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About Ms. Bonzo

 Welcome to 4th Grade!   Raise the Roof!
 
     A little background: My teaching career started in St. Augustine, Florida, after graduating from the University of South Alabama. Then, my husband and I lived, taught, and traveled overseas for almost a decade in Algeria, Singapore, and the Dominican Republic before coming to Idaho.  We moved here in 1994 with our daughter and have really enjoyed being involved in the community and participating in all kinds of outdoor opportunities. 
 
    I have taught and coached kids from preschool to high school. I graduated with a Master of Arts in Teaching majoring in History from the University of in 1999 and have always continued to add to my professional and content knowledge.
 
     A little about the present at MCS: The students in 4th Grade get to integrate what they have learned from K-3. It is a special year developmentally because kids at this age want to be active and make a difference in the world. One way that I like to help grow their curiosity and interests is to take them off campus for field trips and do my best to bring in experts (which are often parents:)).
 
 

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Pictography by Deak
 
The scene he created was of a circus. The kids are thinking about Native American Culture and communication. In Morning Meeting, while outside on the basketball court, each student created a 'story without words'. It was hard and interesting. Doing this type of creative work helps the kids connect to the content. We will get to see examples of pictographs--about horses--next week when we go to the Appaloosa Horse Museum.
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Getting deeper into Social Studies
 
We are preparing for our Field Trip Horse Museum.
The chapter in our text does a great job of helping the students think about the life of Native American culture a long time ago. It is by taking facts and putting them in a graphic organizer, such as a chart that allows each to know how geography and the resources made it possible. The kids were reading and doing that today.
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Seeking Seeds in our Morning Meeting Activity
 
We looked around, high and low, and collected seeds. This is a favorite activity to look closely and notice all the different grasses and plants.
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Comparing Multi-Digit Numbers
 
At the start of today, the kids filled in Place Value Charts to compare numbers and review the math symbols and say the math sentence. Look at how proud and fun they feel-- Elliot and Tando can really goof around!
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Cooperative Math
 
We had the kids apply the skills they are learning by doing some timeline work. Thinking is coming along. This was a timeline with sunrise and sunset times from the Moscow Pullman Daily News.
This work was by Mette and Eirene. They were really cooperative! 
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I took this while Ms. Cartwright was teaching and Zooming with our Swivl robot. The kids are all present, but 1/2 are at home. 
We are getting used to all the technology that has allowed us to connect, but having the kids in the class to work with and give so much feedback too has been the best!
Seeing the kids get reacquainted with each other at Recess helped everyone feel better. 😁
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Masked Morning Meeting
 
We are into the 3rd week of being at school and this is a picture of us having our Morning Meeting. This is half the class. The other kids were in a Zoom Class Meeting with Ms. Cartwright.
It was a gorgeous day and so fun to be with the kids again!
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 Hi Families,
 
I will be sending you each an email with the directions of how to sign in to our 4th grade Google Classroom.
 
Thanks, Ms. Bonzo
 
 
 
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Clarisssssa says Hi!! I thought it would be fun to see a good time we had together and look forward to more when we are back together. :)
 
This picture is from early January when all the kids got to meet our wonderful class pet. She was so easily handled by everyone and each student had a chance to hold her if they wanted.  (I have a picture of each student with her and will get those sent.)
Our classmates were careful and we watched a very interesting National Geo Kid Video about pythons too. We had a discussion about how to care for a snake and what observations of her have helped them to understand the form and function of this species. There has been great appreciation for snakes and what they are like by having our 15-year-old ball python. 
 
I wanted to send this because I miss having the kids in class, but I do look forward to how we will gather virtually in the next weeks. More information will be sent this afternoon about how we will learn together.
 
I hope you are all well and really look forward to seeing you again when we can. Take Care, Ms. Bonzo
 
 
 
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Visiting the Moscow Public Library after the tour and lesson at the Prichard Art Gallery. We had about an hour of time to read, share, and find new books. We ate lunch on the benches and then caught the public transit back to our class.
 
Another great field trip!!
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Writers Feedback about Introduction Narration for Radio Show
 
This Reading Group performed their beginning and the class gave them compliments, comments, or suggestions on their work. For all groups, it was fun to have them speaking into a microphone to tell a story. The big white room divider is what they sit behind and it is in the process of turning into a 'set'. It will look like a table with a radio on it and the performers will be behind the set.
 
 
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Writing the Intro Narration of their Radio Show
 
Each Reading Group is working on the information that will be ready to start their story. They are thinking of the music, sounds and character information that will be needed to be explained to their listener audience in order to know what scene they are doing from the book they read.
 
They have been listening to classic radio show starts like-- Gunsmoke, Johnny Dollar, and War of the Worlds in order to get the importance of setting up the story.  It's fun to listen to them come up with voices as they experiment with tone and inflection to get the effect they want. Creative juices are flowing!
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And, it all started with 4th Graders in 2019!
 
Our community had its 3rd Collection Day for Plastic Film on Saturday. I drove over 2 full pickup loads. At the end of the day, 1596 pounds was collected into 13 containers! This year, our school has collected 6000 pounds or 3 tons!
Remember the next collection will be Saturday, April 4.
Check out my blogs from previous years:
2017-2018 School Year 
2016-2017 School Year
2015-2016 School Year
2014-2015 School Year