Plays of Week #7

Reminders for the upcoming Week...

Tuesday = Library Check-Out

Family Reading Program Begins - forms about this program will be sent home to explain

Friday = Spelling Test

Reading = This week we are continuing with Recognizing Text Features using Expository Nonfiction.  We will look more closely are articles entitled: Tying the Score: Men, Women, and Basketball and Food for Thought: Cafeteria Menus Shape Up.  Please be sure to ask your child what text features they are noticing within our whole group and guided reading group lessons as well as there independent books. 

  

Writing = We are wrapping up our pre-writing ideas in the early part of this week and will begin the writing process.  I am excited to see what Team Meyer knows about selecting a draft, completing draft, analyzing and revising that very draft and even working in partnerships to strengthen both the look and sound of their writing.   

  

Math = Chapter 2 Math Tests will be returned tomorrow to the students.  They were returned to them on Friday with an opportunity in the classroom to correct.  This is why you will see pen markings from them.  If you have any questions about their grade on this test please let me know.  I was very impressed with the effort I saw when they were given time in class to ask questions and correct problems they had previously missed.  We began Chapter 3: Multiplication and Division and will continue for about the next two weeks.  Our focuses this week are relating multiplication and division, relating division and subtraction, multiplication as comparison, and comparing to solve problems.  Please be sure your child is reviewing multiplication facts at home.

Spelling = Last week we worked with our last whole group spelling list (months) for awhile.  This week we will be moving into our groups.  Most weeks our plan is to get new words on Monday and test on Friday from the Words Their Way program.  If there is a ever a week where our schedule changing and the test needs to be moved I will let you know as soon as possible.

Content= Social Studies - In 4^th grade a huge focus is our state Missouri.  This week our zoomed view was on the regions we have within our state and what makes each special: Glacial Plains, Ozark Highlands, Osage Plains, and Mississippi Lowlands.  On Friday, we began writing postcards from a region we would like to have lived in.  What region did you pick? and Why?  We will be transitioning from Social Studies into Science at the end of this week/the beginning of next.

Highlights of the Week

Happy Birthday Levi!

 Portland's Book Fair turned out great!  Thank you for all of your support!  Happy Reading!  In October we will have our first "in class" book orders as an opportunity to purchase. 
September's Big Event was on Friday! 
Team Meyer and the rest of the students enjoyed watching Rio, wearing PJ's, bringing a stuffed animal, and eating popcorn! Yum! :)

Missouri Regions
Which Region did you want to live in and why?

Don't forget to practice those Multiplication Facts

Writing, Writing, Writing

Please check out - the My Math Tab

At the top of the blog please check out the "My Math" tab.  It has been updated with directions to access the My Math lessons Team Meyer work with in Math.

You can see the student book, the chapter and lesson we are in, and even videos to use at home when extra help is needed.

Please let me know if you need any help.

Plays of Week #6

Reminders for the upcoming Week...
All this Week Portland is having the Fall Book Fair
M, T, W, F = 8 am - Noon
Thursday = 8 am - 7 pm

Tuesday 9/23 = Chapter 2 Math Test
 Friday 9/26 = Panther Pride Assembly and Big Event

Reading = We are going to spend the first couple days of the week on Connections.  Team Meyer is excited to read Song and Dance Man.  Then we will move into our next unit within reading which is taking a look at Text Features.  Together we will explore expository text features with the text = Digging Up Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Writing = I hope everyone enjoyed Team Meyer's Open House letters this week.  This week we will continue to explore pre-writing techniques through pattern books, alphabet books, and poems.  Late in the week, we will move to hearing and discussing factual and nonfiction writing to go along with our Reading focus.  

Math = We are wrapping up Chapter 2.  On Friday, we began to review and on Monday we will continue to do so.  The Chapter 2 test is tentative for testing Team Meyer this Tuesday.  Some helpful review videos are below and give some great reminders.

Study Jam links to review Addition and Subtraction from this chapter.  Click on the links below to review and practice.

Add and Subtract without Regrouping

Subtraction with Regrouping

Addition with Regrouping

Late in the week, we will begin Chapter 3 which is understanding Multiplication and Division.

Spelling = Our books are in to begin our Words Their Way spelling groups.  We are going to work on setting up these routines.  Please look in the homework log for updates on testing (depending on how Team Meyer does the first part of the week).

Content= We have been working with safety and the beginning of this week we will discuss pollution.  After this, we will be beginning our Social Studies focus for this Quarter.

