Wherever Spring Break finds you I hope you have a safe, fun and relaxing time with friends and family.
Here's a super quick update from this week:
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| Researching and taking notes on the Pacific Rim and its connection to trade and Washington State. |
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| Proud published authors. Fourth graders shared their published essays and second graders shared their published realistic fiction pieces. It was fun for us to compare our current work in that genre to that of our second grade buddies. |
Social Studies
- Started Pacific Rim unit, learned that Pacific Rim is ring of countries around outside of Pacific Ocean that engage in trade with one another
- Students read and took research notes on the topic
Math
- Working a great deal with percentages--calculating them from fractions both mentally and on the calculator
- Solved story problems and made sense of survey data by converting between fractions, decimals and percents
Reading
- Met with our second grade reading buddies--we each shared published writing pieces
- Working to make inferences from short mystery stories involving a fictional crime--students focused on the background knowledge and text clues that led them to that inference
Writing
- Continuing to make progress on our realistic fiction stories. Talked about grounding our characters in a setting rather than having them floating in space, worked on writing 2-3 potential endings, talked about how we only revise our best work--the work we care about and that revising is "re-seeing" possibilities, and reviewed charts/lesson topics from earlier in the year in the hope that students will call on these earlier learning in their writing now. Not bad for one week!
