Friday FUN!

Today was a great day!  We were busy and we didn't get any homework!  We took our spelling test in the computer lab ( a few issues today with computers acting strange....).  We also did XtraMath to practice our facts.

 We took our reading quiz over Stormalong and then had a few minutes for QRT (quiet reading time).

 By the afternoon we were ready for math facts with some multiplication war.

 A quick review of the multiplication methods taught this week.

We wrote our family journal letters.

Our day wasn't over yet!  We met on the carpet for some reading time with the fall athletes.

The final moments were spent getting autographs from the wonderful role models that visited Winskill this afternoon.

There's a home football game tonight so I hope to see you there.   Thanks for taking time to check out the pictures from our day!

4 Square in 4th Grade

Today we started our first big writing unit.  It's great to see how easily the students are catching on!  The 4-Square Method is a great way to learn to write because it gives you specific steps just like when we learned to read we started with decoding skills.    This method can be used for all the areas of writing that we are going to do:  narrative, persuasive, descriptive and expository.

Today we focused on how writing is organized from the big idea (main idea) to the subtopics.  

The students worked in small groups to come up with lists of things like people, healthy foods, board games and sports.  Each of the 3 subtopics went into it's own square.  The 4th square on the graphic organizer is for the wrap-up sentence.  There were so many great examples of wrap-ups:

"Apples, bananas, and pineapples are three healthy foods."

"Board games that are enjoyable are Monopoly, Life, and Guess Who."

"Hockey, Soccer, and Basketball are sports."

It's going to be exciting to watch our writing improve as we work through the steps in the 4-square method!

We will be back later this week to share more about what we are working on!  It sure has been busy as we continue to go Running Through 4th Grade!

Homecoming - Even more Pics

Minute to Win It games during the Pep Rally!

Our Arrow Pride Banner

Lunch with some awesome middle schoolers. 

A kickball game:-)

Homecoming - More Pictures

Homecoming Day at School (in pictures) 1st installment

Newsletter for the Week

It has been a great Homecoming week!  We are looking forward to spending Friday Afternoon at the high school.  It's exciting that we get to sing The Star-Spangled Banner before the football game.  See you there!

You can read this week's newsletter - HERE