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!

🦃November Read Alouds

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson. Read aloud by Miss Klipfel's Class

One is a Feast For Mouse: A Thanksgiving Tale by Judy Cox read aloud by Mrs. Weeks' Homeroom

Disney Day

On Friday, Howe-Manning 4th graders got to experience one magical day! In honor of Mickey Mouse's 95th 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 of course took a ride on Space Mountain too

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