End of Trimester 2

It's hard to believe that this is already the last week of the second trimester! In writing, the students have just finished typing their final drafts of their persuasive essays. Next, they will be working on a research paper about immigration. This paper will align nicely with our next social studies unit on immigration. This is the final week for science before we switch back to social studies. The students will have a final test on oceans this Thursday.

In reading, the kids are working on making predictions and adding new vocabulary words to word collectors. In math, they are continuing to study fractions. This is the last week of the year for music. Our class will move on to tech ed for their last allied arts rotation.

We are all getting excited to have the author Linda Sue Park visit our school tomorrow. We read her book "A Long Walk to Water" in class. Students had the opportunity to order one of her new books, "Wing and Claw", and to have her sign it at tomorrow's presentation.

Conferences are next week Thursday and Friday. The students do not have school on Friday.

We also have our Milwaukee County Zoo field trip coming up on March 16.

More Discovery World

Discovery World

The fourth grade took a field trip to Discovery World two weeks ago. They got to explore the interactive museum with a small group and a chaperone. After that, we had lunch and watched a movie about animal adaptations. It was a great day!

Science Experiments

The kids are excited about our switch to science from social studies. The new unit is all about oceans. They learned about salinity and density this week in class. We did two separate experiments together. One of the experiments was testing if an egg would sink or float in fresh water and/or in salt water. The other experiment was to figure out how to layer colored liquids by changing the amount of salt in different cups to alter the density of the water. The kids used the scientific method to conduct both experiments.

Measurement Olympics

To celebrate the end of our measurement unit in math, the students participated in the Measurement Olympics! They rotated between four events; the discuss toss, high jump, long jump and (modified) javelin throw. They each measured their distances in centimeters. We held an awards ceremony at the end to celebrate our winners. The students really seemed to enjoy it! The test for this unit will be on Tuesday, February 9th, so study those metric and customary units at home!