Hello everyone! Welcome back to
our blog. This is our first week back
from October break and we have been learning so much.
On Tuesday, we came to class
and saw a brand new student in our class.
We were pleasantly surprised and quite excited to make friends with Aki. Some of us learned to use Google Translate to
communicate and support our new friend’s learning. Others demonstrated their caring dispositions
by helping her during buddy time that afternoon, as well as through PE. From this experience, the Thunderous
Phoenixes learned how to make a new student feel welcome and at home in our
classroom.
Throughout the rest of the
week, we continued to learn lots of new things.
In math, we focused on practicing multiplication. We learned to use many strategies to multiply
and identify factors. We learned to
prove what we know and to determine what stage of understanding we are at with
different math skills. We are going to
continue to our journey to master multiplication.
We also explored creativity
within our classroom and with our buddies.
We finished reading Tales of a
Fourth Grade Nothing and shared our understanding of the story by
completing book reports. Our class
participated in a Gallery Walk of everyone’s work and we learned to give and
receive constructive feedback on our work.
We also began to think about how we can become more creative. We did this by reflecting on the positive and
negative influences around us and by thinking about what we take or “steal”
from these influences. We will continue
to explore creativity by reading How to
Steal Like an Artist and discussing its ideas.
We hope this update gives you
an insight into what has been taking place in our class. If you have questions and/or comments, please
post a reply to this post.
Have a great weekend!
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