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.