Hello 4th grade families,
Another awesome week at Oasis is in the books! We had a lot of fun this week and did a lot of learning. For math this week we focused on our numbers to 100,000, including different forms (standard form, expanded form, word form, etc). We also reviewed rounding and can now round numbers up to 100,000 and we reviewed comparing and ordering numbers. We will continue working with place value and number sense this week.
Our Animal and Plant project seems to be a hit! We learned about plant structures and their functions. Then we put them to a test. We placed celery and carnations in water with food coloring (some we split in half and place in two different colors) and let them sit for a couple days. We then observed that the plants started to change colors! We talked about the xylem and phloem and how they work inside plants. Then we dissected! First we cut the celery and we could actually see the xylem and poem dyed by the food coloring. Then we cut into the flowers, getting a closer look at the plant structures. As you can see, it was pretty fun!
Thanks and have a great week!
