November

November 30, 2007
Reported by Eleanor

On Friday, my team and I introduced to everyone our Plant Investigation. It took a long time to finish it, but eventually we did! It was actually a real fun project to do with our teammates! Right before the team and I went up to show the class, we had to figure out who was saying what. Slater did Purpose and Data. I did Procedure and Hypothesis. Paige did Materials and Chandler did Results and Conclusion. After we finished, we wanted to do it again! We had a great time working together!

November 29, 2007
Reported by # 13

Finishing up the plant reports

Today all of the teams finished their plant reports. Tomorrow each team gives a presentation about their plants. Each team has two black pieces of paper. Then you put these Things about what happened to your plants. Data, results, Prouder, purpose, question, and hypotheses. The jaguars Were coming up with great ideas. The lions were confused. The cougars had great pictures. My team was just in time when Mrs. Ferranti Said clean up. The leopards did great team work. The tigers did Great. I can’t wait until we hear everyone’s presentation.

November28, 2007
Reported by Kasie
Cinquain poems

If you like art, poems and ripping stuff you should have came to the Lair today. We wrote poems called Cinquain poems; they are poems that have one noun, two adjectives, three verbs, a four word phrase and a noun. After we wrote the poems, we took paper and ripped it up to make pictures. Most people made Christmas poems, so they had Christmas trees, presents and snowflakes on their pictures. A quote from Claire is, “mine is a snowflake poem, it looked like she had fun with it so did everyone else.

November 26, 2007
Reported by #16

The plant projects at the lair

Today at the lair we started to finish our plant projects. Each team had two pieces of black paper. The teams were typing, cutting, and also drawing the plants how we did the experiment. I thought that the panthers table were doing really great of helping each other. The leopards were doing a very good job of getting started and cleaning up. The lions were doing a splendid job because they were saying one person does this and the other does that. The cougars made everything go smoothly and no one complained. Our table group the jaguars did a lot of teamwork but we kind of got confused. Alex was doing a good job working. We did not finish but we got a lot done. I bet some other teams finished. Everyone was doing a great job.

November 21, 2007
Reported by Nohea

Today our class room was celebrating Thanksgiving! We had rotations which is going to every class room in 4th grade and doing different activities. In Mrs. Ness's class we sang a song and acted out moves to it. In Ms. Ferranti's class we got a story read to us and then we drew pictures about it and posted them on a poster board. In Mrs. Reynolds' class we made dream catchers out of paper plates , feathers, beads, and string. In Mrs. Herzberg's class we played a game about hunters and animals. Everyone went around saying what they were thankful for, most people said they were thankful for their families, car, house, food, and their pets, what are you thankful for?

November 20, 2007

Reported by Paige

Math in a flash

In the afternoon Ms. Ferranti’s class did some outstanding flash cards. First our lovely teacher, Ms.Ferranti, gave partners to us. In the middle of flashcards some of us switched to test the opposite partner. As we did that we accidentally mixed up the cards. So we flashcards again at the end of math. We all did very good on multiplication facts. So you can be good at flashcards too.

November 19, 2007
reported by #19

Today in the lair, the students worked on our Science Experiment posters. First, Ms. Ferranti passed out black papers for our posters while the Paper Passers passed out our Lab books. Then, we started working. We worked with our team, so each team made a poster together. Some people typed, some people drafted, some people colored for our poster. The person who is drafting writes out what we did with each step. The steps are purpose, question, hypothesis, materials, procedures, data, results, and conclusions. Each person writes one or two steps of our experiment. Then, the typer goes on the computer and types what each team has drafted. After typing each step out, we printed it out and glued it on the black paper. Then, we added some pictures and we're done. The results of these work is going to be a very nice posters.

Working on the Science Experiment is a very important part of our day in the lair. It is also a very fun thing to do. The students are still working hard to finish it. This is the end of the Lairs' Daily News. Thank you for reading!

November 16, 2007
Reported By Sara

Read In

If you like read ins, then you should have been there for this one! Today in the lair we had the best read in ever. This is what we did. First, we had lunch in the class room. Most of us had cheese pizza and lemonade. Next, we moved all the desks and got ready for reading. In the middle we said what we named our stuffed animals, when we got them, and who gave them to us. Connor said, “This is my lion and his name is Mr. Na Na.” This is one read in I know I will never forget.

If you like art and apples, head on down to D-29... Ms. Ferranti’s room. Today the class made still art with apples. First we would all draw the apple. Next we would take a huge bite out of the apples and draw the apple, but for those who had braces or were allergic we would cut part of the apple off. Then we would bite more off and draw the apple again. We would finish this apple art with drawing the core when we finish the apple. This make some kids that don’t like art find it fun and more interesting. Kasie says, “My apple’s named Bob!” It looks like she had fun doing it. Today gave some people a different way of looking at art.

This is two things we did in the Lair, we took a math quiz, and it was pretty hard. The students in my class learned alot of things.We took our one hour test all the way to recess. It was pretty long. After recess we observed our fast plants. We drew pictures to go with the plant.After that we did some fun science ativities. It was cross word puzzles and other fun ativities!

Pacer Test

If you want to know who’s the fastest kid in class, you should head down to Sunset Gym. First everyone had to make sure they were ready. It started off as jogging, it got faster, and faster, and faster!! I was very impressed with the laps of one girl named Kasie, she did an amazing amount of laps for girls - 62!!!!!! According to the Health Fitness board it says that the range of laps for girls in fourth grade are required to do 7-30 laps. Not for Kasie! On the sidelines I caught up with Caroline. She said I quote,” It was tiring and hard… you just got to drink lots of water!” It looked like everyone needed a lot of water! Today gave us all an interesting look at the Health and Fitness of Mrs. Ferranti’s fourth grade class!