Wednesday, June 19th is our last day of school before summer vacation! We have had a great year together and have learned so many things. Luckily we have the blog to remember it all. You can always re-read posts, watch videos, or add new comments by using the “tag cloud” or the archives on the sidebar. [...]

We had a HUGE snow storm last weekend! Our town got about 21 inches (53 centimeters) of snow. In fact, because we got so much snow and the winds were over 35 miles per hour, the storm was categorized as a blizzard! Since the roads were so slippery and a lot of places lost power because of [...]

Tomorrow is our last day of school before summer vacation! We have had a great year together and have learned so many things. Luckily we have the blog to remember it all. You can always re-read posts, watch videos, or listen to voicethreads from the year by using the “tag cloud” or the archives on the [...]

(This is a student post written by Alexandra, Amanda, and Maggie) On May 18th the third and fourth graders at our school had their first art show! Everyone got to enter two pieces of artwork. The show was held in the cafeteria by our art teacher Ms. May. She held it to show everyone’s creative [...]

We have been working hard at learning our multiplication facts. Memorizing math facts is very important as we start to solve longer, bigger math problems. Last week we played “multiplication baseball” to practice our facts in a fun way. To play the game you need a game board, some game pieces, and dice. The “pitcher” [...]

In science we have been learning about Properties of Matter. Properties of matter are the ways that we can describe matter. Some physical properties of matter are: weight, texture, color, buoyancy, transparency, and many others. Last week we did an experiment to learn more about absorbency – the ability to soak up liquid. We compared four types [...]

After our boat building activity, we were really wondering about what makes some things sink and others float… At first many of us thought that it was just weight; heavy things would sink and light things would float. So we tested that out with a marble and a ball of wood. The wood was heavier. [...]

Recently we took a field trip to the local aquarium for a special program called “Native Americans and The Sea.” The  native people of this area lived right next to the Atlantic Ocean. They got lots of food and materials from the sea and the coast. During the summer they would move their villages to [...]

We had a HUGE snow storm last week! Our town got about 18 inches (46 centimeters) of snow. Because the roads were so slippery we had no school on Wednesday and a delayed opening on Thursday. Snow days are one of the most exciting things about winter in Connecticut. The students (and teachers!) get a [...]

We have been spending a lot of time talking about how important it is to be thinking about your reading. Thinking while reading helps you understand the book, so good readers are always thinking about what they read. In our reading we have been focusing on these types of reading thoughts: Making connections Predicting Visualizing [...]