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PLACE PROJECT Stream Study and POETRYStudents worked in teams to take data and observations collected at Centennial Park, and report their findings using art and data tables. Through this process, comparisons were made, questions were asked, and new predictions were made. Learners published the poetry they composed during our last excursion! Below is just a taste of the beautiful writing done by Team 4K and Team 4W...stop by the 4th grade hallway to enjoy them all! DIVISION Learners have been focused on division and problem solving. Estimating, interpreting remainders, and solving division problems through regrouping have been things we practice daily!
OPERATION HILLSIDETeams were busy with Operation Hillside this week! Students developed questions and interviewed Mrs. Patterson in hopes to gain more clarification about the parameters for our hillside project. Thank you, Mrs. Patterson, for your time, support, and feedback! ![]() Measuring the area of the hillside was part of our information gathering this week as well! Because communication is an important component to teamwork, we played a game called Observer, Communicator, Artist Each team of 3/4 is charged with replicating a picture as accurately as possible in the time allowed. The observer is the only person on the team who may see the picture. He/she may only talk to the communicator. The communicator may carry information back and forth between the observer and artist, but may not see the picture, and may not draw on the paper. The artist must draw what he/she is told, exactly. Finally, teams worked together on Friday to bring all of their big ideas into focus. Preliminary drafts are in the works!
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We are steeped in American History here in our Social Studies classes! TAXATION ROLE PLAY One of the causes of the American Revolution was the fact that England was taxing the colonies without them having any say in it. "NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION" was a common cry in the 1770s in the colonies. To help the children understand how the colonists felt, we role played having to pay taxes to England... Of course we had to have a King! And members of Parliament! The tax collectors read aloud which of the new tax acts they were enacting (Stamp Act, Sugar Act or Townshend Act) and how many Skittles each colonist had to pay. As they paid more and more taxes, the colonists got angrier and angrier. One group even refused to pay their taxes...they lost ALL their Skittles and ended up in jail! This activity really helped the students understand how the colonists felt when they didn't have any say in how their money was being used. MUSEUM IN A BOXAnother activity that really helped bring social studies to life was the Museum in a Box activity. These are boxes are artifacts or replicas sent from Ohio History Connection in Columbus. We had 2 boxes to look at...Pioneer Life and Tribes of the Ohio River Valley. This was a fantastic, hands-on way for children to see, feel, touch, and, yes, even SMELL, how these people in our state's history lived. Here are some of the items we got to pass around. THANK YOU HARMAN PTO FOR FUNDING THE MUSEUM IN A BOX GRANT! READER'S THEATER Students LOVE presenting reader's theater! This time we had scripts for The Boston Massacre and The Boston Tea Party. What a great way to really understand these two events that played an important event in leading to the Revolution. MENTOR TEXTS
Our mentor texts for the past weeks also focused on the American Revolution. The Scarlet Stockings Spy was from the viewpoint of a young girl who spied for the Patriots, Katie's Trunk told of a Loyalist girl and how the war impacted relations with her neighbors. It was great to get perspectives from both sides. CHASING QUESTIONS |
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