Meet the newest members of our classroom, three new guppies!

Their names are Flame, Ripple, and Sunset!

Math 4 students designed and built their very own theme parks!

Mystery Unit: Reading, writing, exploring, investigating, and solving!

Finding and analyzing clues, evidence, and even red herrings, takes logical thinking,
deductive reasoning and problem solving skills to uncover the solution to the mystery!  

Literature groups read and discussed mystery stories.

Mysterious illustrations served as the inspirations for Six Word Stories.

Big buddies and little buddies love spending time together!

This week's assembly honored Martin Luther King, Jr.

The 4/5s also learned about Dr King while reading
Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? and through thoughful, discussion.

Students enjoyed writing fun, collaborative stories, also known as
Folded Stories. A Folded Story is a story created by a group of people
who do not know what the whole story contains. Different students write
different sentences only knowing what the classmate before them wrote.
Folding the paper and passing it along when they are done, keeping the whole story a secret until the very end.

 Students shared their creative stories!

Geography: The 50 States

Students are using Atlases and other resources to learn about

the 50 states, starting with the Northeast Region!

Math4:

Students have begun exploring polygons, perimeter, area, and 2-D shapes
in our new unit. Three dimensional shapes will also be explored
and manipulated.

Students calculated the area and perimeter of things in the 4/5 classroom and even the figured out how to calulate the area and perimeter of the entire room! 

Winter Fridays Fun!

Have a wonderful, peaceful holiday with family and friends!!

Today was Parker's annual Peace Assembly. The Parker Band, Chorus, and each class performed beautifully!

Math 4 students have been collaborating on a data collection project.  They surveyed all the students from Pre-k through 8th grade to find out what camps students would like to see at Planet Parker next summer.  Here they are making graphs and analyzing their results.  The students will present their research findings to the Director of Planet Parker.  

The 4/5 students often share hobbies and interests with classmates!

The 4/5s made imaginative, adorable sock snowmen and snowwomen for their Pre-K buddies.

Enjoying delicious pancakes with our Pre-K Buddies!

The Pre-K buddies gave the 4/5s gifts of buddy pictures and handmade picture frames!

Mock Trials are underway in the 4-5 classroom.