Dress Down Day!

Today we got to dress down, however a lot of people did not get to dress down because they did not pay to dress down. Today in reading results we continued to read a book called  Dear Mr.Henshaw.  It is a really good book we are on page 93.  We are more than half way through the whole book!   For our class novel we are reading a book called Lunch Money.  In this book a little boy named Greg was punched in the face accidentally by a girl named Maura. 

Later after Readers Workshop we went to recess.  Most of us managed to stay really clean today and Ms. Dahl was excited because the playground was a little muddy.  During lunch we had a pizza party from Ms. W for having 99% attendance for September.  Lunch was delicious!

Art class was pretty cool today. We had to critque our self portraits and that required us to be reflective just like we do for inquiry and other things with Ms. Dahl. 

During Inquiry we split up into our teams for our projects so that we could set our norms.  It sounds like a person's name - Norm but it really means figuring out how we want our group to run.  We had to decide where are we going to meet, what are our rules, and what materials do we need to bring with us to the group meeting. 
Written by:  Sean, Nancy and Naresh

The Bowling Day

This morning we went bowing some people stayed with Ms. S.  We had alot of fun!  We went to gym  played outside.  For lunch we had cut up steak and cheese.  By the time we got back to Ms.S are class was back from bowling and I was really happy to go back to class.  After the other kids finished eating lunch we did a quick math activity and then jumped into inquiry.  We are still on the Finding Out stage of our inquiry wheel. 

Written by :  Larry

A Day with a birthday!!

It was Ms.Baker's birthday! She brought cupcakes in for us! We have to be really good so we can enjoy the delicious dessert.

Today we learned about fact families in math class. We made a booklet to show how much we know and how much their still is to learn. This booklet was a part of our mulitiplication and division lessons. In our HSP math book, we worked on a few problems to make sure that we are excellent mathmaticians.

After math we had inquiry. During this time we made a the wheel of inquiry where we go in a circle from wondering to finding out to sorting out to creating to presenting to reflecting. Our class looked at our blog and saw all of the great links Ms. Dahl had put up for us to find information about hurricanes, volcanoes, and earthquakes. Next we got into groups and worked on the finding out section of our inquiry wheel by reading nonfiction books.

Once inquiry is over we all will sing Happy Birthday to Ms. Baker and eat some AWESOME cupcakes! YUMMMMMM! It really was a special day!

Written by: Jasmine and Kai

Unit 1: Culminating Task

[We've reviewed this in class and sharing it with our supporters was homework on Monday night, however, here's a bit more information!]




As we experienced earlier this school year natural disasters occur anywhere at any time.  You’ve been hired by a major news agency and are expected to report about the unfolding events.  You will work collaboratively with colleagues to research major earthquakes, hurricanes and volcanoes that have impacted the world since 1990.  As a breaking news reporter for CNN or the Weather Channel you will be expected to create a 10 – 15 minute presentation that includes a visual representation and presentation.   

You must include:

•          Map with specific location 
•          Date of disaster
•          Comparison to 2 other similar events – 1 domestic and 1 international 
•          3 – 5 suggestions for others who may be impacted by a similar type of natural disaster 
•          An examination of historical trends of your natural disaster and the likelihood of a similar event to happen in the same place.
•          Within your group 1 student must take the role of (whichever is applicable)

o   a geologist  and research the causes and effects of earthquakes and volcanoes

o    a meteorologist will research the causes and effects of hurricanes.

Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Volcanoes

As you check out the different resources bring in evidence of your thoughts and exploration!  You'll have an opportunity to share during Inquiry or Morning Meeting!  Feel free to also leave us comments below or email Ms. Dahl at jdahl@friendshipschools.org!


Remember: to go to the link CLICK on the link 1 time!  The link is the ORANGE part! (Usually on the left side!)
Remember to browse safely with an adult! And, just like Metro says, "If you see something [that makes you feel uncomfortable or unsure of something] say something!"

Earthquakes

United States Geological Survey - Resources for Kids  - puzzles, games, activities all about Earthquakes

USGS Photo Collection of Earthquakes - Photos of earthquakes from long ago and recent times

The Science of Earthquakes for Kids - What is happening? Why is it happening?

Weather Wiz Kids - Earthquakes  - Why does the ground do that? Great animations!

Hurricanes

NASA: How to hurricanes form?   - How do hurricanes form?


National Weather Service: Hurricanes for Kids - What is happening in a hurricane?


National Geographic  - Hurricane pictures for children


Volcanoes

Discovery Kids! Volcano Explorer - Exploration activities

Volcanoes and Land Formation  - Geology:  The Study of our Earth for Kids


Volcano World 4 Kids - Oregon State Volcano World


Preparing for Natural Disasters


FEMA Website for Kids  Preparedness is Key!

National Geographic: Natural Disasters & Weather - Resources for Kids about Natural Disasters

Written by:  Ms. Dahl

A Dodgeball day in the gym!

