Disney Day

Today Howe-Manning 4th graders got to experience one magical day! In honor of Mickey Mouse's 91st 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 Kylo Ren (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 Ms. Shypula in Fantasyland students used the perspective of a Disney character to write a thankful letter to another character. They also got to plan and design a Thanksgiving feast for their chosen invited guests. My guess is Ariel is bringing fish sticks!

With Mickey Mouse (aka Miss Klipfel) students practiced their geography skills. For Mickey's birthday, Minnie Mouse planned him 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 for where she was taking Mickey on their trip.

In Adventureland with Ms. Brown students put their mathematical skills to the test. Mickey's grandmother was sick so she was unable to birthday shop for him. She gave students $250 to help her do the shopping. Students had to round prices and try to spend ALL of her money. Looks like Mickey is getting some wonderful birthday presents.

Minnie Mouse (aka Mrs. Weeks) exposed students to the many frontiers she has encountered in Cinderella's books from all around the world. Students listened to stories and then practiced with plot to figure out the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Students then worked in groups to compare their stories from around the world.

A special thanks to Miss Mountain our blog-tographer for our blog post pictures. 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

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: Know and apply map and globe skills.

Frontierland: 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.A.3Use place value understanding to round multi-digit whole numbers to any place.