Notes from the Learning Lab
Written by Grade 4 Journalists at North Elementary
Most Positive Class in the WORLD!
Did you know that you could get a crazy positive teacher for 4th and 5th Grade? Well luckily I do! You might think the word luckily was an autocorrect, well it isn’t! Doing all these positive things has helped the whole class a lot! Now we don’t have the highest level of stress in our class, we might have little bit of negativity but we still can get through the day with no crying!
Too Many Kinds Of Deep Breathing!
You may think of breathing as a normal thing that we do everyday but actually we do all types of breathing like box breathing. Box breathing is where you breath and hold it for 4 or 5 seconds then you let out and hold again that is how you do the box breathing. The next type of breathing is actually circle breathing you may be thinking what is this lady talking about? Well circle breathing is where you breath and you make a circle with you’re hands. Now remember, before a big test just do one of these strategies, (Or you could do a meditation, for further information go to the meditation paragraph.)
Girls Group Is Today!
Girls group is another way of a positivity thing we do. You never have to do it, it is always an option on Tuesday and Thursdays. We talk about self talk, and others ways to stay calm and stay positive. Sometimes Mrs.Jones even surprises us with brownies! In girls group we got journals on the second day. In our journals we work on reflecting with ourselves. In girls group we do a lot of different things too! (You can see theses things in the girls group paragraphs!)
30 Days Of Being Thankful
“What to write today?” Is probably what you would say if you were doing 30 days of being thankful. This is also another positivity option, for the whole class this time! In 30 days of being thankful we write down 5 or more things we are thankful for in book creator or our notebook. Like for example I could write, “I’m thankful for donuts.” It could be as simple as that or 123. “Now remember a thankful note a day keeps the negativity away.
Dear me,
Self write is basically what it sounds like you write positive stuff to yourself like you are smart you are brave I don’t care as long as it’s positive these notes will do you some good and, you can write these everyday.Well you should at least do it 2 times a day or even four but It depends on how you’re feeling some days you might be sad or mad. That is why you can write positive stuff about yourself and maybe you will brighten up. You may be feeling mad again if so, use this and it might make you feel a little better about yourself.
Menti. not Minty
You might be thinking what in the world is “Minty?” Wait hold up! It’s not “Minty”, it’s MENTI! FOR THE LAST TIME IT’S MENTI! Alrighty now that I’ve calmed down let me tell you about, MENTI NOT MINTY! Before in class we had a little positive thinking break, NOT, it was a big break. In that break we first did self write, (Go to the next paragraph, to learn more.) we also did pic collages, (Go to the pic collage paragraph, for more information.) and last but not least we did a menti! In Menti we wrote down positive thoughts we could tell ourselves. Now one last thing it’s MENTI NOT MINTY!
“Be present!”
“Be present.” Is something that Mrs.Jones would say. Be present means show her your attention and get off your iPads. Each day we have a morning circle. In the circle we listen to Mrs.Jones. She talks to us about being positive to yourself and loving yourself. Sometimes she even talks about her life and what’s going on and her son’s life. Each day we have a pattern that we past around, or tell the people to our left and right. We also tell each other have a good day or your great the way you are or something positive. We do this everyday to make us feel good about are self because the more you do this you’ll grow up and be able to fight the negativity.
Positive Pic collages
If you go back to the “Menti. not minty paragraph,” you will hear about the big positive thing. Another activity we did then was “making positive pic collages.” Down below this paragraph will be one of the pic collages I did that late morning. So technically we went into pic collage and clicked the freestyle button, and we made positive quotes to ourselves. “I’m lovin’ these quotes!”
Calm down!
Meditation is something we do to calm us down it basically like breathing but you say positive stuff like for example we breath then we say I’m safe I am welcome here that’s things we say sometimes will do this when we need to come down other times we breath we get comed down so that we can focus on what we need to do so that’s why we do that it helps us follow directions and focus if we’re feeling down you can use and it can help you stay calm! You can also say positive stuff about yourself, while you do this.
Pound
Hey need some energy because your tired or stayed up late that’s me all the time. Well lucky me there is pound. Pound is where we do exercise to wake up our brains and body up just like the girls group it is optional if you want to know what am talking about or for further information go to the girl group paragraph anyways pound helps us get ready for the day. That’s why we do this it helps so if your tired or woke up late this is for you and definitely for me.If need please use this or you’ll be tired and not want to anything. Pound Pound Pound!
