Fourth Grade at LRS

Hello Fellow Friends and Life Long Learners,
I know this blog has been extremely quietly recently and you may be wondering where the Fourth Grade at Lafayette has been. Well, we have been extremely busy over the past few months with projects such as the Landmark Challenge.
We are now back in action on the web, but we have moved our webpage on a new service that includes a blog, a web page and more into one to easy to use site. Visit our new site at:
http://mrferguson2009.weebly.com/.
Thanks for your support and interest in our learning. I hope you enjoy the new website.

- Mr. Ferguson

It is sugar season in Franconia, NH and two fourth grades with the help of their dad created a video over the weekend to show the maple sugaring process in NH.  Watch the video to learn how you get that yummy maples syrup from a sugar maple tree.

I know this blog has been very quiet lately.  We have been in the middle of the landmark challenge hosted by Mr. Smith’s classroom and it has consumed us.  To learn more about the landmark challenge visit smithclass.org .  Below is a video my student made that highlight our discussions with Tyler Walker.  Tyler Walker is currently competing in the Paralympics in Vancouver.  Good Luck Tyler.

To prepare for the upcoming Olympics, the fourth grade learned about the different sporting events.  Here is their work.

In this movie students share their dreams.

In October 2009 our class sent symbolic monarch butterflies to Mexico.  These paper butterflies mirror the migration of monarch butterflies.  We just received an update on our butterflies and where they are located for the winter. Click on this link to find out more about the school hosting our symbolic butterflies.

I know this is a little late, but here is our video on the monster project. Thank you for selecting our monster’s name as the best in the class of 2009 monsters. Enjoy

Here is our first “Voice Thread” which explains our school, Lafayette Regional School.

A Video on the Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly



Last week Nantz Comyns came to visit our school and worked with our students building three sculptures and some funky chickens.  The students used birch sticks and chicken wire to build the animals.  The teachers  built funky chickens one afternoon to join in on the fun.  It was a blast.