Fourth Grade had the fabulous experience of the Symphony this week! We enjoyed learning about how music has become more diverse as composers blended different techniques, notes, and rhythm.
3rd grade performed at the Veteran's Day assembly. Thank you to all of our Veterans!
SBLC mathematicians and scientists were busy designing tracks to finish our exploration of kinetic and potential energy, then wrapping up their technical drawings to apply new vocabulary. 3rd grade continues to build multiplication fluency and grow their division muscles with a variety of problem solving contexts. 4th grade is developing a deeper understanding of partial products and different pathways for multidigit multiplication. By week's end, 4th grade connected visual models and the standard algorithm as another efficient strategy for 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication.
We finished A Long Walk to Water and have learned so many lessons. Salva's a true model of persistence, hope, and compassion. We've been applying his uncle's advice to him -- take one step at t time -- in things that we find challenging. Our reading has motivated us to mobilize and bring about change. We are brainstorming ways we can support Salva's nonprofit, Water For South Sudan. Here's a link to the website. We watched part of an interview between Salva and Linda Sue Park here.
We've been using rubrics to evaluate our work as we've gone along. Knowing the criteria helps guide our efforts! In ELA, we have looked at creating precise detail that helps our reader see, hear, touch, taste, or smell the experience. It makes our writing much more interesting!
Student council elections were this week, and we will hold our own in class representative election early next week.
Looking ahead:
November 12th -- Picture retakes
November 15th -- 4th grade play
November 16th -- Track and Field
Have a wonderful weekend!
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