The vocabulary word for 4th grade this week is Elegant. Elegant is characterized or exhibiting elegance; excellent. It sounds like Pelican.
The 4th grade biography for the week was about Elisabeth Blackwell. She was the first female to become a doctor.
Affective Thinking: Over the next 9 weeks, we will be covering such terms as: stress, procrastination, perfectionism, potential, isolation, leadership, risk-taking, and motivation. Today we did a preassessment of ourselves as to how each of these elements effects our lives. The students then visualized how each term impacted their lives by drawing a floor plan. Each room of the house represented one of the terms mentioned above.
Our Exploration unit is studying how explorers transfer parts of their culture to other cultures. One game we in the United States have picked up from Africa is Mancala. After a brief period of research, the students shared what they learned about the game.
Due to the 4th grade program rehearsal, we had a short day and were unable to work on our SOS project.
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