Teaching with a Bayou View

Field Day 2024

These sweet fourth graders have worked this year, and it is obvious from their achievements today! 🧡💙

We had so much fun choosing our pathogens to research today. Have you ever heard a group yelling, “We want the plague?” Well, I have as of today. Our group was eager to learn about viruses, bacteria, and protozoa to create a “Most Wanted Poster.”

Life size organ systems are being produced in our classes. Whew! They are loving this activity!

We are working on projects, projects, projects! The finishing touches are being placed on our “Lucky Numbers”, and we are starting our body systems project. Let the research begin.

Biloxi Shuckers - Take me out to the ball game!

I told you they have the magic! Look at those lightning bolts! ⚡️

✨✨They’ve got the magic!✨✨
Be sure to send well wishes of confidence for all of our 4th graders as they take the Math MAAP today. They have worked so hard this year, learned new strategies, and persevered. Without a doubt, they will thrive.

Bean Boozled math preparation was in full swing today as these mathematicians worked out a problem, shared their answers with their house, and decided their final answer. The prize: eating a delicious or not-so-delicious jelly bean!

Congratulations to our Paper Challenge winners!

Another ✨magical✨ math adventure catching golden snitches! We practiced our skills and captured snitches after answering problems correctly!

We’ve officially been sorted into our houses, and our ✨magical✨ week of math is well underway! These wizards are already collecting house points through their Charms, Potions, and Defense Against the Dark Arts training!

The Floor was Lava!

Rockin’ Test Prep!

Do you want to feel loved? Turn 40 while teaching 40 4th graders! They will make you feel so special! What a great day! 🙂

We started our daily science centers today. The students are exploring, reading, matching, sorting, analyzing, and explaining natural resources.

We started digging deep into renewable resources by creating “trading cards” for the alternative energy resources! We are even discovering the pros and cons to these.

Freya loves her cat grass! I’m still so excited about our garden beds!

This week, we started learning about natural resources including renewable and nonrenewable resources! What would life be like without fossil fuels? Our 4th graders are imagining and writing about what they would do for one day without fossil fuels. It’s time to be creative!

Our cat grass and and flowers have already sprouted!

We enjoyed participating in reader’s theatre on stage (obviously after our table reading)! We also created writings of our choice based on The Great Kapok Tree and painted the layers of the rainforest. We definitely learned how to be good stewards to our environment this week.

We did a windmill STEM challenge after reading “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”.

Builders in action!

We loved having the Navy Seabees join us to build our flower beds and tortoise outdoor enclosure. I want to especially thank EOC Sanders, CUCS Thibodeaux, and SW1 McClure for taking the time to educate and help our 4th graders with this project.

We are having a blast this week reading, writing, applying our math skills, and learning from our community helpers!

Career Day!

Mathematicians collaborating to better understand our math concepts! First, everyone had to quietly work out the math problem. Once the timer buzzed, we compared our answers and explained our thinking.