Wednesday, August 31

Well, we forgot to write again yesterday but there is a good reason...we had an assembly for Mumkins, which was an out of the ordinary for us! So, today, we will blog about yesterday and today. Sorry... In Social Studies, we got our first textbooks and explored the wonders of it! Today, in Science, we described what a scientist looks like and what tools they use. We have been doing Number Talks, many names for numbers and place and value of numbers in Math. Our work continued with high frequency words in word study. We wrote our paragraphs about what is important about us. In Reading, we worked in small groups with comprehension of everybody books about our core virtues. And, we got our first homework for Math, duh, duh, duh....

Monday, August 29

Other than spending time learning about library procedures, today was a typical 4th grade day. We got a good report at music which gave us our first Behavior Bingo square. We read books highlighting the core virtues in small groups while Mrs. L listened to our fluency. In Science, we did an experiment where we put a bag on our hands and tried to guess the object with our eyes closed. We read The Important Book and made a sandwich with our writing. :) Great day, still chatty, but great day.

Friday, August 26

Today was an okay day. We are getting a little chatty but it is the first week and we will return on Monday ready to learn! Since we forgot to blog yesterday, here's a little of what we did: wrote our rules and mission statement, talked about sentences and began our first read aloud, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume. Today, we played the Quiet Game in Math, we wrote stories (pretty funny too) and talked about what reading looks like and what it doesn't look like. Overall, we had a good first week in 4th grade!

Wednesday, August 24

Wow! Today was another great day! We decorated a T-shirt all about us and listed the Top 10 Things About ourselves. We brainstormed ideas for our hopes and dreams for this school year and the future so that we can write our class rules and promise. Our first number talk went great today! Did you know that there were at least 45 different choices for lunch today? Compassion, Respect, Giving, Self-Discipline, Responsibility, Honesty and Perseverance are our core virtues. We read books that showed these virtues. We also wrote letters to ourselves to be delivered at the end of the year to show our growth. Oh, and don't forget our clock buddies!

First Day of School

Today was an awesome first day! We found the perfect rocks. We learned that everyone is unique and has different personalities. We were introduced to the classroom using a map. We made Fruit Loop necklaces that represented ourselves.