Category Archives: 4th Grade

Desert PSA reflection

Posted on by under 4th Grade, Science

The first step was we did research on on the human impact on the deserts. Then was we had to make a script of the words or text that would appear. Then we made our story board. The story board had to be at least 10 or 11 panels long. The panel were the photos or the videos that you see. The video could only be 60 seconds long. Then we had to do our first draft of the video itself. Then we had to figure out which picture we wanted to keep and the ones that had to be replaced. We used the website creative commons for the better photos. Then we added transitions and audio recording. Then we had some peers look at it the we hit the finish button and put the video on drive. I though the project was over all pretty easy.

 

Here is the video hope you enjoy:

Winston Churchill

Posted on by under 4th Grade, Reading, Writing

Childhood

 

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on November 30, 1874 at Blenheim palace. More commonly known as Winston Churchill. And grew up in Victorian England. Due to his dad being Lord Randolph the third son of the first Duke of Marlborough he had a pretty easy childhood health and condition wise. Apart from the time he became very sick ate the age of nine.During school he struggled with behavior so he got spanked. and went to several schools. His parents decided to send him to a boarding school but after a while he was moved to the military class. Where he would start his military and journalism career.

 

Adult life

 

After his military career he would go on and follow in his dads footsteps buy joining politics. He would get kicked off of Parliament. Then Winston married a woman named Clementine Hozier. After that Winston rejoined the army and served for a few more years. Then Winston got back into Parliament. He lived through WWI. And became the prime minister before WWII.Winston died in 1965.

 

Obstacles

 

Winston had to face many obstacles like getting kicked off of parliament. And becoming ill at nine. Also during his military career the dutch put a bounty on him for escaping captivity. That escape lead to a little bit of fame in Britain.

 

Impact

 

Winston’s impact on Britain was huge like helping through some of the toughest times in history such as WWII.  He helped Britain by giving the hope and putting them in the right hands. Due to this the leaders of Russia and America Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill himself got the nickname the big three. And he was the first to be by France is side when fighting.

Deserts

Posted on by under 4th Grade, Science, Writing

Have you ever wondered what the biggest desert? Did you know that deserts are on every continent except Europe. A desert is that the landmass gets very little precipitation or rainfall every year. So there for Antarctica is the world’s largest desert. There are 12 major deserts in the world they are the Sahara, Barberton, Simpson, Gibson, Australia Stuart, Victoria, Nafud, Hamada, Gobi, Kalahari, Taklamakan, Sonoran and Namib desert. There are also many consumers in the desert. Such as Sidewinders they are a type of snake. They are named this for there strange way of travel. Fennec foxes are also part of the desert ecosystem they are easily recognizable with there big ears.There is also the highly dangerous Gila Monster which one of two venomous lizards. There is a large amount of lizards and insects in the desert. Such as Horned lizards they are names this due to there horny appearance. And there are also Giant centipedes that have a venomous bite. Also Penguins they are desert consumers they huddle to keep warm the the Antarctic desert weather. The kangaroo rat is also one of the many rodents in the desert ecosystem they have long legs like kangaroos hence the name kangaroo rat. These are just some of the many consumers in the desert. There are also many producers such as Palm trees and saguaro cactus. There are also yucca bush and desert pea. Also cactus drug and barrel cactus. Also creso bush and fleshy leaf. These are just some of the many producers in the desert.

 

 

Colonial America Book Reflection

Posted on by under 4th Grade, Social Studies, Writing

I liked the colonial book project. But it took to a long time here is the long process of the book. First we got plan books and set up our plan. Then we we went to library to learn how to do a citation. Then we used the websites and books that were provided to us. We had special times when we could use the books. We researched about our chapter 1 first for about 1 week then we started working on our chapter 2. It was a little stressful because when we looked through a new book we had to write the citation for the book. Then after we thought we had enough we wrote all the information on index cards. Then we wrote it all down on our yellow notepad and then we copied the text from the notepad and typed it up on the computer. Then we repeated this process until all of our text was typed up. Then our teacher checked it and after that we were allowed to paste it into our book presentation in slides. Then we went to computer lab to learn how to do a bibliography. Then we made our bibliography and glossary. Then we looked for pictures we could add. Then we added the pictures. Once we were all done with all that, we had to write a Colonial America Blog Post which is what you are reading now. So those were all the steps of the process.

The hardest part of the book was when we had to write all the citations. Because if we didn’t write the citation we could not use that information. My favorite parts of the process was writing this post. Because it was a nice change of pace from all the research and the non – fiction writing so this was my favorite. I also really liked typing and writing my chapter 3 because we got to be a little humorous with the text we wrote. I really liked creating the characters with also keeping some of the topic information.I learned that not everything is how it seems like I though colonial life was easy but I learned it’s really not. Like the colonist had to hunt for food and can’t really buy it. One thing I think I could have done differently is with taking more time to research. So I hope you enjoy my Colonial America Book.

Colonial Day

Posted on by under 4th Grade, Social Studies, Writing

Last week my school had colonial day. My favorite activity was toys and games. Because we got to play with old fashion games. And we also didn’t have to work. I learned that colonial life was very hard but it could also be fun. Especially playing games with the toys. I want to know why they picked George Washington as the 1st president.

 

 

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