Summer Reading for Rising Fourth Graders

Here is a link to summer reading information:


http://www.brynmawrschool.org/Page/Academics/Lower-School/Peggy-Bessent-Library/Fourth-Grade-Summer-Reading

Happy Summer!

Art: Floral Still Life

Third graders are completing floral still lives from observation. They examined how an object changes depending on one's perspective, and how color changes depending on the light. Girls built on their knowledge of color from second grade, using "color opposites" (dark-light, warm-cool, bright-dull) to recreate observed colors in chalk pastel. Students looked to master works to plan a background that would enhance their flowers in some way. Throughout the drawing, girls used iPads to document their drawing process. 

 

Tinker and Techxploration

The girls enjoyed the Lower School Tinker and Techxploration Fair on April 18th.  The girls had an opportunity to explore and tinker with 10 of the latest technology innovations and gadgets. 

 
The Beam is an experimental telepresence robot. It lets you move around and talk to people, even when you’re not with them in person. The Beam uses WiFi, cameras and sensors to move around.

Google Cardboard is a virtual reality set of glasses. What’s virtual reality? It’s a way to experience something through our computers that doesn’t really exist.
    
You can connect the MaKey MaKey to a computer and then to just about anything.

  
Makeup Genius uses augmented reality code to put makeup on your face!

 

Robot turtles is a super fun game that will also teach you how to think like a computer scientist.
  
Drones are machines that fly themselves.
   
Alexa is an artificially intelligent bot that you can have a conversation with.

  

Leap Motion allows you to control a computer through motion rather than a keyboard or mouse, that’s called a “gestural interface.”

   
The Spirograph was created by a mathematician in the late 1800s. He used it to calculate the area of curves. But a British engineer soon realized that the Spirograph could also be used to create really pretty drawings.