Health and Career Education

The grade 4's have been learning about the damage smoking can cause this term. As a wind-up, they created comics using the Make Beliefs Comix comic generator. Here's one created by a student:

If you can, take some time to talk about smoking with your fourth grader today. I'm hoping you'll be impressed with how much information they have.

May Poetry

This week our class completed our poetry oral presentations. All the presentations were on really great poems.

ZL's favorite presentation was the one done on the Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein.

By ZL and RK

The students were hard at work this week completing their poetry assignments, including their oral presentations which will be posted to the poetry website early next week. Please check back here for the link. 

In the meantime, you might want to have your child read to you one of the following poems:

Address to a Child on a Boisterous Winter Evening

Instructions

(If you click play to the right, a video of Neil Gaiman reading the poem will play.)

We've spent a lot of time discussing the meaning of each poem and making connections to each stanza. Please ask your child to explain one connection he or she has to a line or stanza from either poem. 

Finally, just for fun, here's a video of the Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein.

Talent Show and Eggstravaganza

Today was a fun day. We started the day with the Eggstravaganza which is an event where students build contraptions to hold eggs while they are dropped from a height.

Later we had a talent show.

The pictures are a little blurry. Sorry!

By Sophia K. & Teodor

Poetry

Our class has started their poetry unit and some funny, touching and visually striking poems are being written by students.
Here are some pictures of our rose drawings and one of the accompanying haiku poems.

Students are working on projects on a class poetry website. If your child has shown you his or her Google Classroom account at home, your child should also be able to show you our poetry website. Feel free to visit the site to see what your child is expected to accomplish this term in poetry.

Space Inquiry Projects

Division Five spent some time after spring break finishing up their inquiry projects on space topics. These projects took a variety of forms and I was very impressed with how hard the students all worked. Below are some of the projects students completed on-line as well as some pictures of projects students completed in more hands-on ways.

Spaceology Slides Presentation

Back from Spring Break

This morning we had parent reading. Parents came to the school to read to the students. This time, the vice principal and a parent helper read The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novack to the school. We liked the part of the book that read, "Never read this book again! It's ridiculous."

We went outside to do some obstacle courses for DPA. Students teamed up and created obstacle courses for other students to do.

This week, we also got Chromebooks to use in the classroom. We have to log in and put in a password to use them.

Earlier this week we also started learning the Folk dance and the May Pole dances.

By Jett and Riley

Spring Break

It has been a very busy week leading up to Spring Break. We saw a mother cow named Libby and a baby cow named Charlie. They were part of the mobile dairy that came to our school. The mobile dairy taught us about cows and how they are milked.

 This is Libby with Anna and Grace.

 This is a picture of Charlie, the baby cow.

 This is the milk machine that hooks up to the mother cow's udder.

 This is the food that the cows eat.

We also made little leprechauns with a pot of gold and conducted a mini inquiry project on St. Patrick's Day. If you look on the pots of gold you will see our writing.

At the end of the week we all went swimming. 

Have a great spring break everyone!