Merry Christmas from Mrs. Lane

I miss each of you! I hope your Christmas is extra special! I love you all! Enjoy your holiday and I will see you on January 9.

Mrs. Lane

Christmas Activities

Clicking here: 
Christmas Activities
will take you to fun activities to use for celebrating the holiday!
Enjoy and then comment about a family holiday tradition that you have.

Learning Graphing

Learning to make graphs is fun and can help you organize information.
Bar Graphs help compare and contrast information while line graphs help show changes in information over a period of time. 
Play the graphing activity below to use data to make graphs. 

Graphing

COMMENT: How can you use graphs to help you with something you need to see visually? 

Force, Energy and Motion

Do the activities linked below: 

Friction Game

Forces and Movement

Links to Many Examples of Force, Energy and Motion

COMMENT: What did you learn about force, energy and motion through these games. 

Food Chain Game

You are learning about food chains in Science.  Each living thing has a part in the food chain; some are producers, some are consumers... Complete the activity linked here: Food Chain Game.
Comment: List an animal or plant in the food chain and tell what it's job is in the food chain. 

Welcome to Tech NIght

Welcome to Tech Night!  
I am so glad that you came to learn about the technology that your child uses in our classroom!  It makes learning so engaging and fun. Please take the information from tonight and let your children use technology in your home. 

Parents please follow the blog when you get home!

Students have your parents comment about something that they have learned so far tonight. 

Enjoy the remainder of the fun!

I Am Unafraid: Bullying

Mr. Banks spoke to us about Bullying.  He taught us to:

Avoid Bullies

Find a Friend

Report Bullying

Act Confident

These are wonderful ways for us to feel safe at school and around others. 

Watch the following Bullying videos created by students:
Bullying Videos

COMMENT: What video did you watch and how did they apply Mr. Banks ideas to resolve their bullying problem? 

Activities

Many of our classmates are involved in activities outside of school. What do you do outside or school and what would you like to do? 

Animal Adaptations

Animals adapt to their surroundings in order to survive.  Without adaptations, animals could fall prey to other animals, they might now have enough food or other bad things might happen to them. Play this game: Animal Adaptations THEN--Comment by listing 2 animals found in the game and how they adapt to survive their environment.

Natural Bridge and the Monacan Village

On Tuesday, Oct. 16 our class visited Natural Bridge, Virginia.  We saw the old bridge as well as visited the Monacan Indian Village and the Butterfly house.  It was a wonderful learning experience. Enjoy these pictures from our day! 

Art Show- Highlander Festival

This past Saturday was the Highlander Festival at RU. Many of you went to the festival or were in the parade. There was art work that you did on display for a contest. Look at the picture below that shows the art displayed.  Which do you like the best and why? What makes it the best? Congratulate your classmates for their wonderful art. 

Virginia's American Indians

Virginia had many Indian groups that lived here before the Europeans came. 
The tribes spoke different languages. 

Click on this link: Virginia's American Indian Information to learn more about Virginia's American Indians. After you explore the information comment about how you think the native Americans got to Virginia. 

Plant and Flower Parts

Play the Plant Life Cycle Game. 
Comment: What is something that you learned from the game that you did not already know?

Regions of Virginia

Since we are learning about the regions of Virginia, I would like for you to click on this link:
Regions of Virginia Video Created By Students. It will take you to a video created by some fourth graders.  After you watch it, comment by answering these questions:

1) Where were the students from that made this video?  How did you know?

2) What would you like to change about the video?

3) If you had the chance to make your own video of the Virginia regions would you do it and how would you create it? 

REMEMBER TO ANSWER IN COMPLETE SENTENCES AND WATCH FOR PUNCTUATION AND CAPITALIZATION! 

4th Grade Goals

Comment by stating at least one goal you have set for yourself in 4th grade!

WELCOME

Welcome to All-Star Lane, your fourth grade class!  This is a blog that will guide you throughout the year with different websites and ideas for learning.  You will follow this blog and you will comment to the questions in each blog post. 

Here are some rules about blogging:
1- to be safe use only initials of people in your comments
2- all comments will be approved by me before they are published on the blog
3- all comments must be something you would say aloud to someone, nothing private
4- write like you are writing a paragraph in class, use correct capitals and punctuation

Follow these rules and this will be a fun way to learn! 

Also- ask your parents to follow us! 

Now you can take a photo tour of our classroom:

The front of our classroom.  See the teams as well as our Smartboard.

Here is Mrs. Lane's desk and some of our classroom computers.

Small groups will work at this table. 

This is our class meeting area.