Strong reasons with evidence

Persuasive writing makes students list strong reasons in their opinion letter or essay. To be able to prove your point and make the  reader convinced to agree with you, the reasons need evidence (explaining). Here students are working on reasons and evidence for a hot topic: school uniforms. 

Cheez- It area and perimeter

Started reviewing area and perimeter today with the use of Cheez it crackers! 

"Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening" Robert Frost

Persuasive Writing and New Hampshire Project

Before February break, students began listening to  persuasive stories  and reading persuasive articles . We thought about what the writer's opinion (issue or concern) is, who the writer was writing to (audience), and why was the writer writing this story or article (purpose, what were they trying to get people to agree to). This unit will take us a few weeks to understand about persuading with examples, reasons,  stated opinion, etc. 

 Fourth graders learn all about the Granite State , from landmarks, to places and famous people. To begin the unit , we created a word splash. I quickly scribed every word that came to these 4th grader's mind when I said, " New Hampshire." 

In addition, we have new reading groups as we indulge ourselves in reading an informational book, Uniquely New Hampshire  by Peter Melman. We began by reviewing why we read informational books and why the text features are there to help us with non-fiction books. 

 

Graphing, Google Drive, Kahoot

Dear 4EX Families and Friends,

I hope this post finds you all well. I cannot believe we have been in school for almost 100 days?!? Your 4th grader is now closer to 5th grade! Wow!! 👏🏻 

Our days in 4EX are jam packed with curriculum learning. After a month of teaching  long division, we have transitioned into graphing. This unit will have students analyzing data for bar graphs, double bar graphs, line graphs, double line graphs, with a review of other previously taught graphs from 3rd grade. 

I found this game, Kahoot, that was fun! A question is displayed on the projector and the students have 4 multiple choice options for an answer. They use a Chromebook  to choose their answer. The students had fun and we'll be sure to play again . 

When students are typing up their stories on the computer, they use Google Docs in their Drive. Students are really enjoying the process of sharing their document with me because this allows me to comment directly in their document for edits and revisions. They are finding this process "cool!" :) 

M&M Long Division

As we begin to wrap up our unit on long division, we did an activity using M&M's. 

Just a little fun math craft

Does McDonalds Serve Burgers Rare?

Division

Mid last week we started working on simple division with remainders (1 divisor with 2 dividends). 

Students used cuisenaire rods as a tool to visualize the math problems. I also started asking students to start thinking, " What times what gets me the closest to ___ , without going over?" I want students to start thinking of their multiplication facts/fact families to solve division  problems , for cuisenaire rods are a tool to help us out at the beginning of this unit, but not to be relied on. 

We'll continue simple division before moving on to 4th grade standard/expectation---long division , with and without remainders, with 4 dividends.

Beginning of division and fantasy

On Monday we began our new math unit of division by doing simple problems (1 divisor and 1/2 dividends  with no remainders) using cuisenaire rods. 

We started our new reading unit in Monday as well. Fantasy is our genre for the next several weeks and students will be reading chapter books by Roald Dahl. To get acquainted with this new genre, we read three picture books and decided if it was realistic or fantasy. If the book had talking animals, magical powers, or events that just could not happen, it was fantasy.