Thank you for reading!
Now hopefully in a few weeks you’ll be more positive than ever! Hopefully you loved this little paragraph from Elizabeth and Braylynn! Thanks for putting your time into reading this!
Your writers,
Elizabeth and Braylynn! ❤️
Click the link below to see our positive messages!
Podcasting
Hi we're here to talk about our girls group and we are talking about our podcasts that we just started. There are 5 steps for us kids to follow if we want the podcast in the air.
First choose a topic.
Next plan out your intro.
Then write down your ideas for what you want to say in the podcast.
Then plan out your outro.
Finally put your plan into action.
My section in our first ever episode is trustful friendships and how you know to trust your friends. The reason my section is trustful friendships is because this episode’s theme is friendship. I work in a partnership with NiAsia a friend of mine. The reason we are starting a podcast is because we want to spread positivity around the world. We listened to a couple podcasts so we could get an Idea about what to do in our podcasts. We also have different partnerships work on different parts of friendships. I am a little bit camera shy so I asked if my partner and I could be the last to speak into the microphone, Mrs.Jones agreed and I’m going last in my podcast section.
We podcast on March 15 Friday 2019. It was awesome.
By Marlow and NiAsia
Listen to our Podcast in Spotify
Podcast Anyone?
This is what we do when we do our podcast. What we do first is we plan before we do the podcast. So we what we do is we plan on a piece of paper so we could know what we are going to talk about.The topic we are doing now is friendship. We made different groups and each group does a different topic on friendship some of the topics are when you have a friend that is a opposite gender 2 friends fighting each other. We would do a practice run before we started to record. We had to not make any sound we had to be really quiet because the microphone could pick up any sound except for when we breath. It was also hard to be quiet.This is one of our posters. The poster helped us plan and also helped us know what we were going to say so we didn’t freeze up. So this is what we did to plan our podcast remember you are strong.
By Audree and Lila
Pound Performance
Pound is a thing we do in Girl Group. We did a performance at a volleyball game at the East Middle School. It was two weeks ago. We could only do three songs they were called "Natural,""Young Blood," and "Crush Crush Crush." We had short sleeves shirt that said positive words like: Brave, Happy, Strong, Smart, and Fierce. You might ask why do we touch the ground with our hands. Nope, we don’t. We used these sticks called Pound sticks (officially Rip Stix). The pound sticks are green and the sticks are good they won’t break. You might be surprised because our leader/Mrs.Jones is fantastic at teaching Pound because she teaches Pound before school on Tuesday and Thursday. It is located in the music room and we get water breaks when we start to sweat. We have moves for the songs. We have knee raising and we have down and tap and lots more.
We had fun and felt brave and proud of ourselves after our performance!
By Wajiha and Michelle
Problem Solvers
Problems solvers is a group of 12 or less fourth graders and kindergarteners that writes down real peoples problems and tries to find the best solution. Then we talk about the situations. If we get frustrated finding the best solution we meditate and breathe and the we tackle the task. We also write down the problem in a binder or a notebook and the leaders take the problem home and call each other and solve it. Then the next day we write a letter to the person or people that are having that problem and ask if it worked. But in the beginning we explain it to teachers so it is more safe. So no one knows who wrote the letter we just write problem solvers to keep it anonymous. So we stay happy in the process of researching for the solution we research positive quotes.
By Irelyn and Carleigh
What have the boys been up to?
Boys With a Purpose
Boys with a Purpose
Boys with a purpose is a group that meets on Mondays and Wednesdays for lunch in the “family room”. We learn how to be a gentleman. Mr.Kimmel tells us stories with a purpose. He tells us that boys just naturally want to act a way...1. We want a battle to fight. 2. We want to have Adventures. 3. We want to save someone. We have to do the right things with the way we act. Mr. Kimmel says our actions must have a purpose and never be what he calls misplaced.The secret to this is remember…”it’s not about you. It’s about the person next to you.”
Boys with a purpose need to be… Tenderhearted, kind, and patient. Our goal is to be CHAMPIONS. “Find the wrongs and make them right”.
By Dillon and Heath
Our Experience in Boys with a Purpose
Our names are Isaac and Noah. We belong with a group called Boys with a Purpose. We like It because we get to go to younger kids classroom and help them clean, read, and do math. We also like it because we get to eat in the classroom on Mondays and Wednesdays. We eat lunch with Mr. K. and a bunch of other boys. We learn about how to be gentlemen and champions.
