NH State House Craft

Students worked in creating the State House with the Three Branches of Government. Listed under each of the governments are some facts! 

Place Value and Seed Story Ideas

This past week during math, students worked on making and reading a 7 digit number (to the millions). Students wrote   values of digits , named the place value house the digit lived in, wrote the word form and the expanded form. Next week, we will compare numbers and then round numbers.

One of the activities we are doing during Writer's Workshop is thinking of small seed moments that we can turn into a personal narrative story. Students listed to a mentor text that helped facilitate what small moments/seeds are. The boys and girls were then asked to come up with their own small moment seeds and fill in a graphic organizer. Later, students will choose one of their small moment seeds to be the topic of their personal narrative. 

Place Value

Today, we started reviewing place value. Fourth graders learn place value up to the millions. We chat about the value of each number, the place it belongs in (place value), expanded form, and word form. 

Northeast Region Tour

To end our unit on the Northeast Region, we went on a little train tour! We started off in West Quoddy Head in Maine then traveled to Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. Then, we stopped off in Plymouth, Massachusetts where we went on a virtual tour of the Mayflower II. After the tour, we visited Boston. Back in the train we went so we could visit Hershey, Pennsylvania. There we took a virtual tour of the Hershey Chocolate Factory we got off the "train" to assemble our own Hershey chocolate kiss. Our tour then continued to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. We ended our tour in New York City, reading a few facts about the Empire State Building and enjoying a piece of a New York bagel. 

Week of 9/28-10/2

Dear Families,

A lot has happened this week in 4EX. Here is a peek at what we did! I hope you have an enjoyable weekend!

-Mrs. Xydias 

We've been working hard learning all about the Northeast Region! We spent time learning about the states and capitals of this region, as well as,  labeling some landmarks such as : Coastal Plain, Appalachian Mountains, etc.  

By using the glossary in our Northeast Book and in our Social Studies textbook, students looked up geographical terms and defined them. In addition, they drew a picture to match! 

4EX students have published their first piece of writing!! Students have been working on researching animals, Great Bay Critters. Together with their partner they chose 5 critters to research. After researching they learned how to write Haiku Poems and had to narrow down their facts to fit the Japanese style of poetry. Then, students designed the background of their picture pages using crayon resistance water coloring. After typing the poems on our Chromebooks, students were able to start assembling their books with a cover page, about the author, 5 critter pages, and a map of Great Bay. This was such a fun and amazing project! I am so pleased with how the students worked  together ! Their books came out beautifully! 

We have book buddies!!! 4EX this year is book buddies with 1AC. Our first get together was this past Friday and boy was it a blast!!!! The fourth graders were engaging, reading with their buddy, complimentary , and respectful! Mrs. Collins and I look forward to a wonderful year working together with our book buddies! 

Math

Our classroom has finished our unit on Geometry. We covered quadrilaterals, characterizing angles, using protractors to measure angles , parallel-interesting - perpendicular lines, symmetry, and identifying triangles. 

Next week we will begin our unit on Numbers and Operations in Base Ten. We will start off with addition and subtraction. Fourth graders are working on adding 4 digits with 4 digits. The same goes for subtraction but with subtraction they are expected to subtract across zeros as well. On Fridays, Mrs. Szeliga and I , as well as Mrs. Snyder (in for Mrs. Cote) will be working with groups of students primarily working on facts. Friday math time will be known as Fun Fact Friday! I cannot stress how important it is for students to work on math facts at home. On Thursday's that is their assigned math homework . They can use xtramath , Sumdog, or any other form of practice. The better students are at facts, the easier math will be. As math progresses, it becomes increasingly more challenging .