Upcoming December Events and Reminders:
In December and January there will be no current events for homework. In January students will work on a current events presentation in class. Students have been doing a great job of identifying who, what, where, when, why from their articles. In class I want to work on growing their presenting skills and responding more deeply to their articles on a personal level. In February, we will return to monthly current events homework and I will provide a calendar for the rest of the year. Reading Students are in the final two weeks of working on their book commercials. This week they are writing the scripts for their commercial and next week they will make their commercial using either educreations or imovie. Except for students who still need to finish reading their book, all of this work can be completed in class. Many students worked very hard to finish reading their book over the long weekend. Koodos to them! On Wednesday students will take a STAR reading progress monitor. This is a standard measure we use relatively frequently to monitor students progress. I showed everyone this data at conferences. It is a short adaptive test students will take in the computer lab. I will send home a letter with students most recent progress before the winter break. Writing Students are working on choosing a fiction story draft to publish. This week students will begin the revising and editing process. In this unit we have worked on choosing fiction story ideas creating interesting characters, using dialogue to give them character traits and creating vivid settings through sensory details. Science This week in science we are investigating plate tectonics and their role in forming the "ring of fire". We are doing a science mystery in which we answer the question "Could a volcano pop in my backyard?" In this activity students "discover" the ring of fire by plotting points on a coordinate grid, (also a 4th grade math skill).
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