Tuesday fun!

Today, our 4th graders got a chance to come together to make sketches of what their own Thorne Rooms would look like if created in real life. We also took a short dance break to dance to the ChaCha Slide!

4th Grade Field Trip

Today, the 4th graders went on a field trip to Survive Alive. They had so much fun learning and reviewing strategies for keeping safe at home. They practiced how to "stop, drop, and roll," and all students were able to practice how to escape from a bedroom window, in case of a fire. Remember to ask your child if they know their "E.D.I.T.H" plan! 

Wax Museum

Last week, we had our Colonization Wax Museum! The students worked very hard for the past few weeks researching and becoming experts on their topics. They were so excited to have other students, teachers, and parents see their hard work!

Coding with Mr. Kelly

Today we learned how to program games with Mr. Kelly! 

Last week, we received a new class member! His name is Cornelius. He is our stuffed mouse that reports to Ms. Griep at the end of the day to tell her how the day went and if we were being respectful. 🐭

This week, our classroom has a new school wide challenge called "Don't Break the Ice." This challenges us to be more respectful in the classroom. At the end of every day, we can earn an ice cube to add to our lake, if we have at least one or more letters at the end of the day. We don't yet know what our incentive is, but we will be getting hints starting next week! 

Today, Mr. Kelly awarded us with the Achieve belt! This means that our class has the greatest percentages on Achieve articles this week, for the fourth and fifth graders. 

This week, we have been working on many different activities. In math, we are working on Order of Operations, including PEMDAS and patterns. In writing, we are continuing to work on our Informational writing skills. Our class is almost finished reading the great book "Wonder." During reading, we have been working on painting a mental picture of important scenes. In Inquiry, we just started looking into the topics we are interested in further researching about Colonization. In word work, we just finished up our test and received a new sort this week. 

We just finished our basketball unit in gym class. Our last game was an intense game! 🏀 In Art, we posted our pictures on Artsonia, and we made Lego people. In Music, we have a concert coming up on Thursday, December 18th. We are practicing songs for our upcoming event. In SEL, 5th graders will soon have parent teacher conferences. 

Watch out for St. Nick tonight! 

Have a wonderful weekend from 302!

Last week, we started new units in both math, writing, and inquiry. For math, we are now moving into the Algebra unit. For writing, we are working on improving our Informational writing skills. For inquiry, we are starting to dive into Colonization of America. 

Our classroom is also working on a school wide challenge towards not having any physical contact referrals. We are getting clues every morning to find out what incentive we will have the Tuesday before Thanksgiving break.. And we think we might have already guessed it!! We also have a classroom challenge that is very similar, making sure we maintain "body basics" throughout the day. If the class wins this challenge, we can have a celebration that same Tuesday afternoon that we have the school wide challenge incentive!! There are lots of great incentives we are working towards these next few weeks!!

Keep up the great work 302!

Voting Day!

We had a mock voting for who would become governor!