What's Happening in Room 24?
Mrs. Theobald's 4th Grade Class - FEBRUARY 7, 2014
Important Notes & Upcoming Events
WE HAVE 4 GUEST WRITERS TODAY... please check out the wonderful writing and reflections of our week below.
Valentine's Day/Compliments/Dance-a-thon
I've been so impressed with the compliments your children have been writing to their classmates. We will celebrate Valentine's Day next Friday afternoon with reading all of our compliments and handing out valentines to our classmates (optional). If you do choose to send in Valentines, please be sure that all 30 students in the class receive one. If you need an additional list of kids' names, please email me.
GUEST WRITER: AIDAN
We have been writing compliments to everyone in our 4th grade class about how they work during class and how they behave. People will be getting generous compliments on February 14 Valentine's Day. Today we have been thinking of themes for our annual Dance a thon to raise money for our Skyline PTA. So far our best two theme ideas are the Rainbow Unicorns and the Great Glob Of Gummie Bears. Today we have a Dance a thon sheet coming home in our Friday Envelopes. We will be trying to get as many pledges as we can. The grand prize to the class that gets the most pledges is $500 to go on a field trip anywhere we want. Don't forget to help your child get as many pledges as you can from family members and friends. Please try to return this pledge form by Valentine's Day.
Upcoming Dates and Events (Mark your calendars)
- February 14th - Valentine's Day
- February 14th - Dance-a-thon Pledge Forms Due
- February Break - No School - February 17th-21st
- February 28th - Dance-a-thon in the Activity Center
What Have We Been Learning About??
Math
GUEST WRITER: STELLA
In room twenty four, during math, we have been learning about prime and compisite numbers. We have also been learning about factors and multiples. Prime numbers are numbers that cannot be divided by anything else besides itself. Like the number 11. The only factor pairs it has are 11 times 1. Therefore, the number 11 is prime. Composite numbers are numbers that have more than one factor pair, like the number 24. 24 can be divided by 1, 2,12, 6, 4, & 8. Therefore, the number 24 is composite. Today in math, we played a game called target 300. The objective of the game was we had 6 rolls of a dice. If we got the number 6, we had to either do 6x10, 6x20, 6x30, 6x40, 6x50, which are all multiples of 10. We go back and forth with our partners for all our 6 rolls and added them up mentally as we played. The person who is closer to 300 at the end of the game is the winner! WE LOVE MATH!!!!!!
Language Arts
GUEST WRITER: PIPER
In language arts we are learning about understanding what we read also known as knowing what it means. Some skills we are practicing are drawing conclusions, making inferences, making judgements, fact and opinion, character and setting and plot, sensory details, and strong sentences. This week we took a test that had all of these skills, we studied very hard and all of our hard work paid off! Also we are really focused on verbs, action verbs, helping verbs, and linking verbs. Lastly, we have been assigned to groups to discuss our novel, Island of the Blue Dolphins. Next week, we will finish the novel and complete a culminating project.
Social Studies
GUEST WRITER: PAUL
We have been studying about the Native American tribes of California. The tribes we have read about are the Yurok, Hupa, Pomo, Chumash, Gabrielino, LuiseƱo, Kumeyaay, Maidu, Miwok, Yokuts, Cahuilla, and Mojave. Also us kids have been pulled into different specialist groups, and we learn about a specific tribe. I am an expert on the Yokuts tribe. An interesting fact is that usually the chief had a eagle totem and the messenger had a dove totem. The Yokuts tribe is located in the Central Valley and the mountains. We have a packet of lessons and questions that you do if you are not meeting with your specialist group. I am almost done!
Second Step
Every Friday we watch a video series called Second Step, these videos teach kids how to show empathy for each other. After we watch the video we make a chart about what we learned and what we think we can do to show empathy for others. Something we are really focusing on is listening with attention. We did an experiment on a partner to see if they can listen attentively. Today we are going to learn how to be assertive to solve our problems in a way that is respectful toward others.
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