Miss Liefer's 4th Grade Class

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Valentine's Day is Coming Soon

Valentines Day is coming soon!!!

We will have a small class party to

celebrate friendships on February 14.

(We have 26 students in class!)

If you would like to send candy or snacks to share with everybody that would be great but not required. Each student may bring in a drink for the party for themselves.

We will be making bags for valentines in class (no need to make a mailbox!) See the pictures below...

Remember if you choose to send valentines, the rule for sending valentines is you must send EVERYONE in the class a valentine. (This rule is to stop the students from selectively sending people valentines. We do not want any hurt feelings!)

Here are two Valentine websites that you should check out:
http://www.storyit.com/wgames/valworddrop.htm

http://www.akidsheart.com/holidays/valntine/valgms.htm

the class busy making Valentine Bags

acting silly

working hard

making decorations

Supporting St. Baldrick's Foundation

On Friday we had a crazy hat/hair day.

All donations were given to St. Baldrick's Foundation to support Children's Cancer Research

Monday, February 11, 2013

ISAT is coming soon!

This is the ISAT Website Links we were talking about

Curious about the ISAT test coming up?

Check out REAL sample questions at:

www.isbe.net/assessment/htmls/sample_books.htm

(Choose 4th grade reading, math, or science)

Want to practice? Here’s an interactive site of ISAT multiple choice questions…

http://metacat2.com/iltestlinks.html

Chemical Changes

In science we are studying Chemical and Physical Changes.

Here's a look at us in the lab experimenting with baking powder, baking soda, salt, water, and vinegar.

Let's use the pipette to get some drops of liquid

Scientists busy working

I'm watching a chemical reaction!

before

after

do you hear bubbles?

taking notes about what we observed

time to clean up!

I have such a great class!

changing the color of a penny-- now it looks shiny and new again!

let's see what happened...

before

after

our clean pennies

chemical reaction!

wow!

Science is fun!

We love learning!

Some students tried the experiment on 1/2 a penny. Look at the difference!

It overflowed!

Monday, February 4, 2013

Travel Log Update

Remember the post on January 3...
http://missliefer.blogspot.com/2013/01/travel-log.html

Well, it's one month later... and look where we've "visited" so far!

New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Indiana, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado!

Everyday we anxiously wait for the mail to see if we have received new postcards.

Our collection is growing!