Our second week (4 days...) was a blur! We are off to a busy start of fourth grade already. Read about our latest work and check out the photos below. Don't forget to leave a comment by following the directions on the right side of the page - remember, no last names, please!
In math, we are busy with place value! We've learned how to represent numbers in lots of different ways - standard form, expanded form, base-10 blocks, and word form. We noticed a really cool feature about our base-10 number system! Each place value increases by x10 as you move to the left. Cool! We also learned about how to use <, >, and = to compare BIG numbers. We started working on rounding numbers to different place values and we'll continue practicing that next week. Thursday 9/17 will be our first math quiz! Check out the orange study guide that came home to help in studying!
Building place value sculptures - only 100 blocks allowed!
Matching up numbers! They look different, but they're really the same number represented different ways!
Math + Movement = Magic!
In reading, we are working on noticing and sharing the different ways we think about books as we're reading. Reading = thinking! We are working on choosing "just right" books for our book trays and enjoying lots of picture book read alouds as a class. We've also been working on studying fairy tales as part of our fairy tale unit leading up to our whole class read aloud of The Sisters Grimm: Fairytale Detectives. We've been paying close attention to point of view - first person and third person - and noticing how the point of view affects the "bias" of a story because the characters' opinions change how they tell the events. We got a chance to write our own first person fairy tales - they were funny! We are working on identifying the story elements, or the main ingredients of a story - characters, setting, and plot. We worked as "crime scene investigators" and reported on the story elements and crimes committed in the fairy tales we've read so far!
In writing, we're filling our newly decorated notebooks with lots of fun, personal stuff all about ourselves! No matter what we write this year, our inspiration comes from within ourselves, so it's important to get our notebooks filled with stuff about US! We wrote ABC All About Me (alphabetized lists of our favorite people, places, things, foods, etc.) and 50 things we love! We did some storytelling using our summer fun photos!
We started talking about our new science unit - weather! More fun with weather coming up next week! In the meantime, watching a few forecasts on the news is a great way to kick off this unit from home as well. Here is a catchy video to get you started! I played this song at home and Mr. Adams can't stop singing it...
Next week is full of important events! Looking forward to a fun and busy week!
Wednesday, 9/16 - Len Cabral, storyteller is coming! What a way to celebrate our summer reading!
Wednesday, 9/16 - Parent Orientation sessions in the afternoon! 3:00 - 3:30, 3:35 - 4:05
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