Math: Have you heard about the purple transparent mirrors that we get to use in our current math unit? They are fun and are helping us learn about the properties of preimages and images, lines of reflection, and symmetry. Students are realizing that a reflected image is the same distance from the line of reflection as the original image (preimage), and that reflections are congruent, but flipped. This is a short math unit, so we will probably test next Thursday. Please make sure to look over and discuss the unit 9 math test, which came home yesterday, with your child.
Literacy: April is National Poetry Month, and a perfect time to teach and learn about poetry. In reading we have been learning about various types of poems, such as haiku, cinquain, free verse, concrete, and limerick. In writing we are trying out the different formats and including literary devices/figurative language, such as simile, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and personification.
Students are still involved in book clubs; reading, writing about, and discussing a historical fiction book at this time.
Social Studies: Did you know that approximately 95% of the milk produced in Wisconsin is made into cheese? Wisconsin is the 5th largest cheese producer in the world! No wonder we are the “Cheese-heads!” This week we will wrap up our unit on Wisconsin’s Developing Economy. Students have been learning about various industries in Wisconsin, such as logging, farming, dairy, and manufacturing, noting how technology made a huge difference in production.
Our field trip to Madison on Friday, May 11th, will be a great way to review what we know about state history and government.
Our field trip to Sullivan’s Woods on Wednesday, May 2nd, will be a great way to kick off our upcoming science unit on ecosystems and the environment.
We will be sending home another field trip form for Heritage Hill this week! Sorry for all of the forms—4th grade trips happen to work best in the spring!
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