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The fourth graders will be working in groups to create a project that captures a specific facet of Native American life. 4A started their projects on Monday and 4B will be starting tomorrow! Continue reading

A Native American storyteller visited us from Ganondagan today! She told us many stories that teach lessons and explain the way the world works. Ask your child to share some of them with you! Continue reading

Numbers are EVERYWHERE! Our new math unit is all about numbers! Some students searched for numbers around the school. Some numbers are BIG, some numbers are small – but they all represent something! Can you figure out what the numbers in each pict… Continue reading

Mr. Kindig was in 4B yesterday and took a short video of the kids working hard on their Unit 2 pre-tests in math. Check it out! Continue reading

It was a very exciting week in Fourth Grade! Our day is busy but filled with learning. Thursday was the busiest day. We went to Music Plus and then we went to our field trip to Ganondagan. It was a lot of fun. We got to visit a Seneca longhouse an… Continue reading

We want this blog space to be as authentic as possible. Therefore, we are beginning student blogging. Each week, one student will be selected to be our student blogger. They will be responsible for taking pictures and keeping notes on what we do a… Continue reading

Tomorrow, the fourth graders will take part in a no talking contest at school. This is a school based project based on the book we are currently reading, No Talking by Andrew Clements. Below are a list of the guidelines that the students came up w… Continue reading

Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 It was another great week in Fourth Grade! Lots of learning took place in our classrooms that we would like to share with you! We liked… Building geometric figures with marshmallows Making tornados in Science … Continue reading

Here are a few more pictures of students using their bodies to represent various geometric terms! See if you can find… Parallel Lines Line Segment Right Angle Acute Angle What other terms can you identify? Continue reading

The pictures above show the students acting out different Geometry terms. Can you identify which student is acting out the ray? the line? the set of perpendicular lines? Ask your child which terms they can pick out too! Continue reading