Our Week In Review

What a week!  We began our week with our fourth grade Community Meeting, where we learned our mantra was "Be and Engineer!"  This was important this wee, as we had a visit from our Engineers in Residence, Mr. Peter Gill and Mr. Andrew Leenhouts.  Both civil engineers are graduates of Franklin High School, and Peter is even a former JFK Ladybug (from Mrs. A.Williams' class)!  They explained how engineers work,and how the design process is important for them in their work.  Throughout the week we worked on planning our puff mobiles, and today we began building them during PBL.  We will have a fourth grade race in the coming weeks!

During reading, we have continued to learn and practice finding evidence to support our thinking.  We have discussed narrative elements, and have enjoyed reading some great stories!  We will continue this work, reviewing reading strategies and practicing them during independent reading zone.  In the coming week, students will be tracking setting, and supporting thinking with evidence from the text.  This will be recorded on their home reading log, in addition to other ways during school.  Thank you for supporting the routine that the same book should be read both at school and at home.  If your child is not happy with his/her book, please encourage him/her to talk to Mrs. Merten.  We will discuss abandoning the book.


During writing, we have been working on elaborating sentences while writing our Hopes, Dreams and Goals for fourth grade.  Students have shared their ideas, and discussed their thinking with a writing buddy. We will be publishing these this week.

We have been learning about addition during math this week.  We discussed various strategies for adding numbers. We also learned the importance of estimating sums before adding, in order to check the reasonableness of our answers.  Next week, we will be taking another math assessment, focusing on adding and subtracting.  Due to the technical difficulties we have been having with Pearson, we will take this math test on paper.  Students received a study guide today, and should be practicing their math facts regularly.

Dance Party Friday

Good News!!!

Looking Ahead ~

We will continue with our Map Skills unit in Social Studies.

We will begin learning about the weather, specifically the water cycle.  This will lead into the creation of our terrariums!

We will continue working on our Hopes and Dreams during writing, and begin to write narratives (both personal narratives and fictional ones).

We will assess our understanding of addition and subtraction skills with our second math assessment next Friday.

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