Students did an amazing job preparing and performing The Jungle Book for a packed house on Thursday night. The week began with dress rehearsals at the Town Hall and set design at school. Everyone worked hard and had fun preparing for show time. In addition to rehearsing songs and scenes, everyone pitched in to design costumes… Read more Bravo! Students Shine in a Performance of the Jungle Book
Students in the 3/4 class had a busy week of play preparation, comic book illustration, and field house fun! Students are very excited about performing The Jungle Book this week. They have been working hard to learn their lines, design costumes, and create sets. We look forward to another week of rehearsal before the big… Read more Play Preparation, Comic Book Illustration, and Field House Fun!
The 3/4 artists have been hard at work and extremely focused! Artists have been splitting their time in art class between comic book illustrations and mobile art!! The photographs below show artists sketching, drawing, inking, designing, and gluing to construct their comic books for the Global Studies project. During the second half of the… Read more Art Update!
This week in 3/4 Math, we began our culminating unit project: “Planning a Party!” Students began brainstorming their party theme, number of guests, food and beverage offerings and additional supplies and decorations. Next we were given a budget. We used a supply/price list, as well as online resources to complete some cost analysis. So far… Read more Math News:1/19
iFeliz Nuevo Ano! The 3/4 Spanish students have been working hard since our return to Spanish class! The 3/4 students are wrapping up our classroom object unit with a writing project to showcase our knowledge of classroom object vocabulary. Each child is writing a “raton” story (a story about our class mascot, Mouse). Raton goes… Read more Spanish News!
This week students worked hard at writing scripts for their greek mythology comics. They displayed impressive craftsmanship in the writing, feedback, and revision process. Students are focusing on the use of dialogue and descriptive language to really make their stories engaging. Partners have done a great job collaborating and I can’t wait to see how… Read more Script Writing and Illustration Coming Together in 3/4
This week in math, we expanded upon our understanding of place value in order to multiply by multiples of 10, round to the nearest given place value, and complete operations with decimals (ie money). We played a variety of games where students had to convert between fractions, decimals and visual models to strengthen our understanding… Read more Math News: Week of 1/8
For their STEM project, the 3/4s have been working with this Driving Question: How can we as engineers use our knowledge of forces to design a mobile? They have been hard at work in art using their understanding of balanced forces, and balance points, to build a mobile in the style of sculptor Alexander Calder.… Read more How can we as engineers design a mobile?
I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday break! Students reported enjoying time with their families, getting presents, and having lots of winter fun. It was nice to have everyone back at school in the New Year. Students in the 3/4 class jumped right back into our Greek Mythology project. Before the break students worked… Read more Happy New Year and Welcome Back!