dot day news...
Happy Dot Day! We
celebrated with so many activities! After reading the book, The Dot, by
Peter Reynolds, we made our own dots (our own marks) using compasses as a tool
and then put our work in swirly frames. Mrs. Juilfs worked in reading
classes to create a quilt using buddy dots. In math classes, we learned
how Louis Braille made his mark creating the Braille alphabet, which helped
Helen Keller. We worked with the Braille alphabet to first decode a
message and then write one ourselves with split peas as our dots. Mrs.
Yoder's class worked with a computer program, Animation-ish, to create cartoons
of dots and Mrs. Juilfs's class used the ipads to go on a dot scavenger hunt.
We culminated the day by making dot t-shirts and taking a gallery walk to
see all the projects created at KE throughout the day. Below are some pictures...check out the rest on the "pictures" page.
social studies
news...
The overall
umbrella theme of 4th grade social studies is how where we live affects how we
live, work, and play.
To begin this
theme, we have spent a lot of time with the basics of globes and maps,
including a lot of vocabulary. Ask your child to tell you about or define
hemispheres, equator, prime meridian, continents, relative location, absolute
location, latitude, longitude, and different landforms.
math news...
We are
finishing our unit on Geometry. We really enjoyed the manipulatives we
used to get very "hands on." We used straws and twist ties to
build polygons and also shapes that were not polygons for various reasons.
We also worked with compasses to draw circles, concentric circles, and
intersecting circles. Next week we will learn that compasses can be used
to draw equivalent line segments when a ruler is not available. This was
a unit full of vocabulary including the following: line, line segment,
ray, point, vertex, angle, polygon, regular polygon, quadrilateral, quadrangle,
convex, concave, parallel, acute, obtuse, right angles, pentagon, hexagon,
octagon, and equilateral triangle.
guidance
news...
Mrs.
Kehoe has started an 8-10 week unit with fourth graders. She is working
with the students to complete a workbook teaching that we are "Too Good
for Violence." This curriculum ties in perfectly with our anti-bully
rules and helps the kids work on strategies to avoid and eliminate bullying.
rainbows
returns to KE...
KE will be
hosting the Rainbows program for kids grades K-6 again this year. Rainbows is a
FREE loss program for kids who have experienced a divorce/separation in their
family, a death in the family or a parent who has been deployed or other loss.
The meetings are Thursdays after school starting Sept. 27. I am attaching the
parent information on the program.
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