I hope everyone stayed warm this weekend! We have another busy week ahead in fourth grade!
Reading Workshop
We are really starting to focus on stopping and jotting as we read. This will help us as we start to think more deeply about the texts we are reading. We practiced this as a class while reading A Day's Work by Eve Bunting. The kids then practiced stopping and writing down their thinking with their independent reading books. This can be difficult for kids to do at times, but we are working on reminding ourselves to at least stop every few pages if we don't have an immediate reaction to an event. Stopping and jotting will help us to gather and collect "clues" that will help us to create a bigger idea such as the theme of the story.
We also started to "rate our jot" so that we could see what the goal and expectations for fourth graders are. We will continue to practice this throughout the upcoming week as well.
While your child is reading at home, you could ask him/her to tell you about an idea that he/she has about the book. Your child could then back up his/her thinking with evidence from the text.
Social Studies
Last week your child was assigned an Immigration Interview to go along with our Immigration Unit. This is due on Wednesday this week. Your child brought home the directions along with an example on Monday last week.
The students were able to travel through Ellis Island last week. We used a website that allows the students to go through each stop that an immigrant would have traveled to on their journey to America. They were able to watch videos as well as look at authentic pictures. We will be discussing their immigrant journey this week.
Math Workshop
For the next two weeks we will take a break from Menu Math. We will focus on math vocabulary during this time instead. They will start to fill out Four Square Vocabulary cards. This will allow the students to think about important words in a sentence and with a picture. I am hoping that allowing kids to think about words in different ways will help to solidify the word for them. Here is an example of what this will look like.
I hope everyone has a great week!
Jen
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