Rock Projects

Our 4th grade class completed our rock projects last week. We learned all about rocks and minerals and then were assigned to bring in a rock we found at home. Our class measured the length, width, and heighth and then "dressed up" our rocks as characters. We took our rocks home for the weekend and wrote a journal entry about our adventures with our rocks. Way to go 4th graders!

Mill Creek Elementary 4th Grade

Welcome Mill Creek 4th Graders and Parents! I am excited you have visited our class blog page. This page is designed to include pictures, videos, and information that we are doing in our 4th grade classroom on a weekly basis. I hope that you enjoy a peek into our class!

Music Genre Study

Our class finished up our poetry unit last week in Readers Workshop. Students really enjoyed learning about the art of poetry and relating it to music. This week we have started our Music Genre study. We are focusing on learning on 4 music genres: rap, jazz, classical, country. Students are reviewing the strategies (visualizing, inferring, connections, schema) we have learned all year in 2nd grade and applying these to our music genre. Our class LOVES music!

Butterflies!

In science, we have been observing how caterpillars change into butterflies. Students have been learning about the differenct stages the butterfly goes through and have come into class each morning excited to see the changes!

Junie B. Jones Play

We went on our second field trip of the year to the Honeywell Center to see the play, "Junie B. Jones." Students really enjoyed the actors, actresses, and songs!

Listening Walk

Today we took a listening walk around the Fitness Trail. Students were asked to use their 5 senses as we took our walk so that at the end, they could write a poem using sensory details. We heard and saw so much!

How To Catch a Leprechaun!