An Exciting Year for Fourth Graders
The focus in the Lower School is for every girl to acquire the knowledge and skills for learning — and the knowledge and skills for life. It is a time for girls to imagine, create, and explore. Students learn to think deeply and creatively as they make connections across the curriculum and solve problems both collaboratively and independently. Hands-on experiences fuel their excitement for learning. This year students in grade 4 will build on their experience of researching, planning, designing, and building as a core method to become better learners and thinkers. The girls will create and collaborate on these constructionism projects in math, language arts, social studies, science, and tech class. Projects will include discovering the use of code to create art and control robotic constructions.
Creating with code and handicraft will lead students to think through multiple steps, to rethink plans when problems inevitably arise, to solve problems individually and collaboratively--and generally to become more growth minded and self-directed learners. Students will also use iMovie and Explain Everything to edit video and combine media such as pictures, videos, drawings, and more with their own voices to teach what they learn and discover to others. Students began studying some of these tools and modes of thought in the first two weeks of school.
On September 12, the class will travel to Google at Bakery Square to learn about their facility and what it is like to work at a large software company. We see this trip as an inspiring beginning to many of the skills, thoughts, and objects the girls will construct as the year progresses.
Fourth grade readers are eagerly devouring books by famed children’s author, Roald Dahl, in anticipation of his 100th birthday. On September 13, each student will come to school dressed like a character or ready to share a “revolting recipe” or a handmade project inspired by the book she read. Will we have Snozzcumbers with Frobscottle? A real, live Miss Trunchbull or an Oompa Loompa? A concoction of George’s Marvelous Medicine? We can’t wait to have fun discovering the hilarious, shocking, and ridiculous world of Roald Dahl!
As the year progresses, fourth graders will continue to build a passion for reading through exposure to a variety of genre types and projects that encourage critical thinking through written expression, the creation of artistic representations, and technology.
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On September 12, the class will travel to Google at Bakery Square to learn about their facility and what it is like to work at a large software company. We see this trip as an inspiring beginning to many of the skills, thoughts, and objects the girls will construct as the year progresses.
Fourth grade readers are eagerly devouring books by famed children’s author, Roald Dahl, in anticipation of his 100th birthday. On September 13, each student will come to school dressed like a character or ready to share a “revolting recipe” or a handmade project inspired by the book she read. Will we have Snozzcumbers with Frobscottle? A real, live Miss Trunchbull or an Oompa Loompa? A concoction of George’s Marvelous Medicine? We can’t wait to have fun discovering the hilarious, shocking, and ridiculous world of Roald Dahl!
As the year progresses, fourth graders will continue to build a passion for reading through exposure to a variety of genre types and projects that encourage critical thinking through written expression, the creation of artistic representations, and technology.
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