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| This is where curiosity about the why Earth has seasons can lead to. Read on to find out more! |
Our inquiry in Humans and nature can impact the weather:
- watched some videos about the seasons
- did an experiment with globes, lights (i.e. the sun) in a darkened classroom
- examined weather proverbs from our home countries
- explored figurative language - metaphors, similes, personification
- determined that air, water, and sun are the common elements in our proverbs\
- did some weather practice with www.wunderground.com and Google Sheets
In math:
- accessed our prior knowledge about place value
- looked at the "power" of 10 and how it helps us organize our number system
- worked on 2 x 1 and 2 x 2 digit multiplication
- "played with" and expressed numbers in a variety of forms in 6 awesome center activities
In writing:
- explored how to use complex sentences
- used the Greek myth about the seasons to plan our own myth that explains an element of weather, such as the existence of wind on Earth today
- some of us started the drafting process, which is just getting our ideas down
Grade 4: Service Learning
- organized ourselves according to issues that we are passionate about and what action we can take to better, or raise awareness, about that very issue
Digital Citizenship:
- talked about passwords - How to make them secure? What to do with them? How we use them?
Bonus: Talent Show photographs & enjoy the week! 😉
Homework
Along with reading 20 minutes each night, please complete the following:
Monday: In your spelling notebook, write down the new words for our Latin Word Root work, along with their definitions.
Monday: In your spelling notebook, write down the new words for our Latin Word Root work, along with their definitions.
(See picture below)
Tuesday: Cut and paste words and definitions in your
spelling notebook. Try not to look! Use four words in sentences.
Wednesday: IXL Math Grade 4 Number Sense - Choose any 2 that you want to practice - Maybe, one challenging and one you know? It is your choice:)
Thursday: In your spelling notebook, Illustrate and label the Latin word root “Ped-”
Thursday: In your spelling notebook, Illustrate and label the Latin word root “Ped-”
Friday: Play a board game with a family member!
Recess, P.E., Ball, Head, Ice pack, Mr. Mike's scarf, and a joke.
Book share and complex sentences.
Those sentences sure are complex. Get it!?
Multiplication, War, and sheer will.
Leave no factor behind.
Speed, lightning, quick like cat.
What does this proverb mean?
I think this means...
If only I could see the figurative drawing beneath this yellow notebook!
Google Sheets helps us find the mean (average) using formulas.
Formulas. Place value dice - sweet!
Numbers can be represented in so many ways!
Multiplication Bingo and Service Learning.
Issues matter.
The Earth's tilt on its axis is why we have seasons.
Bill Nye the Science Guy rules!
The Do's and Don'ts of passwords.
Debate.
Mr. Chong helping us.
So where would the Earth be if it were July and we were in Tashkent?
The light distribution is fantastic.
Day on this side and night on that side.
Mesmerized by the Earth.
Our collective knowledge combined.
Talented in so many ways.
Why are they clapping? I am not done yet.
An evening of whimsy and frenzy.
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