Welcome Back!

Welcome Back!!!

I hope that everyone had a nice, enjoyable, and relaxing summer vacation.  Mine was pretty busy, but I look forward to getting back this school year.

This week in class, we have organized our supplies, and settled in.  We began with actual school work on Thursday.  Here is a quick look at what went on.

In Reading, we introduced our new fourth grade readers to their notebooks.  This is something they will need to become very comfortable with, as they are a huge part of our curriculum this year.  Students discussed what they knew to be true about reading, and what keeps them reading.  You may talk about these topics with your child, helping encourage their own reading!  

In English Language Arts, we are also introducing notebooks.  This is a great resource that we will use all year, so we are introducing it in steps.  This week, we started with just the daily sentence editing portion.  Students complete all editing and note-taking in the back of their notebooks, and we work towards the front.  This allows them to always have editing and grammar lessons at their fingertips. So again, we started  by reviewing grammar rules and completing and discussing sentence editing.  On Friday, we began practice with cursive writing.  This is just a reminder that students need to make their work presentable.  

Science and Social Studies will share time.  We will teach each subject alone, one unit at a time.  We will start the year with our Missouri conservation unit on ecosystems.  We started off  with a pretest.  We then moved into books reading the difference between living an non-living things.

Math began with numbers and their place value. We worked on place values through hundred thousand, and hundred million.

Until next week!