Friday, April 6, 2012

Week of April 2, 2012

Monday April 2

Finished our games that we created in gym.

We played with try a tile to practice our multiplication and division skills.

We accomplished page 19 in our math books.

Started our Literature Circles. Exicting!

Worked on Wax museum. How did ...help shape Vt?

We shared some strategies to use when we are researching! We love instagrok!

Reviewed our multiple choice questions in our NECAP practice for science. We learned more about how to extend and elaborate to show our best scientific thinking!

Tuesday April 3

Discuss the pages or chapters we read/ literature circles. We had a nice discussion and I noticed I understood the text better.

We played fun games in music. For example, we played with rhythms we sang songs.

All school morning meeting. We learned more about the school auction and we celebrated Celidih's published piece.

We kept our progress on try a tile division and multibacation

Lily, Abby and Mrs. Randall are all working on the fundraiser for our 4th grade field trip.

We did the closest estimate in math and cluster problems.

Talking Math!


Working together!

We went over more of our NECAPS and discussed our scientific thinking.

Wednesday April 4

Library getting some good books

We took a test for Mrs.Holly for division.

We had guidance and worked in groups to make a product that some nine or ten year olds would be interested in.

Also during math we worked on pages 26, 21 and 27. We worked together and shared strategies, step by step.

We did more research on the person we feel has made an impact on our state.

Thursday-

We used the guess, check, think and revise strategy to solve today's POD. It was challenging! We all stuck with it and solved it!

In math, some of us played fun math games with Ms. Hyder or Ms. Minor, while some made math videos with Mrs. Randall. The math videos that we made are on the blog, so you can see them too!

We did a math warm up by counting by 21's. We used 21 because it is close to a landmark number; 20!

Our piece on Big Change Roundup got published in the Mountain Gazette!

Free write

Skyped another classroom for our Where in Vermont are you? Project. We found a third grade classroom in Franklin county. Their town was St. Albans.

Friday April 6

We had Spanish and contuined our portraits.

Instead of having POD,problem of day, we read a little of our weekly reader so we were ready to discuss the articles later today.

 

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This is a math video that Mia made to show her understanding of partial products using an array method.

We had a multiplication test to make sure we could use two different strategies to solve two double-digit multiplication.

A group of people Ceildh,Abby,Emaleigh and Lily Facetimed Aaron in Florida so they could discuss the book they are reading.

We discussed our weekly reader! Some hot topics are; A New Twist- how scientists create a new way to predict tornadoes, Scientists have a new plan to clean up the waste in space, Should kids be paid to attend school?

Upcoming Events-

April 16-field trip and all soup orders need to be turned in

April 20-soup fundraiser

April 23-27- Spring break

Hope you have a nice weekend! Happy Easter! Fondly,Bella Mosca

 

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