Getting ready to see Phantom of the Opera! Guess who??!!
Saturday, February 22, 2014
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Friday, February 21, 2014
Feb 18,2014
This is someone's word choice piece. We discussed how using a variety of words is important.
This is our math question. We have our strategies with examples in our math journal.
These our the boys doing their math menu and having fun.
This is Abbey getting a gold medal in IXL. It is a fun math app that challenges you!
This is Nolan trying to find a specific spot. Mrs. Randall got us a large Vermont map! It is about 50 square feet!
This is Nolan and Ryan trying to find Addison.
This is our class getting ready for a game to play. 
This is mrs.Randall reading our new read aloud book. 
This is us with our k buddies. We worked together to ride along different routes to get to specific places.
We are playing games with our k buddies. 
This is Sydney's group having fun.
This is Kayla and her buddy trying to find a place in Vermont. 
We traveled along the marble trail in VT. This is a card showing us the location.
This is Mrs.Randall's word choice piece. We are working on a creative display for words we have collected in our writers notebook.
We use khan academy to practice specific math skills in our personal knowledge map.
Sitting nicely after lunch. 
We reviewed how to state a problem without blame in guidance.
This is what our focus was in math.
We talked about our news article A Case for Equality. We also have Jumping Into the Olympics.
Kayla and Ryan are doing the debate. We had fun watching the USA men's hockey team play Canada!
Have a fun vacation! See you on March 5th!
Avrie
Monday, February 17, 2014
Week of February 10, 2014
We got our literature circles on Monday! We met and planned our reading so that we could present our new knowledge next Tuesday.
Here's one of our books that a group is reading.
During math we needed to solve this problem: How many hundreds are in ten thousands?
We got our answer: 100!
Then we started to make a 10,000 charts
Today we finished our 10,000 charts! Each pair was responsible for a row of 1,000! It took a lot of perseverance!
Time for science, today we learned about States of Matter.
On Tuesday we had a "paws" celebration called: Stop drop and read! It was great! We all read a choice book.
We worked on our active reading skills and supporting our thinking with evidence in a piece called "Survival Skills". It is from the Vermont Item Bank.
On Wednesday we continued to discuss our literature circle books.
On Thursday we conferenced about what we did in literature circles.
A group made a jeopardy game about their book.
During math we had to write a letter to a third grader about how many 10s are in 10,000. We will deliver them next week.
In Science we watched a video about making snow. We are organizing our testable questions.
During Guidance we had to work with a partner put one arm behind our backs and fold a piece of paper a bunch of times it was really hard! We are working on positive self talk and not blame others.
Jack and Katelyn
Friday, February 7, 2014
February 3, 2014
Jack is our student of the week! He shared his "me" bag!
On Monday we got new vocabulary words. During readers workshop, we complete word work jobs to practice noticing the pattern.
Our focus on Monday in math was understanding how starter problems can help us solve equations efficiently.
They help us find the answer to large equations.
Also on Monday our Vermont riddles were due. We are doing a game with a partner called hopscotch. You throw a shell and answer a VT riddles.
On Tuesday we reviewed our class norms. Together we did some role play on work expectations and how adults and students show respect to others.
We talked about conferencing in writing block on Tuesday. After, we did buddy conferences and revised our informational books.
In math on Tuesday we worked on partial sums. Also we had to explain what the U.S. Algorithm is.
We are taking on a challenge to figure out how everybody in the world can have clean water. We watched a video on an engineer who took on that challenge and helped a lot of people.
Troy is challenging himself to figure out this problem. He says," This has a lot of variables such as tempature, amount of water, the amount of bacteria/salt, something that is happening all over the world."
Ryan is also taking on this challenge. He says," We were thinking about all the ways to clean the water that people have to live with, without it costing to much and having it not use electricity."
On Wednesday we had Digital Learning Day. There are 7 wonders. Chichen Itza, Christ the Redeemer, The Roman Coliseum, The Great Wall of China, Machu Picchu, Petra, And The Taj Mahal. We went to each place! It was so cool!
Here are some places that we took a virtual tour of on digital learning day on Wednesday.
We had a Winter Wellness walk on Wednesday. Here is Sydney and Avrie getting ready.
On Thursday we played hopscotch with our Vermont riddles that we made earlier in the week.
We had a mid-unit assessment in math on Thursday. It asked us to sove an addition equation using two different strategies.
We were celebrating katelyn's half birthday on Friday. She brought in some cookies to eat. Thank you Katelyn!
Today is Nick's last day. He shared about his new house. He brought in cookies for us to eat as well. We will miss you Nick!
On Friday we read our scholastic news and did a paper on it as well. We read two different articles and compared them.
We watched a video on a number talk that another 4th grade class had solved. Before we watched the video we had our own number talk. We had to solve the same equation as the people in the video. We had the same answers!
We taught someone in our class! Not only did we teach, we also were taught! We learned a lot about new topics and each other.
We played a math gamed called Changing Places. We are practicing our mental math with understanding place value.
Have a nice weekend! Good luck to Abbey in her ski race! Good luck to Justin and Nolan in their hockey game! Good luck Mrs. Randall in the Penguin Plunge!
Abbey and Nolan
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