Book Trailers 2014

After finishing book clubs, students had to create a book trailer for their book!  Students used the iMovie app and their creativity to come up with the trailers.  They had a great time making their trailers and worked very hard to come up with the descriptions, backgrounds, and characters.  Check them out!

  

Science Day Fun and Other Details

Today we had a school wide science day! We had the Missouri Department of Conservation come a teach the students about bees. Then we moved to a Mad Science presentation. Students were able to see fun science experiments! Next we learned about wolves from a speaker from the Wolf Sanctuary. Continuing with our science theme, in art students drew ideas of slogans to promote recycling. We watched a Bill Nye video about recycling, had a snack and wrote about what we learned, and finally explored different organisms with microscopes! It was a great day of learning!

Here are some important days to remember as the year winds down:

• Wednesday, May 14- students will have a fraction quiz.
• Friday, May 16- No school for students!
• Monday, May 19- Field Trip to the Lewis and Clark Museum and First Capital Building.  If you child has not brought in their permission slip, please send it in as soon as possible!
• Friday, May 23- Field Day.  Please have your child where comfortable, old clothing. They will be getting wet!  We are still in need of volunteers for field day.  If you would like to sign up to help, click on the link below.  Thank you!

        http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0F4FA4A923AA8-science

• Monday, May 26- No school Memorial Day.  
• Friday, May 30- Last day of school. This is half day and no lunch will be served!  Happy summer!

Newton's First Law of Motion Lab

Today we had fun learning about Newton's First Law of Motion!  Check out the lab we did to better understand this law.

A few reminders

I hope everyone enjoyed the beautiful weather this weekend! Here are just a few reminders for this week. Please let me know if you have any questions.

MAP testing will begin this week. Fourth grade will test Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

Wednesday is an Early Release day. Dismissal will be at 1:40.

Poetry Slam

Hi! I am Raina. Today we had a peotry slam and these are some of the books we made. 

The teacher set a back round so it looks like we are in a cafè!

This is Hannah reading poems from her book.

This is Lucy reading her poem at a café!

Weekly Details April 11

• Thank you so everyone who has brought in a MAP snack item!  The students look forward to their trail mix.  Just a reminder we will be testing April 23, 23, 29, 30 and May 1.  

• We will have a math test over metric measurement on Monday.  Students were given the study guide yesterday.

• On Thursday we will have a social studies test on our Government.  Study guides were filled out and sent home today.

• NO SCHOOL next Friday, April 18.  Enjoy the day!

This week students had fun trying to solve a logic puzzle in math.  It is called Goat Crossing.  We are still trying to figure it out.  It is very challenging!  Click on the picture below to try it out!

Lawcraft

This week we began learning about our Federal government. We discussed how laws are made and how they move through the branches to become a law. To better understand the process we played Lawcraft. The conversations we great! Students were able to argue for what they thought was fair.  Ask your child about it!

Lawcraft Game