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Assignment Notebook Reading Experts, Incorporated - Students read focusing on problem/solution and making predictions. Comprehension worksheet page 15-16 redos - The class had time to write their answers in complete sentences. English Language Arts Friendly Letter from a Pumpkin - Lesson bumped to tomorrow. Spelling Practice page 18 - Homework if the students did not finish in class. Math Lesson 1.7 Subtraction page 47 - Homework if the student did not finish in class. Science Pendulum experiment - PLTW groups started exploration today, we will finish our experiment and write up during class tomorrow. Specialists P.E./Health Music Congratulations to all the students who ran in the cross-country meet. Unfortunately, I was not able to make the race as I got caught up in trying to help problem-solve with technology issues. I know all students did well and I was cheering you on from school!
We have been busy this week and I have been busy with after school meetings. I will catch up on all of my blogs tomorrow, until then... The classroom code for tonight is for the student to show you how to subtract 4,503 - 598. I hope you all have a great night and I look forward to another great day of learning! Assignment Notebook Reading Say Something - listening comprehension in class Making Predictions - class discussion Problem and Solution - class discussion with assignment page 15 in Your Turn practice book English Language Arts Personal Narrative Pre-write - lesson bumped to tomorrow as we ran out of time Spelling Long a sort - students sorted this week's words in their reading groups Math Subtraction Race to Zero - in class activity Social Studies Fairy Tale map project Specialists Mrs. Deborah Library Reading
We are on our way to becoming great readers! The students discussed the importance of making predictions as we read during our whole group lesson. As a class, we agreed that making predictions helps with keeping engaged in the text as we want to determine if our prediction was correct or if we need to revise our prediction. We also discussed the importance of determining the problem and solution in a text as it helps with understanding the main character's struggles and celebrations. The students had an assignment to complete showing their understanding of the problem and solution of a text. Math Students used the place-value blocks today to help them understand when they need to regroup when subtracting. The point of the game was to start out at 100 and race their partner to see who could get to 0 first. We will use these skills we started with today in our subtracting with regrouping lesson tomorrow. Mrs. Deborah The students were all very excited for Mrs. Deborah today as we started learning about the history of fabrics and sewing. The students had to use their skills of context clues paired with their schema of modern fabrics to gain an understanding of the advances in sewing throughout the last 100 years. The assignment notebook code for tonight is for the students to identify one piece of information their learned from Mrs. Deborah. I hope you all have a great night and I look forward to another great day of learning! Assignment Notebook Reading The Talent Show Genres: Realistic Fiction Scholastic News: Saving Dory- bumped to Tuesday Writing Introduction to Personal Narratives Spelling unit 1 week 2 long a words Math 4.NBT.1 - 3 Knowledge Demos Introduction to Subtraction with regrouping Social Studies Map Skills Project Specialist Music Essential Question
Our second question for our Wonders reading curriculum was introduced today. The students read a short story today focusing on the question, "How do our actions affect others?" As we read this selection the students looked at how 2 friends had to learn to work the importance of compromising and standing up for yourself when you disagree. We will continue reading texts throughout the week that focuses how our actions impact others. Knowledge Demos We started our day with the internet not working, thus causing my math plans to adapt to the situation. The students reviewed rounding, comparing numbers, and representing numbers in other forms. After our review, the students took the graded knowledge demonstrations as they all felt confident in their place-value skills. I will have this graded tonight. Students will have the opportunity to receive instruction based on their understandings in order to make corrections on any standards they did not master. Personal Narratives The next writing genre the students will take on is a personal narrative. We learned today that a personal narrative is written in the first person, shares a personal experience using dialogue and descriptive words, and the story is a real-life experience. The assignment notebook code for tonight is for the students to identify what the topic of their personal narrative. I look forward to seeing the creativity of the class come out in this next writing piece. I hope you all have a wonderful night and I look forward to another great day of learning! Assignment Notebook Reading Fairy Tale Mashups - Students will have more time during reading rotations tomorrow. Scholastic News: Who Will Win? - Students finished together in class. English Language Arts No Assignments today Spelling unit 1 week 1 spelling practice Math ST Math Specialists P.E./Health We had a lot of review today. The assignment notebook code for tonight is for the students to give a summary of what they did in ST Math. The students practiced their picture password and started the challenge based place-value problems. I hope you all have a great night and I look forward to another great day of learning!
