Halloween

The end of October is already here and we were ready to celebrate. Thank you to our room moms for coming with so many fun activities! We had fun making Halloween pins, trying to pass pumpkins with no hands, playing games, listening to scary stories and feeling brains and eyeballs. All of us were so dressed up with so many different costumes! Happy Halloween to everybody else!

Rad Kids

What an awesome experience our clas had while participating in Rad Kids. We were able to learn about how to be safe and protect ourselves no matter where we were, because nobody has the right to hurt us! We worked hard all week long and then Mr. Dean came and helped us practice and graduate. It was so exciting and we loved learning!

End of the Year Activities!

It is kind of crazy to think that we only have 6 more weeks left of school. Boy, has this year just flown by and wow! has it been a great one. We have had such a good time and we have learned so much. Well, just to fill you in on the next couple of weeks, here are some important dates.

May 4- 8 Week of testing so get lots of rest and make sure you eat a good breakfast

May 12 The annual fourth grade Rendezvous- watch out for flyers for more info. We will be having a real mountain man come and talk to us and then we will be playing games and doing activities just like the mountain men and pioneers.

May 14 Field trip to the Zoo. The fourth grade will be going to Hogle Zoo to participate in the Salt Lake County Water Fair. The students will participate in all different events and learn more about the water cycle and water conservation. It will be great fun and hey, maybe we will even get to see some animals.

May 28 The fourth grade Utah Program to show off everything we have learned about Utah and all the new talents we've developed. This will include singing, dancing, and playing our recorders!

These are the main dates coming up so if you could mark them on your calendar, and get ready to have some fun. We are so excited to celebrate this great year we have had.

A week full of LEARNING!!!

Wow, what a wild winter month. We have had so much fun being back at school, especially this last week. It was filled with all sorts of learning activities! We learned about so many different things, from water to writing and then on to dancing!!
On Tuesday, the Living Planet Aquarium Water Van came and taught us all about the earth's water and the water cycle. We also learned about how Utah uses water and what we can do to save water. Don't forget to take quick showers and turn of the water when you are brushing your teeth. Then for the best part, we talked about the wetlands and saw a salamander and got to touch a real live snake! Awesome! We love water and we learned so much!!!








Then on Thursday we had the lucky opportunity to have Brandon Mull come to our school. Yeah, the man who wrote the FableHaven series. He told us all about writing and how he decided to become a writer. We can be writers too, if we just use our imaginations! Look at his paper, his editor marked it all up just like our teachers do. I guess that is what makes a good writer! Plus, one of our class members got to go up on stage and it wasn't only one time, she got to go up twice and she got a free book. Lucky Day!



Then to top of the whole week, a dance teacher from the Repertory Dance Theatre came and did a miniature dance lesson with us. It was so much fun! We learned about the different levels of dance and got to make up our own shapes using different levels. We also practiced our symmetry and freezing. We were good just like solid ice. We wouldn't even budge. It was one amazing week!

The New Year of 2009

Hi, I hope all is going well on this wonderful break we have. I hope you have been enjoying the time and maybe even all the snow. I look forward to seeing everybody again at the beginning of the new year and we will get right back into learning and working. School will start again on January 5. I hope you enjoy the rest of your break and I will see you all bundled up on Monday morning.

Oh, the Days of December

The month of December was so super busy and full of fun activities and learning. This is just a couple of the things that we did.
Book Reports
Wow! We did an awesome job on all our book reports. They were really not like any other book reports. Miss Fuhriman was so proud and everybody did a fantastic job. We also loved sharing them. Some students let us play the games they created and we even got to try some sushi. Some of us made T-shirts or posters or diagrams or even games. It was great and now we're excited to read some different books.


Gingerbread Houses
We were so lucky because we were able to do gingerbread houses twice. We helped our kindergarten buddies design and create some pretty amazing houses and then only 4 days later we really put our skills and talents to work. Basically, we created some of the most creative and innovative gingerbread houses ever. It was fun, we got sticky and ate lots of candy.



We also spent 12 days celebrating the 12 days of Christmas as we used math to figure out how much money the man spent on his true love. It came out around 60, ooo dollars. That is a lot of love and we decided that we rather have the money than all those birds and entertainers running around our house.
Then to top of the entire month we sang and danced in front of the whole school. It was great. We really performed and everybody loved it 'cause we "had our love to keep us warm."
What a fun month! We are excited for the new year and to get back to school and keep learning.

Yay for Music!

We love learning how to play the recorders. We know that you are so happy that we are learning them, too, especially when we practice at home.