Fabulous First Week of Fourth Grade!

On Friday, the girls shared adjectives of our first week of school together, and some of the adjectives were: exciting, tremendous, and adventurous. I would also like to add fabulous to the list!

Here are some pictures to show you why...

Each girl created and shared "What Makes You Sail" as a get to know you activity about what inspires them. 

In Writing, we explored mentor texts for memoirs and began brainstorming our own. In Math, the girls did an amazing job working together on multiplication strategies and problem solving!

In Science, we explored the process skills of making predictions and observations! To practice these skills, the girls experimented with gummy bears in different liquids to observe and measure how they changed. 

The gummy bear grew the most in regular water!

We also practiced comparing our predictions to our observations when we observed a color explosion in milk! Some of the girls asked about doing it at home, and here is the link to the experiment activity: Milk Color Explosion Activity 

To learn about the "Land Bridge Theory" in Social Studies, we created our very own models! During the Ice Age, glaciers formed, water level dropped and exposed a "bridge" of land that the hunter gatherers used to cross over from Asia to North America. Here are the land bridges being formed: 

According to the Land Bridge Theory, after the Ice Age, the glaciers that had formed MELTED and the water level , and we no longer have the land bridge. Our "glaciers" were ice cubes. 

We also began our bullying unit by making a K.I.N.D.N.E.S.S. banner and bracelet, and we began reading our novel Wonder. 

PARENTS, ask your daughter to show you her bracelet/keychain, and ask her what each color means!! :)

What an exciting, tremendous, adventurous, fabulous week it was!