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4th graders were busy this week adjusting back to school after April break. We continued to study geometry in math, including playing a few games with polygons and solving polygon riddles that helped us to think about all that we’ve learned about these shapes. We found and proved “the formula that will always work” for finding the area of a regular quadrilateral through some exploring and hands-on revelations with square inch tiles. We’ll be beginning our May calendar in Number Corner this week which will complement our geometry unit.

Students also spent a great deal of time this week learning more new information about weathering and erosion. To share all that we’ve learned over the last few weeks, students worked in groups to plan, prepare, create and present a variety of creative presentations. Next week, we will be sharing this work with our Mosaic 3rd graders. We had skits, songs, Google slides, game shows, an “Erosion Rocks!” rap and even a puppet show as part of our presentations. The students showed some serious flexibility, creativity and dedication to this work and the end products were very informative and fun to see.

This coming week in the afternoons, we will close our weathering and erosion unit with an engineering task. We’ll be spending a few days learning about a community in Nepal who needs a specific type of bridge to connect them to resources they need, then plan where and how we would build the bridge based on what we’ve learned, and finally build a model.

We will also be taking our SBAC tests this week. Students have spent time the past two weeks preparing and taking practice tests, and are more than ready for the test. This program is just one way that students show what they have learned and the results are helpful to the teachers on Mosaic to adapt our teaching. Please make sure that your child is resting and has a good snack with them for our breaks in the morning.

We ended last week with a scheduled evacuation drill. Our students were S.M.A.R.T. throughout the entire drill and helped to make the whole process move very smoothly. The early morning walk certainly got our blood pumping for a busy Friday!