This week Clara was our student of the week! She brought in her "me bag" on Wednesday. We learned that she was very tiny when she was a baby.
We graphed our multiplication tests on Monday and we did a BIG round of applause for those who earned 30 out of 30!
In reader's workshop we read our independent reading books and shared a reading thought. We've been adding to our vocabulary charts and our class chart is growing quite big! We wrote summary paragraphs in our letters to Mrs. Randall this week.
In writer's workshop we learned more about how to make your response to text better. While we were looking at some of the benchmarks, we noticed these fourth graders gave a lot of evidence to support their focus. In Author's Chair this week some people shared their stories that they are working on. We have conferenced and revised our pieces on Fourth Grade Rats and are almost finished.
We played a math game called "Missing Factors". It was fun and challenging for me. It helps us practice our multiplication facts. This is a game that we can sign out to play at home if we would like to. We took a mid-unit math test on how to solve the equation 18 x 7 and use big/small arrays. We've been working on division story problems and connecting division to multiplication.
In social studies, we created our own riddles on VT geography so we could play a class jeopardy game.
Our class colored paper bags so they were colorful for the VT Cares patients. This was a nice way for us to help others this holiday season. We've also visited many younger classrooms to help them make paper cranes for our peace work. Our goal is to make 1,000 cranes in our school.
Mrs. Randall showed us a new way to respond to a text. It's called making a movie! When you are making a movie, you can make a sequel, change the story in a way you thought it should have went, or recreate your favorite scene. In class we made an alternate ending for Fourth Grade Rats. I thought this was pretty cool to do!
We are looking forward to Skyping our K-Buddies this afternoon and having a celebration with them next Wednesday!
Aurora
Friday, December 18, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
Dec
Monday-Isabel and Eleanor were the first K-Readers this week. They decided to read the book, One Winter's Day.
Tuesday-We sent our letters to the author of our choice today! We look forward to hearing back! We learned two helpful strategies in math today. One was the lattice method and the other was partial products. In Spanish we made peace doves to hang on the Earth that Senora Rena painted in her room.
Wednesday-We had a guest teacher because Mrs. Randall was sick. We played a VT geography and solar system jeopardy.
Thursday-We had another guest teacher. We started a new unit in PE.
Friday-Mrs. Randall is back!! We took our mad minute test and I hope I did well. We'll graph results on Monday. We continued to use the strategy "Work backwards" in our POD. We played big array/small array. We played a game on VT geography (sort of a pretest). In Weekly Reader we read an article titled Empty Bellies about world hunger. In our classroom we raise grains of rice to help others using this site; www.freerice.com. Please help us by trying to answer question-each correct answer give 10 grains of rice. We had a lot of fun Skyping with our K-Buddies! They made feet reindeer that they showed us using the web cam.
Hope you enjoy the snow!
Kathleen and Austin B.
Tuesday-We sent our letters to the author of our choice today! We look forward to hearing back! We learned two helpful strategies in math today. One was the lattice method and the other was partial products. In Spanish we made peace doves to hang on the Earth that Senora Rena painted in her room.
Wednesday-We had a guest teacher because Mrs. Randall was sick. We played a VT geography and solar system jeopardy.
Thursday-We had another guest teacher. We started a new unit in PE.
Friday-Mrs. Randall is back!! We took our mad minute test and I hope I did well. We'll graph results on Monday. We continued to use the strategy "Work backwards" in our POD. We played big array/small array. We played a game on VT geography (sort of a pretest). In Weekly Reader we read an article titled Empty Bellies about world hunger. In our classroom we raise grains of rice to help others using this site; www.freerice.com. Please help us by trying to answer question-each correct answer give 10 grains of rice. We had a lot of fun Skyping with our K-Buddies! They made feet reindeer that they showed us using the web cam.
Hope you enjoy the snow!
Kathleen and Austin B.
Monday, December 07, 2009
Week of Dec. 1
Hello! My name is Brandon and I was last week's Roving Reporter. I worked with Alexis, our photographer.
Monday in gym we did gymnastics. In snack we moved our desks (we do this every month) to a new arrangement. We are in families of four or five. In reading, we read Fourth Grade Rats and discussed the book and found the main idea. In writing, we continued our letters to an author. In recess we played outside. In ELF we talked about habitat.
This is part of the puppet show on rotting logs.
Tuesday we went to school-wide meeting. We read a book on peace. We are looking forward to making cranes. In writing, we worked on our letters-focusing on revision. We circle two words/phrases where we can explode the moment or slow down time. Then we underline two sentences that are untouchable and that means we are proud of them and we don't want them to change. We finished Fourth Grade Rats. I liked the end of it because Suds learned you don't have to be a "rat" to be a "man".
