Yes, this is our 2nd post of the day! We were so excited about our science Comic Life this morning that we just COULDN'T wait to share it! :)
We started our day with our weekly whole-school assembly. Mr. Bryan talked to us about being a good audience and showing character.
We made a Comic Life in science class about our Humpty Dumpty experiments. It was fun to look at the pictures of our eggs!
We made a stack of cups in math class to use for playing place value games about expanded form.
We read a really funny book called Sweet Tooth to learn about finding causes & effects when we read.
We practiced our Read to Self skills.
We did our first typing lesson on the Forte keyboards!
We got to play on the website CoolMath4Kids.com for a few minutes, because our writing lesson website didn't work!
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Tuesday, August 28th
Today we learned some facts about Kansas.
We played Beat The Teacher in math. It is a place value game. Mrs. Goertzen lost every time.
We made our Humpty Dumpty contraptions. (Tomorrow we are each going to make up a name for our invention, and then we are going to walk to the high school and drop them from the top of the bleachers!)
We added two new words to our Vivid Vocabulary board - they are "fidget" and "linger".
We talked about the 3 ways to write a number - in standard, word, and expanded form! (Note to parents - this would be a GREAT thing to ask your kiddo about!)
Today we beat our stamina record in Read To Self time - we read for 13 minutes without any interruptions! :)
We have homework tonight - everyone is supposed to ask his/her grown-ups where his/her ancestors came from. We are going to start talking about settlers and immigrants.
And we talked about 3 of our spelling words - "there, their and they're". We talked about tips for remembering which one is which.
We played Beat The Teacher in math. It is a place value game. Mrs. Goertzen lost every time.
We made our Humpty Dumpty contraptions. (Tomorrow we are each going to make up a name for our invention, and then we are going to walk to the high school and drop them from the top of the bleachers!)
We added two new words to our Vivid Vocabulary board - they are "fidget" and "linger".
We talked about the 3 ways to write a number - in standard, word, and expanded form! (Note to parents - this would be a GREAT thing to ask your kiddo about!)
Today we beat our stamina record in Read To Self time - we read for 13 minutes without any interruptions! :)
We have homework tonight - everyone is supposed to ask his/her grown-ups where his/her ancestors came from. We are going to start talking about settlers and immigrants.
And we talked about 3 of our spelling words - "there, their and they're". We talked about tips for remembering which one is which.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Humpty Dumpty & Google Earth
Today was an AMAZING day in 4th grade here at BGS! This morning started with our 1st Readers Friends time in the library with our kindergarten buddies. And then we got to go to the high school to "investigate a crime scene" - it appears that Humpty Dumpty tried to sit on the top of the bleachers and did indeed fall! We found a crime scene taped off under the edge of the bleachers, and we used our scientific investigation skills to guess what happened.
Tomorrow, students need to bring any recycling-type materials from home that they want to use to build their egg-protecting contraptions - PLEASE DON'T BUY ANYTHING. The kids have only tomorrow to create their inventions, and must do all work at school, using only trash/recycling type supplies.
On Wednesday, we will be going back to BHS to drop our eggs from the top of the bleachers!
AND we got to use Google Earth today to look at our homes!
Tomorrow, students need to bring any recycling-type materials from home that they want to use to build their egg-protecting contraptions - PLEASE DON'T BUY ANYTHING. The kids have only tomorrow to create their inventions, and must do all work at school, using only trash/recycling type supplies.
On Wednesday, we will be going back to BHS to drop our eggs from the top of the bleachers!
AND we got to use Google Earth today to look at our homes!
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Thursday, August 23rd
We had a wonderful day in 4th grade!
We started our day with getting some math & reading placement tests out of the way, so that we could spend the rest of the day doing fun learning!
We worked on subtracting with regrouping, which was more fun because we got to use whiteboards and markers!
We got to hear a speaker talk about Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. We practiced a few kinds of math graphs about farm animals.
We had ART and we made pretend canteens to share with our Readers Friends next week!
We each wrote a list of adjectives to describe ourselves.
We got to work on our stamina reading!
We started our day with getting some math & reading placement tests out of the way, so that we could spend the rest of the day doing fun learning!
We worked on subtracting with regrouping, which was more fun because we got to use whiteboards and markers!
We got to hear a speaker talk about Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. We practiced a few kinds of math graphs about farm animals.
We had ART and we made pretend canteens to share with our Readers Friends next week!
We each wrote a list of adjectives to describe ourselves.
We got to work on our stamina reading!
Monday, August 13, 2012
Welcome to Camp BGS 2012!
Hello all!
It's the start of another wonderful school year, and I'm having fun getting our classroom ready for students to start exploring. It's always so motivating to start working in the classroom, decorating (we have a camping theme this year) and thinking about the best ways to teach our curriculum. I love the things that we explore in 4th grade - I think that we are going to start this year learning about Kansas history and immigrants, place value and math facts, states of matter (melting things!) and reading all kinds of amazing books and magazines!
Can't wait to see you all in just a few days!
Mrs. Goertzen
It's the start of another wonderful school year, and I'm having fun getting our classroom ready for students to start exploring. It's always so motivating to start working in the classroom, decorating (we have a camping theme this year) and thinking about the best ways to teach our curriculum. I love the things that we explore in 4th grade - I think that we are going to start this year learning about Kansas history and immigrants, place value and math facts, states of matter (melting things!) and reading all kinds of amazing books and magazines!
Can't wait to see you all in just a few days!
Mrs. Goertzen
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About Me
- Carla Goertzen
- I am a teacher, mother, wife of a drag racer, and avid reader who dreams of winning the lottery so that I can travel as exorbitantly as I wish.