First Week of Fourth Grade!

We had a fabulous first week of fourth grade.

Reading: We practiced the components of the Reading Workshop. We practiced writing responses to our independent reading by writing about our predictions, connections, questions, and feelings about the book.

Writing: We practiced the components of the Writing Workshop. We also told stories using our Texas photos and will also be using the photos to write these stories. We learned about our writer’s notebooks and we each have an assignment which is to decorate our writer’s notebooks. The rubric is in their binders at the decorated writer’s notebook is due on Wednesday, September 1. Be sure that your child’s writer’s notebook is in school each day. We talked about living a writer’s life which means we are observant and notice things and then write about what we noticed. We did that at recess and they wrote poetic and wonderful entries!

Math: We are working with place value using our 1,000 books. We will be using them for games for practice as well as for problem solving problems. We will continue with place value next week and use lots of strategies to solve problems.

Science: We learned about some safety symbols and will be talking about the scientific process next week.

Social Studies: We practiced using symbolic representations by creating bioglyphs of ourselves then used the key to try to figure out who was who.

Back to School Night=Thursday, September 2, 2010 from 6:00-6:45pm. We will be meeting in the cafeteria and then going to our classroom for a few minutes. This night is for parents and I look forward to seeing you there.

We went to the library today and checked out some books. Our regular library day will be Mondays. However, we won’t go this Monday since we were just there and next Monday is Labor Day. We will try to go each Monday after that for check out times.

Reading Logs are due on Monday. Each student is expected to read at least 100 minutes.

Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Have a wonderful weekend! I had a great time getting to know your children. It is going to be an amazing year!

Thanks,
Pam Bartholomew