National Parks and U.S. Landmarks

It’s a busy time in the classroom right now with MCAS this week, but to add an interesting diversion to all of the testing, we started a new project today: Journey Across America: National Parks and U.S. Landmarks. To begin, each child explored an interactive map of the U.S. where clicking on the names [...]

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Narrative Writing-Catchy Openings

      Teaching fourth graders to write narratives is always a challenge, but when the children look at how far they have come this year, they are really amazed.   Tomorrow is the MCAS Long Composition.  We have worked hard to reassure everyone that they are ready and to prove the point, today we asked them [...]

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The Earth From Above

After concluding our intensive unit about Ancient China, we are now studying the geography of North America.  We began by looking at antique maps of the world from the 15th century and how they differ from images of our earth taken from satellites.  Although Google Earth offers excellent close-up images, today we  looked at an [...]

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