Disney Day

Today, Howe-Manning 4th graders got to experience one magical day! In honor of Mickey Mouse's 94th birthday, we all headed to Disney (Disney Middleton that is). Students traveled around Disney's magical lands, meeting different characters and reviewing skills across the subject areas. Check out our Disney Map and click on each land to see what we were up to. 

We started our day in Frontierland to practice our geography skills. For Mickey's birthday, Minnie Mouse planned a spectacular trip around the Northeast Region of the United States. Students used iPads to scan QR codes which led them to letters from Minnie and clues about where she was taking Mickey on their trip.

We headed off to Fantasyland for reading (after a quick spin on the teacups). We practiced the different parts of speech with a digital hunt.  

In the afternoon we headed to Adventureland (aka Math) with Mrs. Weeks, we had so much fun spending $200 to buy Mickey's birthday presents. We had to round, add, and even multiply to get as close to spending all $200 as we could.

We also visited Tomorrowland and Toontown for more Disney fun! We could design our own ears, become an Imagineer, code an Elsa snowflake or even complete Disney Escape Rooms

Until tomorrow 4th graders, we might not be at Disney but it is sure to be magical.

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

-Walt Disney

From Middleton to Dublin

Written by Guest Bloggers: Scarlett & Gio

The JDO Foundation is a program we are doing this year where you get partnered with classes from different countries around the world to do fun projects. We were partnered with Mr. Daly’s class from Dublin, Ireland, and are excited to calab with them. We also made a google classroom with their class. We will soon get to write letters, do projects together and learn about their culture. We will also get a partner or maybe two because they have more students than us.

We do a google meet with them every month. When we met each other for the first time we told each other what is so special about our town and what it is like in our school. Here is what we shared about Howe-Manning and Middleton. 

A thing that really interested us is when they told us what kind of sports they had. The sports they had were very different then the sports we have in America. They had a really interesting playground that was different from our school. They did not have a playground instead they had a field and what we call a basketball court and a really nice running track. They called it their “yard” which we thought was fun. 

Their school is known as a technology school. They have a whole computer room in their school and they use VR headsets for learning sometimes. We are looking forward to seeing them again!