This Week in Fourth Grade

Students are settling nicely into the fourth grade routine!

Science
We began our unit on Flight, Force, and Motion this week with a lively discussion about flying. Students learned about two of the forces that influence flight: gravity and drag.

Math
We continued working on place value concepts, focusing on the relationship between neighboring digits in large numbers, comparing numbers using greater-than and less-than symbols, and rounding.

ELA
We began a vocabulary unit and practiced identifying declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences. In our guided reading groups, we started reading Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner.

Fun on Friday!
Our ELA class did such a wonderful job working quietly and collaboratively on their vocabulary assignment today! We ended our day with a "write around."  Working in groups of three, students co-wrote a creative story with a beginning, middle, and end. They each had four minutes to write and had to include a parakeet and a pickle! We had many laughs as the students read their stories aloud.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs. Kyle