Monthly Archives: September 2012

No Talking contest

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Tomorrow, the fourth graders will take part in a no talking contest at school. This is a school based project based on the book we are currently reading, No Talking by Andrew Clements. Below are a list of the guidelines that the students came up w… Continue reading

Happy Friday!

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Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 It was another great week in Fourth Grade! Lots of learning took place in our classrooms that we would like to share with you! We liked… Building geometric figures with marshmallows Making tornados in Science … Continue reading

Hands-On Geometry!

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Here are a few more pictures of students using their bodies to represent various geometric terms! See if you can find… Parallel Lines Line Segment Right Angle Acute Angle What other terms can you identify? Continue reading

Geometry Terms!

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The pictures above show the students acting out different Geometry terms. Can you identify which student is acting out the ray? the line? the set of perpendicular lines? Ask your child which terms they can pick out too! Continue reading

1st Full Week of School

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As we concluded the first full week of school, the Fourth Graders all came together to discuss what a busy and fun week we had! Again, we posed the following four questions to the students and then worked together with them to generate the answers… Continue reading

First Days of School

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The first two days of the school year were fabulous! We will be posting weekly blog updates inspired by the fourth graders and their experiences at school. We will try to add pictures periodically as well. This week, we asked for their input about… Continue reading