Operation Christmas Child

We packed 28 plastic shoe boxes to send to Operation Christmas Child!  As our class service project, we pray that our participation in this awesome ministry will bring both the joy and message of Jesus Christ to child around the world!

Proud Mommy Shows Off...

Now that we are home and settled, I wanted to share a few more pictures of my sweet baby boy with you guys.  I can't wait for you to meet him!  Mrs.Wamble says you are working hard and doing great while I'm gone.  I knew you would! Keep it up!

One of my Halloween outfits

 I make this funny face a lot!

 In our front yard

 After my first bath (Like my towel?)

Welcome Baby Whitt!

Today was a "TOAD-ally" awesome day for the Harris family, and I want to share a few pictures with you!  Whitton Robert Harris was born at 3:28 p.m..  He weighs 7 pounds, 15 ounces, and he is 20 inches long.  Everybody is doing great!  Whitt had many visitors tonight, but he told me that he can't wait until he gets a chance to meet his ACS family!

Practice Verbs!

Here are some fun games to help you practice all of the verbs skills we are learning in English!

Verb Viper Game- Subject/Verb Agreement Practice

Past and Present Tense Verbs Funbrain Game

Puppet Show Video

Have you seen the video for our ACS puppet show, "Rockin' Through the Ages"?  It rocked!

Click here: Puppet Show Video

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

As we began to learn about the American Revolution in social studies, and we started our new historical fiction novel The Keeping Room, we took some time to learn about Paul Revere.  We studied Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem and checked out Grant Wood's artistic interpretation.  Here are some pictures of us using oil pastels to recreate Wood's famous painting.

Happy Un-Birthday Ashlyn!

She had a football-themed cake, plates, and napkins in honor of "Football Frenzy Friday"!

Mystery Readers!

Here are some pictures of our latest Mystery Readers, Mrs. Charlotte, Mrs. Janice (She brought REAL fossils from her digs!), Mrs. Miriam (Thanks for the baby pumpkins!) and Mr. Andy:

Watch It!

Here are some of the fun videos we discussed in class about Paul Revere and the American Revolution:

Schoolhouse Rock- Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

About Paul Revere

Paul Revere in a Nutshell

Study Plural Nouns!

Here are some fun links that will help you practice what we are learning this week in English:

http://www.funbrain.com/plurals/index.html

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/plural/index_pre.html

http://www.primarygames.com/see-n-spell/plurals/question1.htm

http://www.quia.com/rr/6516.html

Happy Un-Birthday Rayne!

And the winners are.....

Congratulations to the winners of our Freckle Juice contest!  It was a little rough judging all of them (yuck!), but the class voted on these concoctions:

Best Recipe: George
Ugliest: Rayne
Best Smelling: Jasper
Smelliest: Avery

Each winner earned 25 Behavior Bucks!  Thanks to all of those who put their culinary arts skills to work!

Our first Mystery Reader!

Thanks Mrs. Long for coming to be our first Mystery Reader of the year!  We loved the story, and the game was lots of fun, too!

First People of Mississippi

Check out these cool murals we made about the first people to live in Mississippi.  We also told about their traditions using petroglyphs!

Model Cells!

We had lots of fun last week making model cells from clay.  Do you remember how an animal cell and plant cell are different?  Hint: Plant cells have 2 things animal cells don't have.

Try playing this game!

This is a great game to help you practice the types of sentences like we are learning about in English Chapter 1!

http://www.edontheweb.com/the_ed_files_flash.asp?ModuleID=127&MovieName=Edontheweb3.swf

Check out the New Poll!

Look on the right side of the screen and find the new poll I added.  Cast your vote today!

Learning about Mississippi!

Oh what messy fun!  We learned about Mississippi's landforms by making salt dough maps in our pizza boxes.  We also learned about Mississippi's symbols (magnolia, mockingbird, the flag, state seal) and will be adding those to our pizza boxes as well.                                                                                       

Back-to-School!

Well 4th graders, I think we are off to a great start!  We've been working hard learning procedures, rules, and getting organized.  Now it's time to let the learning begin!  Just a few reminders:

• You need an art smock and your dough for Friday's project!
• Back-to-School Night is tomorrow starting at 6:30.  Remind your parents to bring your TOAD folder with them!
• Start studying those multiplication facts EVERY night!  It should be an easy review from 3rd grade.  Timed 1 minute test Friday!
• Take a few minutes to explore this website.  There is lots of cool information here for you!

It's Electric!

This coming week in science we will begin learning about electricity.  There are so many cool sites with fun games to help you learn more.  We will only have time for a few in class, but check them all out on your own!

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/Science/electricity.htm

Talent Show Puppet Performance

We rocked the house with our "Parts of Speech" puppet rap!

Night of the Notables

 Just a few pictures from our big night!  Thanks Mrs. Sayuri for sharing!