Tales Of A 4-5 Something

We began learning about the industrial revolution and a few weeks ago we started making boots. Boots is a time where we make believe we are cobblers in the 1800’s. We had a total of four boot times in Tim’s homestation. During boots one we were relaxed, ate snacks, and listened to music. During boots two we had to double production because word had spread about our boots. This led to lower quality boots and we didn't have snacks or music. During boots three we almost tripled the amount from boots two but we were working hard. It was stressful. During boots four we decided to try a different approach to making boots and tried an assembly line format. We made even more boots. The boots weren't real boots. One of the teachers, Nancy, made us some paper boots that we could color and decorate. Since we are studying the industrial revolution, it made sense to study the agrarian lifestyle too. In the agrarian lifestyle, people would use their own resources and tools. People would trad...

The DIRT project stands for daily independent reading time. This project has a lot to it! It includes 7 peer reviews [to talk about the books you’ve read with a classmate], 7 exit interviews with Tim, 2 book chats [to talk about a book with the whole class], 2 book reviews/book reports. And of course you need to read 7 books from 7 different genres all before the end of the school year. Many of the class have already finished their DIRT projects. And others are well on their way to finishing. Some of the books that have been read and have been recommended are The Canyon's Edge, Flying The Dragon and Alone. Not only do we grow as readers we become better speakers and writers and we learn how to organize our time. This blog comes to you from Isaac and Grover

In the 4-5 community we are doing a very fun project! Because it was black history month it lit a spark for the teachers and we started a super important project. We each researched a person of color. Josephine Baker, Michelle Obama, Toni Morrison and more! We did our research on our iPads, practiced taking notes, and when we came to the conclusion we put the story on the paper. When we finished Tim edits we started our drawings! Our writing and illustrations are in the lobby! Come and check them out!   Josie and Hudson

We were lucky and went to see the EC play. The EC play is a play performed by Early Childhood students. This year the play was about a missing trophy. A hockey team had just won a game and left their trophy by the rink for the night. When they came back the next day their trophy was missing. Turns out two seagulls had seen the trophy and wanted it so they took it. The seagulls gave it to a narwhal, the narwhal gave it to some pirates, and they took it to an island and buried it. Meanwhile, the hockey team called in a team of detectives. The detectives found the pirates and told them about the missing trophy and the pirates said that they were really sorry for taking the trophy. They returned the trophy and everyone was happy! Grover and Elizabeth