Christmas Sing-a-Long

By: Kaylie and Tara

December 20,2010 we were suprised by getting picked for the sing -a-long because we had a avarge of 90% or higher in AR. We had to go down at 8:15 and Mrs. Davis played piano while we sang and she played butifuly and teachers sang along too . We sang Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and Deck the Halls and we got a special treat because we performed good and our special treat was miniature candy canes. We had a lot of fun!

Geography Bee

By Harley and Timmy

On December 9, 2010 was the class Geography Bee. So in class we had our teacher Mrs.Sharp ask us questions so who ever won first or second went to go against the 4 and 5 grade class. So Timmy and Harley won and went to the Geography Bee. Two students from every class got to compete. They sat in front of all of the parents, and all of fourth and fifth grade. They answered some very difficult questions. It was very hard. I was so nervous!

Even though they didn't win, we are very proud of them for reaching the school-wide competition.

Happy Birthday Abbie!

Abbie's birthday was actually yesterday, but we didn't have a chance to put up any information about her! Instead she is typing today and would like to tell you a little about herself.

My name is Abigail and I am ten years old and I like baseball soccer and gymnastics. I have a littie sister named Bobbie and a mom and dad named Richard and Gina. I have two little dogs a chiuaua and a cocolate lab named Nugget and Gigzet. i just love dogs when I get older I want a whole lot of dogs and when I get older I wanna be a vet. and my best friend is Maddie and Cassandra. I am not much of a cat person so don't assume I am.

We hope you enjoyed learning a little more about Abbie!

Happy Birthday Maddie!

Today is Maddie's 10th birthday. Instead of doing a video, she would like to to write about herself for you!

Hi My name is Maddie and I am 10 years old.To be honest, I do like to shop til' I drop. I also like to play video games. My favorite snack is Pringles. My favorite food is spaghetti. I like to draw and paint. My favorite sports teams are the 76ers, Ravens, and the Phillies. My favorite subject is Science. I hate to read. Hope you have a great year.<3<3


Happy Birthday Maddie! Our class hopes you have a wonderful day!

Happy Birthday Janiya!

Janiya came to us from a different school just past her birthday. We still did a birthday video so she could share with everyone! Enjoy!

Native American Project

By: Ethan Lang

We are doing a Native American project on the Lennni Lenape and another tribe of Indains. I have chosen the Crow Native American tribe. Others have chosen others. We have to study the food,shelter,clothing,where they live and culture and customs.

We had to chose from the Crow, the Nez Perce, the Cherokee, the Onieda, the Sioux, the Tglinkit. We will get poster boad and and split it in half and put each tribe on one side. This will be due on Tuesday Novmber 30th. This will become a socal studies grade I hope this projet will be fun!

Happy Birthday TJ!

TJ celebrated his birthday in the beginning of the school year, but we just got around to doing his birthday video!

The thrilling trip to Dover

By. Lizzy

On September 25 we went on are thrilling trip to dover the state capital.We went to the old state house were they dressed up in costumes and they told us all about George Washington and we also went to the archives and we learned about the old documents that when you get old .It was so much fun.

Then the last place we went was under ground and we learned about things in the past like how they lived back when there was no electricity and they had to hunt for food. They had no Walmarts and no Food lion. So life was not so easy back then because you have to make everything by yourself.We also got to look at some stuff they either made or found from back then.

All About 4th Grade

By : Maddie

4th grade is all about fun and hard work. You should know that you need to know alot to move on to the 4th grade. So far we have been learning about deserts and mysteries in our AWESOME reading book. Also in math we have been learning about variables and values. Variables are categories that have values. For example: Animals is a variable that has like, cow, horse and dog which are values.

Now we are learning about the desert animals and how they can survive in the HOT, HOT, sun. Some of the animals are, desert turtle, elf owl, coyote, and roadrunner. Hope you will get Mrs.Sharps class next year!!!!!!!

Good Luck!!!!!

Welcome Back!

Welcome to the 2010 - 2011 school year! To those of you who will be joining my 4th grade classroom this year, I look forward to meeting and working with you soon! I hope that you are excited as I am to get this year started.

To my former students : Good luck! I know that you will do great this year. Don't forget to come back and visit me. For some of you, I am just right down the hallway.

Whichever grade you are joining, I know that you will have a wonderful year. Make sure to check this site often for updates from our class, and pictures of the activities we take part in throughout the year. I can't wait to see you on Tuesday! Have a fun and safe holiday weekend!

