Happy First Week in Fourthlandia, Welcome Back to School

Dear Fourthlandian Family, Friends and Fans,

Welcome to our blog! Here, you'll learn about everything we've been up to in school. We hope you enjoy!

This week was a HOT week! We got into the swing of school and practiced 4th grade routines. We also read a lot of books that inspired us to start building our classroom community that we have learned will be called Fourthlandia. 

We read a strange book called Rules of Summer and thought about all the things NOT to do in the summer. We also read, Roxaboxen byAlice McLerran which was about kids who build a magical community on a desert mountain. After that, we read The Big Orange Splot about a man named Mr. Plumbean who had a creative mind and convinced his neighbors to paint their houses to look like their dreams. All of these books helped us think about our own hopes and dreams for our classroom community.

This week we also realized we need to come up with rules that will help us learn and feel successful in school. We worked in small groups and brainstormed all the possible rules that we could have. We're just getting started though!

We had our first All School Meeting and our first Chorus class. Here is a picture of the whole fourth grade at Chorus:



Finally, we ended our week with the Marshmallow Challenge where we had to build the tallest structure out of raw spaghetti, 

tape, string and one marshmallow on top. Here are some pictures of us building and some pictures of our creations.

We are looking forward to school on Tuesday!

Sincerely, 
Fourthlandia