Fourth Graders Build Solar Ovens and Make Music

Mid-quarter at PCA, fourth grade students join the show to share hands-on learning in science and music. The episode features students introducing themselves, describing their daily routines, and explaining class projects and activities. Students built solar ovens from shoeboxes to test insulation and heat retention, planning to measure temperatures and even make s'mores as part of the experiment. They discuss hypotheses, materials, and how the sun provides energy for everyday needs. The episode also highlights the new band and strings program: students are starting saxophone, violin, viola, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, cello, and percussion, with several teachers guiding their musical journey and upcoming concerts and showcases planned. Teachers describe academic focus areas like deeper multiplication and division, new novels in reading, and Old Testament studies in Bible class. The conversation emphasizes curiosity, problem-solving, faith connections, and the joy of learning and serving younger students as shepherds.