Earth Changes - Weathering and Erosion

Play the Shape it Up game! Find out about earthquakes. Build your own volcano!

Tricky Tray Family Game Night Basket

TRICKY TRAY DONATIONS for our FAMILY GAME NIGHT BASKET
Donations will be accepted until Friday, April 8
Thanks to everyone that donated!

As of Friday, March 25th, we have the following items for our basket:
A frisbie
Pictureka!
Chess/Checkers/Tic-Tac-Toe
Magic 8 Ball
Jigsaw Puzzle w/puzzle carrier
Hands Down
Mancala
Trouble
Dominoes
Magikus Lego game
Checkers
Bowling set
Card games: Old Maid, Crazy 8's, Matching
popcorn w cheddar seasoning
popcorn on the cob
popcorn container

Items made in New Jersey

Students earned extra credit points for bringing in an item made here in New Jersey!

Look in your cabinets and refrigerator - you will be surprised at all the Made in New Jersey products!

Lou Gehrig tribute

Click the link below to watch Lou Gehrig's speech at Yankee Stadium.

Lou Gehrig tribute

Rock and Roll

Our World: The Rock Cycle

More educational games & videos on Types of Rocks at NeoK12.com

Rocks

More science games & videos on Types of Rocks at NeoK12.com

Label the rock cycle: http://www.neok12.com/diagram/Types-of-Rocks-01.htm

Rock jigsaw puzzle: http://www.neok12.com/jigsaw-puzzles/Types-of-Rocks.htm

Hangman: http://www.quia.com/hm/81745.html

Measuring Angles

Play some games to practice measuring angles:

http://www.mathplayground.com/measuringangles.html

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/protractor.html

St Jude Math-a-Thon and Tricky Tray

The St. Jude Math a Thon is underway! A big thanks to our 4th graders for visiting the K-5 classrooms to discuss why donating to St. Jude's is so important. We have about 1/2 of our permissions slips back, but hoping for participation from all the students in our class. Donations are due on Friday, March 11th. Tricky Tray - this year, our class is creating a 'Family Game Night' basket. I have donated a "checkers" set and a 3 pack of "Old Maid", "Hearts" and "Crazy 8's". So far, that's all we have. Hoping to receive some more donations to fill our basket. Examples are board games, card games, outdoor sports, etc. Thanks Mrs. Hayes (Ben's mom) for taking care of coordinating our basket this year. All donations are due by Thursday, March 31st.

Canal Extra Credit Projects

We had 5 Canal Projects turned in last week. Here they are for your enjoyment!

Canal extra credit project

EXTRA CREDIT PROJECT
Due Friday, February 25th
You have watched videos and read about canals in New Jersey and around the world. Now it’s time for you to create your own canal. Are you up for the challenge?

Use your book and watch the videos from our blog site to review how canals work. Be creative – use any materials you want to create your canal – twigs, clay, play dough, building blocks, legos, etc. If you don’t want to make a 3D model, you can also make a drawing of how a canal works. Your family can help you, but the majority of the work should be done by you.

For your project, you should include at least:

One lower level
One upper level
A lock
A boat

Your project doesn’t need to use water to show how it works, but it should show how a lock works in a canal.

The number of points you can earn will depend on how well you are able to demonstrate how a canal works. You can earn up to 10 extra credit points. Remember – family members can help, but the MAJORITY of the work needs to be done by you.

Your project should be handed in by Friday, February 25th. We will have a class demonstration for anyone that brings in a canal.

Erie Canal

Easton, PA- Josiah White II Canal Boat Ride

Hurricanes and Tornadoes

Spelling Bee Winners

Our second place winner is Zachary!
Our first place spelling bee winner is Nicolette!

Congratulations!

Because of Winn Dixie

Write your own "Ten Things I Know About..." a favorite character, a family member, or friend, and print it out!

Weather Activities

Snow Day

Due to the snow day on Friday, your spelling and grammar tests will be moved to Monday.

Be prepared to take your tests after you finish writing your journal writing about the weekend.

Enjoy the snowy weekend and I'll see you Monday!

A new year...

for our troops

XEROX IS DOING SOMETHING REALLY NICE

If you go to this website, http://www.LetsSayThanks.com you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq. You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to a member of the armed services.

How AMAZING it would be if we could get everyone we know to send one!!! It's FREE and it only takes a second.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if the soldiers received a bunch of these? This takes just 10 seconds and it's a wonderful way to say thank you. Please take the time to pass it on for others to do. We can never say enough thank you's!

mitten sewing

I'm so proud of the wonderful job the students did sewing their big mittens today! The kids were able to sew on two buttons and they learned the whip stitch. Most students had time to learn how to thread a needle today as well.
A huge thanks to Dylan and Nicolette's grandmom, Eliza's mom, Ben's mom, and Thomas's mom for coming in and assisting the students. Thanks to all the 'at home' helpers and those of you that sent in supplies. Check out these mittens!

December 13-17

This week we have many exciting events in fourth grade.

Wednesday is the holiday concert - the students have been practicing their songs and are ready to perform! Students should arrive to school at 5:30 (no earlier), and come to the fourth grade classroom. Students should be dressed nicely and may wear Santa or Elf hats. The concert starts at 6pm. On Thursday, the students will be sewing a big holiday mitten in class. This has been a fourth grade tradition for 10 years now! Students will get to sew on a button and learn the whip stitch. The students will each bring 17 little items (due Friday) that I will 'stuff' into their mittens and they will bring home a mitten-full of little trinkets on Thursday, Dec. 23.

Tests this week:
Wednesday - Science test-Chapter 4 Ecosystems
Thursday - Reading test -"Komodo Dragons"
Friday - Spelling, Grammar&Social Studies Test-Chapter 4 Colonists
December "Animal" book review&project due Wed., 12/22

Ecosystems...

Click on the logo to visit eekoworld!

Traditional Native American Games

We have been playing some traditional Native American games online. You can play these at home by visiting the following website:

http://nativetech.org/games/index.php