In Class Right Now by Phin and Scarlett

Writing

Lately in writing we have been writing persuasive essays about why the
Books in Action party should keep going. There is a chart that we are using
to do our writing. It is writing down your persuasive essay, revising it, editing
it and finally publishing it.👍

Math

In math we are just finishing our geometry unit and starting our addition and
subtraction with large numbers, and we are learning about the US standard
algorithm.😃

Reading/ Science

In reading we are reading about natural disasters and at the end of this unit
we are going to get put in groups and make i-movies about it. Our topics are
tornadoes, climate change, tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanoes,
avalanches, droughts and finally blizzards. And just a little teaser our next
science unit is going to be energy.

Science by Scarlett

Fourth  grade has been working on animal adaptations.  

The Hitchcock Center has been teaching us about animal

tracks. One week ago we went outside to find animal tracks

and a few days ago we looked at skulls of animals.

Vacation! by Phineas

Right now we are on vacation so
we aren't doing any work!😊 but soon
vacation is going to be over and we will
be back to school and doing lots of
new stuff. We will have new science,
math, reading and writing👍.
In my next entry I will tell you about
all the new stuff we are doing.

February by Phineas

Math

In math we have been doing geometry.

We have been learning about different angles
and lines.We have also been using power
polygons and using smaller shapes to make
bigger shapes. For example we have been
using shapes to make quadrilaterals, triangles,
and much more.    

Blizzard bags

If you don’t know what they are they are bags
that have 2 and a  half hours of work in them.
If we don’t have school then we don’t have to
make up the day at the end of the year.
Some kids like them because we don’t have
to make up the day at the end of the year.
And some kids don’t like them because
you have to do work on snow days.

Science

In science Mr. Ted has been coming in
and teaching us various things. Some of
them are earthquakes, erosion and next
week he is going to be teaching us about
animal tracks!

Reading

In reading we just started our nonfiction unit

and we are doing Newesla articles and
Scholastic News and a lot of other informational
books.

Fourth Graders in Math

By Azure and Leela

In fourth grade we’re at the beginning of our measuring and data unit. We have been making bar graphs and line plots. We have been measuring ourselves and the first graders! We’re comparing the data. We’re making graphs to represent the data. There is a range of 42 to 60 inches! Every one of use is making a graph of the data we collected. Our tallest fourth grader is Kieran standing 60 inches tall (the same height as our teacher Ms. Scott). Our lowest first grader Oliviya standing 42 inches tall. We’re rounding up to anybody who stands half an inch. But some people are making space for half inches!💙

Math by Nico and Irina

For the past few weeks we have been working
on arrays in math. We have mostly been using
tiles to make arrays but for the past 2 days,
we have been working on making charts of
numbers and making arrays for them.!
1+1=2 We’re smart!

Today we investigated  prime numbers.
There was one question that was
“What is the highest prime number through 1-100?"
And there was a group of 5
(Max, Ty, Phin, Kieran, and Nico that are still working on it)

But they think it's 97.😊

4X4 ARRAY:

Assembly by Irina and Nico

Every other Friday we have a thing
called Assembly, and at Assembly if
people have things to share with the
whole school they can share. For example
Irina and Isla are singing A Million Dreams
from The Greatest Showman at assembly.

4th grade will be doing a surprise movement
activity next assembly on Friday, October fifth
(2 weeks from this post).

Please come!👏😊

Mapping!

by Irina and Nico

In the past few weeks 4th grade has been working on a mapping unit.🗺

We recently finished Help Lab so now we will have more time in the end of the day to work on mapping.

We’ve done penny maps, maps of the classroom, and studied a map of Massachusetts from Greenfield  to Northampton. Another thing we studied was map keys and how they work.

We will be continuing working on map projects today at 2:00.

 

Library Update!

by Nico and Irina

On the second week of school some people started to organize our class library.

It was a total unorganized disaster! 🙊

At the time we thought it would take us the whole year! ( but it didn’t at all!😊)

Now September 17, 2018 on Monday I have to say we have definitely improved! We have had super persistent  helpers know as Eden, Nico, Azure and Scarlett, out of them especially Scarlett has been working on it like almost every day!👍

And mostly because of Eden, Nico, Azure and Scarlett our library has definitely improved!✊💙👍😝

Poseidon's back! 😆

by Irina and Nico

Poseidon was gone for the first 2 weeks of school.

Now he’s been back for about 2 weeks and he’s back and hopefully better than ever. 😕

Our fish caretaker for this month is Phineas.

Poseidon is a beta fish.

And for once in awhile he is actually swimming in his tank😂!

He has been dealing with a swim bladder problem💩,😞 but we hope he’ll be better soon!💖

Hopes and Dreams

We hope you enjoy this quilt of our hopes and dreams for the school year!

