Mrs. Sharon Fischer

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St. Joseph Regional School teachers welcome and encourage communication regarding all aspects of a student's development.





Faculty Fast Facts

Contact Information
585-343-4250
sfischer@sjsbatavia.org

Why a Catholic Education Matters
Catholic education provides children with a safe and nourishing place to learn and grow.  It prepares students academically and socially for a challenging world. Students in Catholic schools are viewed as children of God, and therefore loved.

I choose to work at St. Joseph Regional School to share my knowledge, faith and love of Christ with children. The parents and staff at St. Joseph Regional School make teaching a joy!

Subject Area/Grade and Related Education
4th Grade
B.S. St. Bonaventure
M.S. SUNY Brockport

Fourth Grade News

Grade 4
A Walk in the Park
 In this unit students take a walk in a park. They stop to admire wildflowers and learn how the internal and external structures of these plants function to support growth and reproduction. Students continue on their walk making stops along the way to look at different animals. Students study these animals and learn how the animals use their senses to take information from their surroundings and process this information. Special emphasis is placed on the sense of sight. Students realize that animals, like plants, also survive by the interaction between their internal and external structures.

Grade 5
 Earth and Space Explorers
In this unit students experience lessons that provide support for the argument that differences in the apparent brightness of the Sun, compared to other stars, are due to their relative distances from Earth. They create and interpret graphical displays to reveal various patterns of daily changes in shadows, day and night, and the seasonal appearance of stars in the night sky. Students learn about gravity and how the force on Earth is directed down. As part of an engineering challenge, students design and build a Lunar Lander that will protect two astronauts from crashing when they land on the Moon.

Grade 6 
Science Waves and Electromagnetic Radiation
In this unit of study students create and revise their own models of how light travels, is reflected, absorbed and transmitted. Students contrast white light with the light from a laser pointer. Students learn about frequency, wavelength and the energy of a wave by contrasting the properties of light from a laser with those of the light from a flashlight or a light bulb. Students also integrate qualitative scientific and technical information to support the claim that digitized signals are a more reliable way to encode and transmit information than analog signals.

MWEE - Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience
In collaboration with the Genesee County Parks and NOAA, the students question, “How does the land use and land stewardship of my own watershed affect the water resources of my local watershed, and how does it affect the Great Lakes ecosystem, which is the source of our drinking water. In addition, what can I do to minimize harmful impacts on water quality and improve the watershed?”

Independent Study - Final Project

  1. Students will carry out a community service project that will have a positive impact on their local watershed.
  2. Students will research and present a human body system, showing their understanding that cells are the basic unit and structure of living things, these cells create tissues that make up the organs and organ systems that give us life.