We’re off to a great start with our BCE Science Conference Projects! Students have chosen a topic of interest which project type they’d like to create. We’re going to learn so much about a wide variety of science topics from each other. If your student hasn’t yet discussed their project choice with you, please check in with their project plan and support with time management and resources as needed. Remember that these projects will be due the first week of March and that the BCE Science Conference website is a helpful tool for rubrics and safe research sources. Teachers will continue checking in with students about action steps, use of rubrics as tools for elevating work product quality, and appropriate research sources.
4th grade mathematicians are hard at work with fractions. We know that fractions represent parts of a whole or a whole group and that fractions with the same value can be written in an infinite number of ways. This concept of equivalency is central to fraction understanding, so we’re drawing lots of pictures and each student has a colorful fraction tool in their notebook. We represent fractions with both pictures and numbers every day as our brains process mathematical concepts so much better when they’re visual. We’ll work with comparing and ordering fractions more this next week, and it’s exciting to see how many connections with other math topics we’re finding as our fraction understanding deepens. Our readers are preparing for their first in depth novel study this week. We will be exploring our global community through literature before diving into Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water. This week we will be practicing our fiction summary through CSERT, responding to text with a double entry journal, and exploring inferential thinking through SAY, MEAN, MATTER. Our grammar study will review punctuating dialogue. It’s tricky remembering what the comma is separating, how those quotation marks are holding words in the air, and that the dialogue tag actually contains the subject and predicate! As research shows, visual strategies help us connect to concepts better. Fourth Grade learners are so grateful for those colored pencil annotations Mrs. Forrest taught them to use as they are looking at sentence structure. Finally, Mrs. Forrest will have shared writing and conferencing for a new expository piece. Happy February!
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