Friday, February 9, 2024

Klipper Bowl VI

Are you ready for some fffooooootball? 4th graders were geared up and ready to go for the sixth annual Klipper Bowl. Teams were introduced while blasting their team chosen song, then we completed warm-up stretches, huddled up for last minute strategies, and then stood for the national anthem. Next up was our coin toss for kickoff return placement. Lucky teams who guessed the coin toss correctly had a 20-yard kickoff return while others started on the 10-yard line. Using perseverance and grit, teams quickly caught up.
Teams then ran "plays" from their playbook to gain yardage on the field. "Plays" included using different forms of texts (articles, media, poems, etc.) and completing activities. Players learned about who invented football and completed a comprehension activity worth 50 yards. Teams read a Wonderoplois article explaining what makes the Super Bowl so super and then completed a Google form for 30 yards. Teams could choose to run a play and apply all their figurative language knowledge to create football similes, metaphors, alliterations, personifications, and onomatopoeias.
The plays worth the most yards involved correctly placing team logos for all the Southeast region teams (yes, we have been learning all about the Southeast in Social Studies). Other plays included reading a passage about Tom Brady, learning about the history of the Super Bowl, placing fraction footballs on the correct place on the field, and reading a football poem to determine the mood and purpose all for different amounts of yards.
Once teams correctly completed a play, they brought it to Referee Klipfel for the final check and to advance on the field. After gaining enough yardage to make it down the field, teams scored a touchdown! Complete with touchdown dances! Teams then got to throw for point conversions. Team cooperation and good sportsmanship earned extra yards or kicks for points at ANY time throughout the game. "Good job", "keep working hard", and other forms of encouragement were heard around the field all day. No yellow flags needed to be thrown.
Referee Klipfel and teams had one SUPER day! Klipper Bowl VI is complete so now onto baseball season.

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

360 Patagoina

Written by guest blogger: Ava
Last week Miss Klipfel took us to Patagonia. No, it didn’t take us three flights to get there, she let everyone use the VR headset to see 360 pictures. We really felt like we were in Patagonia. We got to try 3 times to see 3 different pictures and three different locations. The first picture was of the National Geographic Explorer! The National Geographic Explorer is a big ship that holds many people. You would think it may be small but no it is giant! This ship is the spot that Miss Klipfel basically lived on for the 2 weeks she was gone. The ship also brought her to the spots she needed to be like Karakinka National Park, Tierra del Fuego, and the Chilean fjords. Miss Klipfel had told us that there were many rooms on the ship. There was even a library!
The second picture was of Karakinka National Park and we got to see a few Elephant Seals! The last picture was of a glacier! When you put on the headset it was almost like you were in Patagonia with Miss Klipfel. You could walk in a circle and see every angle of the picture. You can check out the pictures below. Which one would be your favorite? Mine is probably Karakinka National Park because the elephant seals were really cute. The elephant seals were brown and just lying there on the ground. Check out the pictures.



Sneezy The Snowman

Sneezy the Snowman by Alison Jackson. Read aloud by Miss Klipfel's Class. Enjoy and stay warm. 
 






Thursday, December 14, 2023

From Middleton to England

Written by Guest Bloggers: Leo, Oliver & Peter

JDO is a foundation that lets kids interact with each other from far away and do projects together. Our class has a partner class in England. We meet on Google Meet to get to know each other and work on projects. We love our meet so we can hear their British accents. Here are some facts about our classrooms: we have a dog named Howie, and they have a dog named Sassy. We are close to Boston and they are close to London.

We don't just meet over Google Meet but we also have JDO partners journals. This is when you can write to a different person or people around the world. You can get to know the people/ person like if they play sports. It’s fun to meet new people around the world. For the partner journal, you can learn some facts about them and you teach them about you! I promise if you do it you’re going to have the most amazing glorious time of your life!


One of the fun things we do with the JDO project is our first project called Take a Walk. It is on Google Earth project to view different parts of the world and to make projects for where we live to show each other. Right now we are doing a practice one for places in Middleton like Richardsons, the police station, the fire station, and even the reservoir. Check out our class Google Earth Middleton Project here. Our partner class in England is making a Google Earth Project for their town called Burghclere, England. Check out our class Google Earth Middleton Project here.

Right now we are working on creating a Google Earth Project with our JDO partners for Patagonia with pictures from Miss Klipfel's expedition. We can't wait to share it soon!