Are you ready for some scientific exploration???!!! Get ready because Floating and Sinking starts on MONDAY - this is an entire week of scientific exploration. All hw and assignments will center around floating and sinking. Because we lost half of Thursday and all of Friday before vacation, we will spend morning work reviewing what we have learned thus far in fractions so that we don't loose traction when we start back with our study in March.
Enjoy your final day of vacation and I'll see you soon!
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Conferences, Snow Day, and a new FRIEND!
Team Jones was lucky enough to welcome Amiah to the group this week! We love having her and she seems to fit in wonderfully!We had quite a week this week including a SNOW DAY! Thank you Team Jones for successfully completing the Snow Dance with me.
Our unit on fractions has begun in Math with our study of factors and multiples. We will also discuss Prime and Composite numbers on Friday. Next week we will be comparing and ordering fractions. I hope to get through this unit before the upcoming February vacation.
In Writing Workshop, we have taken everything we learned from our Personal Essay unit to begin a study of Persuasive Essay. Your writers will be working hard on drafting thesis statements with reasons and evidence that also take into account a counter-argument.
In Reading Workshop, we will continue to learn the importance of including textual evidence when we answer questions about what we are reading. This is a skill that takes practice. We will also conclude our partner books with a small project.
The American Revolution will formally begin before the break. Currently we are learning about the causes of the war and the participants of the conflict.
I enjoyed the conferences on Tuesday and look forward to meeting with more of you next week. Thank you for all that you do at home to support your 4th grader!
Monday, February 3, 2014
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