Holiday Reading Goals

Without practice, we lose the ability and skills! This is true of running, cooking, solving word problems, and of course, READING! Today 4HR had a read-in, where we practiced our stamina and enjoyed reading!

After reading for 30 minutes, we made a list of MUST Dos to help us read:

-Be open to new books and genres

-Pick Just Right books

-Finish reading most books you start

-Understand the book - make sense of what it says by recording our thinking

-Thinking about the words - use in the word, in the sentence, in the paragraph to help us understand unknown words

-Fluency! pay attention to punctuation

-Stamina - read for a long time

-Concentration - get hooked in

-Practice retelling

We then made goals! Some people made goals about how many books to read, or what kinds of books to read, or what kinds of strategies to use. What are your holiday reading goals?

Dec. 4th - 8th Newsletter

Newsletter Weekly Update: Dec. 11 - Dec. 15, 2017

Language Arts

In reading this week, the children are busy working in their book club groups discussing important events, character traits and more in order to delve deeper into their stories. This week in writing, the children are working to develop their characters even further by creating internal and external traits that bring their character to life.

Math

We have completed our unit on measurement and will not begin equivalent fractions until January, so this week the students will be using what they have learned about measurement and apply it in science as they create their compound machine prototypes.

Science/ Social Studies

Grade 4 engineers are hard at work in the Makerspace! We are moving past the brainstorming and designing part of the Design Process, and will be creating, testing, and improving. Thank you for all the donated supplies. A grade level share of the designs will take place on Friday, December 15th.

Resources

GRADE 4 CAMP RESOURCES Camp Information Presentation Camp Permission Form Camp Packing List

Announcements

No School - Dec. 11th - Monday Free Dress Day Dec. 15 - Friday Winter break begins Dec. 16 Submit your child’s camp permission form before Dec. 15th               Camp Permission Form Overnight Camp for all Grade 4 Students - Jan. 10- 11

Celebrations

Please see your class blog or class website for individual class celebrations.

Rosie Revere, Engineer

As 4HR gets ready to go into the Makerspace to create our designs to solve real world problems, we read the story of Rosie Revere, Engineer. It is the story of a young problem solver, who doubts her engineering abilities.

We thought the author's message was:

Never quit!

Keep trying.

It is good to make mistakes, because then your brain will grow. 

Failure is a good thing.

She needs to fail to make her design better.

Let's keep these positive attitudes as head into the Makerspace.