We have had a SPOOKY day here in 4th grade! Our morning started with a ghostly story from 3:15. Patrick Carman has created a series of stories intended to excite, thrill, and leave you hanging. Each story has 3 parts. First, students watch a brief video clip introducing the story and building suspense. Second, students read the text. The catch is that the story is cut off right at the climax! Third, students watch a short video for the spine-tingling ending to the story. What a GREAT idea! Separating the climax from the resolution through the use of text and video is a great way to help students understand these different parts of a story's overall plot. Today we read/watched "The Lift". After completing the first 2 steps, students wrote their own creative ends to the tale before viewing the ending. If you wish to check it out for yourself click on the link below for access to the story we did today. There are several more spooky tales available online and for your mobile devices!
Reminder: Wolf Pack trip next week!!An important notice went home today about our upcoming trip to the Hartford Wolf Pack game next Wednesday November 6th. Please check for the blue paper in your child's backpack! Our focus this week...This week out language arts and science units have overlapped each other! In language arts we have been reading about changes to the Earth. We read selections that detail the types of physical changes that occur within Earth's geography, such as tsunamis, plate tectonics, erosion, earthquakes, and volcanoes. We focused on finding the main idea and details in informational text by first identifying the topic of a passage, a topic sentence, and details to support it. To wrap up our week we began a science investigation about how glaciers help to shape the Earth's surface. Students created mini glaciers by freezing small cups of water and sand. Once frozen we rubbed the "glacier" across a bar of soap and observed changes to each.
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Tonight's homework asks students to round multi digit numbers to the millions. Check out the video lesson below to see how we have used the vertical number line strategy in class: Let me know if you have any homework questions! Just comment on this post or email me: [email protected]
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