My favorite moment of this week is easy . . . earning a gum day! I liked being able to chew gum with my responsible fourth graders. And we didn't have a single problem with it. Everyone remembered the rules, shared, kept it in their mouth, and spit it out when we went to another class. Good job everyone!
Oh and extra recess on Friday for Homework Heros and Champions wasn't so bad either. :)
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
The Week in a Blink
This week in fourth grade:
We will be exploring important facts in our Making Meaning book Flight which is about Charles Lindbergh's famous flight across the Atlantic. We will also practice this skill in our guided reading. Continue to make inferences, visualizations, and ask clarifying questions as you read at home.
We will be typing our final drafts of our persuasive essays and taking the third quarter writing assessment. The prompt will also require a persuasive essay response.
We should be finishing Unit 7 in Math. We have been exploring fractions. We haven't discussed algorithms regarding fractions, so don't be surprised if your student is still drawing out diagrams and pictures to help them add fractions and solve other related problems. They need to understand what fractions represent.
We are discovering some fascinating things about the Southeast United States in social studies. Ask us about the music that originated in the south. There were four distinct sounds we heard. We also found Appalachia, the Sun Belt, and Jamestown on our map (to name just a few).
Don't forget your library books on B days (Friday this week)!
We will be exploring important facts in our Making Meaning book Flight which is about Charles Lindbergh's famous flight across the Atlantic. We will also practice this skill in our guided reading. Continue to make inferences, visualizations, and ask clarifying questions as you read at home.
We will be typing our final drafts of our persuasive essays and taking the third quarter writing assessment. The prompt will also require a persuasive essay response.
We should be finishing Unit 7 in Math. We have been exploring fractions. We haven't discussed algorithms regarding fractions, so don't be surprised if your student is still drawing out diagrams and pictures to help them add fractions and solve other related problems. They need to understand what fractions represent.
We are discovering some fascinating things about the Southeast United States in social studies. Ask us about the music that originated in the south. There were four distinct sounds we heard. We also found Appalachia, the Sun Belt, and Jamestown on our map (to name just a few).
Don't forget your library books on B days (Friday this week)!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Mrs. Voelkel's Moment
My favorite moment of the week (for 2/9-2/12):
So hard to pick a favorite this week. We had Mrs. James and Miss Joy teach an awesome SPIRIT lesson on Monday. Augistena's mom began volunteering in our classroom for math one day a week! She was such a big help in creating fraction posters with math groups and then organized paperwork while our friends were in science with Mr. Buckner.
And of course we can't forget changing our seating arrangement and our super fun Valentine party on Thursday!!
But my all time FaVoRiTe moment of the week was getting 3 compliments from other teachers about how well our class was working Thursday morning! What an awesome job you all did!!! Congratulations!
So hard to pick a favorite this week. We had Mrs. James and Miss Joy teach an awesome SPIRIT lesson on Monday. Augistena's mom began volunteering in our classroom for math one day a week! She was such a big help in creating fraction posters with math groups and then organized paperwork while our friends were in science with Mr. Buckner.
And of course we can't forget changing our seating arrangement and our super fun Valentine party on Thursday!!
But my all time FaVoRiTe moment of the week was getting 3 compliments from other teachers about how well our class was working Thursday morning! What an awesome job you all did!!! Congratulations!
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