Vacation Challenge

4th graders were given a little extra (optional) homework over vacation. I have heard all about your travel plans to tropical places, trips up north, and staycation activities. Now it's time to share them on the blog. Share a picture or comment anytime this week about what you are up to this vacation. Double click anywhere on the padlet below to add your comment. If you'd like to attach a picture then double click to add your sticky note and click the arrow symbol to attach a picture. You can also email me with your picture and/or comment and I will post it for you. I look forward to hearing/seeing your fun April vacation posts to come.

Opening Day!

Smack! Welcome to Howe-Manning Park! For Red Sox Opening Day our pod turned into a “baseball field” with three bases Mr. Husson’s 1st base, Mrs. Week’s 2nd base, and of course the most fabulous Miss Klipfel 3rd base. At home plate, players stepped up to bat also known as the spinner. If you are lucky you could spin a HOMERUN! Foul tip meant that you have to spin again or swing again.

If you landed on a single then off to Mr. Husson’s room to answer measurement word problems. While we worked on our math problems Mr. Husson had the Boston Red Sox game LIVE! We noticed the Boston Red Sox were playing the only MLB team that’s from Canada, The Toronto Blue Jays. Start. Think. Answer. Move On. So we were safe at first, (Mr. Husson’s Class) and moved on to second base, Mrs. Weeks' room. 

Like Mr. Husson's room, Mrs. Weeks also has math problems from 1 to 60. The math questions included graphs and more. For intensity, Mrs. Weeks room is in second place behind Miss Klipfel. The reason is if you get an incorrect question you will have to spin again. And there's a chance you get a single and have to go back to Mr. Husson's room. But some of the problems were easy so we got by well. Now with a math problem correctly done onward to Miss Klipfel at 3rd base…

If you spin a triple off to Miss Klipfel’s room. In Miss Klipfel’s room instead of doing math, we did ELA. Here you have to alternate between passages and answering questions. This was also an MCAS practice too. It helped us a lot with your learning, it’s a great resource for an extra boost for MCAS coming up so we are game day ready.

Make it around the bases and score a run for your Homeroom team. This mini-game was all about how you could work together to get problems correct for your homeroom team and what made it even harder is if you got a problem wrong you'd be sent back all the way to the start, just like baseball you were O-U-T. Sometimes we’d only have to solve a little piece of paper but sometimes you’d have to take a packet. And then 3 more problems! When we figured out that this game was to prepare us for MCAS some of us were super duper shocked.

It was the HOMERUN of a day in our fourth-grade classes. We all wish every fourth-grade day in Howe- Manning Park was like this. Thank you to all of our fabulous teachers in our fourth classes.

Written by Guest Bloggers: Domenic, Sabrina, Jackson, and Christopher D.