Week of November 22
This Week We read the story, “When I Went to the
Library,” in Literacy this week. We
started the epic task of learning long division….Karl the Knarl is helping us
with that (hehe). We also continued to
work on mastering multiplication. We
started writing our Super Hero books with outlining and drafting Chapter 1
about our regular life as a kid. Today
we will create our Super Hero costumes…they should turn out incredible and
amazing! We worked on Revolutionary War
code books – finishing our Tax issue page with a cipher disk and the No
Representation page with Tallmadge’s Code.
Mr. Hazelton not only helped us learn the very cool Beatles tune,
Octopus’s Garden, on the ukuleles - but
he also came in to give us extra, professional help with our NH Cups song. Hopefully, with a few more practices, we will
be able to record the song to share with everyone! We also finished Harry Potter and the Chamber
of Secrets and we are creating our next “Favorite Moments” iMovie.
Next
Week We will not have a
Literacy story next week, due to the 2 day week. We will spend the couple of days before
Thanksgiving finishing our Revolutionary Code books (with invisible ink and a
pig pen/Free Mason cipher) as well as other projects. We will work on our Super Hero stories, finish
the Chamber of Secrets Moments iMovie, and some fun seasonal activities. One piece of real school business that we
need to take care of is in Math. We will
do a Math test before Thanksgiving so we can get an idea of what we still need
to work on with multiplication and division.
Week of December 6
This Week We read the story, “Dear Mrs. LaRue,” in
Literacy this week. It was a fun story
about a naughty doggie who had to go to obedience school – and was not very
happy about it. With our Work Plan, we
had fun writing to some pictures of Mrs. Beaudet’s crazy dog Pudgie! We are continuing to work on multiplication
and division. We completed our
Revolutionary War code books –and they are pretty cool! We have started our secret NH Crop project –
we collected a lot of very yummy recipes!
We also finished the week enjoying some craft time making some things
for special people in our lives. It is a
wonderful time of year!
Next
Week We will read and
perform the play, “Ranita the Frog Princess” in Literacy. We will try to make some good progress on our
Super Hero project. We will review our
multiplication and division skills and get ready to take the Unit 2 test before
vacation. We also hope to meet up with Mr. Hazelton again to perfect our NH Cups
song. We really hope to create a music
video with our song so we can share it!
We will also work on our NH Crop project and some other holiday fun
projects that we will integrate into some writing and reading.
SPECIAL
THANK YOU: to all the parents and families that came to meet with me for Report
Card conferences! It was really
wonderful to talk with you all and celebrate your children’s progress so far in
4th grade. They are great
kids – thank you for sharing them with me!
We are having a terrific year!
