Great View
Our Christmas Concert was a blast. Students sang beautifully on stage and their highlight was sitting in the balcony to enjoy the rest of the program.
Mrs. Boodram
Imagination
Students created their own stories of Fables and Folktales. What they really enjoyed was looking at the story Cinder Edna and making comparisons. They loved when they got the opportunity to change the characters and their roles, the plot and the setting of the story. They had fun using their imagination to write their own stories.
Mrs. Boodram
Good Food
In November we had a Thanksgiving feast. We had lunch together in the classroom and the children enjoyed getting dressed up and having a feast. They ate sooooooooooooooooo much.
Mrs. Boodram
Ten Commandments
Students worked in groups on The Ten Commandments and paraphrased them in their own words. They enjoyed doing this project because they were better able to make connections to themselves.
Mrs. Boodram
Let’s Move
What Causes things to Move? Students wrote about Force, Friction, Motion and Gravity. They enjoyed doing experiments.
Mrs. Boodram
Ants
The Ants Go Marching On Hurray Hurray. Students worked on creating their own Ant Story problems. They had to write a story, illustrate the story and show the work for the problems they presented. They were so proud to see their work displayed in the hallway.
Mrs. Boodram
Clouds
Students created their own stories about the different types of clouds. They had fun using cotton balls to make their clouds and picture themselves on their clouds. In their stories some of the things they said were – If I were a cumulus cloud I would cuddle up with my bear and dream that I am floating in the air.
Mrs. Boodram
Iroquois Confederacy
This month in Social Studies we are studying the Native Americans of New York State. After learning about their history and lives, 4th grade is now becoming members of the Iroquois confederacy. Each student has been given a Native American name, is part of one of the 5 tribes of the confederacy, and has a role in it- clan mother, council leader, respected elder, or storyteller. Next, we will be having a council meeting in which the tribes will be given situations they have to decide on and vote about. Every member gets to share their opinion first. Finally, our storyteller will share stories they have made up that teach a lesson.
Miss Laforest
Medieval Times
Students are studying Medieval Europe and taking a closer look at how a feudal society works. Not only are we revisiting a time of kings, queens, knights, serfs, manors, and castles, we are also seeing how some of the laws we would eventually use when forming our own country came to be. As a culminating activity students create a shield for their own family and describe what symbols and colors they used and what they each represent.
Miss Laforest
Fly Me To The Moon
In November we visited the Museum of Natural History. While there, we saw a space show at the planetarium in which we became astronauts that were traveling from earth to the moon. We got to see the moon up close and even the dark side that is never visible to us on earth. We also explored the museum’s exhibits of African and North American mammals. This let us see what the animals we have studied about, as well as what their habitats, actually looked like.
Miss Laforest