This year is going to start off with some great and challenging work for our fourth grade class. I look forward to getting back on a regular classroom schedule and watching the great minds at work.
In Math, we will begin DIVISION on Monday. This means that those mathematicians who do not know their facts will be struggling. (Not with the concept, but with the computation.) Please keep up the fact practice through this unit on division! Xtra Math provides great practice and is linked above. We will begin with simple division and by the end of the week we will be working with remainders.
In Reading Workshop, we will be starting a character study. We will be using the same Boxes and Bullets structure in our reading as we have been using in Writing Workshop when developing essays. My readers will take a deeper look at characters: who they are, how they change, and try to stand in their shoes and truly understand their actions.
In Writing Workshop, we will be choosing topics for our Persuasive Essays and develop our thesis and examples that support our thesis. This is going to be challenging for some writers but once our topics are chosen, it will become easier to write.
Our Social Studies curriculum takes us from Explorers to Colonial NY. New York has been discovered and it is time for it to become settled with immigrants from Europe. This unit will take us several weeks to work through. They will enjoy watching NY grow and change.
Thank you to all of my friends who chose to complete the extra credit work for the SS test. Grades improved greatly with those points.
I hope everyone had a safe and happy vacation. The snow is piled up today and I hope you are staying warm. Happy final weekend. Thank you again for your generous gifts (I bought ski boots from Amazon over the break!!!!). I am so lucky to have such a generous and hardworking group of students.
-Laurel
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