Monday, October 29, 2012

Friday, October 26, 2012

Week of Oct. 22, 2012

We are working with arrays this week.

We played a math game with arrays called big array/small array.

 

We were working on our solar system mini research projects

I reading we practiced finding the main idea. We read an article called Why do We Laugh? We found the important points and then wrote a piece about what makes us laugh.

We finished our maps that we made in social studies.

 

In guidance we are working on listening.

 

Mrs. Randall taught us how to share document in Google and we brainstorms some helpful comments we can give other writers.

 

Mrs. Randall shared an app on her iPad to help us organize our thoughts. Aspen is using this app to help her plan her book talk.

 

We are writing reading letters to Mrs. Randall and Mrs. Lee each week. They write letters back to us!

 

We are almost done with An Elephant In The Garden.

We are working on splitting arrays in math this week.

We are doing lots of math games. They are very fun.

In read aloud we are on page 190 for An Elephant In The Garden.

 

In ELF, we explored trees! We looked closely at a section to find the age of the tree. The center point is called the pith.

We went outside in E.L.F. to do a scavenger hunt.

Everyone was doing the scavenger hunt in the outdoor classroom.


We had fun this week. We hope you have fun this weekend. Lucas, Sam, and Maliek. (Sam was a sub for Maliek)

 

Field Trip Change

Our trip up Mt. Philo has been changed to Monday October 29, 2012. If the weather is bad, we will postpone our trip. Thank you! If you have questions, please e-mail Mrs. Randall.

Monday, October 22, 2012

Week of October 15, 2012

Today we had are p.o.d are problem and we made multiple tables

We are on unit 3 in are math book we skipped unit 2 in are math book

We are having a lot of book talks

We went to C.A.L.M. that stands for connected art,library,and music

We are working on Vermont the green mountain state

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are still reading An Elephant In The Garden.

If we have a word we do not know we go to Dictonary.com to find what it means.

We are working on what are the characteristics of a strong conclusion.

We got a conclusion frame.

We are working on splitting array in half

We work on our multiplication strategies.

We all wrote letters to Mr. Randall

Every two weeks we have a test a practice test and spelling test

 

We tested are our own question for our weight test.

We are having fun testing our predictions in science

 

Lucas and Kipp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, October 15, 2012

Thurs. oct. 11 2012

Before read aloud we had authors chair on Monday . Writers sat in the rocking chair and shared a piece of writing.

In social studies, we are learning about how to use maps to find our 14 counties and some physical features of our state!

We played games at math!

Mrs. Reinhart in Science we learned about pull tables.

We finished our news papers about us.

We finished our notebook covers. They look great!

We got our weekly readers. We discussed how a concussion is hard to see, but it is important to play it safe.

We had open house.

We did some of our conferences.

Mrs Randall taught us how to create a spreadsheet on Google so we could keep track of our usernames and passwords.

Jacob shared a book talk.

We're reading a elephant in the garden it is about a group of people. Moody is a girl who works at a zoo and the owner of the zoo let her keep a Elephant named Marlene.the boomers come and blow up there city!!!!!!! To figure out more read the book!!!

We did smart moves on the smart board.

We finished our writers note books!

Mia and Malina

Friday, October 5, 2012

Week of October 1, 2012

For problem of the day, we continued to practice using the strategy of act it out or use objects to help us solve.

In math block Ms. Reinhart came in to work with us on using models to show our thinking. We used unifix cubes and arrays to show how the factors of 16 are also factors of 48.

 

This is our new fourth grade cheetah poster. We are adding pictures of all fourth graders!

 

We got new seats in our classroom. We are now in two columns.

Doing smart moves. These Brain Puzzles help warm up so we can do our best work!

Today we did hard math problems where we had to show evidence to support our thinking.

 

Today some people shared their newspaper article that they wrote.

We learned that you should always use evidence when you are trying to show your work .

Searching for more evidence

 

We are working on our news story. It is part of our big newspaper!

 

We are working on problem of the day which we call p.o.d.

This is someone's notebook cover and we are working on them : turn you head if you would like to see the Picture :)

Today we went to the computer lab and we had fun!

 


Some of us are doing the DRA test.

Mrs.randall showed us her writer's notebook. She gave us each one! We are creating our front covers now.

 

In Mrs. Randall's math intervention block, we used fun math apps to practice our multiplication facts.

This is an example of a data table. We put our science data in to keep track of our work. Every representation has a title and labels.

Have a good weekend, Jackson and Jordan.b