Not in our class... it will be just as smooth as ever! I hope everyone enjoyed Spooktacular. I was at Elsmere's "Halloween Happenings" and fun was had by all (I volunteered in the quiet craft room, can you blame me?!) .
This week will bring closure to our first book groups. We have been working at discussing what we read with our groups. This is a skill that we will master in the next month or so... it takes a bit of time to feel comfortable and take risks. We will also conclude our study of questioning. After a little assessment on Friday, it seems that we need a few more days on the subject.
Writing Workshop has been a flurry of activity with our new fiction pieces. These are independent works and they are well underway. Most of my writers are drafting already. We will be celebrating our Realistic Fiction pieces, drafting fiction, and getting great entries in our Writer's Notebooks.
Math has brought us to a unit on Addition and Subtraction after a quick stop for problem solving skills. We will be estimating and preforming exact calculations. I will continue to remind my mathematicians to check their work!
Reading Workshop and Math focused a lot on Fluency last week... reading and recording our voices on iPads and practicing math facts on the computer with XtraMath. Ask your 4th grader about fluency!
Finally, we will be looking at Native American's today. It will be a nice conclusion/introduction to Explorers.
A friendly reminder that spelling tests are Tuesday and Thursday... help your student with their words nightly!
Tuesday is our final conference day... it has been such a pleasure to meet with each of you over these three weeks.
Thanks for all you do!
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