Last Friday wrapped up our "Waste and Our World" unit with our Environmental Expo. The feedback we have received has been very positive. Congratulations to all the Grade 4 students for your enthusiasm, knowledge and sharing of your work. Your hard work has paid off and we are very proud of your accomplishments.
Monday we began our new unit in Science with "Wheels and Levers" - Simple Machines. We watched a Bill Nye video and brainstormed what we knew. We then moved into building with Lego and K'Nex to explore how simples machines work together to form a more complex machine. In a very short period of time the students have absorbed many new vocabulary words such as; lever, fulcrum, force, gears, wheels, axels, pulleys, inclined plane and cogs. We will continue to build and explore up to the winter break.
In math, we discussed the past POW, Grain of Rice, by the reading the book, "One Grain of Rice" A Mathematical Folktale. The discussion was focused around the Number Sense topic of doubling. The new POW is; Trying Triangles. We encourage the students to share this problem with their families to discover as many triangles as possible. We do want to see all the "messy" work in solving this problem.
Stay warm!
Mrs. Melville and Mrs. Paxton
Monday we began our new unit in Science with "Wheels and Levers" - Simple Machines. We watched a Bill Nye video and brainstormed what we knew. We then moved into building with Lego and K'Nex to explore how simples machines work together to form a more complex machine. In a very short period of time the students have absorbed many new vocabulary words such as; lever, fulcrum, force, gears, wheels, axels, pulleys, inclined plane and cogs. We will continue to build and explore up to the winter break.
In math, we discussed the past POW, Grain of Rice, by the reading the book, "One Grain of Rice" A Mathematical Folktale. The discussion was focused around the Number Sense topic of doubling. The new POW is; Trying Triangles. We encourage the students to share this problem with their families to discover as many triangles as possible. We do want to see all the "messy" work in solving this problem.
Stay warm!
Mrs. Melville and Mrs. Paxton