Resources for 12-12-12

Relative Adverbs
http://www.grammaring.com/relative-adverbs-where-when-why

http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/elt-relative-adverbs1.html



Point of View
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/e4topic.cfm?TopicID=39

http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/pointofview4p.cfm

Multiplication Table Top Twitter

Table Top Twitter

Students rotated throughout six centers today solving multiplication problems and word problems using different strategies using as the standard algorithm and distributive property! We play the Move it! Move it! song as we rotate centers. Check out the video!

I am a Rock!

Students choose one of the three rock types and wrote a story in their journal about how they change from one type to another during the rock cycle. Lastly, students were able to share aloud in our author's chair!

Scholastic Storyworks

We have loved our Scholastic Storyworks so far this year! It includes lots of fiction and non-fiction articles that align with our standards. Pictured above, students are comparing across text, looking at characters actions, thoughts, and what lesson they learned in the end.

Red Ribbon Week

In honor of Red Ribbon Week, our students felt led to write drug free letters to CCHS seniors discussing the importance of being drug free. In return, seniors wrote our students a letter back! They loved this opportunity!

Class President!

Last Week during the election students created a campaign slogan and wrote a speech about what they would do if they were president. We went through the voting process and Caitlyn Patterson won our class election and is now holding the honor of "President."

Awards

All A/B Honor Roll

All A Honor Roll

Congratulations to all!!!

Sound Instruments

Students created sound instruments during our last Science Unit. After the completed project, we shared them in class and discussed the intensity, pitch, and amplitude of their creation! They had so much fun with this project and also got to present them in front of the whole school for one of our mini-lessons!!

Story Plot

Students sorted cards into groups of charcters, setting, plot, problem, solution, and theme.

Multiplication

Introduction to our multiplication unit, we watched a teacher tube video that used repeated addition and used groups to answer simple multiplication problems.

Hands-On Day-October

Students created a speech to explain why they would make a good president and created a slogan to go along with their campaign speech. They also got to vote in the 2012 Presidental election!

Creating Factor Kites

Using iPads to work on Math IXL 4th grade learning targets

Angry Birds Hands-On Day!

Angry Verbs~Students created a sentence with a noun, verb, and adjective using quotations.

Students rolled dice to create a subtraction problem and also reinforcing place value.

Students create their own subtraction problem with angry bird characters.

 Force and Motion whole group lesson with a sling shot.

Angry Birds with verbs

Pencil toppers for today!

Math Centers This Week!

Comparing Numbers to the millions place.

Creating and writing numbers to the millions place in standard, word, and expanded form.

Rolling dice to create 4-digit addition problems. (reviewing place value as well. red dice-ones place, blue dice-tens place, etc.)

Creating our own addition word problems with window markers.

Table Top Twitter

Rotated groups Solving Math Problems referring to it as "Table Top Twitter." Students were engaged and able to solve addition word problems with too much information.

Author's Purpose Activity

We were studying the three main reasons and author writes. We created a story about our candy bar using one of the purposes (persuade, inform or entertain). Our purpose had to be clearly stated with a detailed illustration and we got to enjoy our candy bar at the end!

Blog Spotter~Kelsie Moore

Water Cycle

This week we are learning about the water cycle and that the Sun is the most important source! We created water cycle wheels to help us explain the water cycle.

Does it Dissolve?

Today, we put sugar, sand, salt, and baking soda each into seperate clear cups of water. The sugar and salt dissolved the best, which are the most soluable and sand did not dissolve at all, which has zero solubility. The water pulls apart the salt and sugar particles allowing them to dissolve better.
~Blog Spotter Carl Messenger

Fact and Opinion!

Today, we played a fact and opinion game from the Florida Center for Reading Research website. They rolled dice and landed on fact and opinion statements around the board. They had to read the statement and state whether it was a fact or opinion.

~Blog Spotter-Carl Messenger

Atoms

We created atoms using colored marshmellows and discussed protons, neutrons in the nucleus and electrons in the electron cloud. Atoms are the smallest particle in matter.

Rounding Rap!

To the Tune of We Will Rock You

Find your place, look next door

Five or greater add one more

All digits in the front stay the same

All digits behind zero's the game
We will, we will round you!



Sentences & Caricatures

We have been studying the four types of sentences (declarative, imparative, interrogative, and exclamatory)and created caricatures to match each sentence along with examples of each.