Diaper Experiment

Our question for this experiment was "Which brand of diaper will hold the most water?"  So we made an hypothesis, set up and conducted the experiment.  Students followed the scientific method.

Pumpkin Math

Fourth grade used pumpkins to work on estimation skills for weight, circumference, and volume of their pumpkins.

Students started by making estimations of the circumference, weight, number of seeds and volume of their pumpkins.

Students worked together to make predictions before opening their pumpkins.

After estimating students weighed, measured the circumference, counted the seeds, and measured the volume of their pumpkins.

Marshmallow and Spaghetti Towers

The Challenge:  Make the tallest tower possible using marshmallows and spaghetti.
Students used the steps in the scientific method to conduct the experiment.  There are some impressive towers.

Scientific Method Saving Sam Lab

Students are learning the steps for the scientific method in science. We watched a rap video stating and explaining each of the steps. Students also created a foldable with the steps and an explanation of each step. They then glued it in their science journals.  Today we used those steps to conduct a short experiment, Saving Sam.  This was a fun and yummy experiment.

Pink Week

Cancer Stinks!  We wore PINK

Pink Week at West

Mrs. Schneider is our office assistant at West Elementary

Multiplication Practice

We have been talking about factors, multiples, and prime numbers.  Your student should be able to find factors of numbers up to 100 and skip count to find multiples of numbers 2-12.  Here are some fun practice sites.

Hooda Math

Floor Tiler Math Game

Students played a game that provided practice with the multiplication facts.  Each player would spin two numbers and use the product of the numbers to color in rectangles on grid paper.  Players took turns spinning and filling in rectangles until someone filled in the grid completely.

Great American Fund Raiser

West kicked off our Great American fundraiser on Tuesday, October 8th.  Sales will run through October 22.  Please have all money and order forms turned into the office no later than October 22 if you are participating.

This has been a highly successful fundraiser for our school in the past.  With these funds, we have purchased numerous items for students including, but not limited to, laptop computers, iPads, our large playground structure, picnic tables, soccer goals, Guided Reading books, and much more!  Our goal is to meet or exceed $10,000! 

The top five sellers will receive gift cards.  The class with the greatest participation and the class with the highest total in sales will win a classroom reward.

Please remember to collect payment at the time of sale.  Make sure you get their first and last name as well as address to deliver items.  You may also ask friends and family to order online at School Store

Our school code is 3139672. 

Pick-up night for all items will be Tuesday, November 21 from 5-6:30pm.  This will be curbside pick-up in the West parking lot, weather permitting.  In the event of inclement weather, pick-up will be in the building.

Thank you for supporting our fundraising efforts!

Thank you for supporting our school with this fundraiser.

Reading Comprehension

This nine weeks we have been talking about making connections, inferring, and creating images when reading.  These strategies help readers understand and comprehend text while reading.  Here are a few games to play for practice:

Into the Book

Reading Fun

Brain Pop

Doodle Splash

MTB Unit 3

Fourth grade students are learning about multiplication.  All students took a pre-test and were sorted into groups.  Each classroom teacher is teaching a group using differentiated instruction to meet the group’s needs.  The groups will go through the lessons in our math books and cover the KS State standards: Students will use place value & properties of multiplication to solve multi-digit problems.

·        represent & solve multiplication problems using rectangular arrays (area model).

·        identify prime & composite numbers (from 1-100).

·        identify square numbers (1-100).

·        use properties of multiplication to solve 4-digit by 1-digit & 2-digit by 2-digit problems.

·        use strategies for multiplication to solve 4-digit by 1-digit & 2-digit by 2-digit problems.

·        use a number line to represent multiples of a number (1-100).

·        find all factor pairs for a number (1-100).

·        decide if one number (1-100) is a multiple of another number (0-9).

·        apply the order of operations to solve problems.

For further information check out the unit letter at Letter Home