We're on a reading roll!!

WOW! We are finishing books left and right! Take a look at some of the reading extensions we completed today!

Colby, Marcelo, Alaina, and Izzy tweeted authors, fingers crossed they tweet us back!

Bryce's Voki

Faith's Voki

McKenzie's Voki

Ball Park Estimates: Showing What We Know!

Today we learned about rounding, and how useful a ballpark estimate can be when we are adding. 

Take a look at what we know!

Ballpark Estimating with McKenzie!

Ballpark Estimates with Diego!

Ballpark estimate with Kasey!

Ballpark Estimates with Marcelo!

Ballpark Estimates with Canon!

Ballpark Estimating with James!

Ballpark Estimating with Craig

Ballpark Estimating with Trevor!

Ballpark estimating with Bryce!

Build Your Wild Self and Edmodo

Yesterday we started building our Edmodo profiles! We started by creating profile pictures on buildyourwildself.com.  

Build Your Wild Self is a site that lets you design yourself as a creature with different animal parts.  When you are through it lets your know what your name would be if you were all of those animals combined.  Pretty Cool!  

We learned how to take a screen shot of a picture and we also learned how to upload it to Edmodo.

Take a look at us in action!

The One and Only Ivan

Recently we finished the story, The One and Only Ivan, as a whole class read aloud.  After reading the captivating story, the students were asked to continue the story in their own way on Edmodo.  Read to find out how each student would continue the story!

Sledding Fun!

Last week, the 4th graders were given the task of writing to convince me to let them go sledding.  This was one of a few culminating activities for our persuasive writing unit.  The kiddos were able to use their knowledge of topic sentences, using opinion and convincing language appropriately, and staying on topic to write the paragraph.  After writing our drafts we published these paragraphs on kidblog.org.

They did such a great job, and had so many convincing arguments that I was convinced to let them go sledding on our half day, Wednesday.  Take a look at their persuasive writing below, as well as all the fun we had sledding!

Disguise the Turkey Project

Before Thanksgiving the 4th graders were tasked with disguising a turkey at home with their families to ensure it was not eaten for Thanksgiving dinner.  We teamed up with Miss Price's class to award each turkey with special Thanksgiving ribbons.  The students also wrote about their turkeys and either gave a description or wrote about their turkey as a character in a fiction story (as a book blurb).  Later the students were able to voice over their turkey picture with their writing and their products are below!

Take a look at the fun we had with Miss Price's class as well as our Turkey writing!

Belle's Turkey Writing

Peyton's Turkey Writing

Tavian's Turkey Writing

Trent's Turkey Writing