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September 7, 2017 The first day of fourth grade and we are excited to get started on a new adventure! Welcome to Room 10!  media type="custom" key="29508797"  We jumped right in with our first team building activity today. Talking and working together each team had to put a 100 piece puzzle together, but the teams were racing against each other to see which one would complete their puzzle first.  Here is our winning team and their puzzle.   September 8, 2017 Another team building activity today. Working together, the task was to save Fred. Teams experienced success once they figured out the correct strategy. September 11, 2017 After listening to the story Mr. Peabody's Apples, the class was challenged to squeeze all the toothpaste from a tube and then put it back in. Of course there was a lesson to be learned and hopefully remembered from this activity.  September 19, 2017 <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Playing Headbands with our Social Studies vocabulary words. <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">September 22, 2017 <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Beginning a new lesson in Science means we start an experiment. Waiting to see what happens to these pinto beans. <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;">September 25, 2017 Our first visit from the desk fairy this morning. Was your desk clean enough to get a treat? <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">A few new items have been added to our Investigation Station. <span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">September 27, 2017 We became cookie miners today as we explored what it would be like to mine coal. Many of us found out how difficult mining is. If our cookies crumbled, we were in danger of a cave-in. <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">October 2, 2017 <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Our pinto beans really sprouted over the weekend. These pictures show the difference from Friday to today.

<span style="color: blue; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">We're getting ready for our first Math test tomorrow. First, we each worked on an M&M activity to practice place value, comparing, and ordering. Next we teamed up with a partner and used dice to continue practicing place value. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">  <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">We also finished working on our Photosynthesis diagrams and recipes today. Now they're on display in the hallway. <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">October 3, 2017 <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Congratulations to the September Homework Club members! They enjoyed their lunch in the classroom together and then had a mini ice cream sundae. <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">October 6, 2017 <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Synonyms! We found synonyms for some tired over-used words in hopes of jazzing up our own writing this year. We took those over-used synonyms and laid them to rest. <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">October 13, 2017 <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Today in honor of the 100th Anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima, the school gathered around the statue of Mary in front of the school to recite the rosary. Layla and Tom were part of the living rosary. They each represented a bead on which we said a Hail Mary. Thanks to Ms. Braunstein for the photos. <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">October 20, 2017 <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Miss Abby from the Philadelphia Zoo came to school today. She taught us a lot about animal habitats and brought four animals to show us, a chinchilla, an owl, a snake, and a very big rabbit. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">  <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">  <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Changing Mr. Potato Head each Friday is an incentive we have for completing homework assignments. Every student who is still a member of the Homework Club can place their name in our pink can on Friday. The name picked changes Mr. Potato Head. We're all still trying to figure out what Sean made poor Mr. Potato Head this week. <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">October 23, 2017 <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">We're using wicked witch fingers to help us follow along with the text in reading. <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Working together in groups, we are learning to cite our evidence. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">ALWAYS CHOOSE KIND!

<span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Our future scientists! <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Nicole planted the pinto bean that sprouted in the baggie and it continues to grow. Makayla made a model of a lung with a plastic bottle and balloons. <span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">October 30, 2017 <span style="color: orange; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">There is a new experiment at our Investigation Station to help us learn more about the skeletal system. We placed one chicken bone in water and one in vinegar. We will check it during the week to see if anything happens to either bone.

<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> We also made x-rays of our hand and wrist today. We learned about the bones that are in our fingers, hand, wrist, and lower arm. We hung our completed x-rays in the window and they look really awesome! <span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">October 31, 2017 <span style="color: orange; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Even the Desk Fairy celebrates Halloween! <span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">November 1, 2017 <span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">The October Homework Club had a "fangtastic" treat today - vampire donuts. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">November 2, 2017 <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Handles Franklin from the Harlem Globetrotters visited our school today to give us the A, B, Cs and 1, 2, 3s about bullying. BULLYING IS NOT COOL! He chose William to see if he was better than Handles at basketball. William did well and earned an official Harlem Globetrotters headband. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">After the Assembly, we had Science. It was time to check the two chicken bones we had placed in water and vinegar earlier this week. What a surprise when we held the bone that was in vinegar! Here's hoping you can explain what happened and why! <span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">November 3, 2016 We had so much fun playing Bazinga today to review for our Science test on Monday. If the card was drawn, one team had to do 10 pushups. Billy was impressive by doing his push ups one-handed. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">November 9, 2017 Today's activity for science was to discover how plants make flowers by creating a model of a flower and a bee. We used cornmeal and cinnamon as our pollen and discovered how bees transfer pollen from flower to flower. <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">November 17, 2017 media type="custom" key="29508801"

