Ali Mohamad and Hannah Schrockenfuchs write Spooky stories

For Halloween, fourth graders were asked to write a Spooky Story. Each student focused on proper sentence structure, paragraph formation and punctuation. Similarly, as they created their monster, they were to use similes to describe them from the figurative language lesson. We had fun sharing the stories in class! These two stories are by Ali Mohamad and Hannah Schrockenfuchs.

Ali Mohamad

Fourth Graders learn more than they want to know about Snails!

SNAILS! What do you do when your teacher expects you to learn everything there is to know about snails but there are no snails to be seen?? You search and search and hope for a miracle! Luckily, with the invaluable help of Ms. Sax Lane, we were able to find twenty-eight snails. After thorough research and experimentation, we learned many interesting facts. Did you know that a snail can carry at least 10 times its weight? Did you know that a snail can glide the length of a football field within eight hours? We learned all there is to know about a snail's structures, the functions of these structures, and a snail's behavior. Please feel free to ask us any questions you want; I am sure we can answer them!

Katja Domljanovic and Alex Vlantis
measure how fast a snail moves

Antonis Maniatis
sees what a snail feels like when it moves.

Fourth Graders make interesting and fun Book Reports

Book reports have been a big excitement in 4th Grade this year! Along with a summary of the book students are given the options of creating models, story picture strips, masks, book mobiles, or posters to creatively illustrate and introduce their books! The students have gone above and beyond with their projects and everyone has enjoyed giving and watching presentations! Stavros Lykomitros made a mask for his book report on Stink: Solar System Superhero! Yuval Madai made a Cowardly Lion mask to illustrate one of the characters from his book report on the Wizard of Oz. Philippos Antonopoulos made a story picture strip for his report on The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn. Elina Pipa made a colorful book mobile for her report on Judy Moody the Doctor is In.

Stavros Lykomitros
Stink: Solar System Superhero!

Yuval Madai
Wizard of Oz

Philippos Antonopoulos
The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn

Elina Pipa
Judy Moody the Doctor is In