Another busy week has come to a close!

Math: Thanks to Miss Pecka for creating a Super Bowl review for us to brush up on multiplication and division. Fourth graders need to know factors, multiples, and prime and composite numbers.  We have learned multiple strategies for solving multiplication with 2 two-digit numbers as well as multiplication with a factor to the thousands place and a single digit factor. Division to the thousands place with a single digit divisor is the target. It's test time! We began today and will do some more next week. 

Reading: Interesting selections about famous inventors is what we've been reading. Be sure to ask your reader to share what we learned about Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin. In small groups we read more about Edison and some readers will have facts to share about Alexander Graham Bell. Our target has been to look for clues for the author's perspective in the stories. Vocabulary words we've focused on are: mischief, dizzy, independence, hilarious, nowadays, and the idiom "come in handy." 

Writing: All set to begin our narrative introduction next week. Combining sentences using prepositional phrases and adverbs was a target this week as well as writing a summary for the selection "He Made the World Brighter."

Moving on up! YAY!!!

Valentines Day in fourth grade was AWESOME! 

Minute-to-Win-it Challenges

Speaking of hearts....Jump Rope for Heart starts today!

And this week's one to answer...What does it mean as a reader to think about the author's perspective?