Here’s a quick writing activity to try every day. First, generate a creative story starter. Pick a format: notebook, letter, newspaper, or postcard. Print your story for a surprise.

This looks like lots of fun, fourth graders. If you try this writing activity, write your review and post as a comment. 

My family dog Simon is very funny, and he always runs around. Simon loves to play with his toys outside, and he likes to play fetch with them. Simon barks a lot at the mailman. I think the mailman. I think the mailman gets scared.

He barks so viciously at basically every one that comes near our house. But once you get to know him he turns out to be very nice. Simon is a soft, cute, and very lovable dog, and he is the dog I love.

This search engine is designed specifically for children’s interests, homing in on popular content that appeals to young Web viewers while filtering out potentially harmful sites. KidRex works like a Google search engine, but it also has some kid-friendly design features, including a giant image of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Parents and teachers may find the site to be a reliable resource as well, with its regularly updated content added to the custom-search option. A parents’ page includes information about Web safety with recommendations about how to protect children while they surf the Internet.

Try it out and leave a comment letting us know what you think!

If you like to travel then listen up! Here’s a cool city you should go to. It’s called San Francisco and it will blow you away! When I went they had cool things that are beautiful that no other city has. They have curvy steep streets. It felt like I was going to fall when we were going down them.

The most interesting thing was the Golden Gate Bridge. It is orange and super long. If you drive or even it takes forever. Another cool thing is it was finished being built in 1937. Isn’t that cool? Here is another something about the bridge. There is a park named after it called Golden Gate Park. It has a huge rope pyramid that I climbed to the top of. I was scared!

The last thing you should know about San Francisco is China town. You can get anything there! Those are the main things you should know about San Francisco. So stop by and take a trip to San Francisco!

Over the next few weeks, fourth graders will be finishing up their keyboarding lessons using “Type to Learn.” As the year goes on, they will have the opportunity to word process some of their class assignments, so the keyboarding practice will come in handy!

When 4K has independent writing workshop time during the next few weeks, students will be busy planning and writing stories, poems, biographies, reports, and many other genres of writing, with the goal of publishing their very best work in the Imagination Station this year.

Update – 4K will be publishing on two days – December 2 and December 16 – due to a change to our schedule.

Chicago has lots of stuff to do. I’ll start with my favorite, which is the CARNIVAL!

The big wheel is my favorite. I like the big wheel because it’s very, very high, and it’s a historical landmark. That tells you that you’re definitely in Chicago.

My second favorite thing is all the goodies to eat! Yummm! There’s also ice cream.

If you love all that stuff that I just told it’s all on the Navy Pier in Chicago! All of the Navy Pier is outside, and it’s really fun and it’s really pretty. If you don’t like that there’s probably indoor stuff to do too!

In the winter this is what I like to do. I like to have snowball fights, drink hot chocolate, play with friends, made snow angels, play with my brother, make snowmen eat hot hot pizza with my family ,and down hills. When  the slide is frozen, my brother and I  like to slide  bide down on it. We  skates, an b roll snowball  into  big big balls, and then my brother and I jump on ti and fall down and we laugh like crazy. My dad  made an ice sculpture  and it sailor names. We liked it a lot . That’s why I like winter so much because I get to do cool things.

In football all most people see are wins losses, and big plays but if you actually play the game, the ball is hiked. You see someone open over the heavy rush you jump back and throw the ball at the same time. It’s deep and the man open catches it! He jukes out a guy and scores! Touchdown!!!!! See, all that stuff you just react to, you don’t ever think. Catching you know how to do it so your body just reacts naturally. Throwing your never going to be a good quarterback if you think just react . Pretty much everything in football you use your instincts. You don’t think just react. Well that’s all I have to say about not thinking , use my advice football fans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fall is by far my favorite season. There are two main holidays. They are Halloween and Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving because of the Macy’s Day Parade on television. Also, we have lots of family over for a big feast with pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, turkey, carrots, and much more! Just enough to make your mouth water! Yumm!

I really like Halloween because there is “trick-or-treating” with friends. It’s fun and (sometimes) scary. Yikes! One of my favorite things to do in fall is going for walks. I just love the way the trees look with all the colors! The smell of fall air makes me want to fly into the distance!

When the leaves fall and it is time for yard work, my friends and I rake them all up into one big pile, rake that to the end of a slide, zoom down the slide, and, crinckle! All of the leaves break into a zillion pieces! It is a ton of fun!

It is pumpkin picking time! We drive for about thirty minutes to the apple and pumpkin farm. When we find our favorite pumpkins, we race to the apple orchard. We fill a lot of bags with apples! When we are done picking out our gourds and small pumpkins, it is time to carve our pumpkins. It is a mushy and gushy job, but it is worth it when you see four glowing pumpkins outside of our house!