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We had a really productive and fun week.
As readers this week, we prepared our "Reading is Thinking" binders: a place to store our post-it notes where we write down our thoughts while reading. This will also be our place to respond to open-ended reading questions. While reading Shiloh, we used many strategies, including predicting, clarifying, summarizing, questioning, inferring, and connecting. We also analyzed the plot of the book as we read: we are getting closer and closer to the climax! Ask your child which strategies they used while listening to this read-aloud. We began a class chart on Google Drive where we are storing our thoughts.
As writers, we published our first piece of fourth grade! We used a checklist to edit our writing. The parts we focused on were paragraphing for change of idea, speaker, setting, and time. We also spoke about punctuation used with dialogue (quotation marks, commas, etc.). Then, we used a revising checklist to check for the areas we focused on in our mini-lessons. We even reviewed our checklist with a buddy, buddy-editing both virtually (inserting comments into the document to our buddy) and in person (sitting side-by-side). We will celebrate and share next week! We are very excited!
In math this week, we problem-solved with questions involving the subtraction of money. Then, we moved on to rounding and estimating. We used a number line and place value to round. Check out our "Rounding Rap" video below (don't mind my rapping voice!). We played a game, "Rapid Rounding" to help us round accurately and using a strategy of our choice. I sent a copy of this home with students today, so you can continue to play at home to practice this skill.
We have all gotten colonial jobs and wages! Ask your child what their job is. As the Queen of England, I imposed a tax on them, just as colonists experienced the Stamp Act in 1765! This was one of the first causes of the American Revolution. Ask your child how they are feeling about the taxes so far.
A HUGE shout out to Mrs. Kurdyla for transforming our classroom into a Haunted House! The class was AMAZED!
As readers this week, we prepared our "Reading is Thinking" binders: a place to store our post-it notes where we write down our thoughts while reading. This will also be our place to respond to open-ended reading questions. While reading Shiloh, we used many strategies, including predicting, clarifying, summarizing, questioning, inferring, and connecting. We also analyzed the plot of the book as we read: we are getting closer and closer to the climax! Ask your child which strategies they used while listening to this read-aloud. We began a class chart on Google Drive where we are storing our thoughts.
As writers, we published our first piece of fourth grade! We used a checklist to edit our writing. The parts we focused on were paragraphing for change of idea, speaker, setting, and time. We also spoke about punctuation used with dialogue (quotation marks, commas, etc.). Then, we used a revising checklist to check for the areas we focused on in our mini-lessons. We even reviewed our checklist with a buddy, buddy-editing both virtually (inserting comments into the document to our buddy) and in person (sitting side-by-side). We will celebrate and share next week! We are very excited!
In math this week, we problem-solved with questions involving the subtraction of money. Then, we moved on to rounding and estimating. We used a number line and place value to round. Check out our "Rounding Rap" video below (don't mind my rapping voice!). We played a game, "Rapid Rounding" to help us round accurately and using a strategy of our choice. I sent a copy of this home with students today, so you can continue to play at home to practice this skill.
We have all gotten colonial jobs and wages! Ask your child what their job is. As the Queen of England, I imposed a tax on them, just as colonists experienced the Stamp Act in 1765! This was one of the first causes of the American Revolution. Ask your child how they are feeling about the taxes so far.
A HUGE shout out to Mrs. Kurdyla for transforming our classroom into a Haunted House! The class was AMAZED!