End-of-Week Update, 10/4

What we've been up to:

This was a week of achievements! On Monday, we completed the testing of our puff mobiles and chose our puffers.  Then, the big day came!  Thursday, October 3^rd – Team 20 became puff mobile champions!  We had a huge success – our class had the best overall puff mobile!  The winning team was “The Yellow Hornets.”  Great design work and teamwork from Will, Chase, Natalia, Jack, and Justin (who was also the puffer in the winning race!!)  Congratulations to all!  See some pictures from the mammoth race below. 

 

We continued taking timed multiplication fact quizzes and we’re hoping to improve each time we take one.  In math, we also learned about factors and multiples.  Ask us about skip counting for multiples!  J  Dory also recommended some really neat divisibility tricks that help us figure out a number’s factors and if the number is prime or composite.  We’ll be doing more work with that next week. 

 

We had a big weather test on Monday and showed all we knew about weather.  Now we’re starting social studies – the regions of the USA!  We’re going to take a “road trip” in cars with our teams.  They are actually characters from the movie “CARS” (Mater, Doc, Luigi, Fillmore, and Ramone). 

 

This week in writing we finished up our drafts and then we also had a publishing party, which was very fun, and we got to share our writing with the whole class and we had a dance party beforehand too!  Check out these pictures from our writing party below.

 

 

 

 

 

We read a VERY interesting chapter in The Sisters Grimm.  It revealed many secrets that may change the whole story!  The ending was a cliffhanger!  We can’t wait to read Chapter 4 next week.  In science this week, we made terrariums with Miss Farrell’s class.  We are starting to recognize some of the steps of the water cycle right in our terrarium jars!  Thursday night was Open House.  Parents and siblings got to come in and see what we’re writing and what we did for published stories.  Also, they saw our puff mobiles, our terrariums, and all our work around the room.  We have finally earned enough points from our specials to vote on a class prize!  We’ll vote next week.

On Friday, Mrs. Hess came in and announced that Maggie’s artwork had been selected for the art show at the high school.  Only 7 JFK artists were chosen!  We are so proud of Maggie!  Stay tuned for a photo of Maggie with Dory.  In chorus on Thursday, BOTH celebrity singers were from our class!  Congratulations to Andrew and Gretchen!  Some students even were brave enough to sing solos in front of the whole 4^th grade!  Way to go!

 

 

We had a very busy and fun week!  Enjoy the weekend, ladies and gentlemen! 

What's coming up / reminders from Mrs. Adams:

• Many families have already signed up for December conferences using SignUp Genius!  If you have not received the email invitation to sign up, please let me know and I can re-send it to you.  If there are no remaining conference times that work with your family's schedule, let me know and we can work out something that works for all of us!
• Keep up the good work with the multiplication fact practice at home!  Many students are beating their personal bests and improving over time.  Keep it up!

Have a wonderful weekend!