Mr. McDougall's 4th Grade Blog: Monday News

Monday, May 23, 2016

We started the day with Breakfast and then did Number Talks. Afterward, I read the questions to Chapter 2 PBA to the class, we discussed what good mathematicians would do, then students had time to work on the questions.
Afterward, students did the "SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW" for Chapter 12. We went over the "what you should know" from 2nd grade to make sure they remembered what they were taught last year about 2 dimensional shapes. Homework was to study the vocabulary words for Chapter 12.

We started the period off finishing Chapter 13 of Stuart Little. We answered some key ideas and details questions and then moved into finishing the "Writing" section of ReadyGen Lesson 3B.3. The focus was using supporting details of informational text to find the main idea of the text.
We moved into today's lesson, ReadyGen 3B.4. The focus was using illustrations and text to gain meaning of the topic. We read pages 22 - 27 on the different stages of water in the weather cycle. Then students worked on filling out a web graphic organizer on snowflakes. They looked at a picture on page 24 and wrote what they SAW only. Then they reread the page and found three facts that helped them understand snowflakes better.
Finally we looked at the writing section of 3B.4. Again, it was using facts and details to support main idea.

After dance class, the class needs bathroom break and to get water. With 31 students, these two tasks actually take a great deal of time. When we were all settled, and after 6-7 students left to go practice for the Aladdin Musical - we did the spelling pre-test. The words this week are compound words. Many of the words in the list we have had already as spelling words, so they just have to combine it with a second word to make the new spelling list.

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