Region Project

During the past several weeks, we have been learning about the states and capitals of the remaining 4 regions of the USA with facts about each region. 

This past week, students chose a region they would like to research a bit more. With their partner, or small group, the boys and girls spent 4 days researching using textbooks and websites. 

Now, they are working on typing up their research. In the next couple of days, the class will be putting their projects  together. Each team will have a chance to present their project on either the 17th or 18th. 

Leeza hero stories

The past couple of weeks, students have been working on creating and editing a story about Leeza , my dog, being a hero. This project was inspired by our small reading book group book we read, My Dig My Hero by Betsy Byars. 

The stories are going to be sent to a publisher to be published into a real book! This idea was inspired from third grade last year when Ms. Grube's class published The Adventures of Henry, but by the time I came upon this cool idea, the company had said it was too late. 

Students have been working very hard on their stories. They are at their revising stage to go onto their final draft. The company gives us 1 page for the final so it has to be exactly how we want it! Eekk!! More information regarding if you would like to order a book will be sent as an email a bit later on. 

Word Problems

On Monday we started our new math unit---Word Problems!

We began by brainstorming key words we remembered from third grade and journaling them in our math journals. 

Then, we learned a little song to help us break down a word problem.

After, we learned a little TIPS to help further assist us understanding word problems and being able to solve them. 

We'll be  working on word problems for the next couple of weeks. We started with addition and we'll move into subtraction, multiplication, and multi- step.