I cannot even tell you how wonderful my writers are… We have been working on reading and writing quality essays. They each have a “claim”, they are supporting them and the essays are amazing! Over the past few days we have been working hard at collecting and writing the pieces to our [...]
We had a little challenge and my student rose to the occasion! They could earn points for fabulous hallway walking and when they earned their 20 points, they were rewarded. We voted as a class and the prize was a “cozy read” at the end of the day. Because we couldn’t completely [...]
We had an opportunity to present our classroom and student blogs to the Spring Lake School Board on Monday night. It was just amazing. We had students present and I had an opportunity to share the exciting things we are working on in technology! What fun we had! Great job room [...]
We have been studying the Preamble to the Constitution… I know, can you believe it? The Constitution! It has been fascinating to take each phrase in the Preamble and really talk about it.
What does it mean? What does that look like?
These kids are brilliant and amazing artists too! You can see [...]
We are in the middle of March is Reading Month and we have left Planet Earth and traveled to Planet Semloh (Holmes-backwards) for the month of March. Anyway, we have been adding time to our reading at school and at home and we are enjoying it too! We had a special visitor last [...]
We spent today checking out some highly recommended websites. The students blogged about them today, so you have to see what they reviewed and why they chose that site. Click on any of their names…
I have some websites that may be of interest to both kids and parents, so I added [...]
We are back! We have been so busy here in fourth grade! Last week we had conferences and then on Thursday and Friday of last week we had 1/2 days… In addition to that, the students were given a little more time off – Monday and Tuesday! They are back working [...]
Today is Dr. Seuss’ 105th birthday! We have started our March is Reading Month calendar and our dear friend Madison brought in some fabulous Dr. Seuss books to share with our class. I was so inspired, I just had to add a fun website that you should have your child check out if [...]
