worked together to create small "forests" while learning how to adapt the yoga tree pose to partner yoga! The weather hit 2 extremes this week- very, very cold on Monday, and unseasonably warm on Wednesday.  We enjoyed our outdoor recess on Wednesday.









Our chorus concert was a huge success!  Videos of two of our songs can be found at the links below:








Friday, January 13, 2017

Social Studies

Here is a video of a family hiking the Beehive Trail in Acadia National Park. Mrs. A.Williams and her family hiked it and it was scary!  Do you think that you and your family would like to hike The Beehive?  Leave a comment and let us know.



Friday, January 6, 2017

Fourth Grade Update

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All fourth graders learned about poet, Robert Frost, to kick off 2017!  Click on the links to the videos below to hear Frost read two of his most famous poems.  The poets of fourth grade did a great job identifying the metaphors in the poems and making connections to life.  They are DEEP thinkers!

                                                                       The Pasture

                                                                   The Road Not Taken

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