Native American Projects

We just finished up a unit in Social Studies on the Native Americans in Pennsylvania.
Students worked in groups and researched a Native American tribe in Pennsylvania. The main tribes to live in PA were the Lenape and the Susquehannock. The Erie, Seneca, and Shawnee also lived in PA. The students did a very nice job creating their informative posters. Pictured here are Maddie, Reese, and Misty with their poster on the Erie Indians.

Animal Classification

In our animal unit, we have been classifying the animal kingdom. Today in Science the students did a classification activity. They had to first classify animals as either a vertebrate or an invertebrate. Then they had to classify all the vertebrates as a mammal, bird, reptile, fish, or amphibian. They had to classify the invertebrates as arthopods, mollusks, echinoderms, or ringed worms. Pictured here are Casey and Noah.

Spelling - Week of October 6-10

This is a review week for spelling. Students should be studying the words from units 1-5. I will be sending a new list with the students today in case you no longer have the list. This week's test will be a bit different. It is a 25 point multiple choice test, and students will have to choose the correct spelling of the word from 4 different choices.

4th Grade Presents Stone Soup

Room 202 has been working on the musical Stone Soup in music class with Mrs. Nesta. Please be sure your child is practicing their lines and the songs. Students also need to be sure that they have a costume to wear for the performance. Room 202 will be performing for parents on Friday, October 10th at 2:30. Hope you can join in the fun.

Leaf Critters

On Friday, we did an art project with our kindergarten buddies in Mrs. Campbell's room. The students used leaves of various shapes and sizes to create leaf critters. They came up with some pretty creative critters.

Message in a Bottle

We played a game in Social Studies today to practice using latitude and longitude. Students were trying to rescue castaways from a ship wreck by using latitude and longitude coordinate clues that the castways sent out as a message in a bottle. Pictured here are Nick and Maddi.

Fill the Bill Science Activity

We have been learning about animal adaptations in science class. Today we did an activity called "Fill the Bill." Students had to determine which bird beak (utensil) was best fitted for each type of food. One station was nectar (a narrow vase with water) and the beaks included a strainer, an eye dropper, and chopsticks. The students determined that the eye dropper was the best beak to get the nectar. They also learned that a hummingbird has a long narrow beak like an eye dropper to get the nectar inside a flower. Other stations included getting worms out of mud, caterpillars off a log, tiny water plants and animals, and even flying insects.