This week has flown! We began the week with our 4th grade writers working really hard on the writing STAAR. Kudos to them for their determination and for completing the challenge!
In ELA, we've had the opportunity to walk further with Malala on her journey. We've heard and discussed some wise words. One that particularly stood out was simple, but so profound. Her doctor said to her, "I believe solutions arrive first, and then problems show up." Wow. To think that things occur in that order is extremely comforting...knowing there is a solution already present to help us work through something hard. A true life lesson. We've also been talking through the healing process and how miraculous her survival was. She shares her struggle and we can see through her experience how the values in life can change. Before, she banked happiness on being the "top of her class" but now sees her happiness grounded in her true purpose of reaching others with a message of equality and how to value each person's life. We are thinking DEEPLY and discussing BIG work.
In social studies, we have begun examining Texas in the time of the Civil War. Another big topic. We've met Sojourner Truth and drew parallels between her and Malala. We've learned some logistics with timing of Lincoln's election, the Confederate States seceding from the Union, and the start of the War.
As mathematicians, we continue to explore measurement and its many connections. We're becoming flexible converting between units of capacity, weight/mass, time, and length. Each day we've shared examples of measurement's usefulness in many contexts of our daily lives. Third grade also enjoyed a review of how to tell time on an analog clock and then developed visual number line strategies for understanding elapsed time. Fourth grade has been working on multistep problem solving with embedded measurement conversions - huge brain work!
SBLC scientists have developed a deeper understanding of food chains and have expanded their vocabularies with all kinds of food chain relationships. We need a few more 2-liter bottles and then we look forward to constructing ecosystems and observing first-hand all of these relationships!
As mathematicians, we continue to explore measurement and its many connections. We're becoming flexible converting between units of capacity, weight/mass, time, and length. Each day we've shared examples of measurement's usefulness in many contexts of our daily lives. Third grade also enjoyed a review of how to tell time on an analog clock and then developed visual number line strategies for understanding elapsed time. Fourth grade has been working on multistep problem solving with embedded measurement conversions - huge brain work!
SBLC scientists have developed a deeper understanding of food chains and have expanded their vocabularies with all kinds of food chain relationships. We need a few more 2-liter bottles and then we look forward to constructing ecosystems and observing first-hand all of these relationships!
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