You Said What?

          We were testing objects to see what types of sounds they create and why.  We got a little tickled with the balloons!

A Slinky, A Slinky

          In science, we have been studying how sound is created.  Ask your child about why we used a slinky model in class!

Kid Friendly Career Survey

          Visit the link below to take a survey for careers- click on the highlighted words that say "Paws in Jobland".  This is a kid-friendly site that will help narrow down the career domain each student likes the best by anwering some easy questions! 

          Students will be given recording sheets to record their information and explore jobs with their favorite career domain in the computer lab this week.  What do you want to be when you grow up?


http://www.schcounselor.com/2010/03/fun-and-interactive-career-interest.html

"Nominations" and "Flip the Sign"

 

          A couple of years ago, I was following a teacher's blog and he had a morning routine of morning nominations and "flipping the sign".  We sing this to the "Celebrate Good Times" song.  Nominations is where you can nominate a person for something kind they have done for someone else and or just a random act of kindness someone has seen them do, like helping someone find something or picking up things they dropped.  We also "flip the sign" and our sign has our class motto on it and we want to start the day off with the right focus and with the "end in mind".

Our Class Song!

        Here is a video of just the students singing our class song!  They sound so good and make me so proud!  (We changed the words to match our motto and what we want to accomplish this year in fourth grade and it is sung to Katy Perry's song "Roar".)

Sound = Vibrations

          We did an exploratory experiment today, where students had to use a ruler to observe and listen to what happened as they made it vibrate against the desk.

Arrays

          We created arrays today using beans in honor of the opera we are watching on Thursday, "Jack and the Beanstalk".  We discussed how repeated addition and arrays are ways to model multiplication in different ways.