Check out our new pages! Both are student led and all are student contributions. We are so proud of them and their desire to have a wider audience. Click on the pages above for the Student Perspectives page and the Cohort Press to take a peek at some work. It's a work in progress...plan on seeing more and more there soon!
Our focus is poetry this week. We've gathered specific ways to make interpretation easier. We have dug deeper into figurative language as well. It's a stretch to go from literal to figurative meanings, but we are fabulously struggling through it! In our writing, we've been analyzing sentences where two actions share a subject. Our social studies work centered around an expository essay about Martin Luther King Jr.
In math, we've considered the concepts of area and perimeter from many perspectives. We know that area is the space inside of a 2-dimensional shape and that it's typically measured in square units. Our perimeter investigations taught us that perimeter is a linear measurement of the distance around a shape. We've used tiles, graph paper, rectangles, and many other shapes to both count and calculate area and perimeter. We ended the week reviewing ways that these concepts apply in the world around us - we discussed examples like building fences, adding topsoil to a garden, and framing a picture. 4th grade also reviewed angles and brushed up on their protractor skills. All of us are looking forward to our upcoming geometry work and are already finding ways that geometry connects to so many other math topics.
In science, we've shared our science fair slideshows and celebrated all of the hard work and collaboration. We also took time to reflect on our individual contributions to the group work and to complete our individual science fair notebooks. Congrats to all of our Kiker science fair participants and way to go, SBLC scientists!
Have a great weekend!
Jen and Jewellyn
Our focus is poetry this week. We've gathered specific ways to make interpretation easier. We have dug deeper into figurative language as well. It's a stretch to go from literal to figurative meanings, but we are fabulously struggling through it! In our writing, we've been analyzing sentences where two actions share a subject. Our social studies work centered around an expository essay about Martin Luther King Jr.
In math, we've considered the concepts of area and perimeter from many perspectives. We know that area is the space inside of a 2-dimensional shape and that it's typically measured in square units. Our perimeter investigations taught us that perimeter is a linear measurement of the distance around a shape. We've used tiles, graph paper, rectangles, and many other shapes to both count and calculate area and perimeter. We ended the week reviewing ways that these concepts apply in the world around us - we discussed examples like building fences, adding topsoil to a garden, and framing a picture. 4th grade also reviewed angles and brushed up on their protractor skills. All of us are looking forward to our upcoming geometry work and are already finding ways that geometry connects to so many other math topics.
In science, we've shared our science fair slideshows and celebrated all of the hard work and collaboration. We also took time to reflect on our individual contributions to the group work and to complete our individual science fair notebooks. Congrats to all of our Kiker science fair participants and way to go, SBLC scientists!
Have a great weekend!
Jen and Jewellyn
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