Our short week was punctuated by a virtual field trip to Ellis Island, a hands-on trip to the planets, and a new team member to join 4W! I'd say that is pretty good for a three day week! As we read about immigration through multiple texts, students also had the opportunity to enjoy an interactive exploration of Ellis Island through text, historical photographs, audio and video clips. Students learned what it would have been like to walk in the footsteps of an American immigrant. Click the link below to check it out! TOUR ELLIS ISLAND COSI on Wheels made an appearance on Thursday and students were treated to a fabulously energetic and exciting introduction to the planets! Following the all school presentation in the morning was a hands-on session in which students visited different stations for further exploration. I have included pictures in the slideshow below. These pictures are great talking points for kids to share their learning! As we study the factors of production, students are working in collaborative groups on a poster project in which they reflect on our class discussion, vocabulary work, and our trip to Cassano's Pizza to share their learning. Students will next apply their understanding of the factors of production as they plan for and carry out their plans for Market Day on the 6th! So excited to see each student explore entrepreneurship! We are so excited to have a new member on our team! Welcome, Olivia, to Team 4W! We are glad to have a new friend to collaborate with and learn from. WELCOME!
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This week was one big event after another, it seems! I am finishing up grading and working on report cards this morning, so I am going to let your small people fill you in on all the details. Here are some conversation starters: Tell me about your trip to Cassano's! What did you see? What surprised you? What was the coolest thing you learned? **Make sure you check out the previous blog post for pictures from our trip! iMovie Wonder book trailers...Who did you work with? Tell me how you chose to highlight the themes of this book. How did you make the trailer? **I will be loading these trailers on to this blog next week so that you can see them all. They are FABULOUS! Mystery Party...What mystery did you work to solve? Who were the suspects? Did you solve the mystery correctly? What did you enjoy the most? Long Division...We are up to three digit dividends and one digit divisors. Quotients are at times whole numbers, and at other times remainders reported as fractions. Ask your child to show you what they know and teach you the song/dance we learned to help us remember the process for solving long division problems. Immigration Unit...Ask your child to tell you how to define an immigrant. Ask him/her about the books he/she is reading presently and about the books he/she will be reading. Ask him/her to share with you how he/she is documenting his/her thinking. Harmanize...Ask your child to tell you about the Harmanize event on Friday. Ask your child about the French and sign language he/she learned and about the foods he/she tasted! So I sent an email to Wonder author RJ Palacio. I wanted to share the class comments about her book so she would know how much we enjoyed reading and discussing Wonder. Below is her response to me:We had a great trip today learning about the Cassano's Pizza business! Thanks so much to the parents who helped out today. Here are some photos from the visit, courtesy of Mr. Wertz!
So happy to see all of my little charges back in school and ready to learn! We were very busy this week wrapping things up and tying bows on projects and units we worked on prior to the break. The end of the second quarter is January 18th, so I will be getting final grades and assessments into order for report cards over the next week. Report cards will be sent home in backpacks on January 25th. Below is a recap of our week! MATH: We used the first two days back for review of skills. Wednesday we began Unit 6 in our Everyday Math books. This unit will cover strategies for division, rotations, angles, and coordinate grid systems. Family Letters for this unit were sent home in backpacks this week, but if it didn't make it home, please check here: MATH! A Mid-Year Assessment was given to students in my math class this week as well. After looking these assessments over, I will be sending home extra practice with your child should I think some extra repetition would be of help. Students completed their final blog post for the second quarter this week! Students have been working from a Blog Choice Board. A variety of topics and writing forms were available from which to choose and write. Next week, students will decide which piece from this quarter will be taken through a final revision and turned in for a grade. We began our Economics Unit this week and are exploring the factors of production. Students will be participating in a variety of fun group activities for this unit and are looking forward to our upcoming trip to Cassano's Pizza. Ask your child about the following terms: scarcity, labor, entrepreneurship We brought our reading of Wonder to an end this week! We finished up with some final writing about the book's themes, how August's character changes throughout the story, about how this book affected us each personally. Students did a wonderful job supporting their thoughts and opinions with evidence from the text. Additionally, each student chose a precept and created a poster for hanging on their personal bulletin board. I loved reading these and the students enjoyed sharing them with their classmates. On Friday, we broke out into small groups and used our knowledge of theme to create book trailers for Wonder using iMovie on the iPads. We will finish these projects up at the beginning of next week. Enjoy the excerpts from 4W writing below... Some final thoughts from learners in 4W after reading Wonder:This book inspired me to be the best friend I can be.
I learned that whenever I have a bad day, I have hope in the next one. This book inspired me to go out into the world and make some new and fun and exciting friends! It made me so frustrated to see all those kids being so mean to Auggie. I think they should make this a movie! This book inspired me to make a club for fundraising for the Ronald McDonald House and giving the money to people who need surgeries that cannot afford it. It made me think to stand up more and be myself. This book inspired me to be a little nicer to everyone. I like how they made a song for each person. It gave me an inference about what the story was going to be about. I really enjoyed this book because at the beginning, Auggie thought nobody would like him. At the end, everybody was his friend. I liked the message. You should just be yourself, no matter what your appearance is. I really liked this book because it taught me a very important lesson to not judge a person by how they look or how their hair is. You should like them on how big their heart is. It taught me a lot about treating others the way I want to be treated. I love this book because it is about a boy that is different. I feel for him. I love this book because it gets you frustrated and messes with your emotions. I definitely learned something from reading this book. I think it was very good at saying, “It’s not about the outside, it’s about the inside.” It was really funny, exciting, and a little bit sad. You can get a lot out of this book. I learned that everyone is different in a special way. I learned that you should be friends with anyone no matter what they look like. I learned that you should not be afraid to try something new. One little bulldog I know is happy for holiday break. He is one needy puppy! Here are some silly pictures.
Hope everyone is enjoying the break!
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