Our Fourth Grade Classroom Gazette

Our Fourth Grade Classroom Gazette Editors : Week of September 12-15

began brainstorming topics for a personal What We Have narrative writing with a partner. In Math we are learning about front end Learned! rounding and close to rounding. We played In our reading workshop one of our a rounding game with partners and mentor texts included Chicken Sunday by completed an exit slip on rounding. Patty Polacco and OxcartMan by Donald In Science we completed another team Hall. Chicken Sunday was about some good building activity called Saving Harry. We friends named Winston, Stewart, Miss Eula had to build a structure to help fuzzy and Patricia. They noticed Miss Eula liking Harry have the best perch in our a special hat in Mr. Kodinski’s hat shop. So classroom. We used cupcake liners, pipe they had to earn more money to buy the cleaners, foil, tape and two index cards to hat. When they went to the hat store make the tallest perch for Harry. Kyle’s three kids were egging the shop. Mr. Island 1 completed the best structure for Kodinski thought it was Winnie, Stewart Harry. We also began our first science and Patricia egging the shop. He got very unit which is on weather. We learned the upset with them. Winnie, Stewart and earth water supply is 97% salty ocean Patricia wanted to paint decorated eggs water, 2 % frozen fresh water and usable for Mr. K to help him see it was not them fresh water only 1 %. who threw eggs at his store. He then In social studies we completed an shared tea with them and learned they assignment on longitude and latitude. We were telling the truth about who egged his also read about the American landscape store. They became friends and Mr. K consisting of different plains. We live in bought a hat for them to give to Miss Eula. the Central Plains region of the Midwest. We summarized this mentor text in our The other plains areas are called Coastal reading response journals this week. Plains, Great Plains, and Interior Plains, Summarizing is when you shrink the text Student of the Week down to just the important events that Our Student of the Week next week will be took place in the story. When we Dylan Burroughs summarize we mention characters, setting, Important Dates plot/problem and resolution of a fiction text. September 20 dine to Donate at Carlock In writing we continue working on our September 28 Late Start personal narrative. We have written our September 30 Progress Reports bold beginning using many of the beginning strategies we learned about last week. P.S. From Mrs. Hanley Have a wonderful week-end with your children