Salt Maps & a Cheerleader! 💛💚

We had a lot of fun making salt maps today.  Next week we will paint them and show off the different U.S. regions. We also had a special visitor- a Sperreng cheerleader!  We loved seeing Oliver’s big sister Lily!

Rainy Reading 🌧📖

Aaaah don’t you love the sound of rain?  That was the only sound in here today during reading. We have been building our stamina reading and the storm outside provided the perfect soundtrack today!

Story Arcs for our Story Plan ✏️👊🏼

Today we finished making our story arcs for narrative fiction. These arcs will be the plan for their stories. The students are plotting their story’s events building up to the big moment. We then started to draft scenes from these arcs. 

U.S. Regions Brochures 🇺🇸

We have been learning about geography and the five United States regions. Today we started to make a brochure in class showing off the regions. Students are finding the landforms and major cities and states in each region for their brochures. They look good!

Smarties

We finished our strength finders today. Look at these smarties!

Generating Story Ideas ✏️

On Wednesday we started to generate ideas for our narrative nonfiction stories. The students came up with some great realistic ideas!

Graphing our Strengths

Today we looked at our strengths and started to graph them. Students filled out a survey to determine what their strengths may be. Examples would be “art smart” or “math smart”. Finished products should be coming tomorrow!

Best Buds! 💚💛

Today we met with our first grade buddies from Mrs. Boyd’s class. As you can see in our pictures many fourth graders are sharing a buddy because our class is a bit larger. We had a good time getting to know each other and look forward to many great meetings this year!

Yahoo we had a great day 2!

Today we had more fun getting to know each other. We had a  cup stacking challenge in small groups where the trick was they couldn’t use their hands to stack the cups. The groups came up with some interesting methods. 

We also had our first assembly of the year. Students were introduced to the building staff and it was a fun kickoff for the school year. Enjoy your weekend!

Great First Day!

We had a great first day!  We spent a lot of time getting to know each other, learning routines, and organizing our supplies. This is a great group and I am so excited for the year ahead!

26 Reasons to Get Excited for Fourth! 🎉🙌

Welcome to Fourth Grade!  I will send an email this week with additional information. I am in Florida today so will not be at the Concord play date this evening. I look forward to seeing you all at the ice cream social!

Grant A.

Isabella A.

Charlie B.

Bennet C.

William D.

Elliott D.

Luke E.

Lila E.

Lucas F.

Kaylin F.

Caleb H.

Lyla H.

Armin K.

Bobby K.

Gretchen K.

Adis L.

Maggie M.

Briley M.

Kate M.

Oliver N.

Charlotte O.

Charles P.

Michelle R.

Eva S.

Emma W.

Joanna Z.