Sorry that I didn't post yesterday, thought I did but well, guess not! My Adison is really sick and has been out all week from school because of her asthma. She's on steroids and breathing treatments and cough meds and ibuprofen, etc. Anyway, here's what we did!
We began both days with M4T and morning meeting. Yesterday, students completed making their word searches for Word Study and then published their opinion pieces for Writer's Workshop. In Because of Mr. Terupt, we learned that Jeffrey might have a softer side and are recognizing how the characteristics of the characters are giving different perspectives on the same situations. We aren't even halfway in and they are already seeing this difference! Next, we read, Henry's Freedom Box to show plot with rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. They had a little bit of time to read and visit the library. We had Art, lunch and outdoor recess. (Some of the students created their own book club that I've helped to moderate. They just finished their second book! I love listening in on their conversations about the book~it reminds me of my own book club! We meet during lunch, on days that I don't have duty and eat and chat.) We had our little quiet time after lunch to get ourselves calm for the afternoon and then worked on fractions using a ruler. We looked at 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 and 1/16 inch segments. One of the trickiest parts was when we counted on by 1/2 or 1/4, 1/8 inch segments starting at a random place on the ruler. They had to apply their understanding of fractions and equivalent fractions to do this. It took some extra explanations and some re-do's but they ended up pretty successful! We ended Math Workshop with an Exit/Entrance Slip where they had to read a line plot displaying data of ribbon lengths that they needed to find the 3 lengths of ribbon that add up to 12 inches exactly. They did pretty good with this even though it was more of an entrance slip than exit. Our day concluded with Social Studies where we learned a little bit more about the American Revolution and Declaration of Independence so that the Northwest Territory could be established.
This morning, we took the Checkpoint Writing Assessment which took most of the morning. This writing assessment is given to every 4th grade student in the district and graded using the same rubric. Before writing, we went over the rubric so students could understand exactly what is expected of them. They then had 45 minutes to write about their opinion. They could choose any topic that they had a strong opinion about. When finished, they solved each other's word searches that they had created yesterday. Once all writing was turned in, they were able to read, blog and visit the library. While reading independently today, they were to figure out where they were in their chapter book in regards to the plot and put it on a post-it note for their book. Today was Music, lunch and outdoor recess. After we came in from recess, Dr. Donna was in for her final time where we made fossils! It was messy but we can't wait to see them when we take them out on Monday. We had about 20 minutes before Guidance so we discussed line plots and then created a line plot showing our shoe sizes. Once our data had been collected, we were able to make conclusions about our class and we added up different shoe sizes to make my shoe size. In Guidance, Mrs. Vidic talked a little about careers and inventions. We then, completed our OSW on the Northwest Territory and practiced reading bar graphs with economic data. Finally, our day ended with Wonder time.
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