4th graders are designing posters about their states. This week, many typed and printed facts, pictures, and maps to attach to the posters. The students are building computer skills as they learn to change colors, fonts, cut and paste images, and even create QR codes!
Much of the time is spent researching in books we brought up from the library. They also perused the internet to find engaging videos and websites they’d like to feature in their QR codes. The posters will be completed next week.
In addition, students continue to learn types of topic sentences and practice organizing and writing paragraphs. This week, they worked on a paragraph about an interesting place to visit in their state. These will be featured on their posters as well.
State snacks are coming in daily. This week John shared Swedish Fish for the Swedes who settled Minnesota, and Rosalie brought Mississippi Mud Cake. Jack taught us that Jell-o is a popular treat in his state of Utah, and Liza brought homemade apple crumble with ice cream for Washington. Caleb shared a yummy cucumber dip from Kansas, and Sally brought in New York bagels.
Mara shared popcorn from her state of Indiana, Kate made a peach cake for Georgia, and Nora made Mackinac fudge from Michigan. We also enjoyed Jackson’s sweet potato biscuits from Alabama and Amelia’s homemade Jolly Ranchers from Colorado.
To review for our quiz on The West, we played games of Around the World and competed in a Kahoot.
The classes enjoyed another chapter in Three Times Lucky, and we worked to sort their spelling-vocabulary words by part of speech.
This book has a lot of characters to keep up with, so this week we also discussed character traits again – personality and physical. The students worked together to identify traits of the main characters. Then they wrote them on color-coded Post-its, and put them on posters for each character.
Today we enjoyed the first of the 4th grade plays performed by Mr. Champion’s class. It was so entertaining! Our class is up next in January, so we will begin working on it next week.
Today we also hosted more prospective students. Thank you to John and Campbell for including their guests and helping them have a great morning.
In Morning Meeting, students shared about what they’d like to have zero of, little -known facts about themselves, and more. They played games of Hidden Clip, Elevens, and Poisonous Dart Frog.
Miss Earhart's Class 
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