Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!! Thank  you very much for all the donations for our feast! We REALLY appreciated it!! Students had a great time hosting our third grade friends, eating the delicious food, chatting, watching Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, and giving their new friends a friendship bracelet they created. I, however, in the bussle of everything forgot to take a picture 😔!!!! 

We started off our day reading with our book buddies their book The ABC's of Thanksgiving. Fourth graders helped the first graders come up with with a sentence for the letter Y and Z. Then, the 4th graders made matching friendship bracelets for their first grade buddies. 

Students had the opportunity to do a "Happy Thanks-grossing" activity. They needed to come up disgusting ingredients for a meal to serve on Thanksgiving. Ask them about it, some were wicked gross. 

Frindle projects are done!

2 digit by 2 digit anchor chart

These are the visuals , in the form of an anchor chart, of 4 ways students can multiply 2 digit by 2 digit problems. 

Double digit multiplication

So far this week in math, students reviewed multiplication arrays , cuisenaire  rods, and 2 digit by 1 digit multiplication with and without regrouping. 

The next step is 2 digit by 2 digit!! 😁 We will spend the remainder of this week and we'll continue into next week working through this new concept. I plan on showing students a couple different visuals , or mnemonic devices, on how to go about solving these multiplication problems. Make sure to ask them which way they like! (Partial product window box, many zoos many animals , bow tie method, turtle head). 

Mean, Median, Mode, Range , Writing Hooks, & Book group project

This past week we worked everyday on Mean, Median, Mode, and Range. We learned a couple of riddles , watched some YouTube clips, and did a goldfish activity to help us better understand. 

During writing, the fourth graders helped me create a hook to capture my reader. Students then worked on creating their hooks before transitioning into the beginning of their personal narrative . 

For a cumulative project on our first book group reading of Frindle or Jake Drake Know It All, students worked on drive to write the main idea, a book review, and create their own new word (or science project)!

Move over place value it's time for data management and personal narratives

We finished our math unit in place value (addition, subtraction, place value, comparing numbers, and rounding). This week we will focus on finding the Mean, Median, Mode, and Range of a set of data. 

Our mini unit on government is now complete so back to personal narratives we go! Students chose a small moment seed idea and filled out a brainstorming page of their 5 senses from that small moment. Incorporating senses into our writing makes for a more interesting piece. 

Every week for spelling, students work hands on with the concepts of the unit . They work in groups, or in pairs, listening and learning the spelling pattern rules then doing activities(following the taught concepts) in their spelling notebooks.