This Week in Fourth Grade...

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Upcoming Events....

Field Trip to Moose Hill Sanctuary

- Friday, May 31st

- 9:00 - 1:30

- Pack a bag lunch 

Quinn Fly Up Day

- Wednesday, June 5th

- 8:50 AM

- Students will get a chance to tour the building and ask questions

Farley Fun Day

- Thursday, June 6th

- Afternoon session

Library & Wood Park Field Trip

- Monday, June 10th

- Pack a bag lunch

- Send in the permission slip

Time Capsules Due In School

- Monday, June 10th

- If you need another flyer about the time capsule, please let us know!

Time Capsule Closing Ceremony & Last Day of School

- Friday, June 14th

- 9:00 - cafeteria

- Don't forget to to keep working on your time capsule!

Math Workshop

Students will take the End of Year Math Assessment this week.  This is the same assessment that the students took during the first week of school.  It will be great to see the progress that the students have made throughout the year.  Once graded, I will send home the assessments for you to celebrate with your child.

Reader's Workshop

Students took the research they have been doing about the Southwest and began turning it into an iMovie this week.  Next week we will put the finishing touches on the iMovies and present them.  We will also be starting to talk about summer reading this week and continue participating in book clubs.  Below are some pictures of some students working on their presentations!

This Week in Fourth Grade....

Math Workshop

We continued our project based on the book "If the World Were a Village."  The kids worked together to show their data on a grid.  They also had to analyze the data and answer questions based on the data they had.  Most groups had enough time to create a Flipgrid video to show off all of their learning.  Later this week, I will create a website that will house all the completed Flipgrids.  The kids are very excited to share these with the world!  :)

Writing Workshop

The kids have been working hard on comparing and contrasting two different sharks, whales, or dolphins.  This is the second part to their website.  Some kids will have to finish typing this for homework this week.  Be on the lookout for a reminder email.

Science

We started our Erosion unit last week.  We talked about finding evidence that the Earth is changing.  We started by looking outside of our classroom for evidence of this.  We also started our project using Playdough.  Thank you so much for the generous donations.  The kids had a blast creating a "sculpture."

Reader's Workshop

Students continued to learn non-fiction comprehension strategies and research skills.  Our focus last week was to synthesize our research from more than one source.  We also began writing scripts to use for iMovies that we will create this week.  This allowed us to practice our summarizing skills that we learned a couple of weeks ago as well.  Students are excited to finish their scripts and get to work on their iMovies about topics from the Southwest this week!  Below are some pictures of students at work.

Book Clubs

Students have been participating in book clubs of their choice over the past couple of weeks.  This has been a wonderful opportunity for students to apply all of their learning over the year in books that are full of thought-provoking, discussion-worthy topics.  Club members have been encouraged to take charge of their meetings and students have been deciding together how much to read, what to focus on, and when the next meeting will be.  The level of engagement and ownership over the clubs has been wonderful!  I have enjoyed taking on the role of coach during the discussions and seeing just how much students have really grown this year!

Coming Events

There are so many different activities coming up over the next several weeks!  Stay tuned for a special email with a list of events, times and other info!

This Week in Fourth Grade....

Field Trip

Our classes will go to Moose Hill Audubon Sanctuary on Friday, May 31st.  Your child came home with a permission slip a few weeks ago.  If you don't have a permission slip, please let us know and we can send another one home.

Book Orders

We sent hom Book Orders last week.  Please send them back in with your child this week if you are planning on ordering.

Math Workshop

The kids worked very hard on the Math MCAS last week.  I am proud of the progress they have made throughout the year. 

We started a project last week called "If the World Were a Village" based on the book with the same name.  We started the week by watching a video to go along with the book.  The concept looks at taking the entire world's population and creating a village of 100 people.  Within this population of 100 we will discover what fraction of the people would live in North America, the fraction of people in the village that would be children, the fraction of people who would not have enough food and water each day and many others.  We will continue the project this week as we use the data in the book to show decimals in picture form, write decimals, and compare and order decimals.  Be sure to ask your child what he or she is learning throughout the week!

This Week in Fourth Grade

Wrapping Up the Southeast

Students finished their Prezi presentations on topics in the Southeast and will present them next week.  We will be moving into the Southwest region of the United States next week as well.  Students will learn to refine their research skills and have also started to learn about summarizing non-fiction during reader's workshop.  They will use this skill to help them write presentations on a topic in the Southwest.  Students will then turn these presentations into iMovies.  Below is a fantastic team putting the finishing touches on their Prezi.

Field Trip!

We will be heading to Moose Hill Sanctuary on May 31st.  Permission slips were sent home this week.  Chaperones are welcome, so if you are interested, please let us know!  In addition, if you are planning on ordering a school bag lunch for your child that day, please let us know.  Students cannot order these lunches the day of the trip and must do so in advance.

Teamwork

We continue to spend time in the gym on Thursdays during morning meeting.  The difference this time has made with our students can be observed every day during recess.  We have had more boys and girls playing cooperative sports such as basketball, football, and soccer than ever before.  We hear encouragement and see students talking out disagreements.  We see students take turns being team captain and great attitudes all around!  Below are some pictures of the game we played this week.

Yearbook

Please feel free to take pictures off of our blog to submit for the yearbook!

Game Faces!  
Last week we started our Football Frenzy math practice.  The kids were turned into "football players" on Monday, so they could play the part of being on a team for our practice math problems.  Students have been working together as a team to solve math problems. Before checking their answers they needed to make sure everyone in the group could describe the steps they took to solve the problem. When they could solve the problem correctly they could pick a card that told the number of yards they would advance on our football field.