This week, we continued our discussion about having a growth mindset and not giving up when obstacles occur. We watched a video about a soccer team in a floating village in Thailand that had no place to play soccer. Check out the video below to see how they overcame this obstacle to become regional champions for 7 straight years. We would also love for you to ask your child how the video inspired them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU4oA3kkAWU
Reader's Workshop
Students honed their retelling skills and ability to make mental movies as they read which is also known as envisioning. After learning about envisioning, students enjoyed their own individual books and spent some time describing the movies in their mind on Flipgrid.
Flipgrid is a website that allows students to respond to a question orally by making a video of themselves. They have used this website in math and now in reading. It allows the student to look back at their thinking, reflect and lift the level of that thinking. It also allows teachers to have a snapshot into students' minds. This greatly assists us in deciding next steps for instruction! Below are some pictures of students recording the "movies in the mind" as they had been reading.
Social Studies Homework
This week students will be coming home with an assignment to support the learning we are doing during our immigration unit in Social Studies. Students will be asked to interview a family member regarding how their family came to be in the United States. I have copied and pasted the directions below in case you would like a sneak preview. There are a few more details on the assignment paper which will come home on Monday.
Since we are
learning about immigration in school, your homework this week is to ask a
family member about how your family came to live here in the United
States. It may be that your parents
immigrated here, or perhaps it was a grandparent or great grandparent. If your family can tell you about a story
they heard from another family member about their journey here or why they came
here that is fine! If you need to call
another family member and ask them their story, go for it! The purpose is to learn a little bit more
about how your family came to be here in the United States.
Math Workshop
We started using vertical number lines in math last week. We spent our "number talk" time of math workshop discussing how we would set up these vertical number lines. This led to great discussions. Kids were also practicing the strategy of using feedback to help them learn and revise their thinking. This type of talk in math really helps to promote discussion and hearing the viewpoints of others.
This week the students will be introduced to one of two projects. Some students will be "zookeepers" at the Franklin Park Zoo and others will become "travel agents." I am looking forward to seeing all of the creativity and learning that will happen this week!
Be sure to ask your child if he/she finished the Million Dollar project Flipgrid. You are able to access the project with your child through their Google Classroom account. If your child did not film his/her project, it can be done at home this week!
Writing Workshop
Students spent time sharing their opinion (thesis) about different topics last week. We talked about when stating an opinion you need to give 3 different reasons that support the thesis and are different than the other reasons. We then started to practice adding evidence/examples that support each reason. Last week we focused on these questions:
Math Workshop
We started using vertical number lines in math last week. We spent our "number talk" time of math workshop discussing how we would set up these vertical number lines. This led to great discussions. Kids were also practicing the strategy of using feedback to help them learn and revise their thinking. This type of talk in math really helps to promote discussion and hearing the viewpoints of others.
This week the students will be introduced to one of two projects. Some students will be "zookeepers" at the Franklin Park Zoo and others will become "travel agents." I am looking forward to seeing all of the creativity and learning that will happen this week! Be sure to ask your child if he/she finished the Million Dollar project Flipgrid. You are able to access the project with your child through their Google Classroom account. If your child did not film his/her project, it can be done at home this week!
Writing Workshop
Students spent time sharing their opinion (thesis) about different topics last week. We talked about when stating an opinion you need to give 3 different reasons that support the thesis and are different than the other reasons. We then started to practice adding evidence/examples that support each reason. Last week we focused on these questions:- Should kids be allowed to have cell phones?
- How much recess should 4th graders have?
- How much homework should kids have?
- Should school be year round?
Learning the set-up of an essay using topics fourth graders are typically passionate about will help prepare us for writing Literary Essays or opinion writing about books.
Have a great week!
Jen and Jaime
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