Animal Videos!

Here are the Animal videos from our 4th grade collaboration! Hope you enjoy them!

Collaborative 4th Grade Kindergarten Animal Project Conclusion!

Yesterday the kindergartners and 4th graders gathered in the cafeteria to celebrate the conclusion of our Animal Project. Each student had their "Party in the Bag" snack and ate with their partner. Then we watched the Animal Videos of each partner group! The students did a great job and the video is evidence that the students understood the science standards for Living vs Non-living things. Thank you 4th graders for your help with this project. The kindergartens learned a lot from you. I am hoping to get a copy of the videos that I will try to post on the blog for you to see! Stay tuned! 

We are looking forward to our next collaboration- Reading Gingerbread stories and our Innovation Gingerbread Day! 

Ben, Matty & Victor

Sumaya & Sofie

Zoe & Ava

Garrett & Brooke

Gabby & Shea

Taylor & Emily

Amani, Arushi & AJ

Hannah & Nikki

Jackson & Joshua

Colin & Sebastian

Pranila & Ashlee

Matthew & Frankie

Dominic & Joe

Connor & Christopher

Coming Soon- Narrative Writing

After the Thanksgiving break we will begin our Non-fiction writing on personal narratives. We have sent home a couple reminders asking parents to send in a few pictures of their holiday. Last year we found it was easier for our students to use photographs from their Thanksgiving day to write a story or personal narrative about their day. Please send in or email the pictures so we can use them to help aid with creating the narrative by Saturday, November 26th. Please see the example below of my personal narrative from last year. Thank you for your help with this project.

Learning about New Technology

Mr. Donoff, Pine Glen's Technology Specialist has been down to our classroom a couple times the past week. Last Friday Mr. Donoff introduced the class to coding. Mr. Donoff will start visiting our classroom weekly to code with us in small groups. Today Mr. Donoff came down to help introduce the students to an online resource to help with reading- Raz Kids. I will be sharing log in information with parents during our conferences. The students appeared to enjoy using this program, reading and earning stars to then be able to design their own rocket or robot. 

Our Class Persuaded Ms. Pavlicek!

We combined our Non-Fiction persuasive writing with our science unit on Caring for Pets and we learned what animals need to live and how to care for them. We then voted on what animal we should write about to convince Ms. Pavlicek that we were ready to take care of one of the science center animals. 9 students in our class wanted Olive the Rabbit to come visit our room. We learned that when you write a persuasive letter you need to have a catchy opening to grab your readers attention. Then the writing needs to tell the reader what you want, give reasons why the reader should agree and the writing should have a strong ending- Be Bossy! Ms. Pavlicek was impressed by our writing and she brought Olive to our classroom for a few weeks to visit. The students are doing a great job taking care of Olive. They all appear to LOVE her and she is getting a lot of attention, at times too much attention.

Kindergarten Feast

Today we celebrated Thanksgiving early with all our kindergarten friends. We all sang together then we sat with new kindergarten friends from rooms 102 & 103. We had a great time! The first video shows Room 101 singing I'm A Little Turkey, Albuquerque Turkey and Timothy Turkey. The second video is of the the students singing Thanks A Lot. We hope you enjoy them!