I'm Thankful For...

Fourth graders helped their first grade buddies think about what they're thankful for last week. Look at all the great work they did!

Guest Blog Post: Charlize

Happy Thanks Giving

Turkey trot run with your kids or watch!  They are running the mile!  Have a great Thanks Giving with your family!!!

Turkey Trot Food Drive

Hi Memorial Families!

Fourth Grade is teaming up with Mrs. Olshaw and the PE staff to collect food for the Burlington Food Pantry. Please bring in non-perishable food items starting this week up until the day of the Turkey Trot (Wednesday, November 25th). We will be bringing the food over to the pantry so that Burlington families in need can have a hearty and happy Thanksgiving.

Some examples of non-perishable items:

• Cheese or peanut butter crackers
• Beef jerky
• Applesauce
• Pudding
• Fruit cups
• Granola bars
• Power bars
• Cereal bars
• Single serving Chef-Boy-R-Dee items
• Ravioli/spaghetti-os
• Single serving soups (with pull tab openings)
• Ramen noodles
• Tomato juice
• Packaged nuts
• Trail mix
• Fruit snacks
• Dried fruits
• Peanut butter
• Any kind of pasta
• Spaghetti sauce
• Canned vegetables and fruit (with pull top openings)
• Macaroni and cheese
• Individually packaged chips/pretzels/Goldfish
• Boxed drinks and juices
• Pop tarts
• Individual packets of oatmeal
• Plastic spoons
• Canned Tuna
• Bags of rice or beans

Veteran's Day Assembly

Fourth grade did a wonderful job today during the Veteran's Day assembly. We recited a poem and sang a song. I am so proud of everyone! Nice job!

Rockets and Lowell Mills

It was an exciting week in fourth grade! Yesterday we had perfect weather for launching rockets up on Memorial Field. All of our rockets successfully launched! I will be uploading pictures to the album "November Pictures" soon!

Today we visited Lowell Mills and got to explore what it was like to be an immigrant traveling to Lowell. We got the chance to unbundle artifacts that different groups of people brought with them to America from their home countries. 

After lunch we had a chance to take on roles of different characters and participate in a town meeting.

After the town meeting, we saw a real boarding house where the Irish mill girls lived. Did you know that 40 girls lived together in the boarding house? That's a lot of people in a small amount of space!!

When we returned to Memorial, we got to enjoy some time in this BEAUTIFUL weather. 

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

Talking to a Veteran

Today we got a chance to Skype with my friend Steven who served in the Air Force for four years. We had fun asking questions about his time serving our country and about things that he likes to do now.

October in Review

October was such a busy month for us! We have been building rockets. We earned a whole school award for filling up our STARbuck rockets. We had a whole grade trivia game. We met with our Reading Buddies and made Jack-O-Lanterns. Check out some of the photographs from all of our fun this month (look under pages and find October Pictures)!