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Hello! We are the 4th graders from Nativity School in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. Cincinnati is located in the southwestern corner of the state of Ohio. Ohio is one of the 50 states in the United States. Ohio is just south of Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes. We are at 39 degrees 8 minutes North latitude and 84 degrees 30 minutes West longitude. There are 25 girls and 24 boys in Grade 4 this year. We are split into 2 classes. Mrs. Burwinkel and Miss Bail are our teachers. We range in age from 9 to 10 years old. Our school is 78 years old and has grades Kindergarten to Grade 8. We are a private Catholic school and our church is right next door to our school. Our name, Nativity, is taken from the birth of Jesus Christ. We get 7 classes ( Math, Social Studies, Language Arts, Religion, Reading, Science and Health) every day and 7 special classes (Art, Music, Physical Education, Library, Computer, Band or Foreign Language) once or twice a week. Our school motto is "Nativity- A Great Place to Be". We think it is! We do lots of neat things. We have a student government, Buddy Days, Variety Show, Foreign Exchange Program, community service projects, and field trips. Cincinnati is on the Ohio River. It is a working river and you can see barges there all the time. We have 4 seasons. It is hot and humid in the summer, cool and wet in the fall, cold and snowy in the winter, and warm and wet in the spring. Right now the leaves are changing colors and falling off the trees. We just celebrated Halloween and are looking forward to celebrating Thanksgiving with our families in a few weeks. Our class is really looking forward to working with a partner class and the other schools that are a part of this program. We want to exchange Math Autobiographies with our partner class and send them our paragraphs and collages of "What Mathematics Means to Me". We'd like to interview our parents about how they use Math at work and share that information too. We want to collect information by tallies and learn how to graph that information. We are also going to investigate the treatment of immigrants to our country, both past and present. We hope to have some results for you in the spring. This winter our class will be participating in a Math program that integrates Music, Math, and Literature into a problem solving format called "Journey to the Other Side". Maybe we can tell you about our work in it. We also want to use latitude and longitude numbers of all the schools to pinpoint your location on the world map in our classroom. Wow! We will be working together a lot! Please feel free to write us anytime. We love to learn about other countries and what it is like to live in them. Maybe you could visit us someday!! |