We go to Mrs. Griggs and Mrs. Buschmann’s classes. In the classroom I work with a kid named Max. I help him finish his math and make sure he gets everything he needs. I go to mrs. Buschmann’s and he finds kids that are doing the right thing and either helps them with what they need to do or play a math game with them. Boys with a purpose makes me feel good because we get to help kids do the right thing and make sure they are not feeling left out.
Interviews
Anderson
He loves to go to his class room with a rate 10/10 because he knows all the kids in his lass room. There are 2 kids that hug him all the time and thin I come and ruin the hugs and say “go to your chare please.”The thing that Anderson like the best about boys with a purpose is he gets guy time.
Kealan
He loves going to his classroom with a rate 8/10 because no kid like him in his classroom so that is the reason he gives it a 8/10.he like having boy time and has fun at his class room.
Timmy
He likes his classroom 10/10 because if he eats in the classroom he gets to go to his classroom because Mr. Kimmel said if you do not come to the meeting you can not come to your classroom. All the kids in his class knows him so he will get everybody’s name right.
Iker
He likes going to his class with a rate 5/10 why I don’t know because I tried to ask but he ignored the question. All the kids in his class knows him so he can’t get a name wrong. He likes to come to are class room and eat lunch so that is iker.
Ending
I hope you liked my story.this was a fun time taking to these kids at North Elementary.
By Justin
End of the Day
This is where we meet before we go down to the classroom when nobody’s here.
Boys with a purpose is a thing where boys go down and help classrooms at 3:00 near the end of the day. We meet by the elevator right before three. Mr.Kimmel a.k.a the leader of boys group will make sure we are here then call our names then we will go down to the classroom that we are assigned to. Then we will help in the class like just sharpening pencils or reading books or just yesterday the kids had their shoes off so me and my partners tied their shoes for them. We have one goal in Boys With A Purpose to make the world a good place and to have an adventure, save someone, and have a battle to fight.
By Anderson and Kaelan
Taking Care of Us
Keep Your Chin Up!
Mediation
Mediation a good exercise for your body to calm down, you can be relax be you doing mediation. your body will be calm, relaxed, and feel like your more energized than ever. Mediation is a good thing to get in a habit and get really into so your body will get used to it and not be uncomfortable or feel weird doing it, your life will change if you meditation and be more alive with your life you will feel more good for your life and be more positive in your life.
Breathing
Breathing is a calming thing for your body. it helps you when you are stressed or thinking negative thoughts about yourself. There are different types of breathing like box breathing, figure 8 breathing, normal breathing, super breathing and way more. We do breathing in our classroom it calms us down after a transition. We usually do it in the family room. It is so calming you can get in a routine and it helps a lot.
Positive things to say to yourself
Positive thing to say to yourself is you can do this and I will and I can stuff like that
and if you say a lot of positive to yourself and you will feel so good after all the positive you’ll feel more and more happy and you be more good at thing because you’ll be more good at things that your you couldn’t do .
Positive quotes
Positive quotes can help you a lot. They can make you happy when you feel down. You can put them as your background then you can read the quote out loud or to yourself.
Caylee and Lila
Why do we breathe at home and school?
We breathe at school or home, either one is fine but today I’m gonna talk about why we breathe at school. We always start the day by passing around a greet and you will say something to someone such as your gonna have a great day. Sometimes we get to wild and we have to breathe, there that’s a reason we do it to calm down we also do it to get our mind set and ready to learn it is very help full to breathe. Breathing is also help full for if your stressed or sad breathing would cure that. Last I want to say one of the breathing is that is listed below is called super hero breathing, the pose you can do is your choice its like a super hero pose and it is known to help you calm down thanks for reading this below is a listing of all, well… I guess some of the breathing we do in school.
Types of breathing that we do:
1. The first breathing is box breathing
2. The second breathing is figure 8 breathing
3. The third breathing is circle breathing
4. The fourth breathing is color breathing
5. The fifth breathing is super hero breathing
6.The last breathing is 5 second breathing
In the video below is all the breathings we do enjoy :)
Caiden and Ethan C.
Writing Workshop
Character by Charlie
Dr. Seuss Inspired Writing
Our class' Dr. Seuss characters
In our class we made Dr.Seuss characters after looking at some Dr.Seuss books.
We did this by mix of a animal and an object, for example Anthony’s is a straw bat a Mix of a strawberry (object) and a bat (animal).
