December 2, 2022 — Oh the Weather Outside’s Getting Frightful …
Math with Luis
Fourth graders have been hard at work multiplying and dividing recently! Before thanksgiving, we had some fun writing, sharing, and solving our own word problems involving multiplication and division. We also had some fun thanksgiving-themed multiplication and division to really practice knowing when to divide and when to multiply. This week, we tackled factors, multiples, and prime & composite numbers, and had some very close Jeopardy games to wrap up the week.
Humanities with Hilary
4th Graders have been working SO HARD on their Publishing Party projects [IN PERSON on Wednesday, December 14 at 9am]. They are each becoming an expert of a specific British Colony in what we now call North America, and their slides are chock-full of information! Some slides you might see on that Wednesday are about:
- religion
- occupations
- founders
- religion
- women in the colony
- specific Native Nations from the area
- landforms/geography/climate
- childhood in the colony
… AND MORE! This process has been a true integration of reading, Social Studies, and writing. The 4th graders have been working on how to discern information to include/exclude from the slides, and how to label that information. They have been learning how to read to learn, not just read for fun. As well, this group has been working on how to turn information and text into their own words (aka trying to stop them from plagiarizing). The notes they have taken look so good, and we cna’t wait to share these with you!
We have also been creating projects of things children would use or make in Colonial Times. At the Publishing Party, you will get to see their hornbooks, bilbo catchers and — if they were correctly created (crossing fingers) — pomander balls! Some of these projects will be created next week, while the hornbook was created today.
Dates to remember:
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Wednesday, Dec 14 @ 9:00am –> 4th Grade: Researching the Original 13 Colonies and Bringing Hebrew Fables to Life
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Thursday, Dec 15 9:30am to 1:00pm –> FIELD TRIP
- American Revolutionary War walking tour of Lower Manhattan
- chaperones still needed 🤗
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Wednesday, Dec 21 2022 to Monday, January 2 2023 –> NO SCHOOL
- winter break
Music with Heidi
In Music class, Fourth Graders learned how to play the Iroquois lullaby Ho Ho Watanay on the xylophone. They had sung this song last year as part of their end-of-year play. We discussed the power of this music and of learning music from a variety of cultures. This has kicked off our study of powerful songs and voices. Students have just begun to learn Rihanna’s American Oxygen, which links up to their studies of immigration in social studies with Hilary.
Hebrew with Rimma
A great way to practice speaking more Hebrew is learning a language through cooking.
4th graders are very grateful to Edna Alburquerque, Mattan’s mom who prepared chocolate balls and biscuit cake with the kids in Hebrew. It was a great opportunity to study new words in order to prepare the list of the ingredients and verbs as we needed to follow the steps of the recipe and what better way to learn the meaning of a new word than actually trying it out.
During last week we also were working on our Hebrew fables with scripts in hand, memorizing lines, performing songs, learning vocabulary, practicing pronunciation, and most importantly gaining fluency and confidence.We are excited to present it to you on Dec.14th which is just around the corner.
Judaics with Shira
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