Our Week In Review

What a week!

We began our week with a new math unit about Patterns.  This is a short unit, and much of the learning is an extension of previous years.  We have our quiz on this unit on Wednesday.



We also started a new unit in Social Studies. We are learning about the country of Mexico.  We learned a little about el dio de los muertos (The Day of the Dead), and about the Mexican flag.  We will continue learning about Mexico for a few weeks.




Our field trip to the library was awesome! We learned all about the architecture and history of the library, and we LOVED checking out books.  What a wonderful resource we have right here in Franklin!

Books donated by Benjamin Franklin

Learning about the architecture of the library!

So excited to ride the bus with our friends!

We finished reading Mr. Popper's Penguins this week, and we enjoyed a fun-filled book celebration today.  Black and White Day was a HUGE success.

We began our day with Penguin and Halloween Math.

Then we joined Mrs. Williams's class to play "Win, Lose, or Draw" with words from Mr. Popper's Penguins.  We had a great time playing against our friends.  We were all surprised that the game ended in a tie!

Macklin's drawing of a barber!  

While snacking on our delicious Black and White Snacks, we created a line plot showing the different snacks we had.

We worked on our presentations and continued to write our Halloween Haiku during Poetry/Technology Workshop time.

After taking our vocabulary quiz and our reading assessment, we loved creating Antarctic Art!

We wrapped up our day with our Party in a Bag and the National Geographic film March of the Penguins.  What a fabulous day!

From the Teacher's Desk
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Our Week In Review

As usual, it was quite a week in fourth grade.  We finished our unit on Advanced Map Skills, and had our test on Tuesday.  Mrs. Merten was very impressed with the amount of studying everyone did! Students took home their tests today.  Here we are reviewing for our test on Monday.

Our 3rd math quiz was also a great success!  Your child took home an answer sheet with their math work and the test score written on it.  Incorrect answers were also marked.  The test can be viewed on the Pearson realize website.  Your child will need to log in.

Our drafts of our Narratives are coming along, and we hope to publish these by the end of next week.  We also are working on publishing our list poems.  These were typed in Google Drive, so your child may show you his/her work by logging in at home.  

You can also see the awesome work the children have been doing during Technology Workshop  on Google Drive.  Our most recent project, creating a Google Slides presentation, is almost finished.  In the next few weeks, we will learn to make movies!  Stay tuned for some videos!

We are well into our Interactive Read Aloud, Mr. Popper's Penguins, and hope to finish next week.  If we are able to do so, we will have a "Black and White" day on Friday.  Keep an eye on your child's backpack for information next week.

In Science we enjoyed looking at cells using a microscope with Mrs. Williams' class.  We even had the opportunity to view pond water from right here in Franklin!

We had a fabulous visit from the Franklin Library on Wednesday.  Students were able to bring an application for a library card back to school. If your child is planning on doing this, please send it in no later than Monday.  We are looking forward to our trip to the library next week.

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