September 14-18, 2020
Has anything like the coronavirus ever happened before?
Students tuned into a Mystery Science episode to learn about this topic. Click here to watch the Mystery Science episode. While watching, the students noticed that the primary source was a newspaper published in Evanston, IL over 100 years ago! This led to the realization that even though this happened so long ago, some of our own family members could have experienced this first hand.
Snack and Socialize!
Its so nice to sit six feet apart and see everyone's sweet smiles while we enjoy our snacks outside!
We have enjoyed the beautiful weather lately! We make sure to get outside every morning for our mask break, snack and socializing time. This week we even had a chance to enjoy the weather and read our independent reading books.
Our Word Work rotations are in full swing! During our word work lessons, the students are assigned a sort of words that has a focus on a specific phonics/spelling rule. Throughout the week, they complete activities to practice spelling their words, learning the phonics rule, and making sure they know the definitions of their words. We have multiple differentiated groups, so each student receives a group of words that is a good fit for them. Students complete their activities in their notebooks and on google classroom slides.
This week, our reading focus is Reading is Thinking. Students chose one of the books below to read independently to practice comprehension skills. Students will practice thinking deeply about their reading and use their paragraph writing skills to respond to their reading by sharing their predictions, visualizations, questions and writing a summary about what they read.
Our math lessons this week have focused on recognizing place value to the millions place, rounding numbers from the ones place to the ten thousands place and comparing numbers to the millions. For math centers this week, the fourth graders reviewed skills learned last year like multiplication, division, area and perimeter, comparing fractions, and telling time on analog clocks. Students can choose to work in their workbooks, on their dry-erase boards and in their notebooks, whichever way works best for them.