Apps This Year

Throughout the year the girls have learned a variety of tech skills using many different apps.  Below is a list of the apps that they used this year.

Art Authority K-12
Beautiful Planet
Book Creator
BrainPop
Color Uncovered
Computer Arts: Visualator
Dictionary.com
Edmodo
Educreations
Fotobabble
Google Drive
iBooks
iMovie
iOrnament
national Geographic World Atlas
News-O-Matic
Pic Collage
Popplet
Skitch
Squeebles Fractions
Stack the Countries
TapAMap
Visual Fractions Decimals and Percentages

From the Library

Fourth graders enjoyed hearing an old favorite, Tikki Tikki Tembo. Ask your daughter if she can recite his name. We then read Fly Away Home, a story about a boy and his father who live in an airport. This prompted an interesting sharing of ideas of homelessness. We read Frank and Ernest and matched regular food orders and their "diner names". Ask your fourth grader what a customer ordered if the cook is told to "Burn the British, cow to cover, and draw one in the dark". Next we read Martina the Beautiful Cockroach in which Martina follows her Cuban abuela's advice to evaluate her suitors by spilling coffee on their shoes. We read some lesser-known titles by very famous authors: Patricia Polacco's Mrs. Katz and Tush, about a lifelong friendship between two unlikely friends, and Robert San Souci's The Samurai's Daughter, in which a brave girl rescues her father and breaks a spell.
Soon we will have a Battle of the Books in which teams will hear a line from a book they've read this year in Library, and identify the source. We will also talk about summer reading.