Happy Spring!

Hopefully you are all scheduled for a conference next week. I'm looking forward to meeting with you to share your child's learning. Fourth grade is certainly a big year on the learning curve in all content areas.  So much to do and so little time, from a teacher's perspective anyway!

The totem poles look fabulous! Thank you for everything you do at home to support your kiddo!

Math: Working with fractions has been the target. Ask your mathematician to tell you the definitions for the following vocabulary words we've been using: fraction, numerator, denominator, decomposing, composing, and equivalent. Have your mathematician show you how to find an equivalent fraction. 

Writing: Fourth graders across the district are hard at work writing an opinion piece about the hardships pioneers faced on the Oregon Trail. Ask your author to tell you about the challenges they are elaborating on in their writing. 

Reading: All our reading has been about the journey west in order to have multiple sources to draw from for our writing. 

Our science and social studies rotations halted, while we worked on our writing and finished up all of assessments.  

Five Mile Prairie Grange donated dictionaries to all our Prairie View fourth graders!

 Love having our grandparents and special guests visit!

Want Ad presentations continue! So love hearing about family life styles, traditions, and beliefs! The kids just beam when they're sharing!

Way to go Ashlyn and AJ! 

This week's one to answer: Write an equivalent fraction for 2/3. Use multiplication to prove you're correct.

Here's an update on Science! 

Ask your scientist to elaborate!

Mykla: I learned electricity at rest is static.
Faith: I learned about static electricity and parallel circuits.
A.J.: I learned about an electric circuit.
Cassidy: I learned about a conductor, load, generator, and switch.
Braxton: We've been learning about circuits.
Isaac: You need insulators and conductors. Generators have a magnet and copper wires spinning around.
Brooklin: I learned about static electricity, how light bulbs work, and when you connect wires it allows electrons to follow multiple ways.
Kayli: Lightning is a type of power.
Ashlyn: I learned about energy and circuits, static electricity, current electricity, and parallel circuits.
Bailey: I learned about atoms, static electricity, and that a series circuit has a generator, conductor, load, and a switch.
Parker: I learned that a series circuit requires a load, switch, generator, and a conductor. A brain can power a 10 watt light bulb! A parallel circuit has to have more than one load.

This week's one to answer: What are the 4 parts of a circuit?

March has marched in! 

Math: Mathematicians are wrapping up work in geometry. Targets include: knowing rays, lines, and line segments, using a protractor to measure and draw angles, recognizing triangles by their attributes, and identifying lines of symmetry in shapes.  

Reading: Putting in lots of effort on our short answer responses to reading, recently.  Ask your reader to tell you what it means to determine the theme of a story.

Writing: Revising our narratives using a checklist to identify a variety of sentence openers, strong verbs, and dress ups has been our goal.  When that's done it's on to typing it up.

Way to go Brooklin, Megan, and Mykla! Last week's winners! 

This week's one to answer: Make a list of 5 strong verbs.

Happy Birthday Faith!