Grades 3-4: Week of March 6, 2023

Monday – Art; read your Africa book according to the schedule in your folder
Tuesday – PE
Wednesday – Music
Thursday – PE; Recite Bible memory; Discover Trinitas Night
Friday –Africa map 2, history, Latin tests

• On March 6, Dr. Jennifer Holberg of Calvin University will present “Complicated Narratives and Important Failures.”
• March 9 is Discover Trinitas Night! Please spread the word about our special school family and invite someone.
• Game Night is March 10. Come at 6 for a fun evening of trivia, games, dodgeball, and fellowship.
• Africa Feast will be Tuesday, March 28. Your student has been assigned an African country to research.

 What We’re Learning

Language Arts–We are working on a three-paragraph essay about Africa’s geography.

Math – 3rd grade will work on place value and mental math. 4th grade is working on decimals.

Grammar – 3rd and 4th will focus on regular and irregular singular and plural nouns.

Latin – We will study Ch. 20.

Bible– We are reading about Saul and David.

Science –  We are learning how to use a D cell to light a bulb.

Virtue of the Quarter – Lent is a season for HONESTY, a time to examine our hearts before God in order to confess our need for him, receive his mercy, and be reconciled more fully to him and to others. May you and your families be deeply blessed as we journey together this Lent.

Music – In music class we will be focusing on preparation of two songs for each class for Fine Arts Night – one will feature the students on guitar and the other will be a choral piece. As we have time we will also be exploring jazz and folk music. For the jazz component we will work through a curriculum about the early foundations of jazz by the great trumpet player Wynton Marsalis.

Art – We began 2023 with a study of Edward Hopper, an American painter. We imitated his style with a watercolor painting. Then we learned about Alexander Calder; many of the kids were excited to learn that downtown Grand Rapids has a Calder stabile. We built three dimensional stabiles and mobiles using abstract shapes. Recently, we began a unit on M.C. Escher and have been drawing tessellations. The Grand Rapids Public Museum recently advertised that they currently have a planetarium show on Escher works that may be an interesting complementary outing.