Today Ms. W our art teacher was absent so we were able to go to the gym. In gym we played dodgeball and it was really fun.  The Indiana University girls beat the Cornell University girls!  They lost because they had the most people out.  Indiana University also had more players.  We had to catch the ball and whoever threw it had to sit down on the bench.  If another person got out then you could go back in the game.  If a Cornell girl got out then an Indiana girl got to go back in the game.  We had so much fun! 

Later the boys had to play against the Cornell boys.  Unfortunately they only had a little while to play.  Some students had a really hard time showing how to use their gym time.  Hopefully we can play again sometime soon.

Written by:  Ms. Dahl and the Indiana University winners

Grab your umbrellas tight

Today we  came in dry but now its a rainy rainy day.Today we took our vocabulary test.We are almost done with our fourth set of our vocabulary.We did reading results today.Because of the rain we had recess indoors today  but instead of  going in the gym we were in Mr.Bs class and played freeze dance and air guitar music for recess.

We had some weird looking sandwiches today for lunch and a banana with salad and a granola bar.
Lunch was a little crazy today. Some people clearly forgot the procedures. Hopefully we'll do better next week.
For math we went in to our groups there are 3 groups The Jackson 5,The Mathletes,and the Math Geniuses .In those groups we did different activities in our groups.We didn't have social studies or science because that would take up our fun Friday time .
Stay safe and dry.Feel free to leave school appropriate comments
Written by :Briana and Mayra

THE CRAZY FUN SOME WHAT BAD DAY

Today it was a very crazy day. We learned how to round and on addition and subtraction. We also met in math groups. Our groups are named:  Mathletes, Jackson 5, and Math Geniuses.  Breakfast was LATE!  Today it was so crazy that we didn't get to do morning meeting. Before we started to blog we started to do a fun project on earth and we were labeling the parts of earth like crust and the ocean!  We learned about Pangea where all the continents were pushed together.

Sorry we didn't get to blog so long. We are very busy!  Our crazy day was very crazy!

Written by: Keymiah and Tre

The Super Star Scholars

Today we ate cinnamon toast crunch for breakfast and it was DELICIOUS! In reading results we continue to play vocabulary board games.We also did our cause and effect paper for the play. After reading results we did our vocabulary then when we finish that we read Lunch Money.After that we read independently and we had to write a letter to Ms. Dahl and Ms. Baker about what we had read. Once our letters were finished we went to recess, lunch and art. Next was math do now and math centers. It was fun because we had a lot of stuff to do and we learned a lot about math words. Science/Inquiry was after Math. In inquiry we watched a video about the layers of the Earth. Then when we went to our seat we had to create the layers of the Earth: inner core, outer core, mantle, and the crust. We then labeled the areas and had to make a diagram.Once we were finished it was the end of the day!

Written by Gabriel and Dania

The Firecrackers

Today we are starting to learn more about earthquakes,hurricanes,and volcanoes .We took off some post it's off of the chart and we picked 5 off of the chart. Then we had to think of something that was in common with those five we had and we wrote down questions to fit what they had in common.

We had good CHICKEN!!! bread, green beans ,& broccoli people where tearing that chicken up.
and everyone that had there own lunch was asking for one simple thing they wanted to take our chicken.

For recess we played lots of things . Boys were playing football girls were doing all sorts of things they were
doing all sorts of things that i can't keep up to us we had a short day

By:Nina & Aaryn   BOOM

The Crazy Busy Day!

The past three days have been INCREDIBLY busy!

I am sorry we haven't blogged for three straight days.  We hope you try to keep up with us and we are going to try harder to keep up with you!  Feel free to leave us comments so we know who is reading our blog!

The best thing we've done in the past few days is math!  Today we reviewed addition by using Chinese take out menus and creating our pizza orders!  After all, like Ms. Dahl, sometimes you burn your pizza and have to order Chinese! 

One other thing we've really enjoyed is inquiry!  We've been learning all about the continents.  The continents are: North America, South America, Europe, Antarctica, Asia, Africa and Australia! 

Written by: Ms. Dahl and the  busy bees

Starting new things

Today we had many "firsts":

• in Inquiry we had to answer the question, "Why does it matter where we are?"
• for our math do now we had to use digits to make the largest number and explain how we knew.
• touch math is fully up and running!
• reading results has come back into our morning!
• During reading results we had to keep working on the Fountas and Pinnell test!
• Writing is coming up shortly after we do our blog post!
• Ms. S is back!
• During math we learned about Apangea which is a math program we can use at school and home to help us improve our math skills.
• Today for do now (during breakfast) we had to talk to our table about what we did over the weekend and how we celebrated the good weather?
• After slate math we had a mini lesson to help us get ready for our quiz!

We still have so much to do today and its 2:42pm! Gotta run!

