Our class Enrichment Group has been working on a paleontology project over the last few weeks. We researched a famous archeologist or paleontologist and recreated fossils they found using clay and plaster. We are excited to share that we have completed our projects and they are ready to share. We hope you enjoy them! J.’s […]
Category: Social Studies
Field Trip
We have been studying Texas History all year so it was a perfect fit for us to go to the Witte Museum for our field trip this year. We watched a play, viewed historic artifacts, browsed an art gallery, and went through an interactive exhibit where we were able to load up a burro, pump […]
Field Trip Witte Museum
Today we went on a class field trip to the Witte Museum. We heard a play about a girl and she taught us all about the Longhorns. Longhorns are very strong and they look chubby but they are actually very lean. We saw displays in the window that has saddles, old spurs, weapons, and drums. […]
4th Grade Living Museum
Our 4th grade students were able to put on a Living Museum for parents, faculty, and guests last night. A Living Museum is a museum where students pretend to be statues of historical figures. When a guest comes up to the statue and presses their button the statue comes to life and begins to tell […]
Tuesday Time
Today in math we learned to estimate hours, miles, and days and minutes. We read a book about striking it rich. We practiced famous Texan paragraphs for our living museum on Thursday. Finally, we had station in science called water droplet journey where we had to move around the room every time we rolled a […]
Voting
We just had a presidential election in the USA. At our school we voted too even though our votes didn’t actually count for the real election. It was a mock election. We voted in voting booths on our iPads. It was cool. After our school tallied the votes, we saw that Barack Obama won our […]
Agricultural Fair Field Trip
Today our class took a field trip to the Agricultural fair. High school students told us about animals, farming, and hunting. It was fun to watch. We were excited to see everything and we even got to touch animals. One of the stations had homing pigeons and when they let them go they fly back […]
After A Holiday
In reading we read two poems by Langston Hughes about dreams and what you need to do to keep your dreams from being crushed. Mrs. McMorris let us start to read a chapter book about knights and castles. We were all calling each other Sir and Lady because thats what they would call us if we […]
September 26, 2012
This morning was good. kids were working on 6 times and did very well. this afternoon was good too. kids were working on experience and science and making books about how to achieve 7 habits for ms Gonzales. By Michael Today what we did in math is ORGANIZING AND DISPLAYING DATA .We were showing […]
Second Day of School
Today we set up are journals rotated with Mrs Gonzales and Mrs McMorris. We made caracatures and did power writing. We played in a virtual city called epic citadel. It was cool. by ERIK