Rhyming is important in Dr. Suess because it’s his type of his writing, so we also put some rhyming with our characters for fun, for example one about Anthony’s character the straw bat swarms around at night the worms stay out of sight, he tries to find bananas. he hates them when they’re in the light, so he eats them in the night! everyone loves the bananas so he keeps them out of sight, so if you can’t find your bananas you can blame the strawberry bat, the bat who hates the bananas.
Reading Workshop
Book Clubs
Some of our book clubs:
-Fireweed
-When You Reach Me
-Guinea Dog
-Guinea Dog 2
(There's more books)
To start a book club we find a partner and talk about a book that we could read about.
When we start our book club first we have to read the back cover of the book and get a teacher’s approval. Then before we start reading we have to talk about how much we are going to read. We also have to make sure we have a nice and quiet spot to read. Then we start reading, after we read we talk about what happened in the book. Sometimes the teacher will talk about the book so that we can talk about words that don’t make sense or we don’t understand and sometimes we talk about key words (if you didn’t know key words are little details that are really Important important to the story.)
By Avery and Anna
Math Workshop
Pi Day
The Pi You Can’t Eat!
Have you ever wondered about pi? No not that pie, PI! Pi is a irrational number (which means it never ends or repeats itself). Archimedes was the one who found out you use π to find the Circumference (which is basically perimeter for circles) and the Area. So far π has been calculated to 22,459,257,718,361 digits. The first 15 numbers are 3.14159265358979.
In class Mr.kimmel let us have oatmeal creme pies.
But we could not eat them yet because we had too
Measure the pies with π then we had too multiply
are answer by 3.14 which is π. On 3/14 is national
π day. To find Circumference you do π multiplied by
Diameter and to find Area, π multiplied by Radius squared.
I am sorry but we are out of π. Good bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ryan Ethan Chase
Algebra 101
What’s Algebra?
Algebra is a part of math where you have variables that equal numbers that are unknown to you. You figure out a series of equations to find out what the answer and what the variables equal like X=3.
Rules
Whatever you do to one side of the equation you do to the other side. You do this because if you just subtract from one side and not the other, it would make no sense because suddenly the left side is greater than the right side. Get all the variables on one side. You do this because because it would be a lot easier to do this instead of having it on both sides. Isolate the variable (or make it by itself). You do this because to find out the answers, you have to isolate the variables.
How To Do It
Example:5x+3=x+11. So what you want to do first is isolate the variables, so x minus 5x equals 4x. So now our problem is 4x+3=11. So you do 4x2=8 and 8+3=11 so x must equal 2.
Challenged
On Wednesday, March 13, 2019, Mr. Kimmel challenged some kids in math to do algebra because we had some extra time. He told us the basics like the rules (which is two paragraphs above) first. Then he gave us problems like 3x plus 3= 2x plus 6(which equals 3x). A tone of people didn’t get it, but Sam, Jude and Colton. That’s why we made this article.
By Jude, Colton and Sam
Use this code to play our algebra game! Code: 881256 (click below)
Science
Robotics Club
The Club
Robotics club is a club where our main priority is to win the competition. There are different rules you need to know.1. You play on a 4x8 field. 2. You have 2 robots on the field on the same mat at the same time.3. You have 60 seconds to score as many points as possible.4. There are a total of 15 hubs and there are 2 yellow hubs that are 2 points while the orange are 1 if a hub is on the floor it is worth its original points but if its stacked it is worth double. 5.If you hang your robot it will earn you points. 6.A low hang is worth 2 points and a high hang is where a hub can roll under you and that is worth 4 points.
Competition
The competition was at the West Middle school. 23 people came out for it there was two teams one was 5th and another was 4th graders. On these teams there were 11 5th graders and 12 4th graders from North Elementary. Mr. Kimmel and Mrs Harris had to pick two robots to go to the competition. Each type of robot has a name the two were both the same stretch. We had to go to a big gym in the gym there were fields in the end the scores were the 5th graders got 9th place and 4th graders got in 36 place
The competition was really fun and I felt proud. I think everyone was nervous including Mr. Kimmel. Even though we were nervous and we didn’t do really good we still had fun.
by Amrinder and Charlie
Expert Day
by Justice, Jalyiah, Samara
Feature Articles
by Aaron and Emma
When you start a feature article you research a topic you are interested in. If you want to, change it to a better topic.
