This week's activities are as follows: (for more specific details about each day, please read the prior blog)
Monday: All the Places You'll Go! Day
Tuesday: Community Reader Day...check with your child to find out who read!
Wednesday: Staff Reading Relay
Thursday: Hats Off to Reading Day and KE Family Literacy Night (free meal at 5:15, activities 6:30-7:30)
Friday: Read and Feed Day
math news...
We have finished up our unit on multiplication, estimating, and comparing numbers. We will focus on measuring angles and division for the next unit. Division is a tricky concept and skill to master. We will go slow and learn different methods of solving problems.
social studies news...
While studying the regions, it made sense to start with what we knew...the Midwest. Now that we are experts, we are moving back to where the US started...the Northeast. We will learn about geography, landmarks, natural resources, climate, and activities in our new region. Students will begin thinking about a project that will showcase what they learn.
Mystery skyping is going great! We try to have one scheduled at least every two weeks, if not weekly. It has been fun to learn about each state by actually talking to people who live there. We are scheduled to skype with a school in...ooops, almost gave it away! Below is an article that was published in the Kalona News, written about mystery skyping by Chelsea, Sophie, and Emily.
Skyping is when you can talk to
someone face to face on the computer. Usually people skype with other people
when they live far away. Skype is really fun do to with your friends and
relatives!
Mystery skyping is when one
class skypes with another class. Usually the other class is in another state.
The classes do not know where the other class is. The students who are skyping each other take turns guessing
which state they are in. We ask questions, which are yes or no questions. For
example, “Are you west of the Mississippi River?” If they were to say yes, then
we would start crossing off states on a map that weren’t west of the
Mississippi River. When we are done and have figured out each other’s state, we
then might try to guess the city. Then we tell them about our school, town, and
our state.
The fourth graders at Kalona
Elementary have mystery skyped a lot of states. We skyped Plymouth, MA,
Orlando, FL, and Tuscola, IL. We hope to skype with students and schools from
all of the regions of the US.
Fourth graders at Kalona Elementary think mystery skyping is really fun!
If you ever try mystery skyping, we hope you enjoy it!
our field trip to UNI...
The fourth graders at Kalona
Elementary went to a play about Rosa Parks at the Gallagher-Bluedorn Arts
Center in Cedar Falls. Rosa Parks stood up for what she believed in. She didn’t
like segregated cities and states. Not many people were brave enough to do what
Rosa Parks did at the age of 42. She was really just an ordinary woman who knew
what was right and what was wrong.
Rosa Parks stayed in a bus seat
that she was supposed to give up to a white man. Some people decided to do the bus boycott in 1955
and it lasted for a year. The bus boycott was a peaceful protest when people
did not ride buses because of what happened to Rosa. The boycott ended when the
Supreme Court said buses could no longer be segregated.
After the play we went to the UNI dome, and ate lunch there.
After lunch we got to run around the track. Then that was the end of the field
trip. We had a great time and
learned a lot.
by Kyra, Kennedy, and Kaitlyn
things to remember...
*Fun Night is quickly approaching. Our silent auction basket is Coffee and Chocolate. Feel free to send donations in any time. Use your imagination and get creative!
*Please check the time and date for your scheduled parent teacher conference and return the form as soon as possible.
*Live Healthy Iowa is going strong! Remember to encourage your child to add activities to their day, and keep track of those minutes along with the speciality food of the week. We log our amounts daily.
