What Is An Atom?

Fourth Grade Electricity Masters!

Our class has started to work on studying Electricity this week in Science. With that, we learned all about atoms. The students were introduced to the vocabulary words, provided opportunities to explore the idea of atoms in our world, and then we watched a STUDY JAM video about ELECTRICITY. While watching the video for the second time we started to take notes- where I then explained the ideas further.

Finally, the students used their notes to create ATOM drawings. See below.

What Is Magnetic?!

We have been studying Magnetism and Electricity for the past two weeks or so. They've had all of their introduction notes and vocabulary thus far and have also completed two labs. One of our labs was prediciting what contents they thought would be magnetic in their bags they were given (full of aluminum foil, string, cotton, rubber bands, nails, screws, etc.). Then they were to use a donut magnet and test their predictions out. Afterwards they were to explore items around the room and predict what items they thought would be magnetic and then TEST their predicitions out.

Their job the next day was to create a visual representation to show what they knew was MAGNETIC and what they knew was NOT magnetic. They also had to include a definition and some additional details as they knew them.

Reading Goals: Reach For The Stars!!

REACH FOR THE STARS!

I have started my school year for 2012-2013. I am now teaching fourth grade at our year round school. Last year I taught fifth so there will be different projects and assignments to share this year!

We started Reading this year looking at individualized Reading goals. We created these hands with our reading goals printed on them and our names. Then the students were able to decorate them as well. The theme "REACH FOR THE STARS".

EOG Testing Treats

I found many of these printables on various websites (teachers pay teachers, etc.) and had some parents help me out in making these GREAT treats for my students throughout EOG week.  I gave them one treat per day and they really looked forward to seeing what they were going to get each morning before testing began.

Thank GOD for fantastic parents and friends.

Day one I had the parents write an encouraging letter to their son/daughter and provided them with a treat.

You're WRITE on track, GOOD LUCK on your EOGs. Contents: pencil, eraser, and highlighter.

You're One Smart Cookie with two Kashi cookies inside and then INSPIRATION water (label found online).

A Good Student Always CHEX Their Work with chex mix inside baggies.

You were MINT to succeed with small starlight mints inside.

Color Poems

We had been working on poetry a lot in the spring and had gotten to the point of creating a poem/project centered around the idea of a COLOR Poem. Students picked a color that they wanted to focus on and then created a poem that incorporated all things that colored. From there they were to choose one item from their color poem to create a visual representation for it and paste their poem on the poster.

See items below for details.

Movie Theater (color was yellow) focus was yellow popcorn at the movies.

Jeter Jersey. Color was Blue and focus was on the NY Yankees.

Party In My Mouth. Color was Orange and focus was on the bright summery colors at a party.

Ice cream.

Tree. Color was green, focus was on the ecosystems in our world and how to keep our Earth alive.

Glasses. Color was clear and the focus was on seeing things clearly through clear eyes and clear mind.