"At recess, I played soccer and keep-away." -Erin

"We got partners and we read an article about farmers' markets and how we should support them. Tomorrow we're going to write a paragraph about it." -Haylie

"We took an SRI test." -Ethan

"In reading, we read about the Pawnee." -Cameron

"We had math rotations. In Mrs. Gil's room we did dividing numbers with remainders with area." -Tayah

"We had a Lockdown drill." -Logan

"At recess, we played jump rope and we pretended that Ethan was the jump rope, so that's his new nickname!" -Caydence

"Me and Ashton had the lockdown in Mrs. Ferris's room." -Caelen

"In math rotations, we learned how to say a remainder of a division problem as a fraction." -Cole

Homework:

Read 30 minutes, fill out log, get signature

Work on HW packet

WOD: amazement - great surprise

"Today in music, when we were practicing our G scale, we showed Mrs. R and she said we aced it for next week's quiz." -Tristin

"In math, we were doing division word problems with remainders and learning strategies to do them with. One of them is a number bond, another one is tape diagrams, and the last one is an array." -Erin

"In reading, we read about a kid going to a museum." -Brandon

"In writing, we were power writing about two kids who were good problem solvers and how they worked together and got the problems done and it was way longer than the ones that we used to do!" -Liz

"At recess, me, Liz and Savannah went to Mr. Hick's room and Liz and Savannah kept picking up the crawdads and Mr. Hicks kept calling me a scaredy-cat for not picking them up." Caydence

"At recess, I got chased by my arch enemy!" -Savahna

"In music, we did a competition to see who could do that G scale fastest, and I won and got 1,000 team points!" -Lila

"Today I got a recorder and it's purplish-pink and I am terrible at playing it!" -Keilani

Homework:

Read 30 minutes, write summary, get signature

Work on HW packet

WOD: mysterious - full of mystery

"In Mrs. Markum's room we put our lungs, trachea, and our bronchi and our diaphragm on our bodies." -Caelen

"At recess we had to use a basketball for four square and it was really flat so it was hard to play, but then Keilani lent us her ball." - Savahna

"In math, we had groups and we went around the room doing story problems that were on the walls and the tables. My group was Roman, Lila, Cole, and Eli." -Liz

"At first recess, me, Tristin, and Alek went to Mr. Hick's room." -Caydence

"I went to Mrs. Frase's room and we did this story thing where you copy a story off of a book and write your own version of the story and mine was super-duper long!" -Analese

"When we were in line to leave Mrs. Markum's, Tristin fell into the coat rack!" -Katie

"In science rotations, we watched a video of pig lungs and they put 60 cigarettes in one of them and then left the other one clean. The one that had cigarettes was black inside." -Haylie

"When I went to Mr. Hick's class, he said me, Caydence, and Alek, he'll pick one of us when we're in 5th grade and dump us in the garbage can!" -Tristin

"Mrs. Markum said that we could color our body parts any color we want and I colored mine rainbow and it looked really realistic." -Erin

"In science we watched a video with human lungs. One was black because that person was smoking a lot, the other was healthy. They pumped air into them and the healthy one was pumping really but the black one was not pumping as well as the healthy one because it was black all over." -Ethan

Homework:

Read 30 min, fill out log, get signatures

HW packet due tomorrow

Spelling & WOD tests tomorrow

WOD: emerge - to become visible

WOD: sanctuary - a place where something is safe

"Today for science rotations we went to Mrs. Markum's and we learned about the respiratory system and we made a lung model." -Katie

"We didn't get to go outside for first recess because it was too cold, and at second recess, it was really cold outside!" -Erin

"At recess, I played on the yellow bars outside. They were freezing!" -Caydence

"I'm writing a story about four super heroes." -Analese

"Today at recess, we were playing four square and the sun was glaring only at the king's square so almost all the kings got out really fast because they couldn't see the ball!" -Liz

"Today we shared our high/lows for the four day weekend, but mostly everybody said they did nothing!" -Savahna

Homework:

Read 30 minutes, write summary, get signature

Work on HW packet

WOD: habitat - the place where an animal lives

WOD: descendants - people in your family who come after you

Today we had an assembly explaining the reason for Veteran's Day. We were also honored to have many veterans as special guests. Many thanks to Mrs. Hayett who put on such a wonderful assembly!

