Busy Week In Fourthlandia

Hello Fourthlandian friends,

This week was a busy, busy, busy, week because we worked hard and accomplished a lot.

In Math, we learned about place value and practiced using whiteboards. Today we did adding and subtracting using the open number line. We also learned about line plots and plotted the length of our feet. First, we had to measure them with measuring tapes to the closest quarter of an inch. Here is a picture of our line plot.

We came up with way more job ideas and started thinking about what jobs we would be good at. Some of the new jobs we thought of were Sports Statistician and Technology Helper. We are filling out job applications next week.

Specials went well this week and we had our first TAP. For TAP we had Library, PE, and Art. We are working to follow our classroom rules even when we are at Specials.

In Writing this week, we started coming up with realistic fiction ideas. We thought about what stories we wish to see in our classroom library and asked ourselves, "what might my character struggle with?" We wrote letters to our families for curriculum night and hope that you all can come. We also FINALLY got our Writing Notebooks! We had a ceremony and spent time decorating our notebooks with pictures that inspire us. Here are some pics of us working






















Finally, in Reading Workshop we read with stamina for twelve minutes! Here is a picture of some of us reading with stamina --------------------------------------->

We read the book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and talked about logical consequences and ways that we can fix the mistakes that we all make when we're having a bad day.

We have improved morning meeting with a new system where we work to earn twelve minutes of extra recess. This morning, we earned 7 extra minutes!!!! We also decided on a new attention getting strategy where the teacher says, "Hocus Pocus" and all the students say back, "Everybody Focus." It's working really well so far. Woooohooooo!

Later gators!

From your bloggers,
Ayla, Shira, Samantha, Ben, Maya, and Ms. Swaim

PS Maya came back to Franklin from Ecuador this week. We are SO EXCITED she's back!