Welcome to another full week! We are so glad to hit the ground running!
We continue to focus on content in learning...it’s not just task completion. Research shows that internal motivation comes from knowing the purpose of something and seeing why it matters. We are also emphasizing how doing EACH DAY'S work builds a strong understanding. Waiting until this week when grades are due isn't the time to start doing the work. How can you help? Be an audience! Ask them to show you their work from each day - not as a “gotcha,” but as a curious learner yourself. Ask them to teach you the word work or math strategy from the day. Find out what the character in our novel did. This coming week, we will be investing further into our characters, Salva and Nya. If your kiddo hasn’t told you about the book - ask them! They have learned so much about refugees, reading strategies, and how to think about how they read their own independent books. We are reviewing those complex and compound sentence structures in word work. Ask them about independent and dependent clauses, conjunctions, and how punctuation works with those types of sentences. In addition, we will be writing another expository piece this week. Our 4th grade mathematicians are off to a strong start in the world of data science! We’re exploring many ways that symbols, colors, and number lines can represent data points. This past week we analyzed climate data through a choropleth map from the New York Times. We considered how much data must have been collected over time, the importance of accurate measurement, weather instruments that meteorologists used to collect data, and the purpose of analyzing data as a way to inform choices. We’ve also enjoyed collecting data about our TEAM 4th community and are learning about frequency tables and dot plots as helpful ways to represent these smaller amounts of data. We celebrated as a community of scientists on Friday at our virtual BCE Science Conference. If you haven’t yet had a chance to see the contributions of our scientists, check out our BLEND homepage for a link to student presentations. You’ll learn about quokkas, the pull of gravity on planets in our solar system, chemical reactions, and much more!
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