The week has been busier than ever! Likely we have had more fun than ever too! We have added a science/literacy block with Ms. Ward’s class and the joined the Global Read Aloud project. We continue to try to post a weekly reflection from every student and from me! We have not quite figured out how to do this in the time we have and have ‘clean’ work.
We've enjoyed the reading of two books during Read Aloud this week. We continue to read Wonder and students have felt great empathy for the main character, Auggie as he faces some cruel social challenges. We are also invited to shift perspectives as we hear from his sister, Via. I have encouraged students to draw on these moving passages as we develop our own ideas for writing realistic fiction stories.
As members of the Global Read Aloud project we are studying the books of Peter Reynolds. This week we read The North Star. Students have written several reflections connected to this book. The book itself focuses on each person’s personal journey and choices. We will all be blogging to connect our thinking about reading Peter Reynold's books as a way to connect beyond our classroom and Williston walls!
Our class is studying science topics with Ms. Ward’s class. We are doing close reads to learn about the variation and relatedness of organisms, adaptation, heredity and so on. We are implementing a program called Seeds of Science, Roots of Reading as one way to address the Next Generation Science Standards. Students have enjoyed the partner reading of these nonfiction texts with their vivid photographs and interesting concepts. We all enjoy partnering with Ms. Ward’s class.
As I’ve mentioned above, in writing students have spent time finding ideas for realistic fiction stories by examining small moments from their lives. noticing and collecting these small moments has been very challenging. We are learning to find characters in our own experience that we can use. This involves some dramatic story telling on my part.
We love using the Chromebooks. One challenge has been figuring out how to complete the much needed editing on the first draft of blog posts. We continue to grapple with this. Once again most posts will be published on Monday.
In math fourth graders completed the work for Unit 1-multiplication and division. They took the unit test on Friday. On Monday we will begin some work on measurement. There was no paper homework last week rather I sent links to games that will help deepen the conceptual knowledge of factors, multiples, prime and composite numbers.
That’s all for now, oh...except that we saw a spider emerge from it’s egg sack in the kiva on Friday and we had a great time at the Potluck on Thursday! Please remember that next week is a three day week for students and please sign up for a conference with me using the link I sent.
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