project-based learning

MR. TUBACH'S FOURTH GRADE DRIVING QUESTION:
HOW CAN WE DEVELOP THE KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, COURAGE, AND EMPATHY TO UNDERSTAND AND IMPROVE THE HUMAN CONDITION?

Students will begin each class by copying a quote into their Book of Wisdom. Daily grammar lessons and cursive practice. The quotes are often associated with Mr. Tubach's precepts or the CSMH Student Outcomes. Mr. Tubach also has precept tattoos.

#COMEASYOUARE

#NOCOLDFRIES

#JUDGENOT

#BEKIND

#LIGHTUPTHEDARKNESS

GOLDEN

Students will take turns writing for our weekly newsletter. This is one way to focus on authentic writing. Each week, they will focus on their own experiences at school, including enrichment classes. We invite all fourth grade families to read the newsletter together each week.

“Be silly, be honest, be kind.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosophy)

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi​ (Indian Ethicist)

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
– Dr. Seuss (American Author and Cartoonist)

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
– Theodore Roosevelt​ (26th President of the United States)

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
― John Wooden (UCLA Basketball Coach)

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
​― William Butler Yeats (Irish Poet) ​

“When you know better, you do better.”
– Maya Angelou (American Poet)

"Never serve cold fries."
― Mr. Mc (Mr. Tubach's Mentor) ​

“There’s always a way to turn things around.”

– Joy, (Pixar's Inside Out)

"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

– Roald Dahl (English Author)

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow."

–Abraham Lincoln (16th President of the United States)

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

– Wayne Gretzky (NHL Hall of Fame)

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." – Mother Teresa (Catholic Nun)

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

– Mark Twain (American author)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

– Thomas Edison (American inventor)

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

― Oscar Wilde (English author)

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."

– John Wesley (English preacher)

“We know what we are but know not what we may be.”

– William Shakespeare (English playwright)

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Civil Rights Leader)

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”

– Dr. Seuss (American Author/Illustrator)

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

– Helen Keller (American Author and Advocate)

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

--Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”– B.B. King (American Blues Musician)

“Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game.”

– Babe Ruth (Baseball Legend)

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

– Dr. Seuss (American Author and Illustrator)

"Practice. Work hard. Focus. Prepare yourself for the thing that you want to accomplish — Ace a test, make a team, join a club, go to college — whatever it is, you simply must put. in. the. work." —Kwame Alexander (American Author)

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Civil Rights Leader)

"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great at whatever they want to do." —Kobe Bryant (NBA Legend)