Highlights of the Week

Indoor Recess happenings this week during all the rain

Sharing our writing with our classmates
When we have word problems in Math we need to remember "CUBES"


Examples from our Vocabulary Notebook from the books we have been reading in class

Plays of Week #5

 Reminders for the upcoming Week...

Tuesday 16th = Spelling Test over numbers 

(test moved from last week) 

Thursday 18th = Open House 5:30-6:30 pm
I hope to see everyone there! :)

Reading = Guided Reading groups are working hard on their first/second books.  Posted below are the groups in Team Meyer.  Please ask your child about the books they are reading and continue to work on the Reading logs at home as well.  This week for connections to text we thought about "being ourselves" in A Bad Case of the Stripes and how important friendships can be in The Old Woman who Named Things.  This week we will be continuing connections through whole group, guided reading, and our independent reading.

Writing = This past week we wrote about memories in our lives.  We also took time out to write Thank you letters to those who have done so much for us!  We wrote to One Sole Purpose for our awesome new shoes (pics below)!  As well as remember our ambulance personnel as we remembered 9/11.  This week we are going to hear and discuss pattern books, alphabet books, and poems for writing ideas.

Math = We are working hard in Chapter 2.  We end the week with reviewing the concepts we have learned so far: addition and subtraction patterns, mentally math, and estimating sums and differences.  This week we will focus more on subtracting whole numbers and across zeros.  We will wrap up the week with some problem solving strategies: drawing a diagram and multi-step words problems.  This is a longer chapter so we will not be testing until at least early next week.

Spelling = We are going to continue to look at the words from last week. Please practice them at home...one-twenty and bonus = hundred, thousand, and million.  We will be testing this Tuesday. 

Health = This past week we discussed safety at home, in school, and in the community.  Early this upcoming week we will be thinking about Bike Safety.  Several teammates mentioned they were going to ride their bikes this weekend so I want everyone to think about how they stay safe while riding.

Highlights of the Week

Happy Birthday to Lyric and Lexi P!

We got our New Shoes this week from One Sole Purpose!  Then we wrote them "thank you" letters to let them know how much we appreciate their organization!  Please feel free to check our their website for more information...

http://www.onesolepurpose.com/

Guided Reading Groups

Creating Optical Illusions in Art Class

Mr. Greiner talked about Mis-placed behaviors.  Think about if it is the "place and time" for this behavior?

Plays of Week #4

Reminders for the upcoming Week...

Monday 8th = send Math Test Chapter 1 corrected and signed - some already did on Friday (thank you!)
Tuesday 9th = One Sole Shoe Delivery (please be at school)
Wednesday 10th = Mid Quarter
Friday 12th = Spelling Test over numbers (explained below)

Reading = Last week, we wrote our very first Reading Response letter.  We wrote one together independent on our own books (example together pictured below).  We also have been creating our Guided Reading groups and are ready to build upon our reading foundation.  Our focus this week will be on Fiction Texts and discussing Text to Self Connections.

Writing = We will be looking at the author Allen Say books and thinking about where he has gotten is writing inspiration.  A few mentor texts we will use are entitled The Bicycle Man and Tea with Milk.  We will continue to work in our Writer's Notebooks as well as beginning "quick writes".

Math = Thank you to everyone who looked at the Chapter 1 test over Place value with their child and signed it on Thursday night.  If you have not, please do so and send the test back to school as soon as possible.  We started Chapter 2 on Friday and will continue it into this week.  This is a fairly long chapter and focuses on Addition and Subtraction.  Some vocabulary this week:  pattern, hundreds, tens, thousands, estimate, difference, regroup, minuend, and subtrahend.

Spelling = Our first week and test over the days of the week went pretty well on Friday!  This week while we will be working with some math words that we noticed we need to work on since writing numbers in word form last chapter.  The list will be going home like last week and we will test on Friday.  There are more words than last time, but we will be working with them all week.  Please practice them at home...one-twenty and bonus = hundred, thousand, and million.

Health = We are going to focus on Health and Maintenance.  Team Meyer will describe safety rules for their school and home communities this week.

Highlights of the Week

Mr. Greiner talks to Team Meyer about the 5 Listening Body parts

Are you using your 5 listening body parts at home, school, and in your community?
1. Hands empty and Raised
2. Quiet Smile
3. Brain Thinking
4. Eyes on the Speaker
5. Ears Listening

Happy Birthday Drew!

Future Friday was a success for Team Meyer!


Reading Response Letters in Team Meyer