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!

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!

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

Link to the 4th Grade Handbook

Today was a great Friday in 4th grade! We got to walk to the high school to watch a portion of the district 6th grade track meet, we had banana splits as someone's birthday treats, and we got to flick marshmallows on the playground as a mini-catapult contest! Check out the fun photos of our creations!

Today was a great day in 4th grade! We finished up our Keynote presentations about Native American tribes, had library lessons, played with a fun new toy called "foxtails" in p.e., learned more about adding and subtracting mixed numbers in math, tried new kinds of veggies in ranch dip, and did some experiments with shooting marshmallows out of our catapults on the playground!

Hello all, We made another delicious snack this afternoon as part of our Power Panther Pals nutrition mini-unit. Today we worked in small groups to make bowls of fruit salsa - apples, bananas, kiwi, strawberries and blueberries in a sugar/cinnamon/nutmeg sauce. Yum!

Today we made "apple smiles" as a snack - with red apple slices, peanut butter and marshmallows.

We used the leftover marshmallows in science this afternoon - we made marshmallow CATAPULTS! I can't wait to use them for some more experiments tomorrow as we play with the ideas of velocity and force to try to hit targets!