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.
