A Week in Fourth Grade in October

     This week in religion we wrote to Father Tim Furlow who was a deacon here at the Madeleine to thank him for serving at The Madeleine. It was for Priesthood Sunday. We also memorized Hail Holy Queen because October is the month of Mary. This week we practiced our spelling words at Spelling City on our iPads. We can even practice at home here. There are fun games to practice on like unscramble the words. We all nailed the test!

By Clare

     On Wednesday Mrs. Ullman visited and  we talked about Brain Talk. Our class reviewed Buster Bams and the Myg. Soon we'll be learning about the hippocampus. I look forward to it! Mr. and Mrs. Boots came into fourth grade with an auction project for the class. First we paint our quote about reading and then we shade the paint. After that, you sprinkle salt on your paper. I wonder who will buy it? On the iPads, our class shared our thoughts about character traits of Peter and Pax from the book we are reading. There are some pretty good descriptions like brave, determined and courageous. We connected with fourth graders in Chicago! You can see it here. This week in science, the Fourth Graders made a Google Slide deck for each kind of erosion; wind, gravity, water and glacier. Weathering breaks down rocks and erosion carries it away. On Friday, we went to the science lab to test erosion. 

by Noah

Planning erosion lab

Planning erosion lab

Creating Google Slide

Creating Google Slide

Glacier erosion lab

Gravity erosion lab

Water erosion lab 

Glacier erosion lab

Wind erosion lab video

Wind erosion lab

            Conferences are coming up this week in Fourth Grade. You should get a reminder email. Please let me know if you did not get one and I can confirm your conference time. Also coming up is our Halloween party on Monday, October 31st. Be on the look out for information from our fabulous room parents!

Blessings,
Jenn