My Summer

How is your summer going? We have two months left until your new school year starts and you will be 5th graders! My summer is going very well so far.

We just got back from our cruise that I told you about! Here are some pictures for you to look at!
This was our ship. It was called Explorer of the Seas and held over 3,000 people! That's a lot!
Our first stop was in Bermuda. There, my Mom and I got to swim with Dolphins! This is a picture of me kissing one! It was very exciting! We also stopped in St. Maarten, St. Thomas and Puerto Rico where we got to tour a castle!Every night, our cabin attendant made different animals out of towels and left them on our bed. Can you tell which animal this is? It's a lobster wearing sunglasses! She also made a monkey, a bird and an elephant!
This was the last night of our cruise. Isn't the sunset pretty? We had a great time and would like to go another one in the future.

What have you been doing this summer? Leave me a comment and let me know! Miss you guys! Stay safe!

Miss Me?

We are a week and a half into our summer vacation! Can you believe it? Do you miss me yet? I miss all of you, yes, even you Jordan! I hope everyone is having a great vacation and staying safe! Make sure you are with someone when you go swimming, and you wear that helmet when you ride your bike!

Do you have any fun plans or are you going on vacation? Mr. Sharp and I will be leaving on our cruise next week! We are so excited! Until then, I am working at the restaurant and finishing up my class. I am ready to relax! Kye'La, I plan on trying that rock climbing wall and eating all the great food you talked about!

I have seen or talked to some of your parents and they have said you have having fun so far! I hear Libby and Mo have been swimming all day, and Mel is playing soccer of course! How about the rest of you?

Hope you have a great summer and I will see you soon!

ECON and ME

By: Melina

On May 19th, 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders took a field trip to Del Tech in Georgetown. The point of the trip was to learn about economics. it was called Econ and M.E. We were divided into grades and schools.

There were three parts to this competition, the the prodution the test and the problem solving. Plus we got free t shirts. the production was when we had to make shiny pennies booklets for kindergateners. The students had to cut out perfect paper pennies and a instruction book and a whole bunch of other items. A few teams from Banneker won for that, actually fourth grade class got first place for that. The easiest part, I think, was the test. The test was 36 different questions all about econmics. My group won third place for this segment! Finally there was the problem solving part of the competition. The problem was ace vending machine needed a new type of vending machine. 2 or 3 gruops from Banneker won a ribbon for this part.

It took the whole day so of course we ate lunch there. All in all I had a great time! Especially because I won a ribbon!

Our Family Picnic

By : Hannah and Sage

On the day of May 21st, our school had a Family Picnic. Our parents came at our lunch time and ate lunch with us. You were able to order hot dogs or PB & J, along with Sun chips and ice cream!After we ate, we could look at all the stands or go to the Book Swap. The stands had information about different clubs you could join in the summer, or information about joining music in Middle School. If you brought in books from your house that you did not want any more you gave them to the person that came around with a cart and how many books you brought you would get a coupon to be able to get that many books. Right before the picnic was a Blow Up Obstacle Course. What you did was race against another kids in a different class.Even Mrs. Sharp had a turn! Our whole class was dancing to the electric slide and it was so funny! It was an awesome Friday! I wished it would never end.We had lots of fun!!!!!

City of Brotherly Love

By : Kayla and Roberto

When we went to philly we got to see the Liberty Bell ,the Mint, the Franklin (Ghost) House. We got to get silly bands from the bourse. I got a mini liberty bell and Roberto got a book. In the Mint we got to see people make coins. We got to see the big things of copper that gets put into a machine that shapes the money and cuts the circles out and when the coins were done they got put into a big container. When we went to the Liberty Bell we got to see the big crack in it. A long time ago the Liberty Bell used to be in London,England.

We had alot of fun.

Career Day

By: Erica and Kye'La

Dr. Sharp report to the E.R. !!!!!
On career day we got to see a surgeon and he showed us the tools you need for a surgery which was really cool !!!!!!! We also were able to get and wear the scrub caps that he wears into surgery!

One of the other people that came was my mom and she ones a Snyder route and gets to drive a big truck around and on some days I get to go with her. All of the kids got to
go through the truck and get a pretzel rods!!!!

Have you ever heard of 31? It is like Avon. Mrs. H came in to describe how she runs her own business out of her house! She sells products from 31. You get to get all kinds of beautiful handbags and lipstick. Guys there something for you too!!!!!!!

911!!!!!!!!911!!!!!!!!! A detective is needed. A detective was there to talk about his job . He's a super sleuth !!!!! It was an awesome career day!

