Today Howe-Manning 4th graders got to experience one magical day! In honor of Mickey Mouse's 90th 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.
While visiting Tomorrowland with Mickey Mouse (aka Mr. Husson) students designed a Disney ride of the future. Using their science knowledge especially everything they have been learning about energy students used lego kits to motorize and build their ride.
With Belle (aka Mrs. Deeley) in Fantasyland students completed STEAM challenges. Using a variety of supplies, students created a book holder for Belle and her beloved books. They also worked together to create a rose holder to protect the enchanted rose.
When Sleeping Beauty (aka Miss Klipfel) wasn't sleeping, she was working with students to complete a shared writing activity. The whole 4th grade used digital tools to collaborate and create five different fairy tale stories. The first class wrote the expositions, second class the rising actions with the climax, and the third wrote the falling actions along with the resolutions. Afterward, the final two classes completed the illustrations, editing, and recordings. Finished products coming soon!
Cinderella (aka Mrs. Weeks) exposed students to the many frontiers she has encountered in her books from all around the world. Students compared and contrasted these stories from different cultures.
With bravery on their minds and in their hearts, students visited Merida (aka Mrs. Church) to complete a variety of math adventures. Students worked on their multiplication and division fluency while revealing different Disney characters.
Until tomorrow 4th graders, we might not be at Disney but it is sure to be magical. Also, make sure to check back for the next post with our published writing.
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
-Walt Disney
Focus Standards:
Tomorrowland: Energy-Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
Fantasyland: Engineering Design-Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
Magic Kingdom: W 4.6 With some guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
Fronteirland: RL 4.9 Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories from different cultures.
Adventureland: NBT B. 6 Find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division.
Mr. Husson's writers crafted the falling actions and resolution, some of which ended happily ever after (and some not so much). The illustrators of Mrs. Week's class visited the maker space to create digital illustrations. Finally, to put it all together, our class had the VERY important editor job. Check out our five published tales below:
