You must check out our student blogs! The kids added their book talks and you can watch them! They worked hard and did a great job. It was so exciting to watch the students read, discuss, plan, and record. Go ahead and click on any student blog (scroll down and to [...]
We finished our Junior Achievement lessons today and we wanted to shout out a big THANK YOU to Mrs. Ashcraft for all her time and hard work. She was a wonderful JA mentor to us and the kids learned so much. We learned about the different aspects of the business world; production, marketing [...]
Our book fair is underway here at Holmes Elementary and we were asked to write and record some book talks to help sell the books and get kids excited about reading. I have to say that these students really impressed Mrs. Mikesell, our wonderful librarian and myself. We will be posting all of [...]
WOW! What a week we had. We just have to share some photos of our trip to Lansing on Wednesday. We had an opportunity to see all three branches of government while we were there. Our students were SO well behaved and we had some wonderful chaperones too. A big [...]
So sorry it has taken me a couple of days to get our pictures up from our visit with Senator Wayne Kuipers. We have been busy, busy, busy here in fourth grade. It has been a week of learning about our State Government. Senator Kuipers came to visit on Monday. The [...]
We went on a special trip today to the Grand Haven Circuit Court. In Social Studies we are studying how Michigan’s Government is set up and the different, yet important parts there are to make our government work. One of those areas of the Government is the Judicial Branch. We had an [...]
We built pens today… yes, pens! What a great “experiment”. We had one group putting pens together with each person making their own pens for two minutes and then counted how many pens they made. After that, the second group set up an assembly line for pen making and it went so [...]
I just HAVE to do it… These students are AMAZING! They wrote some really incredible personal narratives and we just had to share. Check out their student blogs and listen closely. These kids can write! Enjoy!
My wonderfully, incredible, talented fourth graders finished their personal narratives and it was time to CELEBRATE! Each group got together, shared their “cover”, read their personal narrative, and received some really great compliments from their classmates. You will have to check out our student blogs this Friday. We will be adding our [...]
Mrs. Ashcraft came and visited us yesterday. She will be sharing some really important information with us through curriculum written by Junior Achievement. She has a wealth of knowledge to share and has been working with Junior Achievement for many years. Yesterday, the kids had an opportunity to talk about businesses and [...]