Happy Birthday Sage!

Today is Sage's Birthday!

She chose not to do a video, so we took some pictures instead! She will add more information that she would like to share with you tomorrow, so be sure to check back!

Her and her mom were nice enough to bring in treats for the class to eat. Don't they look delicious? Yes, that is a real flower, and we even got to eat it!

Happy Birthday Jordan!

Today is Jordan's birthday and he wanted to share a little bit about himself with you!




Jordan forgot a lot of what he wanted to say, so here is some more about him:

He loves playing football, and is quite good at it.
He is on the Yankees baseball team.
He is very good at math, but does not like to read.
He wants to be a professional football player when he grows up!


Happy 11th Birthday!

Fun On The Ice!

By: Sydney

Today we went ice skating! We went down to the gym and got our skates. Then they came around to check and make sure they were on very tight. After we were all ready we got split in two groups. Group one and group two. Then we lined up around the side and they showed us how to march across the ice. We went to the other side and back and they taught us how to glide our feet across instead of marching this time.

The floor wasn't real ice though so it was a little harder to glide. They also taught us about backwards skating. It was easier than going forwards and that was very interesting. But once everyone got used to skating on the fake ice we learned how to spin! After we had done all that it was time to leave. So we sat down and took off our skates. Then we left and went back to class. What a busy morning!

Getting our skates on and tied up tight!

Waiting patiently!

Learning how to march across the ice.

Gliding!


Our instructor was so impressed with out advanced ability, we got to learn how to spin!

Happy Birthday Joshua!

Today is Joshua's Birthday!

He is turning 11 years old and wanted to share some information about himself with you!

Science Fair

By Morgan and Libby

We decided to do our project on balloon blow up because we wanted to to know what food is best for yeast to grow. Libby & I filled up all the mini Gatorade bottoles with yeast and other ingredintes. Then we would go back and check the bottles every 30 minutes. After all the 30 minutes were up we would smell the bottles and see what they smelled like. Before we smelled the bottles Mrs JoAnn ( Libbys mom ) got the balloon popped in her face. The best food for yeast is Flour.

Today the class shared their projects with everyone else. After our class shared all the projects, we took them to the gym. Tonight all the parents will come and see the projects. Judges will score the projects and we will get bows or ribbons! If you come in first, second, or third place you will get a medal! Visit us soon, we will tell you if we win.

Riley showing us his 'Living Green' Project. He made a solar powered house.

Sage did research about Jellyfish. Here she created a Jellyfish out of Jello-O! Joshua did an experiment involving Mentos and Coke! It was very explosive! Kayla made Rice Krispies dance by creating static with wool.

Read House Field Trip

By : Thomas

On our field trip to the Read house, we went into the house first and learnd different tools they used and learned how to use them. Then we went to a room and got smocked! That means we were the master of our job and were put to work! Then we put our knowloge to the test and played a game and found the tools and did a demastation of tin work.

Then we went outside and went to the curch and saw the school and then saw a sleeper stone momument. A sleeper stone is a stone that held up the rail road. We saw New Jersey across the Delaware River. We saw a boot scraper and thought it was to tie your horse up to. Then we saw the court house and the armory which was changed to the high school and saw Town Hall. We found out that the school kids went home for lunch because the town was so small. I liked the trip did you like our summary?


Standing outside of the schoolhouse.
It only had 4 rooms!
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If you look closely, you can see the DE River in the background!

Picture of the sleeper stones!



















Making band boxes. They hold bands that the priest and minister wear around their necks.
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Trying to pass our apprentice test!



Tired, after a very long day!

Our Fantastic Writing Piece

By Reese and Carson

Our writing piece is about we get sucked into a game or our tv. For example, we were watching Lets Make A Deal Halloween Edition and all of a sudden were in a dracula costume on the big deal trying not to get zonked.

Reese : mine is about playing a Indiana Jones video game. I get sucked into the game then all of a sudden I can hardly breathe because the walls are squishing me.

Carson : mine is about me being sucked into Phineas and Ferb. It was like I never thought I would go into outer space. All of a sudden, I'm in the blastoff to the sun. Three, Two, One BLASTOFFFFFFF!

Our stories are totally awesome!

Welcome!

Welcome to our NEW class blog! We hope to keep you informed of our in school and out of school adventures. We hope to update once a week, and will include pictures and maybe even videos of the happenings during our school day.

This is our first post, which we are writing together! The rest of the blog will be updated by the students themselves. Be sure to check in weekly to see what we are up to!