Online Resource

Here is an excellent resource for practicing basic math skills. Remember, knowing your addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts proficiently is key to understanding and excelling in math.

http://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard

Dress-up Time!

We had a special guest come into our class (through the internet) and teach us about our 6th dress-ups, the adverbial clause. Can you guess who? Mr. Pudewa!
He taught us that a secrect trick to remember the 7 adverbial clause words is to just to remember www.asia: where, when, while, as, since, if, and although.
4th Graders: If you can say the 7 adverbial clause words in less than 3 seconds, you can qualify for a special prize!

Mathmatical Scientific Bread

Math and Science are every where! Even in your kitchen? YES!!!


Math: In order to bake or cook you need to know your basic math skills such as, addition, multiplication, and division facts. The fourth grade practiced their fraction and whole number addition to find the correct amount of each ingredient for our special bread. They also were learning the importance of following steps, reading through directions thoroughly, and cleaning up as they go! Girls had the neatest area, and the boys did the best job being thorough and making sure cleanup happened. Great Job!

Science: What makes bread fluffy and soft?
When making bread there are several main ingredient you need: water, butter (oil), flour, and yeast. Yeast is used when you want soft fluffy bread. Yeast is a fungi and it makes the bread rise. Without yeast you would have flat bread. In Exodus, God told the Israelites to make their bread unleavened (without yeast). Unleavened bread does not need time to rise because it does not have yeast. When the bread is cooked the yeast dies, so don’t worry you are not eating fungi when you have toast or a sandwich!
Gluten is found in the flour. Gluten is what makes the bread stretchy before it is baked. It also traps carbon dioxide in the dough, and when the dough is baked the carbon dioxide is released and it leaves behind small holes or air pockets. Next time you cut a piece of bread see if you can see the small hole!


Thank you Mrs. Kirk (Jane), for helping me make this fun video!
4th Grade – Great job taking interested, creative pictures!

PowerPoints - Animals

The Fourth Grade will be creating and presenting an animal PowerPoint presenation. The boys picked their topics today and we had fabulous time finding neat and interesting facts and starting the note taking process. They need at least 5 interested facts about their animal. The National Geographic website has some very good facts and exciting videos about animals.
Parents: Here is an interesting website from The National Geographic for KidsFindFunFactHere!

David's Topic: Anaconda


Tommy's Topic: Hammerhead Shark


Daniel's Topic:


Rodrigo's Topic: Zebra

Unique Animals

In our computer lab class we are started PowerPoint presentations on unique animals. 

Did you know these animals exist?

The Leafy Sea Dragon

The Leafy Sea Dragon Fun Facsts and More


The Musk Deer

The Sun Bear 

The Sun Bear Facts

The Pika

The Gharial

The Tapir

The Hedgehog

Hedghog Facts and More

Long Division

Our Class has been learning and practicing division
facts. We started learning long division, for example 93/4. Everyone in the class is doing well, but now we have a new challenge, dividing a three-digit number by a one-digit number. If students know (can say them quickly) the division facts this will be an easy and fun concept. Practicing the division and multiplication facts at home is very beneficial for students.

• Parents: here are a few exciting online games that will help your child with fact memorization and speed. Any feedback is appreciated - (feel free to leave a comment!)

Time Division Facts - See if you can beat your time!


 

Long Division Game

Play this division game to get some practice with long division problems. Choose level B or C for a real challenge!

Stormy Snowy Weather!!

The fourth graders wrote some creative stories, which were inspired by the exciting weather we are experiencing, with the story starter "What would you do if it snowed six feet?".

Tommy

Six Feet of Snow

I am snow plowed in my house and I cannot get out of our doors because the snow is six feet high. So First I would go into our garage get a heavy duty strong rope, and then I would climb out the window with the rope. After that I would make snow tunnels under the snow and play tap-tap-tap and tag. I would have a hardy time with my brothers, my mom, and my dad. I would go in my grandpa’s pool and hot tub for a long time. Then I would go too Crystal Mountain and went snowboarding.

                                                                                                                                                 David

Last night it snowed 6 feet. First, I made a dark fire. After getting warm by the fire, I stayed inside until the snow melted, and then I ate crisp fruit and cookies.  I got a flashlight and played games like hide and seek in the dark, and board games. I read books by the fire. After my dad got home from work, he set off a bunch of fire crackers and sparklers on the back porch in the deep tunnels we made. It was very, very fun.

                                                                  Dan

If a snow storm came that brought 6ft of snow, I would go get a lamp and go play upstairs and if I didn’t have a lamp I would get something out of the garage that could give warm light. Then I would play tag and drink apple cider. I think I would have a very fun and exciting time!

Molly Hier
    One day I woke up to a white blanket on the ground. My dad said that it was called snow. I really wanted to go play in the snow so I got all dressed in my special snow outfit. Finally I was ready; I was in a huge snow outfit I could hardly walk. But when I finally got outside I stepped off the porch, which thankfully had a roof over it. Burr! I just fell under ten feet of freezing white stuff. Was this the snow? “Yes” said my mom, do you want me to pull you in the sled? “Oh yes” I cried as my mom held out a bright red sled. So my mom heaved me out of the snow, put on her special snow shoes, so she wouldn’t  fall under, and then we went zooming across the clean fresh snow, it was very fun. I did the sled over and over and then we had steaming hot coco. After we had that nice cozy break we went back outside, found out that the pond was frozen then went ice skating on it. But after a few rounds around, I fell down and scraped my knee I had to go inside and get a band aid, and then we had more hot chocolate, and took a long nap. It was fun!  

CRYSTAL

 Last night it snowed 6 ft. of fluffy, powdery, white snow. After I finished rejoicing I heard the phone ring, it was Rose telling me that there was no school until the snow melted! I was so excited that I went and woke up Ruby by jumping on her bed. Ruby was so excited she jumped out of her extremely bouncy bed. After we made our beds we went down stairs to sit by the cozy fire and warm ourselves. Then we put are snow clothes on and went outside. When I got outside I brought my sled all the way up the elephantine hill by my grandpas yard. I took a few steps back and ran forward. At first I was going good than I bumped into the fence and flew off the sled and landed in the Stephenson’s yard. Then I got up feeling a little sore, and tried it again! But I did the same thing! Then I tried a third time, and made it all the way down the hill without crashing into the fence. Then I gave Ruby a try. It was a fun adventure!