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.