Guest Blogger: Ashton

Today we have a very special guest blogger today from Ashton!  He's been working hard on this spooky story and it's finally ready to share!

P4’s Haunted Field Trip

By: Ashton Frye and Maco Inc.

This book is dedicated to some of my favorite teachers Mrs.Lippert, Mrs. Nichols, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Pflugrath, and also my great classroom, P4.

Chapter 1 Getting Ready

One gloomy day in November portable four (p4) was getting prepared for a field trip to the Issaquah salmon hatchery. Everyone was getting their coat and lunch right before they walked out of the school to catch the bus. Mrs. Lippert and Mrs. Nichols were assigning chaperones to their students and getting everyone ready. Then everyone got in line and walked to the bus stop and got on the bus just like any regular field trip.

Chapter 2 On The Bus

When everyone was on the bus, the bus driver started to drive. While p4 was on the bus everyone started to talk and play rock, paper, scissors. After about 15 long minutes the bus driver turned around and everyone saw a sight no one ever  forgot. The bus driver was dead! He ran after the students but they jumped out the door before he could grab them. Then the kids and the teachers had to walk for the last 15 minutes until they got to the Issaquah salmon hatchery at 12:34 PM                    

 Chapter 3 At The Hatchery

 When we got there  we looked around and saw nothing anywhere. Then Mrs. Lippert said, “Let’s all look around at the salmon.” We walked over to the salmon and to our surprise, the salmons were all skeletons! Everyone jumped super high in the air and ran away, we knew something was wrong. We ran to the pay telephone. Luckily Anthony and Han both had a dime in their pocket, just enough for 1 call on the phone. We immediately called the police to come inspect the scene. A couple of minutes later the police got here but they were not any ordinary police, they were goblins! Once we saw them we immediately ran away and hid.

 Chapter 4 The Chase

                All the students and teachers were bunched up behind a statue of a fish in a river.  Then suddenly the goblins started running around looking for the students. The students started getting super scared. Suddenly, the goblins ripped their skin and then we saw the goblins weren’t really goblins, they were just Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Pflugrath in very realistic costumes. Everyone started laughing as loud as 1,000,000,000 lions roaring all at the same time. It was a pretty funny sight.

Chapter 5 Getting Back To School

                When everyone was calmed down we went back to the class, this time we had to walk the whole time because there was no way we were going on the bus with the dead bus driver especially after he tried to chase the kids and hurt the teachers. When we got back to school everyone was still thinking about that funny moment when the police were really teachers. After everyone in p4 got back to their seats then we went to math class and had a very fun day.

**Write A on your planner for tonight for bonus points.  We are REALLY close to getting our popcorn and movie reward for the 22nd so show me you want it!  :)

Guest Blogger

This week Chris was our guest blogger and somehow this didn't get posted!  Sorry Chris!  Here is what Chris had to say this week:

  By Chris
In class we still don’t have anybody finshed with there 40 book challenge but Thom has finshed hes 1,000 page chalenge and he is working on a 2,000 page chalenge. We are working on a Whipping boy book project and you have to choose Children’s story , Test ,Comic book , Photo album or Diorama. It is due October 30 2013.

There will be more information about the book project coming soon so stay tuned.  Write down CHRIS on the  Monday, November 4th section of your planner for bonus points!  :)  Have a fantastic weekend!

Happy Halloween!

Sorry for the lack of posts this week - our schedule has been CRAZY!  I will be posting a ton of pictures from the past week in the next few days so keep an eye out!

Have a safe Halloween and enjoy your festivities!  Write a star on your planner for bonus points for tonight!  :)

Autumn Artwork: Harvest Moon Silhouettes

Our fourth graders were really excited to have our first two art projects with Mrs. Loubet!   Our art project took two sessions to complete because of the painting but it was well worth it!

Students started by creating a harvest moon.  They had red, orange, yellow, and white which were all used to create a mix of colors and shades that made the moon blend perfectly and in a gradient.

From there, students added silhouettes of something fall/Halloween/harvest onto the background to give a shadowy silhouette illusion.  Here is the result!

They turned out great!!  I'm so impressed and can't wait to see what we do next for art - this is such an artsy group!  Write ART on your planner for bonus points tonight!

Junior Achievement

Today was our first day welcoming our visitors Nita and Kar Mun to our classroom.  They are two fantastic volunteers from SPU who are volunteering for Junior Achievement and teaching us all about being and becoming an entrepreneur!  First we talked about the four different areas where entrepreneurs can choose to create a new product: food/drinks, sports, technology, and entertainment.

Ask your child to think of an entrepreneur that fits into one of those categories!

Then, we brainstormed ideas about what makes an entrepreneur successful.  Students had a great list traits like:

Great vocabulary!  Perseverance, honest...

Determined, invention needs to be useful, kind...

Advertisement, making what people want...

Doesn't use the consumer, prepared to work, "holiday decorated building"... the holidays apparently are important to our class!  Who would have guessed with Halloween right around the corner, right?! :)

And lastly, correspondent and "they have to know when the beat drops".... absolutely my favorite! :)

Junior Achievement is coming to visit 4 more times and I can't wait to see what we do next.  Write JA on your planner for bonus points for tonight!

Guest Blogger: Ashton

 Classroom points and the mystery bonus!!!
 In our classroom (P4) each table group can earn points for being on task, working hard, doing a good job on your work, etc.  Every once in a while however many points the table with the least amount of points has earned is how much points the class will have. With those points the class can get prizes like popcorn, extra recess, being able to watch a movie, etc.
            Every Monday morning every table has a choice to participate in something called a mystery bonus. After every table has told Mrs. Lippert if they want to participate in the mystery bonus Mrs. Lippert opens up an envelope and pulls out a card. It either says you will earn some points, or lose some points. Every table who participates in the mystery bonus has to either lose the points the card says or win the points the card says.
                                                                                                                 Sincerely,
                                                                                                                 Ashton

**Thanks Ashton for helping others understand more about our classroom!  I love that you're helping others learn more about what we do in P4.  So far the mystery bonus has been pretty poor!  Twice students have lost over 50 points!  Luckily the students are doing a great job making up those points!

Write Ashton on your planner for tonight to earn extra points for your table!

Guest Blogger: Harrison!

Each week our class has a job called the class blogger.  As 4th graders it's important that students are getting better and better at typing and so students are asked to submit a blog post during the week either as a news piece for the classroom, a creative writing piece, etc.  Anything they want to write and feel like others would like to read about!  It's always fun to see what people come up with and I love to see their creativity shine in this way!


This week Harrison is our class blogger and he already has a post for us:

This week it was the 2^nd week of music also the class finished Frindle and were also starting a new book called Clementine. There is a new station we have called word work. Its Monday so we all have new must do’s :)

Write HARRISON on your planner tonight for bonus points!