Thank you to all who have donated to the Gift Card basket. I am going for one last push to see if we can get a few more gift cards for our class basket as I will assemble the basket tomorrow night. Assignment Notebook Reading Close Read of Tomas and His Sons- Students used evidence from the text to support claims regarding the characters and situations in the text. Write to Source: Mashup of Princess and the Pizza and Tomas and His Sons - Students started the pre-write for this short story during class. English Language Arts The Great Mail Race Letter- one last class day to revise and publish Types of Sentences Worksheet - due today Spelling unit 1 week 1 The Princess and The Pizza practice - Students will have a test on Friday. Math Lesson 1.6 Adding Whole Numbers - assigned page 41 due today Specialists Art * Reminder: Tomorrow is a half day with dismissal at noon. Fairy Tale Mash-up
Our reading curriculum, Wonders, provides students with many opportunities to write to the source in order to gain mastery of responding to the text based on details from the text. After review both fairy tales, the students were given the prompt to create a "mash-up" explaining what would happen if the main characters from Tomas and His Sons and The Princess and the Pizza were to meet. The students showed that they understood the concept of using fairy tales in a way to entertain their audience. I look forward to seeing the final product for the stories the students are creating as it is clear the students understood the writing style of the authors and the structure of a fairy tale. Addition Rockstars After working with addition for 3 days, I can say that all students are officially addition rockstars! I am very impressed with each student's ability to regroup and add larger numbers. We will continue working on finding estimates in order to determine the reasonableness of a given answer. Potential and Kinetic Energy Preview We are moving on to the next activity in our PLTW science unit. The students will learn about potential and kinetic energy during our science lesson on Friday. I am giving students an opportunity to do some exploration learning before Friday. I have included a link to a simulation below. The simulation will show what happens to kinetic and potential energy as the roller coaster moves along the track. Students should notice that the potential energy increases as the roller coaster cars get to the top of the track and the kinetic energy increases as the roller coaster cars reach the bottom. The assignment notebook code for tonight is for the students to write a brief summary of their observations. I hope you all have a great night and I look forward to another great day of learning! Assignment Notebook Reading Tomas and His Sons- students finished reading in class Close Reader p. 4-6 - we will finish as a whole group tomorrow English Language Arts Addressing a Letter - Students had time today to finish their letter. If they are not finished, the students will be responsible for finishing on their own time. Math Adding with regrouping - we will get to the assignment tomorrow Social Studies Latitude and Longitude quiz Specialists Library Quilting with Mrs. Deborah Tomas and His Sons
Students read a fable about a farmer and his wife teaching their sons a lesson on working hard. The fable Tomas and His Sons is about a farmer who has a family vineyard that has been passed down through generations. Tomas and his wife, Maria, must work together to come up with ideas to get their lazy sons to work in the vineyard. The students continued using their sequencing skills and predicting skills as we read the story. I am very impressed with each student's ability to use the text to sequence and make predictions based in the text. The Great Mail Race Students formatted their letters today so that the address line was included at the top of the letter. I will be printing out the letters this week so we can get them mailed off by the end of the week. We hope to learn a lot about other states through this project. Types of Sentences We began our study of sentences today as the students looked at how we can use different types of sentences. The students learned that declarative sentences tell a statement, exclamatory sentences show strong emotion, interrogative sentences ask a question, and imperative sentences give a command. As a class, we practiced these types of sentences using Grammar Monster. The students have asked me to link this on the blog. You can find the game using the link below. Grammar Monster Adding with Regrouping Oh MY!!! We have a class of math geniuses! The students really showed their math abilities today as they were introduced to the standard addition algorithm. Students used a digital base ten program, linked below and in Student's Corner, to help make the connection between regrouping with place-value blocks and regrouping using the standard algorithm. I was very impressed with the each student's ability to use the standard way of adding and explain what we were doing as we added. Tomorrow, we will expand our use of this algorithm as we work with 4- and 5-digit number. The assignment notebook code for tonight is for the students to do 456 + 287 = ____. They need to show you the algorithm and explain each step. I hope you all have a great night and I look forward to another great day of learning! Digital Base Ten Blocks Please consider donating to the gift card basket as I only have 6 gift cards. Much thanks! Assignment Notebook
