Newbery Books-Literary Salon

Today we held a Literary Salon to celebrate the end of the unit. We served food found in some of the books the children have read. For our salon which is usually held in an elegant setting, each child selected a passage out of their favorite Newbery Award or Honor book to read [...]

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Our Geometric Town

A light blanket of snow covered the streets this morning, but that didn’t stop our hardy group from heading out on a geometric scavenger hunt.  After a swift train ride into town, we divided into five groups to search for examples of geometric shapes and angles, all found on buildings. Some geometric discoveries [...]

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Chinese New Year: Year of the Rat

Happy Chinese New Year! To celebrate Chinese New Year, our class, along with another fourth grade down the hall, spent the day learning about many of the traditions. To begin the day, the children watched the film New Year in Ping Wei, the story of Liu Yen Twin and her family who live [...]

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Market Day in Ancient China

 

As the afternoon rain pelted our windows, our classroom was transformed into a market in ancient China. After walking a timeline of history, counting off the centuries and discussing the length of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, we returned to the classroom to turn it into a market square. Each group was given a [...]

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