Salt water back into Fresh Water

We are Thankful!

November 18, 2010

Hi my name is Avery.I am a student in Mrs.Thompson's class.In math we are learning fractions.It is kind of hard, but we are getting the hang of it. In science we are doing a experiment.We are trying to see if we can turn salt water back into fresh water.
Avery Luig

The making of Native American Homes using salt dough!

November 4, 2010

Hello my name is Tyler I am a student in Mrs.Thompson's class. We have laerned about LONG DEVISION this week. I am pretty good at it my self.

Novemeber 4, 2010

  This is Blake. I didn't blog last week because of benchmarks.                 Last week we leaned double digit multiplication like 40 times20 equals 80.This week our class is learning DIVISION bum bum bum buuuuum.
Blake Horton

Red Ribbon Week - Silly Hat Day

October 22, 2010

This week we   have  been  learning about  Native  Americans  this week. We did a fun project  this week .We built Native American  houses.It was fun.We did it on Thursday.We built bee houses & adobies and that is what we made this week.
Lia & Grace

WE WON!!!!! First place for Fourth grade Pumpkin decorating Contest!

But he is fading fast! Crumble, crumble...crack...crack! His eyes and nose keep falling off.

Pumpkin Decorating Contest!

The classrooms at our school are having a pumpkin decorating contest. Our class voted to create ......Well, can you guess?

The paint is cracking off! So mental note for next year... use acrylic paint!

October 20, 2010

Today, we had a visit from the DEA to help KICK-OFF our Red-Ribbon Week, next week. It focuses on encouraging the Kiddos to be DRUG FREE! The DEA officers arrived via helicopter. It was VERY exciting!

Making Fossils

On Friday of last week, we took objects (like shells, twigs and rocks) and pressed them into clay. We filled the imprint with glue and let it dry over the weekend. When we came back today, they had all hardened. With this experiment, the kids demonstrated the difference between molds and casts. The imprint left in the clay was the MOLD. The dried glue demonstrated the CAST. They LOVED making their own fossils.

 FUNNY GUYS!

October 15, 2010

Hi my name is AJ Hernandez. This week we were learning about Native Americans and double-digit multiplication. The funnest project is making a fossil. Double digit multiplication is hard. Our teacher, Mrs. Thompson  is sweet, kind and awesome. We had ice cream sundaes today for winning PTO membership drive. The sundaes were YUMMY. Today was a long and hard day.

October 7, 2010

This week in writing we are writing a real five paragraph story about the zoo.We have to copy what she says,but we all get to come up with our own ideas about the story.In science we are still studying about rocks and minerals,but we are almost done.We are going to take the test ,and I think it will be very easy because we have been studying it for a long time and it is an open book test.I enjoy doing boogie math because it is very easy.
Alex Greene

Persuading Speeches - Author's Purpose Lesson

We have been learning about Author's Purpose this week. The kids wrote small speeches to convince us of their opinions.

Rock Cycle Demonstration

Today we SAW how the rock cycle works. The rock cycle is the continuous changing of rocks into different types of rocks. OUR" rocks" changed quickly, but of course real rocks take thousands of years to change.

September 30, 2010

My name is Chloe.This week we have been learning about Native Americans, rocks,and a little about Martin Luther King.I learned that Native Americans had a rough time when food was scarce.I felt bad for them.We had to act like we lived long ago and write a letter.We learned that Martin Luther King did not know when all of this was going on.He made a promise and kept that promise he turned this world up side down. Now what we have all been waiting for...ROCKS!! I have loved learning about rocks.We learned about the 3 different kinds of rocks Igneous,sedimentary,and metamorphic.We did a demonstration, it showed the rock cycle it was so fun I love fourth grade!
Chloe Cook

MAD Scientists!!!!

Today, we did a demonstration using the Rock Cycle... crayon style. This is the scientists practicing safety!!!!

September 23, 2010

My name is Brady. This week has been a blast. We have been doing a lot about multiplication and division.This weeks math facts are zero the hero, anything times zero is always zero. The other one is six times six is  thirty six, seven times eight golly gee fifty-six dollars all for me.We also did this cool little project where we put a bottle of water over the salt block and it makes a little hole into the salt block. This is called erosion.

Brady Carroll

ZERO the hero!!! Anything times 0 is 0!

Video of Erosion Demo

Blake and Tyler narrated our demonstration. They did great!

EROSION Demonstration!

Yesterday, we started discussing types of rocks. We talked about sedimentary rocks and how they are tiny bits of sediment compacted together over the years. Sediment results from EROSION so we set up water dripping onto to a mineral salt block. This is what we saw happen. It ERODED and left behind sediment. They thought it was too COOL!

More Recipe Pics....

Math Measuring with a Recipe

Today, we made Astronaut Granola Bars from our reading story this week. The kids did it all: read the recipe, measured, poured, stirred, and even ATE them! DELICIOUS!

September 16, 2010

This week our class has learned about different types of rocks, like calcite, that was Science.  In math we have been doing multiplication facts. We have started a new thing called Boogie facts and that is fun , and on Friday we do math club and we are timed on it for three and a half  minutes.

Chance  Campbell

My First Blog Post

I am trying out this new tool, Blogging. I am hoping that it is a tool for parents to see what their children are learning in class. I am also hoping that my students get excited about posting what they learned and enjoyed each day at school (or at least each week)! I hope to get spelling lists and other parent info posted here also!