Day 169 - Student Math Teachers - Mr. Daley - Fox Hill Grade 4

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This year in Room 20, I provided students with an opportunity to teach a math lesson to their classmates. Five students expressed interest by responding to a number of questions and statements, including:

• Tell me why you deserve this opportunity.
• What have you done in Room 20, at Fox Hill, and at home this year to demonstrate your academic, social, and emotional growth?
• What are some ways you have been the “1” this year?
• What strategies would you use to maintain a quiet, organized classroom while conducting your lesson?

Earlier this year, Jackie B. and Mikey W. conducted a lesson on "multiples" as part of our fractions unit. This past week, Daniel C., Sades M., and Sam P. taught a "units of time" lesson as part of our measurements unit.

I was extremely please with each student teacher's preparation and delivery of his and her lesson. All teachers exhibited sound content knowledge and showed great classroom management skills. In both lessons, every one of their students was an active, energized participant during the lessons. Kudos to Jackie, Mikey, Daniel, Sades, Sam, and their Room 20 students for an informative, entertaining, hard-working two hours of instruction and learning!

Here are some photos of "Student Math Teachers In Action!"

Day 151 - Biography Book Report "Wax Museum" - Mr. Daley - Fox Hill Grade 4

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Students in my ELA class recently each read a biography of a famous / important person in history. After reading their biography, students wrote a book report of their well-known person. They then dressed up as that person and participated in a Wax Museum as that historical figure. "Visitors" to the Room 20 Wax Museum were Mrs. Doyle's 1st grade students. When 1st graders shined a flashlight on a "waxed figure," the figure came to life and told the story about his/her life.

Waxed figures included: Paul Revere, Christopher Columbus, Clara Barton, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Michelle Obama, Princess Diana, Abraham Lincoln, Jackie Robinson, Harry Houdini, Eleanor Roosevelt, Michelle Kwan, Babe Ruth, Elizabeth Blackwell, Betsy Ross, Sacajawea, Shaquille O'Neal, and Dottie Kamenshek.

Here are some pictures from the Wax Museum.

Day 110 - Culmination of the Simple Machines / Invention Unit - Mr. Daley - Fox Hill Grade 4

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As a culminating activity of the simple machines and invention science unit, your student scientists were assembled into groups of 4 and tasked with designing and building a "contraption" that would hold a raw egg, that when dropped from a height of 3 meters, would not break. The materials each group could use to build their contraption included sixteen 20 cm. long plastic straws, three 1 meter long pieces of masking tape, one pair of scissors, and the raw egg. Each group was given 30 minutes to design and construct its "egg drop contraption." Of the 8 groups in Rooms 19 and 20, three groups successfully designed contraptions, i.e., the raw egg in their contraption, when dropped from a height of approximately 3 meters, did not break. Congratulations to all participating scientists!

Some SUCCESSFUL"Egg Drop Contraptions"

Some UNSUCCESSFUL
"Egg Drop Contraptions"