Mrs. Granger's Fourth Grade

Puffer a black and white cat
Hello,

I want to welcome you to our Fourth Grade. We made many new friends and worked together improving skills in Reading, Writing and Mathematics. Our class will also explore new ideas in Science, Social Studies and Health.

Computers are used to communicate with parents and friends. We type, draw, take pictures, make web pages, and movies using our computer.

One of my classes in the past created 2 movies that show how we do science experiments (Ramps - Levers). They load slowly, but they let you see us work. We took turns doing taping, editing and experimenting. We will make more videos in the future. I hope that we will learn how to make them load more easily.

Other activities for this year include learning and writing about our state of Maine. I hope our class will make new web pages that can tell about what we are learning and Bath, Maine. Visit the Learn About Bath Page to find out more about this project.

We are participating in two Owney the Traveling Dog Projects this year.

One project will have Owney go to all 50 states. He only stays at the school for a day. We send postcards to each school he visits and they send one to us. We may have 50 postcards when we are done.

The other group will have Owney visits to fewer states but each school get to have Owney stay longer. We write more often to the schools in those states.

It will be fun to learn about schools and children from all around the United States.

Owney and his Treasures

We also perform many times on stage. The Class presented Counting Creatures to Second Grade students at Dike Newell School in October. We performed A Thanksgiving Celebration with the other fourth Grades in November.  We may also performed 'Song and Poems of the Season' at the Plant Memorial Home for the residents in December. This performance was taped an shown on Bath Cable TV. Thank you Steve Marois for taping all our performances.

In the spring, we will perform a musical, Wackadoo Zoo. It teaches a lesson about being different.  The play takes place around the gym and then moves to the stage. The class with the help of volunteers like Mrs. Vicki Moriarty creates scenery.

a cat

This is Puffer. He was Mrs. Granger's family cat.You will find some cat photos linked from Write About Animals on the Former Student's page. They may give you an idea for an interesting story. Student in last year's class wrote about the cats. Please feel free to write more stories. Just e-mail them to me and I'll put them up.

Some students brought in photos of their pets and have written about them. You can do that too.

Please clicksmall grey cat here to see the pictures and read their stories.

Click here to read about some things the other class wrote.

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