Happy Valentine's Day!

The 4th Grade girls each made a surprise Valentine for a classmate to celebrate Valentine's Day! Thank you, parent volunteers, for the goodies and craft supplies you provided to help us celebrate!

Morphing Animation

Morphing animation

Fourth-grade students explored the concept of morphing animation. Morphing is the process
that permits a smooth transition from one image to another. Through their research about
various cultures and art practices around the world, students have learned that people may
have different interpretations of the same concept based on their personal and cultural
experiences.

As an introduction to the morphing animation unit, students have created a class morphing
animation using post-it flipbook. This was done to observe the process of collaborative animation.
Individual fourth-grade students created images transforming into their partner’s image gradually.
After a short critique about a class mini morphing animation with post-its, students democratically
decided a topic and criteria for their collaborative morphing animation.

As their final project, students learned a process of creating animation and how to create
morphing animation using Scratch program. Making a collaborative morphing animation,
the students explored and experienced how artists and designers balance experimentation
and safety, freedom and responsibility while they develop and create artworks.

Year of The Pig!

Happy China Day! Fourth grade had a great time last week celebrating the Lunar New Year with fun activities, an out-of-uniform day for the entire LS, and everyone's favorite part of the day: Chinese food from Chow Mein Charlie for lunch! Thank you to the parent volunteers who helped out and spent part of their day with us. We wouldn't have been able to pull it off with you all! Please enjoy the photos below from the big day!

 

         4B getting ready for the big day!

 The girls were put into 5 groups and got to rotate through 5 different centers with various activities to celebrate the Year of The Pig! In this center pictured above, the girls got to make their own Chinese dictionaries.

                Painting Chinese Characters

                 Making Paper Lanterns

     Zen coloring and Read Aloud (pictured above) and Tangram Puzzles (pictured right)

                               

Thank goodness we had beautiful weather to spend some time outside too!

Good Citizenship!

At recess last week, some of the 4th grade girls were dismayed at what they found in the equipment shed on the blacktop! As you can see from the picture, almost all of the recess jump ropes were tied in a huge knot that included some hula hoops! These girls spent the next several recess periods untangling every jump rope in this mess. In addition, they made an announcement during assembly to the whole Lower School asking everyone to be more mindful about taking care of their recess equipment. Congratulations to these girls for making a difference in their community!

Happy Daisy Day!

The Fourth Grade girls wish you a Happy Daisy Day - the start of a new tradition at Bryn Mawr! In honor of the generosity of the Fowlkes Family towards our new Student Center, for every year from now on the last Friday in January will be designated Daisy Day! We can't wait!

Happy New Year!

2019 is in full swing and it's hard to believe that it's already almost February! Despite the ice cold temperatures, snow days and delays, there has still been plenty going on in 4th grade. Please enjoy a few fun images below!

Hot cocoa and a movie after returning from Winter Break:

Snowman building at recess:

3-5 Winter Concert

3-5 Winter Concert