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November:  Excellent Citizens Recognized

11/30/2020

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We are quite pleased to present the three classroom recipients
for November's recognition of excellent citizenship!
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Colonial Williamsburg:  The Story of a Patriot

11/29/2020

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Here is a story set in the period we have recently studied in class.  This video was made in 1957 and claims to have been filmed entirely at Colonial Williamsburg.  I was interested in seeing some of the actual locations I will experience next summer.  Seeing them in the video, with costumed characters and no tourists, is a welcome sight.  I look forward to spotting some of these buildings and sites in person soon.
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Mood Music:  John Adams Theme

11/28/2020

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Sometimes, when we go to the movies or as we watch a show on TV, we are transported into the plot.  Directors understand that their selection of background music can change and enhance a scene.

Now it is time to turn it around.  This time, the music comes first.  Do not watch the video; instead, let the music lead your imagination.  As it plays, allow it to transport you into a scene that has yet to be written.  Then, write the scene.  Use all the visual imagery you can muster in your writing.  At the end, you will share your writing.  Will it stand on its own, without the music in the background?
Close your eyes.

Listen to the music.

Create a visual story in your mind.

Write your story as you listen a second time.

Tweak your scene.

Share your scene with the class.
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Hoggatt Cave:  Bag-of-Chips Effect

11/27/2020

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One of the Christian journals I follow produces good science content.  Since we recently considered cave ecosystems, I thought I would share this short article about one species of bats.
BAG OF CHIPS EFFECT. Have you noticed that when a person opens a bag of chips and starts munching, it draws other people’s attention? You may find that those who were paying no attention to you suddenly come to your side to “converse,” when actually they are hoping you will share some chips with them. Animals may not be much different in that respect. I’m thinking of greater mouse-tailed bats (Rhinopoma microphyllum).

Greater mouse-tailed bats are native to northern Africa and areas of Asia. They live in subtropical and dry shrubland areas. Although they don’t eat potato or corn chips, they exhibit the “bag of chips effect.” They prefer to eat flying ants, and like other bats, they find their prey by echolocation. When they have spotted a meal, they send out a sound known as a “feeding buzz.” For other bats, it’s like the sound of a person munching on potato chips. They want to join the “conversation.”

These bats can echolocate flying ants 10 meters away. However, they can hear a feeding buzz from another bat 100 meters away. It’s as if the other bat has ripped open a bag of chips and started munching. Suddenly the bat has friends showing up from every direction...
Source:  Does God Exist?
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(The Real) Thanksgiving Meal

11/26/2020

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We hear, all the time, about how we should not stuff ourselves with food, whether junk food or just too much food in general.  It is often on Thanksgiving that we begin thinking about our New Year's resolutions.  We push ourselves away from the dinner table, and we stare at the empty dishes - coagulated bits of cranberry salad, sticky and charred marshmallow from the yams, turkey gristle - and we wonder if we could possibly be responsible for such carnage.
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We ponder our places in the world, in the grand scheme, and we wonder if there is something we might do, something we might say or do - or be - that will make the world a better place.  Are we better people because we eat?  Are we better when we diet?  Are we healthier?  Do we pass plates of positive possibilities to our children?
If you really are what you eat, might I recommend a menu for this, and every, day?
Mercy
Peace
Goodness

Kindness

Cooperation
Honesty

Conviction
Responsibility
Joy
Patience
Laughter

Gentleness
Compassion

Courage
Creativity
Self-Control
Humility
Determination
Health
Wisdom

Empathy

Reverence
Endurance
Passion

Understanding
Love
Respect
Freedom

Happiness
Faith
Satisfaction
Positivity

Growth
Maturity

Gratitude
Perseverence
In this restaurant, you aren't limited to one appetizer, one entree, and one dessert!
Take liberally from every column, and leave feeling better than when you came in.
In fact, eat everything in sight.  You'll thank me for it.
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Your bill will reflect payment in full,
because the only things you are required to pay
are those parts of yourself that oppose what's on your plate.


From the Hoggatteer family to yours, happy Thanksgiving!
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Music Appreciation:  The Candy Man

11/25/2020

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Students are often called upon to read "chorally".
That is, they read together
simultaneously 
as a group.

Repeating this practice assists young readers with reading fluency - the speed, accuracy,
and inflection of  oral reading.


Why not, since it's called "choral" reading anyway, actually read the chorus of a song? ​
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Define "Explosion" (Part One)

11/24/2020

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As long as we're discussing 18th-century artillery, we had to think about the question, What is an explosion?  The basic act of placing an antacid tablet in an old-fashioned film canister half-filled with water taught us that an explosion is something getting really big really fast.  That's a simple definition, but it gave us a better idea of what happens at the back end of a musket or one of those cannons Colonel Henry Knox absconded from Fort Ticonderoga to help George Washington and the Continental Army finally secure Boston.
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The Whites (and Reds and Greens) of their Eyes

11/23/2020

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Last week's study of the Battle of Bunker Hill made us familiar with the famous utterance, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."  We thought that to be a most interesting quote, and we had to think about what it meant and why it was declared.  The Patriot soldiers at Boston's Bunker Hill only had five musket balls and limited gunpowder at their disposal, so they could not afford to waste their shots.  They had to conserve their ammunition, so they were told to wait until the British soldiers came closer before shooting.
In a more positive vein, we did a brief study of the human eye before creating an artwork worthy of your refrigerator at home.  On construction paper, each student constructed an eye, complete with eyelashes and eyebrow.  Inside the eye, instead of a cornea and pupil, they recreated a holiday scene found on one of the dozens of cards I have collected through the last several years.  I was very pleased with their final products.
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Colonial Williamsburg:  Tours

11/22/2020

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While I still anticipate attending the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute, next summer, I enjoy watching videos to orient myself to the area.  I also like to hear about historically significant locations within the area that I don't want to miss when I visit.  
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Mood Music:  God Save the King

11/21/2020

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Sometimes, when we go to the movies or as we watch a show on TV, we are transported into the plot.  Directors understand that their selection of background music can change and enhance a scene.

