http://blogs.dalton.org/farnsworth We are all pebbles making ripples… Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:25:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our thanks to the people who write to us through comments on our posts.  We love hearing from you! Thank you to the student who gave us her photos from the Black Rock Forest Trip.  They are now posted in our Photo Archive Page. http://blogs.dalton.org/farnsworth/2009/10/29/thank-you/ At assembly, on October 15th, we were introduced to David Macaulay, Dalton’s Original Mind Scholar. Each student brought their newly acquired  sketchbook and David walked us through a series of drawing exercises. The emphasis was on how drawing helps us explore and understand our world. David explained that there ... http://blogs.dalton.org/farnsworth/2009/10/28/year-of-the-sketchbook/ This past month, we took a trip to Ellis Island to learn more about immigration.  Click on each image below to hear the students' podcasts. Enjoy! LK AK LF RD MG SD KA SJ IS GG AB JF1 BG CH MH JF PW LP AC http://blogs.dalton.org/farnsworth/2009/10/27/ellis-island-podcasts/ I enjoyed the first week of school at Big Dalton even though it is different than Little Dalton. During our first week of school we had math everyday and we reviewed our multiplication tables. Art is on Mondays and Wednesdays and we made black and white collages. I enjoyed that ... http://blogs.dalton.org/farnsworth/2009/10/08/my-highlights-of-school/ The first week of school in fourth grade was a lot of fun. With age certainly comes responsibility. Now we have desks instead of tables and the extra space is great! I think that our netbooks are one of the best parts of fourth grade. This is what I ... http://blogs.dalton.org/farnsworth/2009/10/07/school-highlights-2/ Fourth grade has been awesome!! Music is really fun because we are learning violin. We just learned how to use the bow. Before we learned the bow we only did pitsicatto. Our teacher is a violist. Later we are going to learn percussion, clarinet, and group music. In P.E. if ... http://blogs.dalton.org/farnsworth/2009/10/07/fourth-grade-highlights/ I love fourth grade so much!!! My first weeks were so much fun. My favorite subject is music, because we are learning to play the clarinet!! It is very hard to see the keys, but it is still fun to play. My second favorite subject is law. In law ... http://blogs.dalton.org/farnsworth/2009/10/07/why-i-love-4th-grade/ The first few weeks of Big Dalton were great. Here are some the highlights. Right now in Music we are studying how to play the violin. I like violin a lot. I have just finished learning pitsicatto. Now we are learning to use the bow. I think violin is ... http://blogs.dalton.org/farnsworth/2009/10/07/why-i-love-fourth-grade/ There are a lot of things that are different at Big Dalton than at Little Dalton. I will now list them and the reasons why. I however must say before I present you my list  that BIG Dalton is way bigger than LITTLE Dalton! Big Dalton has dance. ... http://blogs.dalton.org/farnsworth/2009/10/07/things-about-fourth-grade-that-are-different-than-in-third-grade/ So far the first few weeks of school in fourth grade have been great. Some of the great things about school are: we have our own desks and our own netbooks plus playstreet is awesome. During playstreet we get to play with ... http://blogs.dalton.org/farnsworth/2009/10/07/school-days-2/