Written by: Ms. Dahl and the Hoosiers!

Peace Day!

This morning began quite rainy but thankfully it is a sunny beautiful afternoon.  Today was also a very, very busy day!  Some of us went to the Peace Day celebration in the cafeteria because they have not been on a level 2 or higher. 
Many more of us completed the Fountas and Pinnell test.  Today we were able to get through almost five tests.  We are almost finished with all of our tests!  While we were doing the F&P test we also worked on our Learner Profile books and continued practicing capitalization.

Again today in math we did place value.  Today during math we did a project about place value.  This weekend we must finish our projects if we are not already done.  Place value is hard for some of us and easier for others.  Some people were able to work on the carpet with base ten blocks while others of us worked on our projects.  Today the work that we did was hard.  The students who were not on the carpet had to start their projects. 

Ms. S was back and we were able to have Touch Math class! 

Today for homework we must finish our place value projects and our reading log.

Written by Ms Dahl, Jasmine, Nichelle, and a few others who sorta kinda participated a little

A busy day

Rain rain go away! When we came in today most of us were wet from the rain!  It looks liked we had gone to a swiming pool before school, IN OUR UNIFORMS!  Some of us stepped in puddles of water and got our feet wet.  Some people remembered their umbrellas and stayed dry.

This morning we worked on vocabulary!  It was pretty hard.  Today we continued the Fountas and Pinnell assessment.  While Ms. Dahl was doing that we had to complete our capitalization worksheet.  This is proving to be quite a challenge for us!  We don't like to capitalize anything!  Today was a bit easier for some of us but harder for some of us. 

UGH! Today for lunch we had this sorta meat loaf patty, it was like mystery meat.  It was GROSS!  There was wheat bread under the mystery meat.  It was drenched in gravy.  We also had pineapple.  The pineapple was delicious.  Some people were very lucky that they brought their lunch today.  Some students were even begging for parts of others lunches since the school lunch was so gross.

In math today we had to do greater than and less than.  We also had to use our slate and markers.  Our entire class represented number sentences with greater than and less than.  We had to work together.  Today some of us did not have Math Intervention because Ms. S was unavailable. 

Despite the rainy day we had a good day! (Though one of us thinks it was a terrible, horrible, no good very bad day.)

Our goal for tomorrow is to have a smooth transition to art.

Written by: Ms. Dahl and the class

Today we are soggy scholars!

We began our day as soggy scholars! It is very, very rainy!  This morning we played "Electricity!" as our morning meeting activity.  For this game we had to squeeze hands and go all around the circle to where it started as fast as possible. Again today we did not have Reading Results because it was closed for the week! All of the other grades were testing.

We read two more chapters in How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell.  Ms. Dahl also continued working on the Fountas and Pinnell assessment. Today we worked on capitalization.  Capitalization was kinda hard to write down the capitalized letter when it was lower case. We worked on capitalization because some of us need more practice on how to start our sentences, names, specific places, and proper nouns.  Later we worked on vocabulary and we used our Wordly Wise books to practice our words in lots of different ways.

In math today we learned more about place value, digits and we played math games for indoor recess. We had to roll a dice and write our numbers on the chart! We had to create numbers that have 3 - 5 digits then we wrote the standard form, expanded form and word form in our math notebook. 

Today we had a BUSY day!  As we move on with our day we are going to head into the Inquiry block and then have Writers Workshop! 

Hope you all stayed dry on this very soggy Wednesday!

Written by: Miss Dahl and the class (family dinner style)

Getting started with our 4th grade year!

Since school started we have been reading almost every day.  This year we have a new program called Reading Results.  During results we read with students who are on our same Independent Reading level.  We read together and have reading centers.  Nichelle says her favorite center has been writing!  We use the I PICK strategy (from Daily 5) to select our Independent Reading books. 

This year we're going to be starting International Baccalaureate! This year Miss Dahl's Scholars are learning about the ten learner profiles that go along with International Baccalaureate. Antonique stated that our classroom is very Caring! Our classroom also shows a second learner profile by being great Communicators and working together in groups. We are very excited to dive into our new way of learning and discovering the world of International Baccalaureate.

One of our favorite projects so far has been making our hopes and dreams stars. During this project we drew a picture of what we wanted to do when we grow up in the center of a star. On the points of the star our classroom put how we were going to achieve our overall goal. Once our stars were finished, the stars were hung up on the front of our room for everyone to see.

Miss Dahl's classroom has been learning a chant to help us get through the year. The chant goes like this:
Teacher: Who are you?!
Students: I am the greatest!!
Teacher: What do you want?!
Students: I want to learn!!
Teacher: What do you demand?!
Students: I demand that no one interferes with my learning including myself!!!
This chant helps us focus on our goals and that we are the CLASS OF 2024!!

Written by:  Miss Dahl, Miss Baker, and our entire 4th grade class.