Thanksgiving Plays in 4J

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November 12, 2012

planting the outdoor classroom...

Thank you to JW's for donating A LOT of perennials to our outdoor classroom, and to Mrs. Fisher (former KE teacher) for organizing them.  Mrs. Yoder's class spent time on a Friday afternoon planting.  We even found some new friends.

Iowa Assessment party...

All 4th graders worked incredibly hard during the two weeks of Iowa Assessments.  A HUGE thank you to the families who supplied brain food during our tests.  We had a great time celebrating the end last Friday afternoon.

Veteran's Day celebration...

On Friday, November 9, five veterans visited KE to help us honor our active and retired military service men and women.  After the school recited the Pledge of Allegiance, Mrs. Juilfs' class recited a poem of appreciation.  We then watched a short video before singing as a school.  Fourth graders were extra honored as the veteran's visited our classroom to answer questions about the military.  Thank you, Veterans!

math news...

We are working through problem solving and number sentences in math.  We worked with map scale to determine the distance between Washington, D.C. and other cities in the world.  After doing our calculations and multiplication (1 inch = 880 miles), we used the ipads to look up the actual distance.  It is amazing that even though we had plastic globes and tape measures (not very high tech tools!), we were very close to the actual distance; in some cases, we were only off a couple hundred miles.  

social studies news...

Now that we have studied natural resources, we watched to movie The Lorax by Dr. Seuss (the original movie, not the feature length one that was recently in theaters.)  We discoverd hat seems to be a simple children's story is really a story about natural resources, the environments, pollution, and habitats.  It sparked some great discussion.

We are now preparing for our first Mystery Skype of the year.  On Monday, we will be skyping with another 4th grade class somewhere in the US.  We do not know where they are located and they do not know we are in Iowa.  We worked to develop yes and no questions to narrow down where they are located.  Mrs. Yoder's class will do this first skype and, if all goes well, we will work to find other classes willing to skype with us.  

Next week is American Education Week.
The 2012 Motto is: Great Public Schools: A Basic Right and Our Responsibility
We will be dressing up for some of the days.  Please see the schedule below.

Monday, Nov. 12 – Wear your favorite sweatshirt day
Wed., Nov. 14 – Wear red, white, and blue day
Fri., Nov. 16 – Black and Gold or School Logo shirt day