Scholastic Book Fair

The Scholastic Book Fair is coming to Pine Glen the week of December 12-16.  

Our class will be doing a preview to browse books on Monday, December 12.

Our purchase date is Thursday, December 16.

You can also order online at

http://www.scholastic.com/bf/pineglenelementaryschool

There is a 6.25% sales tax on all purchases.

You can volunteer to help out by signing up at https://goo.gl/forms/PKjzVVKDB8azGbED3

An Awesome Week of Collaboration in the Books

It started off with Rocket Day.  The Science Center shared their knowledge and assistance with us so that we could blast off the rockets we have built over the past few weeks.  

Tuesday we had flashlight reading with our Kindergarten buddies in Ms. Parnell's class.  

Wednesday Ms. Fallon dressed us up for the Green Screen to become the Statue of Liberty and Mr. Donoff took our photos.  

Friday Ms. Pavlicek returned to our ELA class for some Creepy Crawlies to bring some nonfiction knowledge to our reading of the fiction stories How to Eat Fried Worms and Cockroach Cooties. We got to hold Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches and Red Wigglers.

We earned all of our Hoot Cards to receive the next incentive...Pajama Day!  Lots of sports PJ's were present. Matthew, Nicholas and I even matched.  

3...2...1...Blast Off!

Halloween, Crazy Hat Day, and Rocket Day!  What better way to start off the week?  Ms. Pavlicek shared how inventors got their ideas for flight from nature and in the environment around them. We observed a hawk named Ella whose wings demonstrate this inspiration.  Ms. P. then showed us how our rockets will demonstrate thrust using a Rocket Car.  Then it was time for us to blast off our own Rockets.  Thank you to all of our parents who spectated and volunteered, making this an incredibly success final Rocket Day.

Flight, Force and Motion

Are you ready for Rocket Day?  We are!  On October 31st at 10am we will be setting off rockets in the side parking lot at Pine Glen.  Thank you to our amazing parents who helped us glue fins yesterday.  Check out some of the photos of our rocket construction.  We are learning a lot about force, motion, thrust, gravity, lift, and drag.  

Force and Motion

Have you ever built a Flipper?  Friday we were given the task of creating a contraption that would catapult a marshmallow across our classroom.  Using only a bowl, elastics, popsicle sticks, spoons, and tape our groups had to get very creative!  Using the Design Process we first brainstormed and sketched our ideas.  Next we built something with our materials and tested it out.  Using the data we collected, we then improved our design for a second test.  Many of our fourth graders were very successful the second time around.  Ask your child how their catapult worked and how far their marshmallow flew.

Fun was had by all and we learned more about force, motion, and flight!