Getting ready to welcome 22 new fourth graders to 4D! 🩷📚✏️

Happy First Day of School! So excited to welcome everyone to 4D! 📚🚌🩵

The Paper Chain Challenge always sparks excitement and a little friendly competition. Love starting the week off with some collaboration and problem solving!

Indoor recess due to the heat? No problem! These 4th graders engineered their own basketballs and hoops during indoor recess. Love the innovation of these students!

In 4D we believe in the Power of YET! We spent time this week strategizing different ways to enhance having a positive growth mindset. Check out some of the posters created to spread having a positive mindset with our school community! Kathleen Ramirez North Mianus School

Greatest, Least, Arrange and Place Value Battleship are two math games that are always a hit!

Exciting day in 4D! Our first Lit Circle meetings of the year kicked off today. Students did a great job keeping the conversations moving during their first meeting.

Thank you North Mianus School PTA and Amy Coupe for bringing in the amazing katemessner for an author visit today. It was an incredibly inspiring and engaging presentation to help spark the ideas of our NMS writers!

Rainy day writing with a touch of tropical background music. 🩵

Thank you North Mianus School PTA for a great book fair! We have been loving these new books added to our library this week! 📚

Thank you, Dr. Alina for an engaging presentation on bullying today. 4D is ready to stand up for one another against bullies!

Applying our map skills to create maps of places we wish existed. These cartographers are rocking our social studies unit! 🗺️

In celebration of World Kindness Day we asked our K-5 school community: What would you like someone to say about you when describing how you treat other people? Then we wrote our words on hearts. Guess what?

Using manipulatives to help visualize dividing with remainders. Hearing “Division isn’t so scary!” was the cherry on top of a great day!

Thank you North Mianus School PTA for booking this amazing experience with the Eli Whitney Museum! Applying our knowledge of force and motion to create our own pinball machines is always one of the best days of the year! Tara Fogel Kathleen Ramirez

Students love working in trios to problem solve and work through complex problems together. I love listening to them collaborate and learn from each other!

4th graders are experts about what motivated people to move west! Students created time capsules, scrapbooks, board games, post cards or wrote songs to demonstrate their learning. Checkout some of their impressive work! Thanks Amy Coupe for collaborating with our team!

It’s been a while but 4D has been busy! Checkout these mathematicians working on symmetry! MICHAEL REID

What a great first week of 4th grade! Getting to know you activities, rocket building, and a guest reader! 2024-2025 is going to be a great year in 4D!

Investigating collisions by making our own billiard tables. The noticings and questions these students had made me proud! 🎱