This Week in Fourth Grade

Reader's Workshop


This past week, students learned how to write about their thinking in reading.  They practiced writing about character traits they had inferred for "Mr. Beauchamp" in The Tiger Rising.  Students also learned how to quote evidence from the text to support their thinking.

Voting for Battle of the books also kicked off this week.  Students voted for their favorite picture books and there were cheers and sighs as certain books won and others were eliminated.  Voting will continue this week...stay tuned for the results!

Book Orders

Book orders were sent out last week and are due on Tuesday.  Our class code is H3M9C if you are interested in ordering online.

Glow in the Dark Party

Students received their final award on Friday for earning pledges for the Fun Run.  As students arrived on Friday morning, they were given glow bracelets and entered a dimly lit classroom buzzing with music and dancing classmates!  Everyone got a chance to show off their moves and burn off a little Friday morning energy before the day started.  Some pictures were posted on Seesaw earlier today.

Math Workshop

Students started to look for patterns when skip counting by different numbers.  We started to create a multiplication chart by filling out the x1, x2, x5, and x10 columns on the chart.  These facts are the ones that many students already know fairly well or can at least skip count easily.  After filling out these sections, we looked for patterns.  Ask your child the patterns they noticed when looking at the multiples of 5 and 10.  It is important for students to notice patterns to help them when they get stuck on a multiplication fact.  We will continue to look for patterns for the multiples of other numbers as well.

We will also wrap up our first math module this week.  Your child will take an assessment to show what they know.  This unit is a great foundation for the math that we will learn this year.  

Writing Workshop

Students continued to work on their "brave" realistic fiction story.  Your child also worked to meet the deadline for finishing their first story.  As we work through writing pieces this year, we focus on the process we go through as writers.  We will not bring each writing piece to a final product.  When we do create a final product, we will use our editing and revising skills to help us complete the writing.

Your child's story is on Google Classroom, and they are welcome to show you what they worked on.  Ask your child about our writing focus for this piece, which was to use a plan to help us write our story and to tell a story step by step.  You can have your child show you where they told their story step by step in their first story.