What is going on in Room 37 this week? (And call for ENERGY EXPERTS!!!)

As we come through the ISA test this week, we are settling back into some more normative class routines in Room 37!

In math, Grade 4s and 5s will be continuing their investigations into place value and base ten by comparing and ordering numbers this week. Grade 4s will be ordering numbers up into the millions and billions, while Grade 5s will be ordering decimal numbers going down into the thousandths!

Please keep in mind that although students have Mathletics homework this week related to these lessons, I will not assign this homework until we have a chance to go through a lesson on it. Up until I assign students Mathletics work based on these lessons, they can do Live Math on Mathletics, or work on Front Row, using our class code of 3t4jt5 to log in.

In terms of our Unit of Inquiry, we are unpacking our How Things Work unit on Energy.

The central idea for this unit is "Energy exists in different forms and is used in our everyday life."

The lines of inquiry for this unit are:

Different forms of energy (form)
The ways we use energy (function)
The impact of energy on our world (causation)
Environmental effects of energy choices (responsibility)

Yesterday, students rewrote our transdisciplinary theme of How the World Works in their own words as a group, while today students drew pictures illustrating their understanding of the central idea and the lines of inquiry with partners.

As we zoom into this unit, we are looking very much for experts in any field related to energy, or the affects of energy use on the environment. Please send me an email if you are at all interested in coming to speak to our Grade 4/5 inquirers. We would love to have you come in!