NEWS FROM THE CLASSROOM

Latest news from the 4th Grade classes

Un-Fore-Gettable Experiences

When placed in the hands of our fourth-grade students, mini-golf was reinvented. It was no longer just a fun activity but an opportunity to design and build their own mini-golf courses. What began as a creative way for students to combine their learning of science,...

Engineers Among Us…

Here at PNA, we strive to prepare our students for their future world.  The world they are growing up in is vastly different than the one you or I grew up in and this is why PNA ensures that we are teaching them the skills that they need to be successful in their...

Creature Creators Completed!

When fourth-graders began their Creature Creator PBL a while back there was excitement, trepidation, questions, and a whole bunch of scientific thought and creativity.  Creature Creators took a back seat for our Thanksgiving Float PBL but when it was time to step back...

Creature Creators: Bringing Imagination and Science Together

This past week, fourth graders began a culminating project to tie up our science unit on animal adaptations. Over the course of the unit of study, we explored various systems in the human body and compared and contrasted them to those of other species. Through the use...

Guided and Unplugged: Meditation Breaks For Fourth Grade

“We encourage students to be exceptional learners and independent thinkers of vision, integrity and courage.” These words are written all over the walls of PNA.  They are not just a motto or a slogan; not just a fleeting thought.  They are our guiding principle.  We...

We are Geography Explorers!

It’s October already and the fourth graders have turned into explorers!  A focus of social studies for fourth graders is learning about the beginning and early years of American society.  In order to fully understand how a society came to be, its customs, cultures,...

It’s All Fun & Games…

As I reflected on the past two weeks and began to write about our most recent science-based project, the PNA Arcade, I pulled up my list of science standards that this project addressed. Our driving question had been: “How can we apply our new learning about energy to...

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