Guest Blogger - April 18th

We've been so busy, that we've fallen behind on our Guest Blogger posts.  Check out this week's post!

Title 1 Open House

1st Grade Enrichment

Our first grade enrichment group has been hard at work reading several different versions of The Three Little Pigs.  We compared stories, then made a plan to build a house to withstand the Big Bad Wolf. We learned about engineers, then developed questions, made a plan, created a house, tested it, and improved our design. For our first design, the students chose a bag with mystery materials, then were challenged to build a house using only what was in their bags. This was a good way to learn about building materials and design.  The kids could use the materials of their choice for the second design.  Ask your child if his/her house held up against the Big Bad Wolf!

Mystery Bags - Design #1

Student Choice - Design #2

March 8th Guest Blogger

Novel Update

Please read our 4th grade guest blogger submissions for this week to keep up on our latest novel.

4th Grade Enrichment

Please read our guest blogger posts for an update on our newest novel!

4th Grade Enrichment

I had so many great guest blogger submissions this week, that I couldn't just choose one!  So this week's blog post comes from Lexi, Ashton, and Lauryn.  Nice work!

In the past few weeks we have been doing lots of exciting things! This week we did our teacher
interviews. Each of us picked a teacher and then asked then 5-6 interview questions. During that time
we also talked about body language, eye contact, and speaking clearly and slowly. After that we watched
our interview questions and graded each other. Then we wrote thank-you letters to the teacher that we
interviewed and delivered them. After our teacher interviews we continued our novel and added
Bixbyisms and added to our character portraits. We also did discussion questions for the chapters we
read and a plot summary of the characters adventures. We had so much fun! See you next week.

                          Lauren Punke

  This week in Mrs. Burbridge’s group we did so many fun things. We finished our teacher interviews and
continued our novel. In the teacher interviews we came up with questions to ask different teachers. I interviewed
Mrs. Hayen. In the interview I asked questions like, "How long have you been a teacher?" In our book we had a lot
of new and exciting things, such as how the characters had to get some wine for their teacher and then a man stole
all of their money. After the man stole their money the boys started to chase him down the street, but they didn’t
catch him because one of the boys couldn’t keep going, one of them tried to jump over a tipped garbage can and
tripped, and the last one came back for the two of them. When we worked on the teacher interviews we worked on
body language such as eye contact, speaking clearly, slowly, generated questions, and then we did self-assessment
and peer-assessment. We did write thank-you letters to the teachers we interviewed. We did(as always) student led
discussions.

Ashton

Hi, the past weeks in Mrs. Burbridge’s class we mostly focused on teacher

interviews. We all had to come up with discussion questions and then

pick a teacher we wanted to interview. I picked Mrs Wisdom as my

teacher to interview. I learned about her things I didn’t know like that she

got in a skydiving accident and hurt her back. She was ok after that

though.  We really were also focusing on our body language, eye

contact, speaking clearly, and slowly. That was actually a challenge to

keep all that together perfectly. We also had to make our discussion

questions and stay on topic. After everybody did their interviews we

rated or scored each other. We had a key that went from zero to a check

plus mark. We had to watch the video while doing that to remember

what happened. We also rated ourselves. We discovered that our

classmates thought we did better than we thought we did. When we

finished we wrote them thank you letters. We also continued reading our

book. Our story took a wild turn. They wanted to by a bottle of  wine

for their teacher. They couldn’t get in without an adult. So they asked a

random person to go in their with them and then he took their money.

Then one of the boys looked his name up and he was a famous robber

and murderer. So our class is wondering IS THAT TRUE? Well that was

our week. I hope you had as good of a week as we did.  Visit back

next week.

Sincerely,

Lexi