My Favorite 4th Grade Memory is...

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• when Johnny and I pulled Mrs. Wherritt's Aslan tail and she roared.  (Tiara)
• when I first came to school.  (Kollin)
• when Johnny pulled Mrs. Wherritt's tail.  (Elizabeth)
• when I met my friends.  (Omar)
• when we went to Grandfather Mountain and walked across the bridge.  (Queren)
• when I walked on the stage to receive my award for math.  (Kash)
• when the whole class went to Grandfather Mountain and Linville Caverns.  I got to spend more time with my teacher and it really was a lot of fun.  (Maria)
• when I was playing at field day and another person put water in my face and it felt like it was raining.  (Marilyn)
• when got an award for math.  (Mariana)
• when Mrs. Wherritt was checking Omar's paper and he got the answers wrong and he said, "That's how you write it in French."  So from then on we called him "Frenchy".  (Mallory)  
• when Tiara and I pulled Mrs. Wherritt's tail and she screamed.  (Johnny)
• when we were walking in the line in the hallway and we were going so fast that the paper flew up into Jayla's face and hit her twice and she said, "Ouch, OUCH!" and I looked back at her and we just started laughing together in the hallway until we got to the classroom.  (Emily)
• when we had our celebration with our teachers.  I had a great time; it was a blast!  I will miss Mrs. Wherritt because she taught me a lot of poetry in writing and a lot of fun activities in math.  I won't forget who my 4th grade teacher was.  (Jayla)
• meeting Mallory!  (Chloe)
• when we went to the mountains.  (Kylee)
• when everyone was joking and laughing.  (Noah)
• when we went to Linville Caverns and I got to go to the gift shop.  (Aaliyah)
• when Chris tried to do a back flip and landed on his neck.  (Chase)
• when Mrs. Wherritt dressed up as Aslan and Johnny and Tiara kept pulling her tail so she roared and scared them.  Johnny turned pink.  (De'onna)
• that I was a good boy and I made new friends and still had my old friends too.  (Chris)
• when Mrs. Wherritt dressed up like a lion.  We pulled her tail and she turned around and screamed!  (Shauna)
• days without homework!  (Inocente)

Engineering is Elementary

This week in class we have been learning about electrical circuits.  First, before we started to build, we read a book about a girl named Emily.  She has to water her sheep each day.  Emily and and her friend Pete decided to build a circuit to remind her to water them.

In Mrs. Wherritt's class we are going to try to make an alarm clock to remind Emily to water the sheep.  The materials that we have are: light bulbs, light bulb holders, batteries, battery holders, switches, wires, and a water trough.  We also have a variety of conductors and insulators that are used to help with our circuits.   

Our class is having fun but sometimes it can be a little frustrating not having everything work the way we want it to.  I am really excited about doing this because I haven't ever done this before!

~Kylee

This week in class we have been working with electrical circuits.  We read a story about Emily who gives her sheep water every day.  Emily has a chore to water the sheep but she forgets to do it all the time.  She went to her friend Pete's house and he helped her make a alarm so she can remember to water the sheep.  When the water is low the alarm and a light go off; that's how she knows to water the sheep. 

Do you remember how we made bridges back in November?  Well, now we get to make circuits and alarm clocks!  We are using the following materials: light bulb, bulb holder, switch, wires, a water trough, water / marbles, battery, and battery holder.  We make circuits all the time now.  Circuits are fun and they make us happy!

~Chloe

North Carolina's Eastern Gray Squirrel

Have you ever seen a baby gray squirrel?  Kollin's family had a sneaky squirrel living in their attic recently and it had two babies!  Kollin's family rescued the babies, took them to the vet, and are making sure they receive the food and water they need.  The squirrels came to visit our classroom this week, they are very cute and super tiny!

St. Patrick's Day

March 17, 2015 - A sneaky leprechaun visited our classroom last night and dumped his magic dust all over our desks!  

Krispy Kreme Doughnut Fundraiser

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 Yummmmmmmm!

This is Chloe and Kylee reporting on something amazing! Shady Brook Elementary is selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts!

1 box of 12 donuts is only $5!

If we sell 1,000 box's of doughnuts students will have a No Uniform day on Friday, March 27th!!  By grade level the class that sells the most boxes will also earn a doughnut party.  The class that sells the most overall will earn a pizza party!

This fundraiser is important because if we do good on this it will lower the cost of our Grandfather Mountain field trip!!!!!!!!!!!

Fred L. Wilson Elementary has 1/2 as many students as we do (350) and they sold 2,300.  So remember SELL DOUGHNUTS!  As a last reminder, Mrs. Wherritt encourages us to sell doughnuts with a parent or guardian; never go alone!   

~Chloe & Kylee 

Cabarrus County Fire & Life Safety Bowl

On March 3rd our fire bowl team attended the Cabarrus County Fire and Life Safety Bowl at Connect Christian Church.  Our team is made up of 5 fourth graders.  We have 1 captain, 1 alternate, and 3 regular team members.  When we got there they gave us a T-shirt.  After that you go sit down at a table.  Once the actual bowl starts you go into the classrooms around the gym and you compete against other schools.  This year we did double elimination which means that you have 2 chances to stay in the bowl.  Once you get eliminated they have a game truck that you can go in.  For lunch they have pizza and soft drinks.  At the end, the teams who were eliminated got a participants medal and the top 3 teams go to Best in State.

~Kylee

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss &
Read Across America Week

Dr.Seuss was born on March 2nd, 1904.  He was a very famous writer.  He wrote books like Cat in the Hat and the sequel, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.  On Tuesday Emily's mom, Mrs. Karmanocky, came to our classroom and read Oh The Places You'll Go.  Mrs. Burgess also came and read Bag Head, it was a fun story.  On Wednesday Mrs. Snipes came and she read Bartholomew and the 500 Hats and on Thursday Officer Lafferty came to read Puff the Magic Dragon.  He also talked about what he did as a police officer.  Afterwards we got to listen to Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter, Paul, and Mary.  On Thursday we also had Book Character Day so we had to dress up like our favorite book character and bring the book to school with us.  We went to the gym at the end of the day to show our costumes to the other 4th grade classes.  Read Across America week was very fun; I hope we do it again!

~Chloe & Kylee