Time

Please practice telling time.  The students need to be able to read an analogue clock.  In fourth grade, we focus on elapsed time.  The students will be given either a start time, end time, or how long the event lasted.  The students have to solve for the missing information.  If they do not understand the concept of time, they will struggle with elapsed time.

Please check the links for more practice.  Johnnie's Math Page and Virtual Library has good activities.

Converting Measurement

We are learning about Units of Length this week.  We are also learning how to convert customary units of length.  We learned a song to help us.

Soil's Ability to Retain Water

We are continuing on our quest to learn all the properties of soil.  Today we tested a soil's ability to retain water.  We put soil samples in 4 different beakers using knee highs to hold the soil.  We added 200mL of water and then waited one minute.  We lifted the sample and read the amount of water remaining in the water.  Then, we had to do math in SCIENCE.

Soil Texture

We are beginning our unit on Soil.  We will be exploring types of soil in various ways.  Today we explored soil texture.  It was real educational and messy! 

Building Circuits

The students were given plastic covered wire (conductor and insulator), battery, and several different objects.  They had to successfully build a complete circuit.  They had to know to ask the teacher to cut their wire to expose the conductor.  The circuit wouldn't work if the plastic was touching because it is an insulator.  They had a lot of fun, lighting up the room, buzzing sound energy and watching the battery heat up the thermometer.  Some of them even figured out how to expand their circuit to test more than one form of energy.

Testing Forces

The students had the task of designing a plan to test all 5 types of forces; push, pull, gravity, magnetism, and friction.  They were able to choose from a variety of materials.  They were responsible for designing the plan, testing the forces, and recording their data.  The students did awesome!

Circuit Poster

In the current unit we are studyting we have learned about all different types of energy, forces, and electrical circuits.  Sorry this is behind, but I am combining all the picture and what we have experimented in class.