<span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">November 20, 2017 <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Reviewing addition and subtraction of larger numbers is more fun when the end result is a turkey. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">

<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">November 22, 2017 <span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Happy Thanksgiving to our Room 10 families! media type="custom" key="29508803" <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">December 4, 2017 <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">The November Homework Club celebrated today with a confetti cake. Yum!

<span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">December 6, 2017 <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Waiting for Saint Nicholas!

<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">December 7, 2017 <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Playing multiplication games to help us master those facts! <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">December 18, 2017 <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Today's act of kindness given to us by Noelle our Kindness Elf, was to bring in hats, gloves, and scarves. These students responded generously. Not pictured are Jayden and William who each brought in an item earlier in the month. <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">We may not have won the Christmas door decorating contest, but our door was pretty great!

<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">January 10, 2018 <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Mystery Science Day! As part of our unit on weather, we learned the answer to the question, "Why is snow white?" Our activity for this was to make a snowflake. They are currently drying on our windowsill and tomorrow we will see how our snowflakes turned out. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">January 11, 2018 <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">You win some, you lose some! Our snowflakes did not turn out the way we hoped. Here are the three that actually worked and are now hanging in our windows. <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">January 19, 2018 <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Our Eagles fan of the week! David constructed his own Eagles hat. Hope it brings the team luck! <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">January 25, 2018 <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">We were finally able to use our Storm Spotter Guides that we made last week. Could there be a future meteorologist in this class? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">January 30, 2018 <span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">What better way to celebrate the completion of our Tacky Sweater Book Reports than to decorate a tacky sweater cookie and then eat it! <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">February 1, 2018 <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">The January Homework Club celebrating their accomplishment today with a treat of chocolate chip cookie bars. <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">February 6, 2018 <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">The best way to remember how the molecules in solids, liquids, and gases are arranged is to use Cheerios to demonstrate. <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">

<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">February 14, 2018 <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Happy Valentine's Day! <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Today we did a little Valentine's Day experiment to review states of matter. Could we transform solid chocolate into a liquid? <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">We're Walking With Jesus during Lent. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">February 22, 2018 <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">The attempt today was to use what we have learned about fractions to complete Sweetheart Math using conversation hearts. I think we learned that some review is needed. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">February 27, 2018 <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Still practicing our fractions! Test tomorrow! <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">February 28, 2018 <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">What better way to spend an afternoon than being alchemists! We were mixing solutions and looking for chemical reactions. The best reaction produced was goo. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">  <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">  <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">

<span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">March 1, 2018 <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Congratulations to the four students who completed all homework assignments in the month of February - Isabella,Makayla, Luis, and Tommy! They got to enjoy a pizza lunch and ice cream treat.

<span style="color: green; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">This afternoon we once again attempted to cause a chemical change and make goo. The lesson we learned was that sometimes experiments fail. We're not giving up on Mystery Science though. <span style="color: green; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">March 16, 2018 <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">It was a great day to practice our writing skills. After talking about the different ways to write a topic sentence, we worked in groups and wrote topic sentences for different paragraphs. <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">April 3, 2018 <span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Welcome back from Easter break! The March Homework Club celebrated today with their treat of dirt cake. Who will be in the Homework Club all 9 months? Just two months to go to find out.

<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">April 4, 2018 <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Using the terms we learned in geometry, points and line segments, we created geometric stars. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">  <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">April 11, 2018 <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">The Dime Race was today. We collected about $136.00. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">April 16, 2018  A great way to prepare for our geometry test is to play Find A Buddy. <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">April 17, 2018 <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">We had a great day at the Camden Aquarium! media type="custom" key="29641559"

<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">April 18, 2018 <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">We had fun creating a chemical reaction today. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">April 22, 2018 <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Room 10 stars of the Wizard of Oz!

<span style="color: red; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">May 1, 2018 <span style="color: red; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">The April Homework Club with their ice cream sandwich treat.