Preparing For Track Day

Track day is an exciting day in elementary school! 

Racing, jumping, throwing, climbing, stacking, teamwork, and fun.

The Intermediate track day is scheduled for Monday May 2. 

Come to school with:

• gym shoes
• comfortable clothes in layers
• hat, warm clothes for a cool weather report
• waterbottle
• healthy snack
• good attitude

Fur Trapper Rendezvous Bartering

We continue our Rendezvous today with a bartering experience.  Students should have brought small items to trade with among the 4th grade classes.

Here's some history about bartering:




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Making Butter With Kids

When is the last time you made butter?  We're making butter today at school.  Families have generously donated heavy whipping cream and we've saved, washed, and recycled baby food jars to use for our project.

Each Student Will Use:
1 Baby Food Jar with TIGHT fitting lid
2-3 oz. of whipping cream
lots of arm muscles

The butter will go through 3 distinct stages in the process:

1. Liquid Whipping Cream - this will slosh around in the jar when we shake it
2. Whipped Cream - The jar will be filled with a foamy, fluffy cream
3. Separated Butter and Butter cream - The butter molecules will join together and will separate from the liquid

Learn more and share your thoughts at PBS Kids - Making Butter.

We'll be enjoying our fresh butter with cornbread today, but could enjoy it with homemade biscuits or any other delicious treat!



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Slide Rocket 1st

Slide Rocket is another free online tool to use for presentations.  Here is a sample one where I uploaded a PowerPoint to make it accessible online. 




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Rendezvous & Bartering Day

Dear 4th Grade Families,

We are studying fur trappers and traders in our Colorado history unit. Part of a trapper’s or trader’s life was the annual Rendezvous where they celebrated, relaxed, socialized and traded their furs for supplies for the coming year. The students will be participating in activities on Thursday April 28th related to the outdoor, trapper, and pioneer life.

In order for the kids to experience trading goods for goods rather than using money, we will be continuing our Rendezvous day on Friday April 29th , On that day each student must bring in something he or she can trade. You DO NOT need to go out and buy anything. The item could be a craft, art, or food they have made. In the past, some students have brought some old, small toys or decorative items they and their families no longer want. It should not be anything expensive or of personal value. Once the items are traded they will not be returned to the original owner. If your child brings in food, the items must be individually wrapped (things get passed around!).

Since the purpose of the activity is to experience trading, students who do not bring in anything to trade will not be permitted to participate in the Rendezvous, which will ultimately affect their grade. Students will be responding to the experience for a writing, history, and economics grade. We will discuss the pros and cons of the bartering experience and real world applications.

Thanks in advance for your support of this experiential learning opportunity.

Sincerely,

Fourth Grade Team

Reading Text Discussion - Cover it Live

Here we discuss questions about our reading text this week, "Dragons and Dinosaurs" an non-fiction piece.

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