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.

Recorders

Recorders

By: Sebastian & Vikash

Recorders, Recorders

Recorders are like a tiny clarinet that you play.  In 4^th grade we start something called recorder karate.  They have a concept of music and karate.  The first belt is white belt, than yellow belt, orange, green, purple, blue, red, brown, black.  Once you get to black you can start doing pink belts, but that doesn’t mean that you have to do pink belts after you finish black belt.  You can start whenever you want. 

Belts for Karate

For each belt you have to master 1 song.  If you mess up it isn’t mastery.  So the practice at home part is the repetition.  Then you go to your music teacher to finish the belt.  Now that is mastery!

School Partitioning

       You get school days to try and master a belt.  If you do not make the belt, you can come after school any day as long as your music teacher is available and try to learn it.  You are supposed to practice at home to get better at the songs. Then try the song at music or your classes testing day.

      

Concert

       Once you do it for about a month you only get one more day to test before you’re stuck with the belts you got.  Then you get ready for the concert.  In the concert we will be doing a mix between singing and doing recorders.  It will be very interesting to do and fun.  There will be some very jumpy songs and some very good canons.   

  

specialists

specialists

Hi! This is Vahini and Genevieve blogging. We are doing this blog about specialists.

         First we are going to talk about MUSIC!!! Right now we are learning and playing the recorders. There are lots of belts to play and lots of belts to go. You could get so far, that you could get a second book!

         Next we are going to talk about ART!!! In fourth grade art, we are making portraits of our classmates. Lately we have been learning about the history of art.

         In gym we have been learning a new unit, basketball. To practice dribbling and making hoops, we have been playing basketball games. Such as lightning and more.

         In media we have been working on our floats, for I love to read month. Plus we have been picking…(DRUMROLL) … “BOOKS”.

This is Genevieve and Vahini saying … “GOODBYE”!!!

Hand Fans

Hand Fans

Hi! Internet readers, this is Genevieve and Ritisha blogging here. We are going to be blogging about hand fans.

         In engineering, we are building our own hand fans. If you want to make one you need to have:

-A good airflow

-An on/off switch

-Needs to be under a certain amount of money

-Needs to fit comfortably in your hand

         The tools you might want to use are:

-Battery & motor

-Wires

-Tape/electric tape

-Paper clip/fastener

-Craft sticks

-Hard/ strong paper

         Here are the steps you will need to make the hand fan:

         1.you need to plan, how you’re going to build it.

         2.you need to figure out what your doing

         3.you need to find out how much you’re spending and what your budget is.

         4.you start building

         5.you test it

6.you make it better

The buz room

The Buz room

Hi! Internet readers this is Nandana and Vahini blogging. Today we are going to type about 3 stations in the BUZ room. The topic of the BUZ room is engineering.

         The first station of the BUZ room is float your boat. In float your boat you have to make a clay boat, and put it in the water to see how many pennies you can hold before your boat sinks. How many could you hold?

         The second station of the BUZ room is circuit play. What you do there is choose a circuit set and add devices to your structure to make something. Such as a fan and a electric light bulb.

         The last station we will “BUZZ” about is the marble maze! You have to create a structure to let the marble run through the maze, without failing. To make it “BUZZTASTIC”. You might want to add obstacles to your course.

         You might want to do these projects at home. This is Nandana and Vahini buzzing off!!!  

Amazing Marbles

This exploration class is called Amazing Marbles! On the first day we went to all different stations. One was a magnetic marble run. We made marble runs out of blocks and had the regular marble run. There was a challenging one that looked really fun but it turned out to be really hard to put together. We also  had to make a marble run out of tubes and tape. On the second day we made marble runs with pizza boxes and clay.We got to take them home along with a marbles. On the third day we learned how to play the game Marbles. We also got to take home a bag of marbles!

By: Mikala S.

All About Chess

All About Chess!

