This week in Humanities...it's raining candy canes!

My favorite thing we did in class is a story about candy canes falling from the sky.  It was fun because we got to make it ourselves.  We used paragraphs and topic sentences too.  After we colored candy canes and put them on the story.  I liked it because the teacher helped us and played music while we did it.  It was so fun, it was my favorite thing to do.  I had help from friends and the teacher.  It was awesome, cool, and fun all at the same time!  I loved writing that candy cane story.

Blog post by Lathan  

Welcome to the Allen Academy Museum of American Artists!

For the past few weeks, the fourth grade classes have been working on a project about artists.  We have been working very hard on it.  We researched our artists and looked at their biographies.  After we looked at their biographies, we took notes in our own words, and wrote several paragraphs using the notes.  Then we typed the paragraphs on the computer.  We also had to make a replica of one of our artist's paintings.  The fourth grade classes presented some of the facts in our brochures in the lower school library.  We also got to share our artwork with other students and parents.  I really enjoyed this project and I think the kids in fourth grade next year will enjoy it too!  

Blog post by Dalyn 

American Artists Project

In humanities were working on our artworks a lot. I think that everybody is doing well on their projects, and they will all look good in the end.  My favorite part of this project was painting my mobile by Alexander Calder. We are looking forward to teaching people about our artists and their artwork.  Our museum will be held on Monday, November 7th in the Lower School library.  

Blog post by: Thomas

You’re Invited…

Please join us at the

Allen Academy Museum of American Artists.

Presented by our fourth grade students.

The museum will be open from 8:30-10:00; 11:15-12:05

and again from 12:45-1:30

on Monday, November 7th

in the Lower School library

*If you would like to join your student for lunch, you are welcome to tour the museum during the lunch period (12:05-12:45)as well.  

Book Order Excitement!

This week our first Scholastic book order arrived. We were all really excited to get our books. Each time we order books Ms. Zumwalt earns points for free books for the class. Our next book order is due 11/11/16. Don’t forget to get your order in!

Blog Post By Ben M

What a great reminder Ben!  Thanks for sharing the excitement of reading with your class. 

If you are interested in receiving books with our next Scholastic order, please visit 

scholastic.com/readingclub

Enter our class code: N9ZTM

and order by November 11th! 

A few things we did in class...

We got to read From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler in class. We got to add words to our own dictionary, using our word study word parts. We got to write things in our planner, and we got to pick our PSIA events. We got to edit some of our personal stories; both narrative and research. This is what we got to do in class this week.

Blog this week by Conner

Additional Note to Parents:

Students have been working very hard on researching American artists in connection with our class novel. With this project, students have created a brochure, are replicating art, and writing a description of this artwork. The final product will be incredible! We can't wait to share it with you all! Please be on the lookout for an invitation to view our final products.

-Mrs. Zumwalt

American Artist Project

Our in class activity is researching American artists.  I want to tell you about this project because it is a  fun and unique activity.  The thing I most like about this project is that we got to pick what artist we wanted to research.  All of our artists are from America, and we are researching all about their lives and their artwork.  In art class we will be replicating a piece of their artwork!  The whole school will get to see what we make! 

Blog Post by Madolyn

ERB Test Week

ERB testing, the worst week in history. We had four whole days of testing, three reading days, and 1 math day with 2 lessons per day. Dreadful I tell you! One thing saved my friends and I, Mrs. Zumwalt to the rescue! We got to play checkers and G.O board on the iPad. Finally, Fri-Yay, the one day of the week with no ERB testing attached. Hallelujah! ERB testing was a real bummer, although we did have a lot of fun doing other exciting activities!

Blog Post by:

Sophia