There’s so much big work happening in 4th grade! Our schedule of small groups, minilessons, and morning meetings are all so important and we appreciate the routines you’re building at home so that students don’t miss that synchronous learning time. This week we’re also excited for our Friday fall fest. We’ll celebrate over Zoom on Friday afternoon from 2:15-2:45, so watch for more details from our fabulous TEAM 4th room parents.
Readers are becoming independent with the narrative summary tool that we call CSERT. We’ll continue to use this tool all year with a variety of texts, so please ask your student what each letter stands for and how they use CSERT to write a quality reader response. We’ll start exploring a new tool called “Say Mean Matter” this week that will help us to synthesize ideas and make meaningful connections. Your students are hard at work on their second narrative piece. Last week they brainstormed, planned, and drafted. This week we’ll be giving and receiving feedback as we meet with critical friends. We’ve learned from expert authors like the amazing Jason Reynolds about the importance of our very first sentence. We know from tools like sentence analysis and our work with apostrophes that each word, capital letter, and punctuation mark affect the reader. This week is an opportunity to apply those important lessons in the context of our own stories. Our mathematicians are using all 4 operations with increasingly bigger numbers. This is exciting work and it also highlights the importance of fact fluency. We’ve learned a few new tools that are helping us give those fluency muscles a workout. One of our favorites is a tool we call a tic tac toe that we can use for any multiple. We’re also using a game that teaches fact fluency in connection with other number relationships. The game is called Break Apart. A few minutes of fluency each day through the week will help us feel more confident as we tackle bigger problem solving in the weeks to come. We continue to reflect each day using a tool we call a Write Rite. This is an opportunity to think back through ways we connected with others and moments that helped us grow each day. As part of our health curriculum, we’ve also spent the time considering the importance of careful handwashing. We explored articles, watched experiments, and analyzed data to draw conclusions about healthy handwashing habits.
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