                                             By: Jibril. A and Atilla. S

Chess is about stratagy and knowledge. Chess is also about knowing what figure to move. All the front pieces are called Pawns and the 2 middle back pieces are called King and Queen. And then the ones next to them are called Bishops. The ones next to those are called Knights. Then next to that is called rooks. On there first move the Pawns can move 2 spaces forward! The King can move only one space.
The Queen can move anywhere it wants and as much as it wants. The Bishop can move diagonal. Knights can move in a L shape. Rooks can move forward, backward, and sideways as many spaces as it wants. Every piece can move backwards except for the Pawns. That's why chess is AWSOME! And you should try it.

TFK Election Votes

       TFK Electoral

             Votes

           BY: Sydney & Emma  

      In class we learned how voting works through a video online. Also on TFK’S website we learned that they count votes by state electoral votes and not on how many people vote. We went on the TFK website and saw each of the two candidates views so we knew who to vote for.

       For voting day Mrs. Strubles’ class voted for who our class wanted to win. She printed off pieces of paper and on it was two little boxes and by each box there where the two candidates Obama and Romney.

      We made a check on the box of the candidate that we wanted to vote for and put it in a bin. Mrs. Struble counted the votes and then she told us who won in the class and the winner in our class was Barack Obama.

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crash

Crash: A Book Review

Mrs.Knutson's class read the book Crash. In this book Crash Coogen the Football Star is not afraid to say what he needs to say. But when Penn Webb gets in the way Crash becomes the bully. When Mike, Crash's Friend takes the prank to far, Crash may have to choose who side he is really on. Find out what happens in the book CRASH by:Jerry Spinelli.


Blog by: Sisira A. and Mikala S.

Inventor's Fair

Inventor's Fair

By: Mulki & Logan 4K

  

The Inventor's Fair is a 4th grade unit where all 4th graders use materials from home to make an ORIGINAL invention. Then 3rd grade comes and asks/looks at your invention.

"The funnest part was building the unknown." 

You also need a poster,too, for explaining/naming your idea. "Some of my favorites were the Mega Mitt, Sun buster, and Card Collector," said an unknown student. 

It's pretty fun, Families get to come too!

My Trip to Ja Biztown

By Samyak T.                                 

                                        My Trip To Ja BizTown 

My trip to "Ja BizTown" was amazing! I had 3 bags of popcorn, 2 cups of pop, a folder, and 500 post-it notes. At Ja BizTown we had a bank account. I was head (CEO) of my business. I called it Software palace. My break was busy, very, very busy. When I was on my break I had to open my savings account and my bank account to do this I had to sign my deposit ticket, my check register and a check for $1.50 for my savings account. Also I had to have my lunch and/or snack. Every business did not pay their bills. If they did, our company would have made a lot of profit. Our loan was for $214.20. We also used money. I had a very big salary. My salary was for $50.00 per day, I am very proud for earning this big of a salary. My trip to Ja BizTown was amazing. We learned a lot we never gave up and almost made a profit. This was my best day ever! I hope you enjoyed my blog.

Heartbeat Chorus

By:Mikala

I am in HeartBeat Chorus. Heartbeat Chorus meets every Tuesday or Thursday. I am in the Tuesday class. We sing and do warm ups. We are perfoming on Friday the Twenty-First at the sing-along. Last week we had a field trip to Seasons. Seasons is a retirement home. We go to sing and after that we ate cookies and drank juice. We got to meet new people. It was really fun.

Inventions

 4th grade is doing an inventions unit. They get to build inventions and present them to other people. We have studied the inventions that people had invented in the past to give on what we should make. We will finally present are inventions on Dec.13.2012 to families and friends.

By:Sisira

4-Knutson

The 2012 Presidential Election

By Alexa and Genevieve 4S

The Presidential Election happens every 4 years. Two candidates run for President, but only one candidate can win to run the country. The candidates have to get most of the United States votes to be President. The candidates have to have a Vice President. A President can be elected for two terms.  Each term is 4 years long. 2 times and that’s it. I say that‘s not fair. The election takes a long time to find out who is going to be the next president. There are debates and those debates tell what those candidates will do if they get elected for President. For the election, the first person to get 270 or more electoral votes wins! Every state votes and in the state, the people vote for one candidate the one with the most votes in the state wins! People don’t have to vote. You have to be 18 or older to vote. Thanks for reading our blog! We hope you liked it.