News, by Willa

All Famous Quotes, by Caelan

Guys this is Trevor's famous quote: “I LOVE SNOW!!”

This is mine: “It's not wanting to win that makes you a winner--it's refusing to fail.” 

This is Willa's: “Soccer rules!” 

Well that's our famous quotes! What's yours? Leave it in the comments below! 

Wait hold it this is my second: “GO PATRIOTS!!!!”  

I hate to say it but goodbye

Breaking News! By Mya

Things You Need To Know:

This week the whole school has been practicing circus stuff like balancing peacock feathers on our hands, feet, foreheads, and chins. Some of the classes were balancing spinning plates on sticks or balancing flower sticks. Some of the older grades are even juggling!!! We have a performance tonight at 6:15 p.m.. Students have to be there by 6:00 p.m.. We all hope you are there!!

SPORTS:

Football and soccer have been canceled because of the snow.

STAR WARS!!!

The new Star Wars movie Rogue One is officially out in theaters today!!!!!!!    

Last Friday's News, by Caelan

Welcome back boys and girls. Zach has been sick for 5 days! He's back today. The flu has been going around. But anyways we have computer library today. Not much has been going on. OH, we have been learning when to put an apostrophe in a word. We learned most of it in this book.📕˃˃˃˃˃˃˃˃˃˃˃˃˃  ˃  ˃˃˃ 

In math, we have been doing times and division .

Update, by Willa

MATH: WE SWITCHED BACK TO MULTIPLICATION. “NOTICE HOW THEY'RE SIMILAR,” SAID MS. SCOTT “THAT WILL HELP YOU.”

SPORTS: FOOTBALL DOES NOT HAVE THE FIELD, DUE TO SNOW. MAY THE SOCCER BE WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!⚽️

THINGS PEAPLE SAY:

“UGGG! WHY WONT THE COMPUTER LISTEN!!!!” -MORIAH

“BOB” -SUMMYR

“BOB IN A TREE” -ABBY

“I ALWAYS LIKE READING THE BLOG.” -MS. SCOTT

“HAVE A  HEADACHE!” -CAELAN

“SNOW IS AWESOME!!” -TREVOR

“STUPID COMPUTER!!!!” MORIAH

“I APPRECIATE HOW MUCH HARD WORK GOES INTO THE BLOG.” -MS. BAILEY

“EGG MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” -SAM

Daily Update, by Willa

WRITING:WE WROTE JOB APPLICATION LETTERS TODAY.I APPLIED FOR BLOGGER!!!!😄

⚽️SPORTS: SOCCER NEEDS SUPPORT!!!😐FOOTBALL, IN A BAD WAY HAS TAKEN OVER THE FIELD!!!!👄💅🏿  

CAELAN QUOTES, "SOCCER WILL NEVER HAVE THE FIELD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”😱

Channel 721 News, by Caelan

Hi I know it’s been a long time but a lot of stuff happened. But anyways you probably got the paper that said what we’re doing in math…right? If some reason you didn't, we’re working with times and division and their similarities. 

Moving on to WRITING we have been publishing stories that we worked really hard on. It’s a small moment story. HOPE YOU ENJOY!

Also in math we worked with left overs. 

We signed up for different jobs. I hope I get the one I want.🙄 

GUYS THIS MIGHT BE MY LAST BLOGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH by the way…..  football still has the field. If you read Willa’s blog and it says "SOCCER RULES," WELL DON’T LISTEN. FOOTBALL IS THE 🏈THE BEST🏈P.S READ EMMETT'S BLOG. IT'S GOOD!

Hello, Folks 2 by Willa

UNICEF: WE RAISED 239.51 DOLLARS!!!!😋

THAT CAN FEED A VILLAGE!

MATH: WE ARE IN OUR DIVISION UNIT. “DIVISION,” SAID TREVOR M. AND EMMETT S., “IS MULTIPLICATION JUST FLIPPED AROUND, BASICALLY.” 

WRITING: WE ARE PUBLISHING SMALL MOMENT STORIES. “YOU NEED TO DESCRIBE.” SAID MS. BAILEY.

WANTED: ELIJAH FOR NOT HANDING OVER THE STAR WARS SHIRT.

STAR WARS: A NEW MOVIE, CALLED ROUGE ONE, IS COMING OUT DEC. 16 2016. I HOPE IT’S GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!⚽️

Hello, Folks by Willa

In science we are studying ELECTRICITY. We made lightbulbs, figured out how to make a lightbulb light up with only three materials,and learned some interesting facts. We also learned what CONDUCTOR and INSULATOR mean. A CONDUCTOR is something that lets ELECTRICITY flow through it. A INSULATOR is something that does not let ELECTRICITY flow through it. A FILAMENT is what connects the wires in the lightbulb.