4th Grade All-Stars
Monday, April 20, 2009 Mrs. Smith & Mrs. Vargo
Week At A Glance:
Math: How can we show change over time? What type of graph shows change? What is probability?
Science: We will review our unit on the solar system and test on Wednesday. Then we will begin our unit on animals and plants.
Language Arts: A Very Important Day by Maggie Rugg Herold: What is the author’s purpose for writing a text? What are some good test taking strategies? What is a verb? What are main and helping verbs? What are action and linking verbs? What is the process for completing a research paper?
Social Studies: Chapter 10: Forming a New Government What are the Bill of Rights? We will review Lessons 2 & 3 and have a TEST on FRIDAY, April 24th.
Special Announcements:
· Any families willing to send a healthy snack to school during PASS Testing week, please let us know. Last year the school was able to provide snacks for this week, but due to budget cuts snacks will not be provided. Some ideas are cereal bars, fruit snacks, pretzels or chips, juice boxes or water bottles, etc…. We will be PASS Testing Tuesday, May 12 through Friday, May 15.
Special Dates:
· April 20- School Resumes
· April 21– Coupon Books Delivered to Students to be distributed
· April 30- Stone Mtn. Field Trip 7:45 am-7:00 pm
· May 15– Spring Fling 5:00-8:00 pm
Baby Jackson
Science Fair
This group wanted to know if right handed people were better at left or right handed lay ups.
Science Fair
The balloon group is testing how far a balloon can be tossed before it pops.
Potato Soccer
For Potato Soccer students kicked their potato into the goal (chair legs). Students discussed what variables influenced a goal being made.
Potato Olympics
The Potato High Dive. Students measured the amount of water that was displaced after their potato dove in from a distance of 1 yard.
Go Tigers!!
1 comment:
Great Blog, Mrs. Smith! I see that you are studying plants soon. I wanted to share with you what I did with my third grade class. We germinated seeds in hydrogels. Here is some information on it in case you wish to try it. http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000038 The kids logged the process in their science journals. My principal loved it since it dealt with water conservation. Good luck with your unit!
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