Tales Of A 4-5 Something

On Friday, May 1, 2026, we had Grandparents and Friends Day, which is a day where your grandparents and friends can come to school and explore with you. You can show them literally ANYTHING in your homestation, from your self portrait to RQ’s. Some of the things we showed them were the photo wall, the Positive Potato, the classroom library, and our DIRT project! We also played a game called Square Capture (so fun!) and had Pachanga. At Pachanga, we sang and sang (or listened and listened or hummed and hummed) until our throats hurt and we couldn't sing anymore! Grandparents and Friends day is a lot of fun! Sometimes we here from our grandparents how different school is now. Sometimes, we hear how it is the same sometimes. Violet and Hartley

The Book Bash was a book fair sponsored by a bookstore called Print and Waynflete. There was a wide variety of genres, including adult fiction, young-adult graphic novels, picture books, and more. It was located in Sills Hall, and there were multiple tables with lots of different genres. There were also tables offering many different foods (mostly for teachers) and a high school band playing music. That was fun because the music played while you picked out your favorite books. Lots of people look forward to the Book Bash and we had lots of families donate books to our classroom. We are excited to read Danger and Other Unknown Risks  that was one that was donated to us . We hope you got to go! -Landon & Lizzie

There are new clubs in 4-5! For this round, we have so many! Anne is leading an entrepreneurship club, Eddie is helping with a song writing club, and Maura is helping with a Harry Potter Club. We have stop motion, iMovie, and coding on one day and then rock painting and drawing another. There will be a rubics cube and board game. The 4-5 teachers help us but the clubs are run by students. One of the clubs that has gone all year is P.E.A.C  P.E.A.C stands for Physical Education Action Club, where kids can come at recess to do fun gym activities like cannonball, dodgeball, king of the court, etc. Ralph and Lauren, the P.E teachers, run the club. P.E.A.C is so popular that most of 4-5 goes and the playground is lifeless. When you go you will get to have your snack in the gym and then once everyone is pretty much done with their snacks, you will start to play the game picked by the teachers, and then stop once recess is over. Clubs are a great part of 4-5. Jane 

In 4-5 we started RQ’s which are Research Quests. An RQ is about a topic someone is curious and want to know more about and they get to choose it. The way we chose is by going down to the library and selecting 5 topics based on non fiction books and ranking them one to five. Then the teachers give each person a topic to study. After everyone has a book we start doing note cards by looking into a book and pulling key information and writing it down. The note cards can even be digital! After you write it down you start making a sentence, then a paragraph, and then a paper that will become your RQ. In the end, we make a visual aid. It is a long project and it is hard work but a lot of fun!

On February 11, 2026 a Dragon came into our classroom and WREAKED HAVOC! Oh wait, no, it didn’t. The dragon wasn’t real and it was fun! It was one of the Chinese dragons that you hold on a stick. More specifically, a bunch of sticks. It was red, orange, and yellow and VERY BIG!!!! There were a bunch of High Schoolers bringing it around the Lower School. The high schoolers were part of an Upper School Chinese class and they were learning about the Chinese New Year. They shared the celebration with us.  Violet and Hartley

To end our local food study, we made a big feast. Each homestation did a small part to prepare our delicious meal. Tim’s homestation made blueberry salsa, while Nancy’s made cranberry poppers and seaweed popcorn. Julia Fs made gajar ka halwa and Julia S’ made three sisters stew. We put all the food together to make one big feast. We don’t know how the other homestations made their foods, but we can tell you how we made ours. Tim gave us a big bowl of blueberries. We chopped up strawberries and diced them finely We quartered limes and zested them. And also shredded onions and sliced cilantro. We scooped applesauce and dolloped it in. Lastly, we took a spoon and stirred it all up. We set up and put all the good food on the tables. The blueberry salsa was a bit sour but sweet at the same time, delicious. The thick broth of the three sisters' stew soaked up the taste of vegetables. The cranberry poppers were sweet on the outside but tart and soft on the inside. The gajar ka halwa ha...

In 4-5, we are learning about the 50 states of America and where they go on a map. Our teachers have taught us some tricks to help us learn where the states are. Here are the tricks: Chef Mimal which is made up of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana,  FOGO, which is made up of North Dakota, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina and North Carolina. If you find one, you get one.  The Box, which is if you see the 48 connected states like a rectangle, you can see Maine, Florida, California and Washington in the corners   UCAN, which is Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. If you can find it, you can do it! These states make up the Four Corners in the southwest.  Mitten , Michigan Lastly, Alaska, and Hawaii, which are the two states that are not connected to the other 48. Which ones do you know? By Addison and Durres