Well, we are coming to the end of 4th grade! It's a little bittersweet~we are all ready for summer but as a group, I know, we're sad to see each other go for the summer! This week is a lot of finishing up and cleaning up and organizing...
Come see our City of Ember tomorrow between 1:15 and 3:00!
It's been a great year~thanks for taking the journey with me! :)
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Friday, May 22, 2015
Zoo and substitute
So, we visited the zoo on Wednesday and hopefully, you were able to see pictures that I either tweeted out or the 30 I put on our Facebook page... :) (@ADE4thGrade; Fourth Grade Superheroes)
In the afternoon, we had "Assignment Day" to pick our "jobs" for building Ember.
Thursday was a typical day other than I was out in the afternoon for a 4th grade meeting. We started with researching our topics. Then, we almost finished, The City of Ember! Lina and Doon have found the way out of Ember and have begun the journey. In Reader's Workshop, we used some of the extraterrestrial vocabulary to write a letter. We continued reviewing measurement topics in Math and in Science, we started construction on Ember.
In the afternoon, we had "Assignment Day" to pick our "jobs" for building Ember.
Thursday was a typical day other than I was out in the afternoon for a 4th grade meeting. We started with researching our topics. Then, we almost finished, The City of Ember! Lina and Doon have found the way out of Ember and have begun the journey. In Reader's Workshop, we used some of the extraterrestrial vocabulary to write a letter. We continued reviewing measurement topics in Math and in Science, we started construction on Ember.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Wow
We had an AMAZING field day! I hope you heard lots about it...I tweeted as the day went on and posted about 50 pictures on Facebook this morning... (I seem to take a lot of pictures...) Twitter: ADE4thGrade and Facebook: Fourth Grade Superheroes
I can't believe that we only have a handful of days left for learning! The students have grown so much over the year. I look at their writing and everything each day and am in awe at them. Thank you for all of your help in making that happen!
We began our day with editing two passages for capitalization, punctuation and spelling. They did an awesome job with this. I pointed out to them that this is what editing looks like and that they should do this with their own writing. Then, we continued our research. We had one student that was having difficulty finding information that she needed about a soccer player so we performed some modern day research by tweeting the question to the athlete! Waiting to hear back... In The City of Ember, Lina was captured and was being scolded by the mayor when they lights went out, which allowed her the opportunity to run! Mr. Higginbotham came in afterwards and gave them a Student Experience Survey. Students were asked to rate their experience as a student on a scale. (You'll have to ask them about it.) Then, we read the informational text story in StoryWorks about aliens. For Math, we continued reviewing all the measurement topics in our review packet and we finished our day with economics by watching a video, "Econ and Me" which showed some of the vocabulary and how it relates to them.
I can't believe that we only have a handful of days left for learning! The students have grown so much over the year. I look at their writing and everything each day and am in awe at them. Thank you for all of your help in making that happen!
We began our day with editing two passages for capitalization, punctuation and spelling. They did an awesome job with this. I pointed out to them that this is what editing looks like and that they should do this with their own writing. Then, we continued our research. We had one student that was having difficulty finding information that she needed about a soccer player so we performed some modern day research by tweeting the question to the athlete! Waiting to hear back... In The City of Ember, Lina was captured and was being scolded by the mayor when they lights went out, which allowed her the opportunity to run! Mr. Higginbotham came in afterwards and gave them a Student Experience Survey. Students were asked to rate their experience as a student on a scale. (You'll have to ask them about it.) Then, we read the informational text story in StoryWorks about aliens. For Math, we continued reviewing all the measurement topics in our review packet and we finished our day with economics by watching a video, "Econ and Me" which showed some of the vocabulary and how it relates to them.
Friday, May 15, 2015
Fabulous!
Our day was like most Fridays--getting caught up and completing things. In Writer's Workshop, we revised, edited and completed our letters to our future 5th grade teachers. In Reader's Workshop, we completed blogs and wrote our Friday padlet. In Math Workshop, we reviewed all of the measurement concepts we've been learning over the last few weeks. Finally, in Science, we completed our inquiry study of electricity. Oh! In The City of Ember, Lina and Doon are wanted for spreading malicious rumors! Uh-oh! They found the way out of Ember but now they are "criminals!"
Thursday, May 14, 2015
:)
It was just a beautiful day! We started with our letters to our future 5th grade teachers and these kids have such amazing goals and personal understanding that I'm smiling from ear to ear. In The City of Ember, Lina and Doon found movable light and how to get out of Ember!! They did NOT want me to quit reading! We read the poem, Who Am I? in Reader's Workshop and then completed the quiz about it...we misunderstood the mood...it was gloomy but we thought it was thoughtful--we must be in too good of moods to get the gloomy feeling! We also had time to read and blog. Students need at least 20 blogs by Monday to earn their sticker! (Ask your child if you don't know what I'm talking about...) We played-I mean, learned-using MinecraftEDU in Math Workshop today. We built homes, gardens, pens, etc. and then found the perimeter and area of these. We began a study of economics to conclude our day with an Ohio Studies Weekly about Specialization and Interdependence and a word search and scramble to review vocabulary.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
More assessing...
I almost completed all of the reading assessments! I can finish the final 3 in the classroom while students are working independently. The patterns that I noticed on Monday continued today.
In the classroom, students began the day by working with Mad Libs-both online and the usual paper kind. Then, they worked on revising and editing their letters to their future 5th grade teachers. The substitute read, A Bad Case of Stripes, (one of my all-time favorites) for Read Aloud and discussed mood and the theme of the story. Students then finished their close reading questions for The Sword in the Stone during Reader's Workshop and returned all library books to the library. In Math Workshop, they reviewed line plots and then played an area game. Mrs. Vidic came in for Guidance to conclude the day.
Since I wasn't in the classroom, hopefully, your kiddo can give you all the details about the day!
In the classroom, students began the day by working with Mad Libs-both online and the usual paper kind. Then, they worked on revising and editing their letters to their future 5th grade teachers. The substitute read, A Bad Case of Stripes, (one of my all-time favorites) for Read Aloud and discussed mood and the theme of the story. Students then finished their close reading questions for The Sword in the Stone during Reader's Workshop and returned all library books to the library. In Math Workshop, they reviewed line plots and then played an area game. Mrs. Vidic came in for Guidance to conclude the day.
Since I wasn't in the classroom, hopefully, your kiddo can give you all the details about the day!
Tuesday
Our day began with practicing parts of speech by completing Mad Libs. They are creating some pretty funny stuff! In Writer's Workshop, we continued writing our letters to their future 5th grade teachers. We read more from The City of Ember where Lina and Doon told the guard about what they found out about the Mayor. Lina also talked to Clary about everything and showed her the instructions. Clary shared with her that Egress means EXIT so these are Instructions to Exit! Reader's Workshop was focused on mood and in reading The Sword in the Stone, students answered specific questions about the story. We also read independently, blogged and visited the library for the final time this school year. In Math Workshop, we worked on tangrams and finding the area of the tangrams. Students are doing much better about persevering through problems. Finally, we ended our day with electricity and creating circuits.
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