The Exeter-Milligan fourth grade class is
pictured: front row from the left are Jonah Geiger, Avery Nichols, Carver
Kanode, Trevin Ronne, Brett Kallhoff, Logan Krupicka, Jase Luzum, Tucker Svec
and Ronnie Babula. Back row from the left are Alexis Saatmann,
Alivia Luzum, Kiley Oldehoeft, Selah Petersen and Mrs. Shelli
Mueller. Kaydence Haase is not pictured.
The Exeter-Milligan fourth grade class started the year by
reading “The Energy Bus” by John Gordon. Their teacher,
Shelli Mueller, explained how this theme of positivity helps in the classroom,
“When a student comes to me with a problem, we talk about how to solve the
problem and make sure we follow the five rules of the energy bus. One
that I use a lot is to not let them on your bus and drain your fuel.”
Mueller has especially enjoyed the love of reading that this
class has, “They love to be read to. They listen very well, and I love
reading books to them.”
Currently the class is reading “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”
in their reading class. During Makerspace last week, the students made
witches wand. The immediately shared them with Mueller and explained to
her that they were for Oz. “They are making connections,” according to
Mueller.
Even fourth graders deal with stress and that is one subject
that the students are exploring in health.
Mueller explains, “We sit on the floor and talk about the
different posters. We started with stress and how to deal with stress. We also
talked about good stress and bad stress. Now we have moved into conflict and
ways to deal with that. It ties in really well with ‘The Energy Bus’.”
The afternoon in the fourth grade class starts with a quick sentence to correct on the smart board. Above, Jonah Geiger makes the correction he identified.
Alexis Saatmann (left) and Jonah Geiger (right) tear pieces
of paper to help understand the science concept of physical change (a change
that begins and ends with the same type of matter).
