Welcome to fourth grade in Lecompton Elementary. Fourth graders had an exciting day, not the least of which included getting their very own lockers! We had a lot of housekeeping kinds of things to take care of, but they also got to play a “getting-to-know-you” game and several math games that I’ve made up over [...]
Mrs. Folk’s student teacher, Ms. Spare, invited her former fifth grade science teacher to present to our fourth graders on magnetism and electricity this Friday. As the person who inspired Ms. Spare’s love of science, Roger Duroni, gave a shocking presentation, as you can see in the pictures below. The children were absolutely spellbound during [...]
It’s Pajama Day at LES! Several kids were absent, so it’s a small, but fun group.
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Yes, even in room 4B in tiny Lecompton, change is in the air. 4B kids will be exeriencing change beginning this week in two areas.
SPELLING: Since some students have shown that our spelling words are not challenging enough, we began spelling on Monday with a pre-test. Any words that students have already mastered can be [...]
Our recent math unit was a very short geometry unit on transformations, or moving shapes around in space. In order to help kids understand about turning, spinning and flipping objects, they got to perform those actions on each other. Who says math can’t be fun?
Both fourth grades loaded up their projects on a bus this morning and headed into the Douglas County Science Fair. Located at the Douglas County Fair Grounds – Building 21, the science fair has been introducing local school children to scientific method for 58 years. Lecompton children, with guidance from teachers and parents, develop their [...]
We had a wonderful presentation today about how kids can stay safe while exploring the Internet. The presenter, Kevein Honeycutt, had a really cute little dog with him who the children just loved. Mr. Honeycutt had some really good stories and advise for them. He even sang an original song about Internet safety while accompanying [...]
As a culminating activity at the end of this week’s reading selection, A Peddler’s Dream, fourth graders got to make comic strips of the story on the Internet. They used a simple but powerful tool called Make Beliefs Comix to demonstrate their understanding of plot and to retell the story. Both are very important reading [...]
On Thursdays and Fridays, 4B kids get to play a variety of educational games that I’ve found on the Internet that help them practice skills we’ve been working on during the week. This Thursday, they got to practice finding the mean, median and mode using Handling Data, a game from the BBC in England. It [...]
Statistics… Sounds like a really fun, exciting topic doesn’t it? Well, it is in our class. On Monday each fourth grader got their own small box of raisins. Kids wrote their estimates of how many raisins were in each box on a strip of paper that had been folded in half. Then they all hung [...]
