4 th Grade

Measurements during Bake Sale / Medidas durante a Bake Sale

Measurements during Bake Sale After studies about measurement of length and weight and volume, students had a chance to apply them on their annual Bake Sale. Chocolate cakes, cookies, pop corn, among other products were among the possibilities. Everything labeled with chosen unity and price. Students also visited other classroom...

Bake Sale / Bake Sale

Bake Sale The students of 4th grade B had an amazing time with the bake sale. The children had a real and meaningful experience with bilingual fake money, the giradollar. This activity was divided in three steps. First, the children decided what they want to sell. Then, they made posters...

MMMMMM Delicious! / MMMMM Delicioso!

MMMMMM Delicious! Visualizing in 3D for some people can be a very abstract subject. Even drawing 3D pictures can be a difficult task for some. But, wouldn’t it be easier if we could build and visualize? That is what we did during math class on 4A of Bilingual. Instead of...

Mysterious reader / Leitor misterioso

Mysterious reader During August the students of 4th grade D were engaged in the Estação da Leitura. One of bilingual’s coolest activities is the mysterious reader, where the school invites the parents to read to the children wearing disguises. The students had an amazing time listening to the story and...

My first company / Minha primeira empresa

My first company Working on monetary system, students had the chance to create their own companies. A flower shop, a candy store, a produce store, a book store and a stationery store had different goals to accomplish along the project. Students became businessboys and businessgirls to create business plan, structure,...

Playing with safe fungi! / Brincando com fungos seguros!

Playing with safe fungi! The best way to learn something is putting your hands on the matter…and that’s what students of 4A of the Bilingual Program did. We are studying about fungi, and we discovered that we use a lot of fungi in the kitchen. For example, there are cheeses...

Learning Geography / Aprendendo Geografia

Learning Geography We learned about everything! We learn math, science, language…and why not? We also learn geography! We studied landforms in the book, and we wanted to go deep to things that are more practical and more useful. We got to understand how to see a mountain from different points...

Shaping 3D geometric shapes / Modelando formas 3D

Shaping 3D geometric shapes After exploring different 2D and 3D geometric shapes, their faces, edges and vertices, students had the chance to create their favorite shape.  The goal was to compose and decompose elements related to 3D geometric shapes. First, students related 2D and 3D shapes like squares and cubes....

What do you prefer? / O que você prefere?

What do you prefer? Knowing your classmates is part of the process of growing and social development of the students. We learned a little more about ourselves while studying math in the Bilingual Program. It is not only about math and vocabulary, but also about communication and socialization in the...

Following instructions: ORIGAMI / Seguindo instruções: ORIGAMI

Following instructions: ORIGAMI Reading, writing, speaking, listening. All the necessary skills to speak a second language. And a good way to develop each one is doing something that students like. To achieve this, we use Teacher Pedro’s artistic skills and we made an origami in the classroom, focusing in the...