Cole's Boy Scout troop was the color guard!

4th grade students singing the Navy's anthem. 

Our honored guests!

Happy birthday, Savahna! Thanks for sharing your delicious cupcakes with us!

"Today we celebrated my birthday!" -Savahna

"Today we reviewed Power Writing." -Eli

"Today Savahna chose me to help her pass out her cupcakes!" -Caydence

"I switched a vanilla cupcake for a chocolate cupcake and it was really good!" -Haylie

"At recess, me, Caydence, Nicole, Haylie, GG, and Charlotte practiced basketball." -Liz

"We switched seats!" -Ashton

"At recess, I did flips on the yellow bar." -Erin

"We didn't get to do science today. Wahhhhh!" -Lila

"Savahna also chose me to help her pass out cupcakes." -Caelen

"Savahna brought cupcakes!" -Eden

"When we ate cupcakes, I took the frosting off of mine and I got this fox ring and it says 'fall'." -Analese

Homework
Work on HW packet

Read 30 minutes, write summary, get signature

WOD: designed - created

"Today at recess, I played tag with a couple of friends." -Tristin

"In science rotations we learned that if you smoke your lungs will get clogged. And Eden told us that vanilla flavoring has a drug in it." -Caelen

"Today we had math rotations and I was in Mrs. Gil's class and I got better at the multiplication standard algorithm." -Erin

"In math rotations today, I got Mrs. Thompson and we learned how to do three digit by two digit multiplication." -Lila

"In science rotations, I learned about carbon dioxide and how it goes out your lungs." -Logan

"Today at recess, I beat my goal for doing flips on the yellow bars!" -Caydence

"In PE, we played a marble volleyball game and Miss Sandy would toss us the ball and whoever bumped it and got it over the net would get a marble or two and at the end, whoever got the most, won." -Brandon

"Today at recess, I told Mrs. Duffey that my neighbor is Adam Morrison's dad and his mom." -Analese

"At recess, I played Red Rover with Caydence, Cadence, Katie, and Charlotte." -Savannah

"In PE, my group won with 22 marbles and for our prize we got to choose from a variety of pencils but all of the pencils had animals on them." -Liz

"When we got to school, we saw place value charts on the floor." -Kameren

"With the place value charts, we did rotation problems and we used the charts on the floor and when we regrouped, we just took some counters off." -Savahna

"I had math rotations today and when I came back, I saw all these little circle things and what Kameren J. and Savahna said, that's what I saw on the floor." -Keilani

Homework:

Work on HW packet

Read 30 minutes, write summary, get signature

WOD: achieved - reached your goal

"In music, we learned our song that we're going to sing at the Veteran's Day Assembly." -Erin

"We are learning about the respiratory system with Mrs. Thompson." -Cole

"We finally actually got to see Mrs. Byrd!" -Caydence

"In music, me, Ethan, Tayah, and Haylie won  a prize of either separating into a different team or staying and we picked staying." -Liz

"At Mrs. Thompson's class, we learned about the lungs and how you breathe out your nose." -Caelen

"Today we went to music and we got to pick new teams and I was on the blue team surrounded by boys again! Cameron R. and Ashton." -Keilani

"In music, I got on the purple team with Analese, Josh, and Kayla." -Lila

"At music, I was team captain!" -Analese

"At recess, I did Mad Libs with my friend, Addison." -Savahna

Homework:

Work on HW packet

Read 30 min, fill out log, get signature

WOD: challenges - things that stand in the way of achieving goals