Light Speed!

Wow! We just completed our first nine weeks. Looking back to our first few moments together feels like just yesterday...we've been traveling at light speed!

In science, we completed our properties of matter unit with some fun review prior to our assessment. To deepen our understanding, we created tables to classify properties specific to the three main states of matter: solids, liquids, and gases.

We also applied what we knew about matter to develop our own games! We created Matter Mad Libs, Matter Matching Card Games, and a Matter "I Spy". 

In reading and language arts, we have been delving deep into analysis and synthesis! We have had such high level discussion of poetry from Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea. It's caused us to think and use inference to see that there are surface understandings which are more literal, but also an underlying understanding that makes BIG statements on the world. We are now prepared to start Mountain Language next week for homework -- a great way to practice our conventions and grammar skills. We talked about making this an opportunity to learn new words and create sentences we would want to use in our writing. Third and Fourth Grade began to learn about compound and complex sentence structure, and how to use multiple subjects and predicates in a sentence. Whew!!!

In math, all students had fun voting on the official SBLC money. This money will be used every nine weeks at our SBLC store. $uper fun! ;)

Third graders worked on their money project. They made a list of items they want, then researched prices and store locations. Next, they'll find the grand total. How much money will they need to save to buy what they want? We'll see!

Second graders enjoyed their first experience of finding the sum of their earned credits. Then it was off to the store for some shopping!

We've continued to strengthen our technology and netiquette skills by learning how to comment appropriately on this very blog. Students, feel free to show what you've learned by commenting below!