Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2015! Today, we began our day by getting organized-moving furniture back (it was wonky for some reason), changing seats, organizing our folders, etc. We also reminded ourselves of our classroom rule, "Every student shall be safe and able to learn," our role as student and our rights and responsibilities as learners. Then, we said Goodbye to 2014 and Hello to 2015 by filling out a brainstorming sheet of our favorites from 2014 and hopes and dreams for 2015. After Art, we read Extra Yarn and then dreamt big to create our goals for the rest of the year. (I'll be posting pictures of our work on Twitter @ADE4thGrade as well as Facebook-Fourth Grade Superheroes.) Lunch and recess were fine and in Math, we worked with Tangrams and finding the fraction of each piece if the square is the whole. This proved a little troublesome with some to get back into this problem solving brain and using perseverance to keep at it. We will take our assessment on Friday over the first two concepts of fractions: equivalent fractions and comparing and ordering fractions. Our day concluded with a few technical difficulties but we learned some details about using Google Apps.