Tales Of A 4-5 Something

In 4-5 we have chorus once a week and music twice a week. Yesterday was a big day because we had our chorus concert. We stayed after school, got dressed, and at 5 we went on stage! We were in front of most of the 4-5 parents and we are nervous excited or both. We have practiced for month's and here is a list of songs" Kokoleoko Dream keeper De Colores And Seseree eeye

  For our blog post we want to recognize other people finishing their food memoirs. This week all the people in 4-5 finished food memoirs and hung them around the program. A food memoir is a memory we had that included food. Some of us wrote about special holidays like birthdays. Some wrote about special people who helped us make yummy treats like brownies or cakes. There were people who also wrote about special places. We did food memoirs because we studied Farms To Foods or local foods. When we printed our story we put it on a piece of construction paper. We also added a QR Code to make a voice recording so people can scan it and listen to us reading it. There is also some great art on each piece. We wrote about steak and cous cous in Bethel and Thanksgiving dinner with a brother who was away for college. Madeline and Aaron

I wrote this poem this summer and I think I should share it with you now, the beginning of December, because this is when the flowers go to sleep. Enjoy! The flower By E.S. Shoots of green burst from the ground,  brown earth to a landscape of lime and mint,  growing as far as the eye can see,  teeming with life.  And then comes the flower. From gold to bleached white,  from indigo to plum red, the flower bursts  with light and spirit,  harmonizing to the melody of nature,  it’s essence the one thing that matters most.  Rain polishes this flower, and the sun entertains it. This flower stands alone,  it’s multicolored wings floating in the wind decay taking its toll,  its thorns climbing,  piercing the flower,  cherry blood burning down the sides, dripping down and touching the earth.  From the blood of the flower grew all the flowers roses, bluebells, orchids, flew from the scattered petals, braving the thorns,  g...

Hello and welcome to the blog! This is just an update on what we have been doing in Tim’s class. We have moved on from aquaculture and local foods into agriculture where we have been studying worms and now seed dispersal. Most of us are far into our Daily Independent Reading Time Project, or DIRT for short. We are also ending our Food Memoirs. It is exciting to think about our next Writing Workshop project. Evie and Sal

Here in the Lower School we had a Halloween Obstacle Course. In the obstacle course there were many games in there and it was great that Mr. Nelson, Mr. Salway, and the parents put it together for us. It was fun and I think a lot of people can agree with me. Probably for most people the bounce house was the best part. The stations were: Bounce house Balance beam Crawl under a hula hoop house Hula hoop ring toss Eyeball toss  Lay on a scooter to get under a bridge And bounce on a yoga ball in a race course circle  The obstacle course was on the Thursday before Halloween. Now you must wish you were there….. BOO  Jax and Aaron

We made a catapult during recess. Here’s how it worked: we took a board and put it on a log. The log was the fulcrum and caused the board to be slanted down. Then we took a pot folded in on itself and put it on the lower end of the board. Next, we took a different log and dropped it down onto the top end of the board. That resulted in the pot getting catapulted into the air.    Here’s a picture of the catapult in action… By Maggie

This week's Kudos was picked by Emma and the name was Maggie! Kudos is an activity that helps us celebrate a classroom. Someone's name is picked from a jar and everyone else has to write a note to the person. The note is something heart warming that we notice. At the end of the week, we get into a circle and the group dumps out the jar of compliments and the writer gets to read the note out loud to the person that was picked. There note then gets taped onto their arms or legs. Are next Kudos will be Tom! Oliver and Elizabeth

At Frith Farm we learned about farming sustainably. We helped gather vegetables for the Locker Project . It is a program where kids who do not have food at school can stop by and get fresh food to take home for dinner or to eat for lunch. We gathered carrots and kale. We liked harvesting the carrots because our hands got dirty and it was satisfying to pull up the carrots. We also saw tomatoes, cabbage, peppers, corn, brussel sprouts, beets, and raspberry bushes. A couple of us also saw a few field mice running through the plants. At the end we got to play on the hay maze that was set up for the Farm Olympics and we got to take some carrots home. That was fun! Pippa and Leo

On October 14, 2021 all of 4-5 went to Merritt Island Oyster Farm . We went because it was part of our Farms to Foods Unit. In this unit we are studying aquaculture so this was perfect.  We had four different stations and we rotated around throughout the day. One was cracking oyster shells with a hammer. Some were hard. We learned oysters have many parts and that they are filter feeders. Oysters clean the water with the filters that they have, unlike humans. They can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day. Dot showed us oysters filtering water and they did a quick job of making it clean.  Another station was measuring oysters and culling them. We learned how Jordi has to check the cages, shake them, and clean them. At another station we learned the anatomy of an oyster and we even got to try some! Some people liked them and others didn't. As we walked around the island we also got to clean up the trails. A person from Maine Islands and Trails was there and helped us do that....

We were lucky to be able to visit an alpaca farm. Marcia raises alpacas for their wool to make yarn. Her company is called Lana Plantae Yarns . The coolest thing is that she makes her own dyes. She collects plants and flowers that she grows or orders to make dyes. Once her wool is spun she soaks it in water and then the dye. We liked all the colors. We also saw hens and a rooster on the farm. There were sheep in the pen and even a peacock in the old barn. We found a ton of peacock feathers around the farm and that was strange for us. We went to the farm to help us learn about local farms. It definitely was a memorable trip.  Lucia and Madeline

  We like PE because of the games that we get to play. This week we took a driver's test to get ready for a game called Cannonball. For the test we had to earn money by being a responsible driver with our scooter. We had to stay in the lines, not knock down any buildings or run over people. Once we passed out test we could do Cannonball. We each get a partner and they sit on a scooter. We have to push them around on the scooter and the person on the scooter can through balls at other team's cones. If your cone gets knocked down you go to the end of the line. The point of the game is to stay in as along as you can. This is a fun game and we want to play it again soon. We also got to work with hula-hoops. Our teacher, Mr. Nelson, had us build a house with hoops. Once we built the house we had to go through it. The hardest challenge was to go through the house blindfolded.  We get PE twice a week all year long.  Sal and Aaron Mat Flipping on the first week of school

  In 4-5 we have been doing Digital Literacy. These classes have been about how we can use technology in the safest and most helpful ways. We started off thinking about research and using specific search terms and looking at urls before clicking the link. We looked at the end of links to see .edu .gov, or .com to help us decide if we could trust a site. When you click a link it isn't automatically helpful. You have to think critically about the site. We did a "sniff test" for the pages to make sure it was good for research or learning. We also looked at the sites to see if they were reliable, accurate, reasonable, and had the names of authors or a help link We tested ourselves by exploring these sites.  Is this site a reliable site? Northwest Tree Octopus .           What about All About Explorers ?  Soon, we will each receive our own iPad! Yeaahhh! We practiced these skills so we can be safe in school with the device.  Evie and Adam

On Thursday, September 16 we got on the bus to Kettle Cove beach. The teachers gave us a few directions and then we all got off and had the time of our lives. Some people headed right to the water to go swimming, some built damns to block the stream and make a wading pool, and some went exploring on the rocks. We even found a small waterfall next to the bridge. There were tide pools where we found crabs and shrimp. The day started out a little cloudy but got very sunny. Even though the water was warm for Maine it still made us shiver.  All of 4-5 enjoyed the best five hour field trip ever.  -Tom and Abraham