Now it is time to turn it around.  This time, the music comes first.  Do not watch the video; instead, let the music lead your imagination.  As it plays, allow it to transport you into a scene that has yet to be written.  Then, write the scene.  Use all the visual imagery you can muster in your writing.  At the end, you will share your writing.  Will it stand on its own, without the music in the background?
Close your eyes.

Listen to the music.

Create a visual story in your mind.

Write your story as you listen a second time.

Tweak your scene.

Share your scene with the class.
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Cannon Marking Activity

11/20/2020

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It's hard to talk about the capture of Fort Ticonderoga from the British on May 10, 1775, without some mention of the cannon inventory of the fort.  Today's artillery collection at the fort is impressive, but difficult to interpret without some instruction.  When I studied at the fort for a week, last year, I was able to participate in the Guns at Night tour.  Our guide gave us an extensive lesson about the cannons and mortars behind the walls.  I knew I wanted to share some of that information with my fourth grade class.
So when we learned about the capture of the fort by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold in 1775, we had to take a look at the markings on the cannons - including a math activity that gave everyone the chance to use their multiplication skills to decipher how much each cannon weighs.
There is a three-number code on the cannon.  When you multiply the first number by 112, the second by 28, and the third by 1, then add the three products, the result is the weight of the cannon.  All students should be able to do this by this point, making use of skills learned in our regular math lessons in the past couple of weeks.
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Going Virtual in the Classroom

11/19/2020

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LWe don't like it.  We don't like it one bit - this idea of "going virtual" - but we're going to be ready if it ever comes to this.  Last week, we had a single positive case of C19 in our classroom, and only a handful of positives in our school, but because of this one, we have two other students quarantined.  Quarantines have occurred for two other students in the past, due to possible exposures outside of the school setting.  One more is currently home, as well, because of a family member who tested positive.  As of now, that means three are still learning from home.  I am posting lessons and activities for them to work on in our Google Classroom.

Interesting to note is that we have only had one possible transmission of C19 in our school.  Others have been contracted in other settings. That single case might have been passed on, but because the student was already quarantined, the spread seems to have been contained.
Superintendent Moss has stressed to us that we are not considering a change to our school calendar as some other districts have.  What we are doing seems to still be holding.  Should we ever be called upon to cancel in-person classes, though, Hoggatteers will be ready to log onto our Google Classroom site - Inside the Fort - to find assignments and activities.  We will also gather from our respective houses, every day in that situation, for virtual meetings.  I will teach lessons there before turning students loose to work on their assignments.  School will continue.

That means, we practiced a couple of times, last week, to ensure that students can find and get onto our platform, as well as connect for a Google Meet if needed.  Again, we don't like it.  I certainly don't like staring at a screen all day and talking into a microphone rather than seeing three-dimensional people sitting in front of me in flesh and blood, but we can and will do that if the call arises.  It just won't be the same.  
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Welcome, New Student

11/18/2020

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A hearty welcome is extended
to the newest member of the Hoggatteer family:  ANDREW.
ANDREW comes to us from a school outside of Missouri.

ANDREW, our wish is for you to feel at home in our classroom,
to feel at ease with making mistakes,
and to desire to constantly improve on your abilities.

Our fourth grade classroom is happier with you in it.
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Boston:  A Puzzling City

11/17/2020

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This puzzle starts just like normal, with regular pieces.  This one makes a rectangular map of Boston, depicting it as it appeared in the early 1800s.  From working this part of the puzzle, we could better appreciate the single entrance to the Boston Peninsula, and we could better understand the challenges of defending Boston against a superior British Navy during the American Revolution.
After the first layer was complete, I unpacked the next layer - a bunch of foam pieces that go on top of the original map.  This layer depicts Boston in the 21st century, and it shows how different the coastlines are today.  Much of the Charles River and other waterways have now been constrained and controlled.  The Boston Neck has been expanded to increase the land area of the city.  I liked seeing parts of the first map peeking through the blank spots of the foam map.

We notice how virtually all of the farmland has changed to an urban setting.  Highways have filled in from various directions, and it's easy to imagine the increase in traffic.  If you look at these pictures, you will notice white spots where many of the modern buildings have been added through the years.

Next it was time to construct the remaining two D's.  A poster in the puzzle box shows pictures of the plastic buildings that are included with the puzzle.  I used the poster to install the buildings in the order that they were constructed in the city.  In this way, not only was height added to the puzzle, but also that fourth dimension of time.

We could see Boston's development through time.  The 4D puzzle was fun to put together, but it felt different than puzzles I've worked in the past.  It makes a nice display to help with studies of Boston, Massachusetts, and just makes me want to visit the historic city even more than before.  Here is the site of the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the Battle of Bunker Hill.  Here is the major site in the conception of the United States.
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Our Classroom:  November

11/16/2020

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Hoggatt Cave has been a staple in my classroom for more than 26 years.  This year, the class will not conduct tours for other classes due to our distancing protocols, but we still wanted to adhere to our study as much as we could.  Here are some pictures of how our classroom looks, this month.
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