Meeting a Chicken, Pumpkin Drop & Our Fall Class Party!

4th Grade Chicken

Beulah Ralph now has a chicken coop.  Each grade level was given the chance to name a chicken and this week we were able to meet our 4th grade chicken.  The kids loved it and are excited to go out and visit the chicken again soon.  The decided name is.... (drum roll please) RUSTI.  Here are some cute pictures I tried to grab from Rusti's visit to our classroom.

Pumpkin Drop

In science we have spent quite a bit of time learning all about plant and animal adaptations.  The kids have LOVED learning about all the animal adaptations and were intrigued with plants.  With pumpkins everywhere right now, we decided to spend some time this week looking at adaptations of a pumpkin and learning more about them.  We talked all about the external structures and were able to see those.  For the internal structures, I asked them how the heck we could get to the inside.  And although cutting it would have worked, I wanted to make it more fun....  

Needless to say they LOVED that we threw the pumpkin off the roof of the school.

  

Fall Class Party

Students had an absolute BLAST today at our class party.  Thanks to all the parents for donating, helping and making this so much fun for everyone.  There were lots of laughs, sprinkles and balloons and we loved every moment.  Here are a few pictures from the party. 

Too Much Fun in School

We had so much fun last week in the library doing a design challenge!  Students were given lots of materials and had to try to figure out how to "clean up" leaves, acorns and pumpkins.  Even with the stipulations we put on them, they still succeeded, had fun and made lots of design accommodations during their trials.

We had a blast with our bird beak experiment!  Students used different objects to try to "eat" the food birds would eat.  They learned a lot about beaks, why certain birds eat specific things and how beaks help them to do so!  

Students can't get enough of the Mark Twain Award Nominee books!  They loved them so much I went ahead and ordered two of each title so they could all have a chance to read them!  Thanks to Veterans United for the monetary donation to do this!!   

I sure love spending each day with your kiddos!!!