Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Saturday, November 3, 2007
This week in 4th Grade...
Dear Families,
This week has been filled with excitement, lots of stimulation and fun! The Halloween carnival was a huge success. The learners loved dressing up in their costumes. They were also responsible for escorting their k/1 buddies to the event. They were very responsible and helped their buddies feel more comfortable in an often over stimulating environment. It was very impressive. Here are some photos from the day:
In Social Studies, we finished our group explorer presentations and posters. Learners have been working hard on these over the past few weeks. Each group was assigned a specific explorer. Then they researched their explorer and created a timeline based on their voyages, watercolored portraits, mapped their routes, and wrote a short report about their explorer and their significance in California history. The posters are up in the classroom. Please stop by and take a look at them. We were really impressed with how hard they worked on them. This was their first big group project, and they really did a fantastic job!
In math, learners began to experiment with double digit multiplication through the exploration of base ten blocks. Stacy taught a lesson on Thursday about the power of ten in multiplication. It was interesting to have the learners really think about what it meant to multiply by tens, instead of "you just add a zero". They were challenged to really think about this statement by looking at patterns and building equations with cubes, rods, and flats. Next week learners will continue to explore this concept looking at areas of rectangles and will continue their work on basic multiplication facts.
Please remind your learners to work on their spelling and keyboarding homework that is due at the beginning of next week.
Have a terrific sunny weekend!
This week has been filled with excitement, lots of stimulation and fun! The Halloween carnival was a huge success. The learners loved dressing up in their costumes. They were also responsible for escorting their k/1 buddies to the event. They were very responsible and helped their buddies feel more comfortable in an often over stimulating environment. It was very impressive. Here are some photos from the day:
In Social Studies, we finished our group explorer presentations and posters. Learners have been working hard on these over the past few weeks. Each group was assigned a specific explorer. Then they researched their explorer and created a timeline based on their voyages, watercolored portraits, mapped their routes, and wrote a short report about their explorer and their significance in California history. The posters are up in the classroom. Please stop by and take a look at them. We were really impressed with how hard they worked on them. This was their first big group project, and they really did a fantastic job!
In math, learners began to experiment with double digit multiplication through the exploration of base ten blocks. Stacy taught a lesson on Thursday about the power of ten in multiplication. It was interesting to have the learners really think about what it meant to multiply by tens, instead of "you just add a zero". They were challenged to really think about this statement by looking at patterns and building equations with cubes, rods, and flats. Next week learners will continue to explore this concept looking at areas of rectangles and will continue their work on basic multiplication facts.
Please remind your learners to work on their spelling and keyboarding homework that is due at the beginning of next week.
Have a terrific sunny weekend!
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