Welcome to 4th Grade Enrichment

We are the 4th Grade Enrichment, taught by Mrs. Doe. We will be blogging the different activities and experiments we do in enrichment class. If you are interested in our activities, then you can check in on our info on how to do the activity. You can also check in on our blog everyday to see what's happening. We just want to welcome you to our new blog, so enjoy!



 

Build Straw Rockets

The materials we used to make straw rockets were: precision straws, some clay, ( not model magic) index cards that we cut up to make wings and some tape. Our teacher ordered a straw rocket launcher that we will use to launch our rockets later on. We will go outside, and set our rocket to a forty- five degree angle. The class will launch their rockets to see which rocket went farthest and why. We will have one difference for each rocket. Our fifth grade class hopes our straw rocket experiment will be a success! We are going to launch them in the cafeteria and we are going to try two angles. The first one is a 35 degree angle and then a 90 degree angle. Here we go 5 4 3 2 1 Blast off! Wish us luck!

Visiting the Computer Lab

We visited the computer lab. We got to work on a computer. We got to play games like Geoboards and shapes. We also went on Starfall.com. We visited the computer lab twice. We learned a lot and we had fun. We like it there and we hope you like it too.
By Mrs. Harden's and Miss Gilfoyle's Class

Lego Gear Trains

After we dissected wind-up toys we built gear trains with lego pieces. We learned about drivers, idlers, and followers. We also made observations about gear speed and gear direction. Here is a picture of a gear train example.
Here is the Lego Education Site where you can view gears in action.
Lego Constructopedia
Check out this cool book on gears and simple machines.
The Lego Technic Idea Book:Simple Machines

Wind-up Toy Engineering

The fifth grade classes became doctors! We all chose a wind-up toy to disect. Then we got all of our doctor gadgets and took apart our patients. The monkey one was really hard but we did save him and put him back together. It was really fun since we got to see what was in a wind -up toy. I hope the next fith grade class really enjoys this project. Right here from your fifth grade enrichment class.

Smart Boxes

Smart Boxes

There are 8 ways to be smart.
You can be picture, music, nature, self, logic, people, word and body smart. We made a little box with little things inside and we colored the outside. The little things represented our smarts. There was a crayon for picture smarts, a smiley face for people smart, a music note for music smarts, a mirror for self smarts, a ball for body smarts, a robot for logic smarts, a letter for word smarts, and a small earth for nature smarts.
Test your own smarts here.

By Miss Barwell's and Mrs. Harden's Class

Strong Wall

We used Legos to build strong walls. We tested the walls.
We did a drop test to see if it would break or stay together.
We had a flick test to see which wall would stay up when we flicked it.
It’s a good thing when the wall stays up. To make a strong wall we stagger and overlap. Our goal was to make a strong and thick wall.
By Mrs. Hicks and Mrs. Masiello's class

Lego Language

We learned about the names of legos like plates and bricks. Plates are flat and bricks are thicker. The bumps on the legos are called studs. There are tubes on the bottom. The tubes and the studs fit together and you can build with them.

By Mrs. Henderson and Mrs. Harden's Classes

Welcome!

Welcome to our Enrichment Blog. Students in first through fifth grade will be sharing what we do in enrichment and be adding posts as the year progresses. Thanks for reading and please feel free to comment!