Our Week In Review

We had a fun week in Room 24.  Our student teacher, Miss Boulay, began in our class on Tuesday.  She will be with us every day until the middle of May.  Miss Boulay spent the week getting to know our routines, and the children. She even started to work on our Interactive Read Aloud, by reading a chapter in our newest book, Snow Treasure.

In math, we have been working on learning about fractions.  This can be challenging, but we are doing a great job!  We have our fractions test this Thursday.  Mrs. Merten will send home the study guide on Monday, but if you want a preview, there is a link to it on the right. We also made a chart including some of the fraction rules we have learned.  Here it is!

In science, we took our first Weather "Quest".  Mrs. Merten will correct these over the weekend and will have them on Monday.  Next week, we will begin our study of the Regions of the US.  We will start with an overview, and then begin our "Journey Across the US" by learning about the Northeast.

In writing, we have gotten well into our unit on essays and are excited to start to write some of our own.  In poetry workshop we learned about Robert Frost and even got to listen to a recording of him reading "The Road Not Taken."  It was very cool.  We continued working on Power Point presentations in Technology workshop.  

Mrs. Williams lead us in some Yoga to celebrate National Yoga Recess day on Friday.  Click here to check out her yoga blog, and see a picture of all of the fourth graders in our yoga pose!

On Monday, our anthropologist in residence, Mrs. Silvia from the Haffenreffer Museum at Brown University,  will return for our second presentation about Native Americans. We will learn about the Inuit.  We are grateful to the PCC for funding this awesome opportunity!

We are making great progress with Recorder Karate.  Mrs. Merten said she would play her own recorder if we all make Black Belt, so keep working at it!  Check out Mrs. MacMurray's Music blog.

Fraction Chart

Here are some of the rules we have discussed when talking about ordering fractions.  I hope that this helps.

Our Week(s) In Review

Getting back to school after the holiday break was tough (even for the teacher) but we made it!  We have buckled down and really gotten to work.

In Reading, we did our first Interactive Read Aloud of 2013, Stone Fox. We really loved the book, despite its sad ending.  We enjoyed watching the tv movie, Stone Fox, this week, and completed a comparing/contrasting activity about the book and the movie.  Many of us enjoyed the book more than the movie.

Next week, we plan on beginning our new Interactive Read Aloud, Snow Treasure.

In math we have been learning a lot about fractions.  Some of this has been challenging for the children, but with practice, they will do great!  We have learned many math games to use with fractions.  If your child would like to bring a game home with him/her, that would be a great way to practice.

In Social Studies, we wrapped up our unit on Canada, and had our unit test yesterday.  We will begin our study of the United States in the next few weeks.  In Science we are wrapping up the first part of our weather unit, Weather Maps and Instruments.  We have a quiz scheduled for next Thursday.  The study guide went home today, and has been uploaded.  You can find the link to the right.

This week was a busy one!  

On Wednesday, the Miscoe Hill Skippers jump rope team came to Kennedy School from the Miscoe Hill Middle School in Mendon.  They came to kick off our Jump Rope for Heart program, and to get our students excited about becoming "heart healthy". They were fantastic! We were all impressed by how much practice these students do. They are really dedicated!  Below are a few pictures and  videos of their performance.

Today was our chorus concert!  We were all dressed beautifully!  Below are some pictures, and a sneak peek of one of the songs.

Before the show!

Mae's introduction

And our sneak peek...