Practice with suffixes

This week the students were learning about new suffixes. They worked together in partners to create new words from a list of suffixes and base words. They had a lot of fun!

Seussical the mini musical! - Kolton's Blog Post

Here are some photos from this week's performance. We worked hard on the song's that we peformed at the concert.  We practiced for a long time to get the words to Magellan's pool.

Individuals that made a difference!

Yesterday, the students began their studies on their chosen individual who has made a difference in our world. They were so excited to start their research and learning more about their person's life! They will take their research and write a biography about their individual in the next couple weeks!

Wind in the STEM lab - Leah's Post

In the STEM lab we are learning about how wind changes the earths crust. In this picture, we are blowing through straws and trying different forces of wind on different types of earth coverings. We had to predict what would happen to the coverings which were sand and beans and rice.

GEMS Shadow Puppets - Leah's Post

On Friday our class went to see the 3rd and 4th grades shadow puppet shows. Each puppet show had a theme. One theme was life cycle, another was famous Vermonters, another was the five senses, another was my family vacation to Vermont and practice makes perfect. It was very FUN!

Jane Goodall by Mattie Lewis

 

This week we learned about Jane Goodall. We learned that she helped the chimpanzees and that she made a difference in our world. She studied them to see how they are alike to humans. We learned that she taught humans how to plant fast growing trees so they would not cut down the chimp's trees. Jane Goodall said, "Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference. And we have a choice: What sort of difference do we want to make?"

Community Workers - Q's Blog Post

Our class did a project and we learned about community helpers and mine was a judge.  A judge provides a service. I gave him a gavel!