Ms. Fraser's 4th Grade

Abby reads Cordelia's writing

David hard at work

3F Writer's hard at work!

Georgia and Jlane use their dictionaries

Laughter is great thing; laughter at morning greeting is an even better thing. Niko was in charge of morning greeting today and his rule for greeting was any handshake greeting that you want. So we had all kinds of handshakes this morning, big daddy jellyfish handshake, lumberjack handshake, we even had a few foot shakes. Those foot shakes really got the giggles going, which was a great way to start the day.

Big Daddy Jellyfish Shake

Foot Shake

In Writer’s Workshop students continued writing their final draft of their first piece of informational writing. I am so proud of how well the students are doing. They students have really taken what they have learned from the mini-lessons and applied them to their own writing. The students have strong table of contents, great organization, and have used non-fiction text features to help the reader learn more about the topic. I can’t wait to share their writing with you. There will be a Writer’s Celebration at the end of this unit. (Not for a few more weeks. I will send more information home as we get closer.)

Today we started using this great computer software learning tool. In Social Studies we are learning about the American Revolutionary War with the help of Liberty’s Kids. Liberty’s Kids is an interactive software program where we help write a newspaper for Benjamin Franklin. Right now we are interviewing people about the events of the Boston Tea Party, to write our first newspaper article. We are learning that we have to be fair and just journalists and include everyone’s viewpoint. The students absolutely love it!

In math students learned about the distributive property of multiplication and how we can use it to help us solve more difficult multiplication problems. For example we can break down 8*17 into (8*10) + (8*7).