Saturday, November 2, 2013

"We Change the World"

"Class of 2022, how will YOU change the world?" is a question posted in our classroom, and the students worked incredibly hard the first nine weeks to create "action plans" to make a difference in their school, communities, churches, and neighborhoods and reduce their carbon footprint. 

They 1. Found and researched a problem. 2. Created a plan of action in their community. 3. Documented their action plans through pictures, videos, scrapbooks, journals, etc. and looked at the benefits and possible problems. 3. Listed their plan step by step. 4. Made a difference!!



Here are some our students presenting their "Action Plans." Come to OES to see our action plans on display on the 4th grade hall!



















Red Ribbon Week!

For Red Ribbon Week, we had a theme each day for having a bright future and being drug free! 

We dressed up in our "Dream Career" outfits! 


Football player, doctor, bio-scientist, veterinarian, race car driver, soldier, dancer, you name it!


We even got to have role model football players from Boiling Springs High School come to our classroom and inspire us to dream big and work hard to be drug f.r.e.e.



Here they are talking to our class!




"How long have you been playing football?" "What is the farthest distance you've kicked?" "How did you become a football player?"




We even had a pep talk video from the "Kid President!"


"Red Ribbon week on three..1-2-3 RED RIBBON WEEK!"



We are so proud of our Fourth Grade "All Stars" at awards day! Thumbs up for hard work and always doing your best!


A huge congratulations to Abril and Ishmael for being the first nine weeks "Terrific Kids" from our class!!


Wednesday, October 30, 2013

What a Wonderful "Dae!"

Meet "Dae" (the Japanese word for "wonderful") our special visitor from the Spartanburg Humane Society who came to our class today!

Here are our vocabulary words!
 
 
We learned all about taking care of animals at the shelter such as... 
 
 
How to find lost animals using microchips!
 
 
 
 
How to feed the animals!

 
 
How to properly brush the animals
 
 
And bathe them
 
 
Show them love and care
 
 
Give them medicine
 
 
Be veterinarians
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Show lots of love!
 
 
 
 
 
 
and how to be kennel technicians and take them on walks :)


We are starting a new PBL Unit "A Walk on the Wildside" where we are learning about animals in every subject. We are learning vocabulary in reading related to the animal shelter. We learned that animals have LEARNED behavior and INSTINCTIVE behavior in science.

Here are some videos of our class showing Dae's learned behavior tricks :)

 
 
Another question that we talked about and will continue learning about-Do animals have FEELINGS??
 
Share your thoughts and stories through posting a comment below!

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

"We Love Boosterthon"

We have had a GREAT week and a half with the Boosterthon team learning about character and helping our school!! For more information about Boosterthon and the mission click here!

Here we are excited about the FUN RUN to start!

 
 

We had Boosterthon "Disco Dan" celebrate with our class for finishing the Fun Run!!


 Dr. Patterson also joined in the celebration!!

 

 

 



 
 
 
How do we feel about Boosterthon and helping our school? Click the video below to find out!

 
Weekend challenge: "Shout out strengths" that you see in your friends and family! Have a great weekend!

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Classification of organisms Research

We have been learning all about how to classify organisms into vertebrates, invertebrates, nonflowering plants, and flowering plants. We would love to show you our research!!

 

Look below, please leave us comments and let us know what you liked and questions that you have!

 


What are vertebrates ?

By, Nate Owings , Karlie Mathews , Bryan Rhodes ,
Kayley Pruitt and Isabella Troski

 

Vertebrates are animals with a strong backbone. Like a cheetah, sharks, red-tailed hawk, frog and an

Alligator.  Vertebrates do not make their own  food. They must get energy from eating plants or animals.
 



Cheetahs are vertebrates with a very strong backbone.

 


alligators are vertebrates that eat animals.




 

        The incredible invertebrate                                                               

Invertebrates have no backbone, some have shells and a hard xo-skeleton. Some have stingers, some don’t. They can’t make their own food. They are consumers. Some lay eggs, some don’t.

 

                  By: Matthew, Abril, Naomi, Kailey, Jacob



      The spider does not have a backbone but it has a hard xo-skeleton.


 

The jellyfish Jellyfish has no backbone but a soft xo-skeleton.
 
 


 
                       Flowering group    

Sydnee , Bailey ,Joshua , Camdyn ,Grayson

 

                             Examples

Some examples are Gasses, roses, oak tree, fruit tree, and tomatoes.


 

 


 

 First Apple trees grow flowers Then in summer the flowers Turn in to apples.

 

 

                                                                   
 A rose starts as a seed but grows Into a flower.

   

 Flowers make their own food by the sun; they contain seeds, flowers, fruits, and petles.
 


Nonflowering plants
Group members: Ashton, Ishmael, Julia, Millie Kate, Devin
                               Examples:
Some of the types of nonflowering plants are pines, spruce, ferns, mosses, and lichens.
 
                        Physical characteristics:                                             No flowers, it is a plant, It can be a tree, it carries CO2.
 


 
This Oak Tree is a plant, It has no flowers, And It carries CO2.