BIg RIver Journey

On Friday I went to the Mississippi River. My first station was in the captains room. The captains name was Bob. My team and I learned about the told he uses. He uses the steering sticks which are used for steering.

My next station was a bird watching station.My chaperones name was Cheryl. We were in the lobby first.Then I went to the deck to watch the birds. I saw swallows,blue herions and more.I learned lots.

The last station was the mystery of the missing water fall.I were in the lobby the whole time.The reason why it broke down was because the current was to strong.So the current chipped away the sand stone. The first layer was limestone,then shale and sandstone  
                                       By:Isabelle

Field Trip

       On Friday, when we went on a field trip to a boat. When we got down on the boat we looked at our name tags and got on the top dinning room. We talked about the Mississippi river and after we talked we got to our first station. My first station  was about the big waterfall and we learned the how the Mississippi was formed and that it was formed when the gulf of mexico got a crack and it flooded until it got Minnesota. After that station we went to our 2nd station. My 2nd station was meeting the caption. He taught  us the controls and the radar and the map and about a dry dock. We saw another boat and that they tell you when they are near you like almost 3 or 4 miles away.  After that we went to our last station and it was about birds. So they taught us about birds that we may see and some that we did see. When we got started some sleet came and some kids went in. We saw lots of birds and and a few dreakes. When we were done with all the stations we went back upstairs. At the end we shared what we did until we were at the dock.

By Jamie

MCA practices

MCA PRACTICES

By Genevieve and Emma

In Mrs. Struble’s class we are doing MCA math and reading practice.

       Let’s start with reading!!! We do reading packets with stories and questions. To get us ready for the MCA. For example, we do stories and one of our stories was called

“A Humming Bird that Hums”. It was a nonfiction article that had questions like what makes a humming bird hum. We normally get stories with different numbers of questions like 5,6,7. We also get different genres like nonfiction and fiction. After we read the article and answer the questions. We correct the packet and if we get anything wrong we have to go back and correct the problem. Then we get a new packet. And when we get the new packet we do the same thing for more and more practice.

      Now math!!! In math we sort a do the same thing but we do math packets and math questions and the questions are like:  

Multiply

32 x 67

Each question gives 4 multiple-choice answers. We normally get a week to finish so if you have to do them, good luck!!!

  

Specialists

Specialists

By Danial and Wyatt

There are 4 specialists art, library, music, and physical education. [A.k.a. gym] We have every specialist every 4 days.  

            Art is about drawing, painting, clay, and learning about famous painters.

            Library is about checking out books and learning about famous people and some holidays.

            Music is about singing, playing instruments, and learning about famous musicians.

            Phys-Ed is about exercising and teaching us how to eat healthy. The sports we play are basketball, volleyball, rollerblading, self defense, gymnastics, floor hockey, track and field, bowling, soccer, stations, and running the half, 3 quarters, and full 1 mile.   

Instrument Picking

Instrument picking

This week Mrs.Firchow is picking 4th grade students to pick the instrument that they will play in 5th grade band.

One day she will pull you out of class to test for what instrument you are going to be playing. Usually she will show you how to play that instrument and you will play it. she will ask you questions to see if you are ready or if you are a good fit for the instrument you are playing. Mrs.Firchow lets you choose your instrument but gives advise saying if she thinks you are a good fit or not.  you might want to play the instrument your friends are playing but it might not be the best fit for you so pick the right one!!!

the different groups ARE: percussion, brass, woodwind,ECT

Everykind of instrument has a special talent that tells them apart

 woodwinds have a reed to blow into that makes the sound.

(only the flute has no reed)    

brass instruments have a big tube at the end which are

motley curled into a spiral.

Percussion instruments are instruments that you hit.

there are a lot of instruments in the world that you

can play that are not in our band. so if you are good at an

instrument in band you might be good at other instruments from that family.

so have a good tine picking an instrument!

this is Genevieve & ritisha saying bye-bye!

   

by: Genevive&

            Ritisha

Blogging

Blogging

By Vann and Wyatt

           

            A blog is something you can talk about the school. You can blog about anything that is school related. You can blog about STEM, specialists and assemblies.

            So you have to think of something to write about. Then you have to use supporting details or else people won’t really know how cool or fun what you are writing about really is. Then you write it in your writing notebook and when done writing it in your notebook you show it to a teacher and if she approves it. You can get a laptop and type it. Then when you are done typing. The teacher will proof read it and when done proof reading it. You can post it.

Pop Up Books

POP UP BOOKS!

BY BEN AND SOL

The pop up book is an engineering design challenge for trimester two. There are three challenges you can do in the school year, this is number two. You have to do one out of three. 

We can make a book with as little as one page.  You can do any amount you want. There does not have to be any words, color, or a certain theme.

One very simple way to make a pop up book is to first, fold a piece of paper in half. Then you cut a square out of the middle of it. Next, you open up it and you have a square pop out. Finally, you cut something out on a different piece of paper and glue it to the square and you have a pop up book.  There are several different ways to make a pop up book.