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| We love Texas history!
YEE HAW! 4th Grade's field trip was very informative, and we really enjoyed the 4D and IMAX movies too. Seeing the artifacts in person took our learning to a new level. It was great to see the engagement and "I remember learning about this!" moments. Thanks again to the parents who guided and chaperoned!
We are actively applying our Texas history in our vignettes of the Texas Revolution! We've completed our research and planned our characters via Google Slides. Next week, we will take this information and incorporate it into a first person narrative in that time period. This project works our reading, and writing muscles and brings our history to life.
We've been focusing on developing ideas with relevant details. We have an analogy of a story as a walk. You want each detail to move the story forward, to build upon the prior sentences. Sidestepping is saying the same thing in different words, and taking a step back may be a sentence that distracts from the focus or is a completely different idea. We are using this talk to help us "see" when our writing is on or off focus.
In math, we've learned about new classroom resources for building multiplication and division fluency. Many of us are choosing to build automaticity with facts during soft start and during other pockets of the day. We've observed that a little fact practice each day with consistency makes such a difference in our confidence and our ability to solve bigger computation problems accurately. We're also transitioning from our study of fractions into geometry. We're off to a great start with an understanding of how angles are a measure of turn and some important new vocabulary for classifying angles. Next week we'll use this knowledge and our new protractor skills as we analyze shape relationships.
We are also developing independent projects in our Google Time. We will be able to research and create our own Science Fair experiment or Vignette from a different time period. We are in the planning stages, but are already excited!
Next week you will receive the Spring Conference form. We will send you an email with further instructions, but wanted to put that on your radar. Optional Spring Conferences will be scheduled on Feb. 19th.
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This week we are studying in depth the intent, meaning, and importance of many American symbols, documents, songs, and speeches. In doing this, we are using some neat tech resources: Star-Spangled Banner Smithsonian Site Our Country's Flag Flag Manners The Pledge of Allegiance The Declaration of Independence The Constitution The Bill of Rights American Symbols
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