Aurora's Observations

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