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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