Happy Valentine's Day

Enjoying Fort Day

Check out our pictures from fort day last week.  Students enjoyed some quiet, mindfulness time in their forts!

  


 
 

    

Fort Day

Hi All!

We will be having a fort/mindfulness/read-a-thon day tomorrow to celebrate everyone's hard work in filling our fish bowl. Students have shown so many ways of being safe, respectful, and responsible both inside and outside of the classroom.  Great job everyone!

Students may bring a clean blanket or a sheet and a small stuffed animal to use for their fort.  In addition, we will be doing mindfulness activities along with a mini read-a-thon.

Please email with any questions.  kari.carney@colchestersd.org

Enjoy the sunshine!
Mrs. Carney

Friday Genius Hour Fun

3D printing, 3D pens, coding, circuit building, and recycled materials projects in action!

January Updates

Carney’s Crew News and Updates  

Hi Everyone!

It has been a busy few weeks getting ourselves back into a routine after winter break and other days off.  It was nice to finally have a full week of school without any interruptions.

Here are some things happening in our classroom:

Math- We have been focusing on multiplication, multiplication, and more multiplication in unit 4! We have also learned about metric conversions (milliliters/liters, and grams/kilograms), and finding the area and perimeter of rectangles and rectilinear shapes. We will be taking our unit 4 assessment next Wednesday.  Unit 5 will focus on fractions and mixed-number computation.

Writing- We started our informational writing unit by brainstorming all of the characteristics that informational writing should have. Students came up with an amazing list full of expectations that they created for themselves to use throughout the writing unit. Then, we created expert lists full of topics that we know a lot about.  Students had to choose a topic from their expert lists and are currently in the process of making chapter plains for their big topics.  Next week we will discuss paragraph writing, introductions, and conclusions.

Reading- We started our informational unit in reading as well and learned all about text features and how they help us better understand the text we are reading.  Students used Scholastic News Magazines and did a text feature scavenger hunt to help with their understanding. This week we discussed how to “scan and plan” when reading an informational text.  Next week we will learn about main idea and then move into learning about text structures.

Social Studies- We are currently learning about the six physiographic regions of Vermont.  This week we learned where the region is located, the natural resources found in that region, and what the landscape is like. Students partnered up and each read about a different region and then had to present their new learning to the class. Next week we will learn about some of our state symbols and products and their importance to our state.   

Unified Arts 3rd Quarter Schedule-

Monday- PE

Tuesday- Art

Wednesday- PE

Thursday- Art AND book exchange

Friday- Guidance

Other News and Upcoming Dates-

Yearbooks- Visit the MBS homepage to order a yearbook!

District Wide Early Release Day- February 7th Students dismissed at 12:45pm

Book Orders- Book order forms are due by Wednesday, January 31st.  Visit the link on our class blog to place an order online.  

Recyclable Materials- MBS is looking to collect clean, safe, and recycled items as well as some crafting materials for an upcoming school-wide project in January.  You can start sending in materials next week. Please see the yellow handout that went home yesterday for more information.  

Please feel free to contact me anytime by email- kari.carney@colchestersd.org and/or school phone- 264-5867.

Happy Friday!   

Mrs. Carney

Time Change for Plays

The Greek Plays will start tomorrow at 1:45 in order to allow enough time to get the cafeteria ready after lunches. We hope to see you there!

Greek Plays

Hi All!

Happy New Year!  I hope you had a restful holiday and found ways to stay warm in the crazy cold weather. 

To wrap up our Mythology Unit students have been practicing a reader's theater story of Demeter and Persephone.  The four Lighthouse 4th grade classes will be performing them for the Summit House 4th graders on Friday at 1:30 in the cafeteria. You are invited to join us!