Busy Week

Sun and Friends by Preston

The Life of the World by Jessie

It has been a busy week in fourth grade! We've been learning new stuff, and having lots of fun.

In math we learned about shapes and created abstract artwork to further our learning. We also took a shapes quiz. Yesterday we explored coordinate graphing; this is a new topic for us, but we already think it's easy! We have also been doing rocket math every day; our class goal for this 9 weeks is to earn a 95% class average on our addition timed tests.

In science we are becoming entomologists, or insect scientists, and we are preparing to begin research projects about insects. In social studies we have been exploring Google Earth, a fun application that allows us to fly around the world and see pictures of different places. We even got to look at pictures of Afghanistan, and to learn about its people and the war being fought there to prepare us to read the book "Extra Credit" by Andrew Clements.

Tomorrow, we get to have our first session with our kindergarten Reader's Friends. We get to take them to the library, read books, and help them learn how to check out!