Welcome back from a hopefully, rested and enjoyable Thanksgiving!
Our fourth graders discussed many different things we were thankful for, during the weeks preparing for Thanksgiving! Another look in fourth grade: SS- Long house projects came in today and they looked wonderful! The children were so proud of their projects, we took a big portion of the morning presenting and admiring them. Check out the Pictures! ELA- We are actually doing a few different things. We are currently putting together a Saint Research writing report. We are summarizing interesting details we find and practicing "synthesizing" those facts into one general statement. It is a process this week to "generalize" information from that research! We are also continuing working on Closely Reading with non-fiction articles including Earthquakes, plate techtonics, tsunamis and more! Science- We are finishing up the unit with Magnets. We will be doing a summative assessment including writing and hands on activities with Electricity and Magnets. Math- Module 2 is on measurement and data. The kids will be finishing up metric next week.
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This week has been busy for us, however, very rewarding.
Today was a beautiful Veteran's Day Service and it was amazing to see the support from our students, staff, parents, grandparents and community members. We are proud of all our family members that have served and continue to serve! Another big topic of discussion this week was the election. The kids were thrilled to be talking about it in class. We even voted on SS Weekly so our vote counted! The questions and comments about the election were awesome!! Here are some other things going on in the world of Grade 4: Religion- We are talking about and relating the 10 Commandments to our individual lives. Social Studies- We have been talking about the first explorers of New York State (Verranzo, Cartier, Champlain and Henry Hudson). They have looked at maps to see the paths they have sailed and why they found NYS in the first place! Science- We are in full swing of our Circuit unit. The children love the hands on activities with the batteries and trying to find new closed circuits. Math- Our Unit Test is coming up next week on Module 1. It is on rounding, subtraction and addition word problems. ELA- We continue to read The Sign of the Beaver and work on our writing. Our big focus is providing an answer including details. It is easy for us to list answers and come up with them, but we are focusing on providing proof from what we read to support our answers. We will continue to work on that in our New York State Progress Book and with other reading resources. The class is finishing up the first quarter!
Halloween in the beginning of the week made us all tired and restless this week! We still managed to get through! Here are some things we worked on this week: Reading- We did more work with Adjectives and Adverbs. We read a couple more chapters in The Sign of the Beaver. We also wrapped up unit 1 in our New York State Progress Books SS- We began our unit on Colonial America and the Explorers who first set foot here in NYS. The kids should be working on their longhouses at home! Those projects are due on 11.30 Science- Kids are in the middle of their electricity unit! We will be finishing up our activities and experiments on those and moving into magnets since they tie so closely together! Math- Unit 1 is coming to an end and their unit test is coming shortly! God Bless! |
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