Ask Your Child About...
- Community Building
- Morning Meeting
- Class Handshake Greeting
- Growth Mindset Values
- Writing compliments to peers to practice being "bucket-fillers"
- Mood Walk video by Blazer Fresh on GoNoodle
- The Dot Read Aloud by Peter Reynolds
- Water color painting activity
- Reading
- How to choose "just right" books
- Types of summaries: chronological vs. synthesis
- Visualizing details while reading
- Read Aloud: Mango, Abuela, and Me by Meg Medina
- Writing
- Creating character trait charts to understand their main characters
- Using a story arc to plan the plot of their stories
- Beginning their first draft of realistic fiction stories!
- Read Aloud & Word Study
- Started the Novel Tiger Rising, by Kate DiCamillo
- Homophone Matching Game
- Continuing with Sort #1 - Closed Sort, Rainbow Writing
- Number Corner & Math
- Continuing to Update the Calendar Grid
- Ask your child what changed when we got to the 10th day
- Introducing the Calendar Collection - Inches, Feet, & Yards
- Introducing the Game Splat!
- Using this multiplication strategy during the game:
- ex. 50 x 60 = (5 x 10) x (6 x 10) = 5 x 6 x 10 x 10 = 30 x 100 = 3,000!
- Marking 2s, 3s, and 6s on the Number Line
- 2s and 3s Quiz
- Setting the Course for the Year (what a math room looks & sounds like)
- Multiplication Story Problems
- Using a Number Line to Solve Multiplication Problems
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- Using a Ratio Table to Solve Multiplication Problem
- ex.
- Social Studies/Science
- Began Unit on The Human Body
- Bones & Muscles Bill Nye Video
- Muscles & The Skeleton Exploration
Announcements:
- Please follow our private class Instagram @ghcds4th_2023
- No School For Students TOMORROW, Friday, September 15th - Faculty Workshop Day
- Parent Information Afternoon Thursday, September 21st @4pm
- Friday Gathering on Friday, September 29th @ 8:30am - 4th Grade is Presenting on Hispanic Heritage Month
- ALL PARENTS/FAMILY WELCOME
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