Category: 4th grade
Ecosystem project
In 4th grade we do an ecosystem project. First we have to choose an ecosystem I chose the Tundra. And then we researched we researched in topics, the topics were consumers, producers, location, decomposers, unique, and fun facts. After we researched we did a PSA script, in the PSA script we outlined our ideas for the wevideo. After the Psa script we did a story board the story board is an organizer for our rough draft After we finished our storyboard we learned how to work we video, we video can make cool videos easily. so we learned how to make a we video by choosing any topic we want so we would know the basics of we video. We learned how to do transitions which are after the video or the picture is finished a sort of movement. And then we started a first draft on our Ecosystem. We also learned how to do voiceover, voiceover is our voice in the we video. We had to make the video 1 minute. Mr.Casal showed us a website to get better picture called creativecomons.com
The hardest part of the we video was to get better pictures.
The easiest part was to get the video to 1 minute.
Biography project
In 4th grade we do a biography project. We pick someone to do it on, I picked Milton Hershey, then we researched. This is my blog post.
Childhood
Milton Hershey was born in 1865 in a stone farm house in Derry Township where there wasn’t any chocolate in America. So, Milton had to spend his pennies on sour balls and peppermints. He belonged to the Mennonite religion. Mennonites dressed plainly and worked hard as farmers. They didn’t go to dances or play cards. At thirteen Milton got a job running a printing press. Milton was supposed to set blocks of type on a printing press. Each block was set by hand. But Milton didn’t like his job. He was pretty clumsy when he dropped stuff his boss was very angry at him. So he got a job at Joseph Royers ice cream shop. And there he learned the basics of candy making.
Adult life
When Milton was an adult he made his own candy business, he didn’t have enough money so he borrowed $150 from his mother’s sister Mattie. He only sold his candy for 1 cent. He was losing money from the candy shop because sugar was lots of money, and he only sold his candy for 1 cent, so Aunt Mattie asked uncle Gabe for more money. Milton’s candy shop wasn’t that much of a success so it closed after 6 years. And then Milton found another job. That wasn’t a success either so he found a job at New Orleans, and then he went to Chicago, and then he went to New York.
In 1886 he had just enough money to go back to his hometown. He wanted to make another business so he got more money, this time he made a caramel business. Some english guy really liked Miltons caramels so he placed a big order. Milton didn’t have enough money to make all of the caramels so a banker named Mr.Brennaman gave him $700. He hired some workers. He got the money from the English man so he could give Mr.Brenneman the $700 back. People from all over the world came to eat MIltons caramels.
MIlton married someone named Kitty. Milton sold his caramel factory for 1 million dollars Then he started to make milk chocolate. He made a huge chocolate factory in Derry Township, around Miltons factory he built a town. There was churches, a school for children whose parents died or couldn’t care for them, and for entertainment there was a park, golf course, and even a zoo! The town was ready in 1905. In 1907 Milton started to make Hersheys Kisses. The chocolate was so popular that it was even sold at candy shops, grocery stores, and bus stops. After Kitty died Milton gave all of his 60 million dollars to the school. He died on October 13, 1945.
Challenges
Milton Hershey had a few challenges in his life, here are some of them. The first few times Milton sold candy he failed. More money was going out of Milton’s candy shop then in. Lots of Milton’s shops were out of business. Milton failed in each place. He needed more money to pay the loan that Mr.Brennaman gave him.
How he changed the world
Milton Hershey changed the world by making Hershey chocolates. He also made Cadbury chocolates, Jolly Ranchers, Kit Kat, Reeces Pieces, Twizzlers, and Ice breakers. He was the first to make milk chocolate. He also made a school for children whose parents died or couldn’t care for them.
Colonial Day
In 4th grade we have colonial day. My favorite activity from colonial day was toys and games. There were three stations there were pick up sticks which is some one from one of the two teams drops a bunch of sticks, one person from one team had to pick up the sticks with out moving another stick. If the person move another stick than it was the other teams turn. And on and on until there were no sticks left. When all of the sticks are gone the team with the most sticks wins. And another station had small cups with a ball connected to the cup and you had to get the ball in the cup. It was not like a cup that you would drink out of. I got the ball in the cup twice. And the last station was rolling a wooden hoop with a wooden stick. And the hoop could not fall you had to keep balance with the hoop. What I learned was that colonist worked a lot and they had a lot of jobs. I wish I learned more about how boys were treated in dame school. Colonial times was different than today. Because the clothes were different, they made candles different, they had different toys, they cooked different, they had dame school, they wore different clothes, and they had horn books for dame school. Those were just some of the reasons why colonial times was different than today. Colonial day was very fun!
Tornadoes 2017 A
This is my extreme weather project I have been working on it for a week. I hope you enjoy it
Curiosity Project – Football
At the start 4th grade we had to do a curiosity project. A Curiosity Project is something you know about or you wanted to know about. We did a lot of research.
We did the curiosity project on google slides.
For my project i did Football I did football because football is very fun to watch and play. And I have loved football since I was 2 years old. And my Curiosity Project was very fun.
This is my curiosity project: