Welcome to 4th Grade!

STEM Week

This week in STEM students put their coding skills to work. They used the program Scratch to create sprites that could fly and began to challenge themselves to create their own game.

STEM

This week in STEM students worked in Adobe Express to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI). They designed a plushie using specific details and adding things to make it more enticing.

Denver Museum of Nature and Science!

We had so much fun getting to explore the museum this week! Students were able to explore all of the exhibits from Lego sculptures to Elephants, and even going back in time to the Jurassic age. We even got to go see the Planetarium show and our adventure through space was so much fun. A big thank you to all of our Chaperones helping make the day such a success!

We hope everyone had a wonderful winter break. We are so excited to have everyone back from break and get back into the swing of things. Let's finish out the second half of 4th grade strong, stress free, and with loads of fun!

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Ms. Ashcraft today as she graduates!

STEM Week Six- Coding Charms!

This week in STEM, students have the chance to follow coding guides to make their own ornaments and keychains! Using the template provided along with the beads and peg board, students had to follow the coding guide to create the figure in the image. Once done they were able to get them ironed and turned into a nice 4th grade keepsake/decoration!

STEM Week Five- Marble Run Fun!

This week in STEM, students were working together to create a structure that complete various challenges. We have done who can get 3 marbles to go the longest down their structure, as well as a practice run of ensuring they know how to set up their structures given the materials. Our longest run was up to 1 minute and 32 seconds, with a few pit stops from the marbles, but we'll just ignore that :)

Dinosaur Ridge Field Trip!

Our Jurassic adventure back in time was a success!

Triceratops Trail in Golden, Colorado, was so much fun. We got to see lots of different fossil types as well as erosion and weathering to the surrounding area. 4th grade as a whole did an amazing job listening to our wonderful guides as we went along a journey back to 68 million years ago today. Their curiosity and questions were fantastic, and really helped grow their knowledge on our science unit about Earth's Features and Processes.

We ended the day by creating our own types of fossils with Salt Dough and "totally accurate" dinosaurs as a nice summary for our day of adventure!

Thank you to all of the parents able to chaperone today, and stay tuned for future field trips you might be able to attend with us if you weren't able to make it to this one!

Stem Week Four

This week in STEM, 4th grade is working on circuits!

They will be given some models to work with, like this model car, and their job is to connect all of the circuits so that it becomes operational.

Students were split into partners, and with the help of great collaboration and teamwork, used those communication skills with their partner(s) to figure out a game plan. Many students by the end of the lesson were able to figure out how to power up the cars, if not being extremely close to finishing!

Halloween Party and Parade!

Thank you to everyone who was able to bring in treats and donate goodies for the students. You helped make our party a success and so much fun!

We had a blast representing 4th grade in our school-wide parade, and the breakfast treats were a nice way to end the morning.

The rest of our day included some "spooky" Halloween activities like a guided reading to create a spooktacular tale, and even some multiplication practice that ended up making a ghoulishly green Frankenstein when they were done.

Hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween and got lots of candy and family fun over the weekend!

STEM Pumpkin Challenge!

This week in STEM, students were challenged to, as a group, only "spend" 5 dollars in materials to get the pumpkin to float for 30 seconds without getting wet. Together they were able to work out a design to build their flotation device and collaborate on building and then testing out their ideas!

Here are some pictures of the results and the process to get there!

STEM: Pumpkin Challenge Building Process

PTA CKLA Share

A BIG thank you to Zayden and Elijah who shared their comparative essays on Serfs and Lords for 4th grade at PTA this week. You both did a great job and everyone was very impressed and excited to hear what we have been working on in 4th grade!

STEM Annimationish Halloween Writing

This week in STEM, students have been using animation-ish to develop a short animations they drew themselves. We'll be developing Halloween flip books and more as the week continues!

Students are able to use this at home too!

Go to the technology page on the Swanson website and type in the class code and password provided. Have fun creating!

FRACTION FRACTION FRACTIONS!

Since we have been working on equivalent fractions, we made a human number line!

It included 5th, 10th, and 15ths and each student was able to get a fractoin card to determine where they needed to stand.

This helped us see equivalent fractions using everyone in the class and where they positioned themselves.

Our equivalent survivors!

Each person ended up with multiple fractions in the same spot on the number line!

STEM Begins!

We have officially started back up with STEM for the school year. Students have been working collaboratively to engineer various models while working in groups or partners with added challenges as the week progresses.

We can't wait to see what else they come up with as the year continues!

This week 4th grade went down to be technology buddies with 1st grade. Students helped their buddy learn how to log into their Chromebook and access learning programs.

4th Grade Community Building

We took time the first week of school to not only build our classroom community, but our grade level community.

By working together on tasks, we develop a sense of belonging and get to knwo one another better.

This task was "Tower of Terror". Students had to strategize to pull the index cards in order to make the cups fall on top of themselves.

Bring on 2025-2026!

We are so excited to welcome students back to school this year.

Whether you are new to Swanson or returning for another year, we can't wait to see how you fit into our puzzle. We look forward to building our puzzle together with you!

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