The BIG HILL

We explored insects, pond animals, and animal tracks. 

PTO NEEDS Your HELP!!!!!!

PTO is looking for help for our Fall Scholastic book fair next week.  New for this year - more opportunities to come shop the fair as well as a larger selection of books!  Hours will be:

Monday, October 2 from 3-5

Tuesday, October 3 from 3-4 and 5-7

Wednesday, October 4 from 3-4 and 5-7

Thursday, October 5 from 3-6

 

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Great week!!

We have a great class!!  We were very busy and got a lot accomplished.
We have a FIELD TRIP to the BIG HILL on Tuesday morning...look for a note home today!
Enjoy the beautiful weather!

Starting up our units in Reading and in Writing

Yesterday we spent some time testing our understanding of character development.  Today we created a Narrative essay to see what we need to work on as writers.

In math we have really focused on place values and comparing standard form numbers.

GREAT WEEK!!!

We have had a great week!!!  These students are wonderful!!!!
 I am so lucky to get to work with them each day!

We have gotten into our new math curriculum and boy is it different.  We do a lot of tough thinking.  The students are very challenged and will learn lots this year!!!

Place Value work!!! How can we make 2,079 in three different ways?

2 thousands + 7 tens+ 9 ones  OR

20 hundreds + 7 tens + 9 ones  OR

207 tens + 9 ones OR even

2,079 ones

TESTING DAY

WAHOOOOOO!  We have completed our first I-Ready test in math.  The students were VERY patient with the Google issues.  It took a little longer than we thought....but we were able to finish.

September 11

Today we discussed the history of what happened on this date in 2001.  As fourth graders we looked at a summary of events and talked briefly about terrorist attacks and how of world has changed because of them.  Students were very intelligent with their responses.

We have been working on Think- Pair-Share in math.  We look at simple problems we can all solve, but then digging deeper as to why it works the way it does.  We use place value to show our understanding of a problem like:
 567- 348=                                500 + 50 + 17
                                             -  300 + 40 +   8
                                               200 + 10 +  9 =  219

Students will draw it out or show it with base 10 blocks.

We will be completing the I-Ready diagnostic assessment tomorrow at 10 am.  I am sure the class will do their best!

Thursday, September 7th

We have gotten our logged in and tried out some sites!!!

Wednesday, September 6th

We have had another great day!  We worked on pulling apart math problems, spelling, reading stamina, mindset work , and getting writing ideas.

We were able to play a game and enjoyed 2 specials today.  We have a great class!!!

WAHOOOOOO! We had a great day!

Boy did time fly by!!!! We were so busy getting to know our routines and meeting one another we were surprised it was the end of the day all ready!

All the students did a great job.  We have many new friendships starting and old ones re-uniting!

I think we will have a fantastic year!!!!!

First day of FOURTH grade!!!!!!!

Welcome Back to School!!!!

Our classroom is ready for all of you to begin a year of fun, education, and new adventures!!!