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Cozy Short Week

We're finally enjoying some cozy December weather this week! We hope you all enjoyed the snow this morning and look forward to hearing snow stories when we all return to class on Monday.

In math this week, 4th graders have moved from a concrete to an abstract understanding of long division and are now building fluency with this strategy. We continue to apply division to real world situations and to consider how remainders affect our solutions. 4th graders have also been connecting their fraction and decimal understandings with a decimal number line game and an ongoing visual proof decimal challenge.

3rd graders are becoming financially literate and learning all about economic concepts such as scarcity and the relationship between human capital and potential income. We've have some powerful discussions about planned and unplanned spending decisions, and have enjoyed both online and classroom simulations to bring these concepts to life. We are definitely expanding our vocabulary and realizing the importance of being informed, mindful consumers.

SBLC scientists are so close to finishing their class science project notebooks! These are examples of how to create a quality scientific notebook that will serve as a fantastic resource for 4th grade science fair participants.

In social studies, we have completed our study of First European Explorers. Our historians have seen how the Spanish and French exploration of Texas in the 1500s corresponds with their initial timeline of the Six Flags Over Texas that we did in August! Connecting our bigger picture understanding to details we continue to learn.

In ELA, we have been extensively writing and reading expository text! We have been outlining our own pieces with a central idea, examples and details, and a meaningful conclusion. We have been working on developing our ideas, building from sentence to sentence. Our writers are becoming experts at form, and we will take it to precise language soon. They have also completed three research sources for our science notebook model that you will receive. They know how to annotate, cite, and summarize with a Say, Mean, Matter for each source. They understand that research isn't just to take out the details for your specific experiment, but to expand your knowledge of what you are investigating!

Have a wonderful weekend!


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