Hats Off to a New Year!

Fourth Graders at Cantiague Elementary have been busy learning and having fun! From a special author visit, to playing volleyball in gym, we have been experiencing many new things.


Wind speeds up evaporation!




Learning about weather in the Science Lab




Author Visit

By: Ethan and Anjali, Louisa and Jack

On 12/14/12, at 1:00, Nancy Krulik came to the Cantiague library to meet Mrs. Moses' class. She wanted to meet the 4th graders and she  even helped us revise our stories in a much more interesting way. It was amazing how we added voice to our writing! Then we did readers theaters. We dressed up as the characters from her book that she read to us (Katie Kazoo)  and we did a play. It was fantastic!  We hope Nancy Krulik will come back and visit Cantiague again.

 

Katie Kazoo Reader's Theater




Meet Nancy Krulik



Nancy gives us writing tips!

    

Weather

By Danny, Austin, Naima, Gabe and Emma

In the science lab, we learned about weather. We go to the science lab every Thursday at 9:25. Mrs. Oddo teaches us there. Most of the time Mrs. Moses teaches us science in class. We learned about the types clouds. In the science room we did an experiment and it was about steam and how water turns into a gas. This is called evaporation. We love the experiments we do with Mrs.Oddo! There are many different types of weather like rain, sleet, snow, hail and storms. We can learn more by going on the internet, watching the weather forecast and listening t0 the radio. There are other ways like reading a newspaper or reading a book too. It's really important to learn about weather because it can help you get ready for a storm. This is what we learned in science and it's really fun!

                                          

It is believed that dream catchers can stop bad dreams.

Native Americans

By Harry and Carly

In social studies we learned about the Algonquins and the Iroquois. The Algonquins and Iroquois are tribes of native americans. They migrated here along time ago, even before Christopher Columbus came here! Both tribes were from the eastern woodlands. Also, they had to make their own homes out of their enviroment. The Algonquins made wigwams. They were made of bark and sapplings. The Iroquois lived in a Longhouse. A Longhouse fit an entire clan, which is an extended family. They made it out of  sapplings and bark. They both used animals for shelter, meat, clothes, tools and weapons. They had to use the resources around them for everything they did. They did not have stores like we have today.  

Heat speeds up evaporation.

                      Math Jeopardy is a fun way to practice division!

 

Math Crazy

 By Drew and Kathryn

The whole class is learning math. Mr. P, Mrs. Moses and Mrs. Park-Wong are helping us. We are learning multiplication and division. In division we are starting long division. In multiplication we are multiplying bigger numbers. We started division in the middle of December. We started multiplication in the beginning of November. " I like division," said Drew. We are learning this in school. We are also doing math sheets as homework for practice. Mrs.Moses has also told us some math websites to visit so we can learn more. We are doing this to help us get better at math. "I like division with remainders," said Kathryn. First we started with easy problems and we inched our way to big problems with many steps. We like division and multiplication! 

Volleyball Mania!

By Lindsey, Vivian, Hunter and Dylan

The fourth grade has been playing volleyball in gym during December. Mr. Bailin and Mr. Chaney teach us skills in volleyball. The classes are Mrs. Moses' Class, Ms. Huzarsky's Class and The Levermans. We've been playing because we want to learn how to play volleyball and to have fun. To play, you serve the ball and hit it over the net. Some of the different hits are called bump, set and spike. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins. the teams are the South Africa Strikers, Hungary Hippos, Lithuania Lightning, Brazil Bulldogs, Portugal Peacocks, and the Ireland Platupus. The two teams that made it to the finals are the South Africa Stikers and the Ireland Platupus. the Ireland Platupus won the finals."Hoorray for Ireland!" yelled the fourth grade.

Weathervanes show the direction the wind is blowing in.

Feature Articles

By Alvin, Matthias and Ashley

The Fourth graders at Cantiague Elementary  have been working hard on writing their own feature articles. We picked a topic that interested us and then did research and wrote facts in our notebooks. We asked questions and tried to answer to them. During writer's workshop we drafted our information into paragraphs. We revised our writing and tried to use voice and a quote. We used, "Publisher" in the computer lab to type up our final draft. Now we will share with eachother and celebrate our hard work with special treats!

Kicking Off the New Year:

In January we published our feature articles. We are learning about Explorers of the New World in social studies. In math, we've started some fraction action! For read aloud, it's Matilda, by Roald Dahl. We will also be reading poetry for our new genre study.

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