(Top Row) The Chinese New Year Celebration!; (Bottom): the students explore magnets!
Ni Hao from the CotiSweets classroom! I hope that you are all able to access this blog by now so that you can hear about (and see) what's going on in our classroom! I want to especially thank Sheri Carline (James' mom) for emailing everyone about the blog--I really appreciate it!
This week has been very eventful for our fourth graders. Over the weekend some of our classmates competed (and came in FIRST place!) in an important cheerleading competition. Way to go-we're so proud! In other athletic news, our basketball players got to meet the famous Kareem Abdul-Jabbar this week! Many got his autograph and they all got a sneak peak of his upcoming movie.
On Monday we were all very excited to celebrate Valentine's Day as well as Charlotte's birthday--we all sure had a lot of sugar! Appropriately, that day we also began reading our new Reading Workshop book, "The Valentine That Ate My Teacher."
On Tuesday, we (belatedly) celebrated the Chinese New Year! Ms. Coti and I were so proud to see so many of our students participate. Everyone did a great job with the 4th grade song, Cheyenne and Shalom danced the fan dance, and Jerus and Emry played the drums for many of the performances!
In Science with Ms. Coti, we've started a new unit on electromagnetism and did a fun activity where we explored what types of objects stick to magnets and how magnets behave in various situations. Everyone came up with great hypotheses, observations, and conclusions!
In Social Studies, we have started a unit on colonies and have so far explored the Spanish colonists and will continue on (in the next week) to explore the British colonies in Jamestown and Plymouth.
Pat your child on the back!! On Thursday our class participated in the National Assessment of Educational Progress-a standardized test given to fourth graders across the country to see how they compare with one another. Our class did an excellent job following directions and not getting too antsy after sitting still for an hour and a half straight!!
Well that's it for now, have a great long weekend!!
Ms. Goldy
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