Reading The Princess and the Pizza - finished reading Sequence and Summarize The Princess and the Pizza- finished in class together English Language Arts The Great Mail Race - due today students will address tomorrow Types of Sentences - in class lesson Spelling Unit 1 week 1 practice on Spelling City Math Adding with Regrouping - whole class instruction with no assignment today Social Studies Montana History: Bordering States - quiz on Friday 9/23 Latitude and Longitude Review- students will have a quiz tomorrow Specialists Music Assignment Notebook Reading Shared Reading: The Princess and the Pizza - Students started reading today as a whole group, we will finish reading Monday. Sequencing Stories - Students took notes while reading The Princess and the Pizza. English Language Arts Revising The Great Mail Race Friendly Letter - due Monday 9/19 Spelling unit 1 week 1 practice - Students will receive a printed list on Monday with the test being next Friday 9/23. Math Multiplication math games with Mrs. Moore Science Building a PLTW energy car and pendulum Specialist P.E./Health PLTW Energy Car and Pendulum
Students began building the 2 components we will use to understand energy during a collision. Each student has been assigned a group for this unit. The groups worked together the last 2 days using the Autodesk Publisher App on the iPads to build a car and a pendulum. I was very impressed with how students worked together in order to accomplish a given task. Most students finished their work with completion for both components expected to be completed on Thursday. When students finished, they started using the the TinkerBox HD app (linked to the iPad app store) to understand what happens when objects collide. Fairy Tales Students learned the elements of a fairy tale during our genre study yesterday. We discussed that the main character in a fairy tale has to accomplish a difficult task or has a difficult problem to solve. The elements of fairy include: good vs. evil, magic, special powers, royalty, talking animals, special beginnings, and endings, and some have things that come in 3s or 7s. We have enjoyed reading many fairy tales this week including: "The Princess and the Pea," "The Dragon Problem," and "The Princess and the Pizza." We look forward to reading many more fairy tales throughout the rest of the year. Renaming Numbers The skill of regrouping numbers is essential to mastery fourth-grade math. Students looked at renaming numbers yesterday during our math lesson. An example of renaming numbers is 420 is the same as 42 tens. The assignment notebook code for this weekend is for the students to tell how many tens are in the number 380. The students should know that 380 has 3 hundreds, each hundred has 10 tens; therefore, 380 has 38 tens. I hope you all have a great weekend and I look forward to another great week of learning! Assignment Notebook Reading The Dragon Problem - done Summarize - students took notes and practiced writing a summary, we will continue working on this skill throughout this week SRI - we are almost done English Language Arts Draft, Revise, and Edit our friendly letter - students are working away on their friendly letters that are due this Friday Spelling unit 1 week 1 spelling city practice - I am postponing the test until next week as many students were just able to access their accounts. Math Rounding review- students needed a little more support with rounding to redo some of the practice assignment Place-Value Mid Chapter checkpoint - Students did a quick knowledge demonstration to show me what they have mastered and what we need to continue working on. Please note this is not graded Specialists Art Basket Auction
I appreciate the gift cards that came to school today. Please keep them coming. We will need to have all of the items together by next Thursday as I will be putting the basket together Thursday night to send to the auction Friday night. Rounding Students are already showing great growth with rounding. I remain to see some road bumps when we need to round to a place within a number. For example, students have mastered rounding 456 to the nearest hundred as this is front end estimation; however, if students are asked to round 456 to the nearest ten, they struggle as they are not sure how to round the number. The most common errors I see with this are students wanting to forget about the hundreds and just round the tens or they want to simply round the number to the highest place being the hundreds. We will need to use the skill of rounding to within a number as we use this strategy to find accurate estimates when we add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Summarizing Students learned the structure of summarizing today so we can give a brief account of what we read. The 3 steps to a great summary are as follows: 1. Identify what you are reading 2. Verb it using tells, explains, describes, or was about 3. Finish it by telling the main character(s), setting, problem, and solution. For example: "The Crow and the Pitcher" describes how crow was able to get a drink of water from a pitcher in the desert by filling the pitcher with pebbles. I have told students that a summary is not an account of everything they read; however, a summary should give enough details to inform the person reading the summary what they read. The assignment notebook code for tonight is for the students to identify the 3 parts of a summary listed about. In the assignment notebook, you can simply write "Identify, Verb it, and Finish it." I hope you all have a great night and I look forward to another great day of learning! |
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