Readers' Workshop: This week students participated in an interactive read aloud, Mighty Jack by Ben Hatke. We focused on learning and practicing strategies to read and understand a graphic novel. Students also choose an individual goal to improve their reading comprehension. Mighty Jack is a high interest, action-packed adventure that we all enjoyed!
Writers' Workshop: As a class we read Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal, in the story Alma shares the meaning behind her name. Students then developed interview questions to research their own name story. After gathering information for their own name story, students worked to write a paragraph with varying sentence structure. We are looking forward to sharing these name stories next week!
Science: Students continued to work in collaborative groups on Puff Mobiles. Today we made terrariums as an introduction to our explorations of the water cycle and earths' processes. Later in the year we will use our terrariums to investigate plant adaptations.
Social Studies: Students continued to learn about maps and globes by focusing in on intermediate directions on the compass rose and practicing using the map scale to determine the distance between two places on a map. A study guide for the first social studies assessment of the year will go home on Tuesday. Students are encouraged to study a little each night by making flash cards, making a quiz, or creating a game.
4th grade community meeting: beginning our week with some yoga!
Dancers of the week!
Upcoming Important Dates:
No School Columbus Day Monday October 8th
Scholastic Orders due Thursday October 11th
Parent/Teacher Conferences Half Days Thursday and Friday October 25th and 26th
Parent/Teacher Conferences Half Days Thursday and Friday October 25th and 26th
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