This Week It
was another fast week – 4th grade is flying by! We read and enjoyed the story of “Because of
Winn Dixie” in Literacy this week. We
worked on sequencing of events and fixing run-on sentences. In Math, we learned the cool zero trick when
multiplying by multiples of 10, 100, and 1000.
In Math, we even created some very cool Math Fact Art with patterns and
color. We continued to work on
memorizing our multiplication facts by doing X-ray Math everyday. We are finishing up our NH Region books and
some new ones are being published every day.
We have started to research Native Americans in NH and are starting to
create a coloring book based on all the information we are learning. We finished “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s
Stone” and are making an iMovie to document all our favorite moments from the
book. We also finally learned the shrinking
spell (Reducio!) so we could finish
our Reading Riches medallions. We will
start keeping track of reading minutes at home and students will collect a
jewel for their necklace for every 100 minutes read at home.
Next
Week We will start NECAP testing on Tuesday. We have six sessions to complete and we will
do one per day. We will not do a
Literacy story next week, but will focus on writing and our projects. Since students showed a great interest in the
Ice Age information they read about in their Social Studies books, we will
spend some time next week learning more about that time and what life was like. We will continue to work ahead in Math,
perhaps getting ready for double digit multiplication.
