Great Opportunity…
Our class is going to
get the opportunity to work with Choice Literacy in a few weeks. Over the past several years we have been
working with 2 Literacy Consultants for reading and writing workshop and they
work with Choice Literacy. Choice
Literacy is creating an instructional video for other teachers. The students are going to be able to “teach”
other educators what small group work in reading and writing workshop look
like.
On Monday, 12/1, I
will be sending home a video-taping permission slip. It is a yellow sheet of paper that needs to
be filled out and sent back to school with your child if you are okay with
him/her being taped for this project. It
would be helpful to have these permission slips back by this Friday, December 5th.
Author Study
This week we will
continue with our author study of Chris Van Allsburg. We have already read a few of his books
including The Widow’s Broom and The Wretched Stone and watched
the movie Jumangi about a month ago.
This week we will read
his books and think more closely about the characters and the themes in the
stories. All of this thinking and hard work will lead to each student creating
and presenting a Kid’s Choice Award to
one of the books or characters of a book based on their reading notes.
Visiting Ellis Island
This week in social studies
we will “visit” Ellis Island in New York as part of our trip around the
Northeast Region of the United States.
We will read a book about a young boy and his family who travel from
Russia to Ellis Island and what they had to go through to make it to
America.
Ask your child about
their Mount Washington Newscast that we finished up last week in Social
Studies. The kids did a great job acting
out what it is like at the top of Mount Washington. They also were able to show all that they learned
through this fun activity!
Division
We are continuing to
work through division problems using “number disks.” We are not using the standard division
algorithm this year in 4th grade.
The kids have a much better understanding of the process of division
through this method. There is a lot less
frustration during math with this way of dividing. We are also working on “checking” our work
with multiplication as a way to show that we are putting in the time that it takes to solve a problem
correctly.
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
~Mrs. Lewis
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