It has been a very busy week! The kids worked on finishing up their personal essay this week. We concluded our essay unit by reminding ourselves what is expected of a fourth grader when writing an essay. We used a rubric or set of expectations to do this. We also tried to challenge ourselves and see if we could attempt a strategy that a fifth grader might try when writing an essay. It is always important for kids to see where they will be going as well!
Today the kids wrote an essay as part of our on-demand writing assessment. This will help me get a better understanding of what the students can do on their own.
Next week we will be starting our new writing genre which will be writing realistic fiction stories. We are really going to focus on adding more details to our stories during this unit.
In reading we have been working on determining the theme in a text. The kids have gotten a lot of practice with this and are really making progress in this area. We will be finishing up our unit on inferring over the next week, and then we will begin our unit on nonfiction.
In math, everyone has been working on division. If your child is fluent in multiplication that will help him/her with the division facts as well. We talk a lot about division being the opposite of multiplication. The kids are taught that they can use all that they know about multiplication to solve a division problem.
It has been a great week that ended with a paw print reward. The kids had a great time playing with Legos and Rainbow Loom. It was nice to see them playing together and enjoying the down time. It was a nice end to a VERY busy week!
Have a great long weekend!
~Mrs. Lewis
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