Birds, Birds and more Birds

This week we have been learning about birds. We have seen birds that live in different places, are different colors, are different sizes and some do not fly. We also learned a new big word oviparous. We learned that it is a name for animals that come from an egg.

The most exciting thing this week is that we have eggs in an incubator getting ready to hatch. They have 6 days left until time to hatch. We have been candling eggs to look inside. We saw the heart beating, veins, and the blood ring.

On Wednesdays we have been having a special visitor Mrs. Oberbye and Amanda. They have been bringing in different types of chickens for us to see. We got to pet a Black Giant hen.

We are excited about the new chicks that we may have.

Reptiles, Rollerskating and fibers

In P.E. we have been learning about roller skating, we have learned how to stand up and how to toe stop. Our fifth grade buddies have been helping us. It has been lots of fun.

We have been working with Mrs. Newport's class learning about different types of cloth. We found out that cotton comes from a plant, wool comes from sheep and silk comes from silk worms. To finish up our project we went to Spurlock Museum on a filed trip, it was exciting. We made a Adinkra cloth while we were at the museum.

What has a backbone, is cold blooded and has dry scaley skin? A reptile. We have learned about snakes, turtles, alligators and lizards.

Finally in math we have learned some new songs about pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.

It has been a busy week!

In P.E. we climbed on our new climbing wall it was fun! We have also been bowling almost everyone in class got a strike.

On Tuesday we got to eat in our classroom because they installed our new climbing wall.We have been learning about reading our books this week. We worked with our fifth grade buddies to put the bones on our body projects.

This week our family projects were due and we had to make a rainbow or a leprechaun trap.

On Tuesday Ms. Nadine, from the Anita Purves Nature Center, came to our class to talk to us about reptiles. She brought 2 turtles and a snake, we had turtle races it was fun. Then on Thursday Mrs. Patty, a nurse from Carle, came to talk to us about poison safety. We learned how to keep ourselves safe.

Dem Bones, Dem Bomes, Dem Dry Bones

In math this week we have been learning about pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and half dollars. We are learning how much they are worth and we learned that they have a heads and tails. We have also been learning the months of the year and that there are 12 of them.

We have started learning about our bodies and how they work. This week we started looking at our bones. We learned that there are 206 bones in the whole body and there are 22 bones in the foot. Next we learned about our skin. Everybody has different colors of skin. We discovered that our skin can be the same color as different foods. We found out what a patella, phalanges and femur are. Finally we have started drawing ourselves.

We have also started working on a class book. Everyone is writing a different story about things we have done in school. When our book is done it will be a really nice hardcover book.

Wow this has been a busy week!

Learning About Famous People!

This week in math we have been learning about the census. We learned that it is a way of counting how many people are in the United States. We have also been learning to do surveys, we found out that more people like math than writing or reading. We also learned that more people in our class have pets than do not.

This week we also learned about some famous African Americans; Barack Obama (the first African American president from Illinois), Martin Luther King Jr. (who had a dream that we should all be nice to each other), Garrett Morgan (invented the stoplight).We discovered that Abe Lincoln was from Illinois and he was the president who helped to free the slaves, he is also on the penny.

Last Saturday we had our school carnival, it was so much fun. Our class decided that everything was really fun and we won lots of prizes.

Working with our Uni High Buddies

This week we worked with high school students from University High School. They helped us learn about sand and water. On Tuesday we learned if things could sink or float. On Wednesday we made boats and tested them to see if they would float. On Thursday we looked at how many drops of water can fit on a penny, one group fit 40 drops on their penny. Finally on Friday we looked at how sand and salt are alike and different. We put sand in water and it sank then we put salt in water and it disappeared. We want to say thank you to the high school students who helped us have fun and learn.

Happy Mardi Gras

Today was Mardi Gras. We made masks and crowns, then we had a parade! We listened to stories about this holiday and what it is all about. During our parade we gave our 5th grade buddies a set of beads for good luck.We hope that everyone has a fun Mardi Gras!