Grade: 4th

27 Jan 2023

Annual Celebration Concert (September 4 & 5, 2024)

September 4 & 5, 2024

Greenacres excitedly welcomes the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Cincinnati Opera, and Cincinnati Ballet each fall for a spectacular performance chronicling miraculous talents all on one stage. John Morris Russel, beloved conductor of the Cincinnati Pops, serves as our guide throughout a live art experience that compares to none. Limited dates and seats are available.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • MU.4.8PR Demonstrate appropriate audience etiquette at live performances.
  • MU.4.4PR Sing, move and respond to music from world cultures and different composers.
  • TBD core standards based on each year’s theme!

Vocabulary:

composer, conductor, orchestra, opera, ballet, audience, applause

27 Jan 2023

Arts in the Natural World Series: Clay

April – October

From the creek to the art studio, this program explores all things clay! Students will learn the procedures of hiking to the creek to harvest clay from natural creek beds and processing it in an art studio. This is a hands-on program that includes a hike uphill, so come prepared to get your hands dirty and your body moving! Programs in the Arts in the Natural World Series seek to demonstrate intersections between the arts and the world around us. This program only operates in warmer months (August-October 31; March 15-June).

All multigrade program offerings will be supported by grade-level appropriate standards, available to share upon request.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.4.2PR Experiment with art materials by using them in unexpected and creative ways to express ideas and convey meaning.
  • VA.4.4PR Demonstrate motivation, independence and persistence during studio practices to complete artworks.

Ohio Science Standards:

  • ESS.4.1 Earth’s surface has specific characteristics and landforms that can be identified.

Vocabulary:

clay, natural resource, artistic medium, clay processing, hand building, wheel throwing, slip, plastic, leatherhard, bone dry, bisqueware, glazeware, Rookwood

07 Feb 2022

Maple Syrup

January 29 – February 23

Maple sugaring is the tradition of making maple syrup from sap gathered from maple trees in late winter/early spring.  Many animals (and people) are benefited by using the sap of the maple trees. Plan to visit our sugar bush at Greenacres as you experience with your senses how maple sap is turned into syrup. (January 29 – February 23, 2024)

Ohio Science Standards:

  • LS Grade 4: Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial and sometimes harmful.
  • SIPA Grade 3-5: Observe and ask questions about the world that can be answered through scientific investigations.

NGSS Standards:

  • 4-LS1-1. Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS Grade 4: Geography- The economic development of the United States continues to influence and be influenced by agriculture, industry and natural resources in Ohio.

Vocabulary: Spiles, sap, Gallons, Sugar Shack, Sugar Bush, Evaporation, Tap, Sapsucker

Video Introduction: CLICK HERE for Maple video with a Greenacres educator

01 Mar 2021

Energy on the Farm

August-June 

See how our farmers, livestock, and plants produce and use energy to grow and create food for our community. Through an interactive game, students will work in groups to see the best energy-efficient practices to keep crops alive during a frost, provide water during a drought, and care for the animals on your farm.

Ohio Science Standards:

  •  4.PS.2: Energy can be transferred from one location to another or can be transformed from one form to another.

NGSS Standards:

  • 4-PS3-2 Energy. Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
  • 4-PS3-4 Energy. Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • Geography – Places and Regions: The economic development of the United States continues to influence and be influenced by agriculture, industry and natural resources in Ohio

Vocabulary:

Energy, heat energy, solar energy, energy transfer, energy loss, greenhouse, compost

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