A Day in the Life of a 4th Grader

 Another successful week is in the books.  We are rolling out all of the curriculum, in the middle of also collecting data from the students.  They have taken the IXL Math Diagnostic Assessment.  They have completed their word lists, and we are going to be starting the Aims Web benchmark this coming week.

Our Morning Meetings give us an opportunity to start our day by watching a motivational video, taking a poll, get to figure out a riddle and sharing out.  The children love to share out.

 

In Wonders we have completed Unit 1 Week 2.  We have read about different natural disasters and how people react.  We read about earthquakes, floods and tornadoes.

With our Math program, Reveal we are working on place value.  The children love to come up and show how they got the answer to the problem, they work together and figure out the answers.

With Amplify Science we are continuing to learn about systems and how they operate.

As we continue with Social Studies, the children are finding out about North Providence, it's history, population and interesting facts about their town. We are also doing a postcard exchange with other 4th graders in the 49 other states.  They are finding out more about RI so that we can get our postcards ready to mail out.

Friday was Dot Day. Peter Reynolds wrote the book 20 years ago and we celebrated by listening to the song and making out mark, which is the theme of the book.  

Our writing for this trimester is Personal Narrative.  The children are choosing their topic for their story and we will have mini lessons on the different parts of the narrative.  

Coming Up:

Our Open House is set for September 27th.  I hope to meet many of you  there.