We learned new rhythm and enjoyed the West African Djembe drums! It was exciting to learn how our hands (plus goat leather) make incredible sounds.
Our field trip to the Bob Bullock proved to be another fabulous learning experience! Thanks to all the wonderful chaperones who helped us navigate the three floors of artifacts. Seeing pieces that Stephen F. Austin penned and actual cannons brought history to life. If you haven't been to the Bullock in a while, it's had some amazing renovations in the past few years -- worth it to go back!!
We enjoyed a Keynotes concert that featured many of our 4th grade singers. Awesome job to all of our performers and soloists!
Third graders learned about electricity with a presentation by Austin Energy. The Van de Graf generator was by far their favorite part...a truly hair-raising experience!
We have been pursuing deep understanding of expository text by analyzing what makes an effective Introduction, Body (Examples and Details), and Conclusion. We have begun writing about our artifact for the Kiker digital time capsule. Writing in action!
We have also been refining our work with words. We studied homonyms -- its and it's, for example. The first is a pronoun, and shows belonging. The second is always a contraction -- it is. We used context to practice them correctly. Don't be surprised if they begin looking at everyone's use of your and you're to make sure it's accurate!
We're all experts at designing, organizing, and analyzing frequency tables now and are becoming increasingly more confident with our other types of data representation. We also zoomed out this week to consider the questions that statisticians wonder about as they create a graph. We've all created our own questions and many of us collected data from a wide variety of sources around Kiker. Completing data collection and draft one of our time capsule graph will start next week's work.
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