We began our day (Monday) with the Checkpoint Writing Assessment. It was an opinion piece given to all 4th graders in HCSD. I've only looked at a few at this point and it looks like most students--according to this rubric--are falling in the 2nd-3rd grade level. I will continue to grade and let you know of the trends I notice but mostly, students are not giving ENOUGH! After Art, we went over our practice Math OAA from last week (hopefully, they shared these with you as they were to bring them home yesterday). Then, we spent some time working with vocabulary. Today, we'll continue with vocabulary and OAA practice/review. After recess, we worked in the computer lab with Mrs. Dorr to go over the TRAILS assessment that students took in October. This assessment looked at topics like bibliographies, primary sources, reading a graph, identifying a publisher, when to use a specific resource, etc. Then, we went over a practice Reading OAA passage we had completed last week. Finally, we reviewed using a Dictionary and ALL of the parts included in an entry and played a game using a Dictionary and/or Thesaurus.
Today, after a grueling Math 4 Today, students participated in Technology Tuesday (one of their favorite things to do!) In Social Studies, we talked about citizenship rights and responsibilities and related these things to their lives as students. Just as they have rights and responsibilities as a student, citizens have rights along with responsibilities--like voting and jury duty. We read and completed an Ohio Studies Weekly to help with this understanding. The students started their guitar unit in music today and loved it! In Math, we played a little Pictionary/Cherades/Win, Lose or Draw with the vocabulary of Math. Does your kiddo know what a prime number is? What about an expression? After recess, we caught back up with Bud, Not Buddy. Reader's Workshop was noisy but they did some learning. We worked with main idea and inference with Story Works, played a game of Synonym-Antonym Superhero Scuffle and read/visited the library or worked with me. For Writer's Workshop today, we continued our dictionary work and played another round of Dictionary or Thesaurus Roll-a-Word!
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