Research your topic you are interested in.
Write down facts that make sense the reader and you.
Find out facts most people don’t know about your topic in are case its megalodons.
Put it together and put it an organized way.
Write paragraphs that fit together and make sense and in my case if i write Chomp chomp chomp I would not talk about when they died.
Choose a app to use like: BOOK CREATOR, DOCS, AND NOTABILITY.
Jazzy your title up personalize in paragraphs.
Put it all together in one article.
Ask to see your child's feature article in their iPads or by using a paper copy.
Below are Current Featured Topics
Crocodile Hunter
Ryley
Plants V.s zombies Garden Warfare 2
In 2016 PopCap Games released Plants v.s zombies for Microsoft, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Garden Warfare has been around for some time and we thought I could talk about the good and bad about it. First the good, by 2017 more than 8 million people were playing ,good graphics, lots of different characters and classes, game modes and more. Now the bad. Glitches a lot, way to many Easter eggs, sever breaks down allowing everything to be transparent, in garden and graveyard mode the character selection menu there is a camera and it gives you access to the whole map. Over all Plants V.s Zombies has its good and bad. You can hate it but I think it’s a good game in my opinion.
Dog Breed Feature- The Poodle
Fact one:poodles are desired by designers.
Fact 2: toy poodles live up to 18 years.
Fact 3:mini poodles live for 18 years as well.
Fact 4: normal poodles live for 12 to 15 years.12 years.
Fact 5: they where originally bread in france and Germany.
Fact 6:they are smart,beautiful and they are good with children and allergies.
Fact 7: one poodle costs $1,000-$2,000.asta le vesta amigos.
by Levaun, Caden, Jordin
Fun Food Facts
by Ella, Aerin and Ali
Food Facts
Have you ever wondered about the food you eat Is it healthy or junk food? Well pay attention pie, because I’m going to fill you in!
Healthy Foods That are Unhealthy
Butter. People put butter on almost EVERYTHING. But it isn’t very good for you. It can give you heart disease and diabetes.
Granola. It has a lot of calories and it is made with butter. Just a covering can have 400 calories.
Fruit Juice. It has too much sugar, preservatives, and other chemical
Energy Bars. They have a LOT of calories and people gain weight easily.
Diet Soda. It could actually be worse than regular pop. They have a lot of artificial sweeteners and food coloring. It can cause heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
Couscous. Couscous is actually just little pasta. 2 of them can contain 160 calories.
Types of Common Pasta
Angel Hair
Elbow Macaroni
Bow Tie
Fettuccine
Rotini
Jumbo Shells
Shells
Linguine
Orecchiette
Orzo
Ziti
Spaghetti
Rigatoni
Penne
Pappardelle
Bananas vs Apples
We did a test in our classroom to see if bananas or apples better. Apples won, but then we searched on safari and it said that more people eat bananas than apples. Tomatoes were the number 1 fruit. I personally think that bananas taste better in a bake rather than alone. Apples do taste good in tarts, pies, juice, and apples.
A Life Skills Friend
Hi here is are friend Giulianna she is a kind and caring. She is in kindergarten she love to give Hugs. She is a great friend of ours.
We interviewed her and this is what we found out.
Kylee- What’s your favorite word?
Giulianna- yeet
Aspen - What’s your favorite color?
Giulianna - pink
Kylee- What’s your favorite food?
Giulianna- candy and so on
Aspen- What’s your favorite animal?
Giulianna- houses
Kylee -What’s your friend names?
Emory
Morco
Kylee
Aspen
Mrs.Cave/ teacher
Mrs.l/ teacher
Aj
Titi
Aspen -What’s do you like to play with?
Giulianna- Play hours
Family
Giulianna is a family of 5 she is a triplet. She has 2 brothers named Govon and Malone. She love her mom and dad.
For fun
Art
Watch tv/ Sofia The first.
By Aspen and Kylee
After School Fun
Boys and Girls Club BY DILLON
If you don’t go to the Boys and Girls Club here are some facts. At the Boys and Girls Club there are staff. For example...Scout, Darby, Conner, and Robert, and many more. They have places with fun things to do like… Gym, Library, Computer lab, Games room, playground, Cafeteria, front counter (Drop off bags and coats, and pick up bags and coats.) At the boys and girls club they have rules, here are some… “No running unless you're in the gym or playground, eat at the orange or cafeteria tables, no swearing, no cutting, no physical harm, and no sharing food”.