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As we approach the final week before Christmas break, anticipation for our upcoming Tuesday and Wednesday parties fills the air. A heartfelt thank you extends to all the parents who generously volunteered their time and energy to contribute. To those who expressed a desire to help, your good intentions and eagerness to contribute to the success of this year are truly appreciated. Thank you, parents! Collaborating with each of you is a pleasure, and I am grateful for the opportunity to work together. ❤️
This is a fun story about memories! Enjoy listening with your student!
If your student was absent: please have them write about one of their favorite memories. Use the Spider Diagram instructions to construct an outline. We will be drafting our memory narrative this week.
Personal Narrative writing
Personal Narrative writing
Students selected a personal memory they could write about. We learned how to use a Spider Diagram to outline their ideas. Spider diagrams are simple and easy to make. Follow these steps when creating a spider diagram:
Choose a topic. Pick one main topic or broad subject to start your spider diagram, and place this word or phrase in a circle. This will be the "body" of the spider diagram.
Identify related subtopics. Each subtopic belongs in its own circle, with all circles arranged in a radial pattern around the main topic and connected to the main topic with lines.
Get more detailed. Continue adding more ideas to your spider diagram, branching off of subtopics to get even more specific. The farther from your main topic, the more specific your ideas will get.
Review your diagram. Once finished, scan your spider diagram to make sure everything makes sense and fine-tune it if needed.
Share your findings. Spider diagrams are great collaborative tools, so show your diagram to your team. Share what you learned from the exercise or what new ideas you have.
Science
Science
"A Giant Human Powered Kinetic Theme Park"
An Italian restaurant owner built a people-powered amusement park. It only contains rides that are powered by people. To ride these rides, people have to put energy in by pedaling, pushing, or climbing. Take a quick tour and watch people use their own energy to make a loop-de-loop! (1:38)
"Energy Transfer"
"Energy Transfer"
In this lesson, students learn that we use the energy from food to make our bodies move just like cars use the energy from gasoline to move. In the activity, Twist-o-matic Tester, students build paper models of an amusement park ride called the Twist-o-Matic. The ride stores energy in rubber bands and spins around when the energy is released. Students compare the speed of the spins when they use a thin rubber band versus a thick rubber band.
Standard 4.2.1: Construct an explanation to describe the cause and effect relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of that object. Emphasize using qualitative descriptions of the relationship between speed and energy like fast, slow, strong, or weak. An example could include a ball that is kicked hard has more energy and travels a greater distance than a ball that is kicked softly. (PS3.A)
Objectives
The greater the speed at which one object strikes another, the greater the distance the stationary object moves. Kinetic energy is the energy an object has because of its motion.Changing the speed of an object changes the amount of its energy. The more speed, the greater the energy in the object to be released. The slower the speed, the less energy there is to be released.
The new trimester started this week. The 4th graders are now going to Digital Literacy with Mrs. Scheurer and Art with Mrs. Jensen. I hope they have a great experience learning and growing this trimester!
Have a wonderful weekend! See you next week!
Love,
Mrs. Nichols
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