Wednesday we sang songs in music. We sang Walking in a Winter Wonderland! In math we worked on our line plots for bus pick-up times and then analyzed the data to show what time the bus will most likely arrive. In reading we worked with different question types and how to best answer them. We then challenged each other to answer our questions. It was fun! I learned that people think of the same things differently and it's important to give evidence to support your opinion. In writing, we continued our letters and other writing pieces in our writer's notebook.
Thursday in morning meeting we greeted each other with the koosh-ball greeting. In PE we did gymnastics. In writing we worked on conferencing with our letters. In social studies made flash cards for VT's counties and shiretowns (like Alexis and me), while others worked together on a movie. We are putting together video clips of our solar system presentations.
Friday we made paper cranes in morning meeting. In guidance we read a book and worked on listening with our eyes, ears and mouth. In math we played math games focusing multiplication.
I'm looking forward to PE next week-I am working on my valut! I am getting better on my round-offs! (From Brandon)
Good-Bye-Happy Weekend!
From Alexis and Brandon
Monday in gym we did gymnastics. In snack we moved our desks (we do this every month) to a new arrangement. We are in families of four or five. In reading, we read Fourth Grade Rats and discussed the book and found the main idea. In writing, we continued our letters to an author. In recess we played outside. In ELF we talked about habitat.
This is part of the puppet show on rotting logs.
Tuesday we went to school-wide meeting. We read a book on peace. We are looking forward to making cranes. In writing, we worked on our letters-focusing on revision. We circle two words/phrases where we can explode the moment or slow down time. Then we underline two sentences that are untouchable and that means we are proud of them and we don't want them to change. We finished Fourth Grade Rats. I liked the end of it because Suds learned you don't have to be a "rat" to be a "man".
Wednesday we sang songs in music. We sang Walking in a Winter Wonderland! In math we worked on our line plots for bus pick-up times and then analyzed the data to show what time the bus will most likely arrive. In reading we worked with different question types and how to best answer them. We then challenged each other to answer our questions. It was fun! I learned that people think of the same things differently and it's important to give evidence to support your opinion. In writing, we continued our letters and other writing pieces in our writer's notebook.
Thursday in morning meeting we greeted each other with the koosh-ball greeting. In PE we did gymnastics. In writing we worked on conferencing with our letters. In social studies made flash cards for VT's counties and shiretowns (like Alexis and me), while others worked together on a movie. We are putting together video clips of our solar system presentations.
Friday we made paper cranes in morning meeting. In guidance we read a book and worked on listening with our eyes, ears and mouth. In math we played math games focusing multiplication.
I'm looking forward to PE next week-I am working on my valut! I am getting better on my round-offs! (From Brandon)
Good-Bye-Happy Weekend!
From Alexis and Brandon
Friday, December 04, 2009
Week of Nov. 16
Sorry my blog is late, but we had a fun-filled Thanksgiving week!
This week was a really cool week. We got to do a lot of cool things. We watched the shuttle Atlantis take off from Florida! Their mission was to bring supplies to the Space Station. Throughout the day we watched the astronauts prepare and we were lucky enough to see them take off before bus dismissal. It was amazing! It was the first time I've seen a shuttle take off!
We also got to go into a blow-up planetarium! We got to see some constellations and better find our way through the night sky. I thought it was interesting that I got to see a picture of the sun.
We finished up our geography BIG maps. I was excited to bring it home to study. I found it challenging to find all the locations. Working together helped.
We finished our surveys and got to go around to other classes to collect data. I thought it was interesting that most Kindergartners had two pets while fourth graders had more than two on average.
We visited our K-Buddies classroom! We watched Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving and created a turkey with all we were thankful for. We hope you had a fun Thanksgiving!
See ya!
Isabel
This week was a really cool week. We got to do a lot of cool things. We watched the shuttle Atlantis take off from Florida! Their mission was to bring supplies to the Space Station. Throughout the day we watched the astronauts prepare and we were lucky enough to see them take off before bus dismissal. It was amazing! It was the first time I've seen a shuttle take off!
We also got to go into a blow-up planetarium! We got to see some constellations and better find our way through the night sky. I thought it was interesting that I got to see a picture of the sun.
We finished up our geography BIG maps. I was excited to bring it home to study. I found it challenging to find all the locations. Working together helped.
We finished our surveys and got to go around to other classes to collect data. I thought it was interesting that most Kindergartners had two pets while fourth graders had more than two on average.
We visited our K-Buddies classroom! We watched Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving and created a turkey with all we were thankful for. We hope you had a fun Thanksgiving!
See ya!
Isabel
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