The Wonderful World Of Knowledge

(Anyone else fondly remember these awesome Disney books?)

Year Four totally rocked it today. Last week they couldn't read the number 42 in Roman numerals when it came up in a test. This morning they were correctly reading and writing Roman numerals up to 1,000. In the afternoon they blew me away with their ability to locate countries by writing coordinates of latitude and longitude. Year Four children usually write the latitudinal ordinate before the longitudinal ordinate instead of vice versa, or confuse north with south or east with west. Today, they were all almost 100% correct. Honestly, it was pure joy.

Now I am looking forward to seeing the completed astronaut and cosmonaut biographies which they have been compiling notes for. 

(Note the wall display of research into the climate patterns of six different countries in each of the Earth's six climate zones. They did great with that work too.)

Do you get the feeling that I'm rather fond of this class?

The Knowledge