Terrific Tuesday - Welcome to MP 4!

This morning the children completed the Tuesday portion of the vocabulary sheet for our word of the week, adapt.  Then, they practiced their keyboarding skills using, Typing Club.  After the announcements, we switched for math.

For our warm up, in math,  we played another round of Soduko.  Then, we reviewed last night's homework.  After that, we did a whole group math lesson using the area model to divide multi-digit whole numbers by multiples of ten.  A screen cast was created and sent out to all families.

After our lesson, the students took part in a side-door bus evacuation and then enjoyed lunch and recess.

After recess, the students worked with a substitute teacher, since this afternoon the fourth grade teachers had an extended collaborative planning session.

When the students returned to math they completed a session of Xtra Math and played a board game providing practice with diving by multiples of ten.

Math homework is posted in GC.

After math, the students began their literacy block.  Today they focused on identifying and explaining the characteristics of prose text.

Then, they worked independently, on the following tasks, while the substitute met with reading groups.  First, the completed the Tuesday section of the reading skills practice sheet.  After that, they read a piece of text, written in prose, and answered several comprehension questions.  Next, they re watched the screen cast about complex sentences and completed a follow up, graded practice activity.

Each reading group met with the substitute.  First, they reviewed the Monday and Tuesday portions of the reading skills practice page.  Then, they revisited the story, which they had read independently, and identified characteristics making it an example of prose.  They also discussed the text structure and defined unknown words using context clues.

After the literacy block, they began our next science unit about magnets.  First, as a group, they reviewed pertinent vocabulary.  Then, the students began working through an online Flocabulary lesson.

The children ended their day in art with Mrs. Daniell.