Happy Monday, TEAM 4th! Those of you coming back, please remember that we have nut (peanut and tree) allergies. Please refrain from bringing items for lunch or snack that contain nuts. Thanks for taking care of each other in this way! Keep in mind that both teachers give feedback, assign grades, and have worked to build a strong academic relationship with your kiddo. When you email, please include both teachers each time so we can continue to communicate clearly and efficiently. Your students are finishing the first quarter strong and we’re excited about the attention to work completion and quality. Kudos to you for supporting with work habits and routines at home that help your student to own their learning and to build those responsibility muscles! Our 4th grade readers are becoming CSERT experts. We know that this narrative summary tool helps us to not just notice story events, but to invest in our characters and understand the story as a meaningful whole also. This week we’ll dive deeper into theme, the author’s message and typically the lesson that the main character learns through his or her struggle and resolution. In writing, we’ll brainstorm and start drafting our next story. We’ll consider the importance of the very first line and take inspiration from some talented published authors like the amazing Jason Reynolds. We’ll keep an eye out for the structure of every sentence and know that each needs a subject and a predicate. As mathematicians, we’ve been working to build deep understanding with all 4 operations and with the problem solving process that we call UPS check. We reviewed division representations and strategies last week, with students writing examples in their notebooks so they’d have a resource any time they needed a reminder. This week we’ll explore some tools beyond our tic tac toe that can help us with multiplication/division fluency. We want to know our multiplication/division facts smoothly so we are ready to tackle calculating bigger products and quotients without the need to skip count every part of the problem. We explored sinking/floating and our scientists enjoyed their own descriptive investigations last week. We saw lots of penny boat data and we loved the questions that came up about relationships between mass and volume. This week we’ll move into the importance of handwashing as part of our health curriculum.
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