The Cooper School Daily

Poetry 4th grade poets are hard at work creating their best and most meaningful poems to showcase for Pass It On. They learned new poetic concepts of consonance, assonance, and sibilance to help structure their […]
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SEL Our next unit of SEL has taken off with the word Curiosity. Our 4th graders already exhibit this trait in everything they do, from asking questions and making inferences during reading lessons to admiring […]
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Centers 4th graders have been practicing their fine-motor skills by making lanyards as one of their centers for the past couple of weeks. They learned this fun activity as a class and now they can’t […]
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Social Studies 4th grade chugs along with our new Social Studies unit, Westward Expansion. To introduce the topic, we started reading Mr. Ticket by Gary Paulsen. They’re enjoying learning about the main character, Francis’s adventures […]
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Class Social 4th grade had their class social on Monday! They enjoyed an afternoon of pizza, bracelet-making, and Pokémon trading with their classmates. We enjoyed celebrating the unique interests of our group and they enjoyed […]
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Compliment Books 4th graders have started writing compliment books to their classmates for Valentine’s Day. They are tasked with writing detailed and genuine notes to each student and we will put them together in a […]
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Project Presentation 4th graders had their American Revolution  project presentation today. They staged a debate against the Loyalists and the Patriots, trying to decide whether or not they should go to war with Great Britain. […]
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Field Trip 4th grade had their first field trip of the year this week! On Monday, our historians trekked downtown to the Charleston Old Exchange, the Powder Magazine and the Heyward Washington House to see […]
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Writing 4th grade finished up their One Word New Year’s resolutions this week. We asked them each to come up with a goal they had for this year and then they chose three words that […]
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Centers This week, 4th grade added centers to their daily schedule. Centers allow the students a designated time to catch up on any unfinished work, and then move on to other enrichment activities either independently, […]
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