In reading, we've enjoyed Winnie's silly behavior as she becomes a part of Lt. Harry Colbourne's veterinary unit. She's on the train, heading 5,000 miles towards WWI. Our summaries are becoming more precise, and we are learning the art of paraphrasing to keep it concise. We are using letter form to complete our Literary Responses, so that skill is growing as well.
"I love knowing that I can correctly use conversation in my writing!" the SBLC writers declare. They've been honing their skills using quotation marks and the punctuation that corresponds with all the ways you can show characters' words. We continue to refine our expository outlines and pieces as well.
We've been exploring the specifics of maps and globes. It's been fun to dig deep into how scale, latitude and longitude, and keys/compass rose help us know where we are in the world. It's been fun to see angles, degrees, and parallel lines from math show up in social studies!
Great job to our Fourth Graders in working hard on Tuesday to complete their first writing benchmark test. They showed stamina, their strategies, and have developed goals for improving their pieces.
We had a busy week as mathematicians! All were introduced to ways that remainders can be interpreted in word problem contexts and we found that UPS check continues to be a helpful tool to promote a deep understanding of word problem relationships. We are all building our fluency with multiples and have focused especially on those tricky 7s and 6s this week. 4th graders have learned to create division visual proofs and are becoming long division experts after lots of hard work. We all ended the week with a new open-ended puzzle called Broken Calculator and participated in Hour of Code with students around the world. Big work!
Enjoy the weekend and stay warm!
Jen and Jewellyn
"I love knowing that I can correctly use conversation in my writing!" the SBLC writers declare. They've been honing their skills using quotation marks and the punctuation that corresponds with all the ways you can show characters' words. We continue to refine our expository outlines and pieces as well.
We've been exploring the specifics of maps and globes. It's been fun to dig deep into how scale, latitude and longitude, and keys/compass rose help us know where we are in the world. It's been fun to see angles, degrees, and parallel lines from math show up in social studies!
Great job to our Fourth Graders in working hard on Tuesday to complete their first writing benchmark test. They showed stamina, their strategies, and have developed goals for improving their pieces.
We had a busy week as mathematicians! All were introduced to ways that remainders can be interpreted in word problem contexts and we found that UPS check continues to be a helpful tool to promote a deep understanding of word problem relationships. We are all building our fluency with multiples and have focused especially on those tricky 7s and 6s this week. 4th graders have learned to create division visual proofs and are becoming long division experts after lots of hard work. We all ended the week with a new open-ended puzzle called Broken Calculator and participated in Hour of Code with students around the world. Big work!
Enjoy the weekend and stay warm!
Jen and Jewellyn
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