Mrs. Wickenheiser Grade 4

  At School: We went on a Community Walk to the park with our buddies!  In Math:  We continued practicing how to compare and order decimal numbers by identifying their correct position on a number line. Students also played a game called  Decimal War , where they practiced recognizing the largest decimal number and reading each number aloud. For example, "three and sixty-five hundredths is greater than three and twenty-three hundredths." In Literacy:  Students began exploring how to compare and contrast two topics by using a Venn diagram to sort and organize what they learned from a non-fiction text. They practiced this skill by comparing football and basketball, as well as police officers and firefighters. We also wrapped up our Pip narratives and spent time revising and editing our work. Lastly, students read chapter 7 of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. As they read, they stopped periodically to write their thoughts and reflect on new information about the ch...

At School: In Social Studies:  This week, we welcomed Hal Eagletail to our school. We were deeply grateful for the knowledge and cultural oral teachings he shared with us. On Thursday, he led a smudge ceremony for all students and staff, where we received a blessing our school grounds and experienced a traditional song. In Literacy:  Students learned how to organize their narratives into paragraphs and continued working on their stories about Pip. We read Chapter 6 in Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing,  focusing on summarizing the main events. Students also completed comprehension questions and word work activities. In Math:  We continued our work with decimal place value, focusing on reading, writing, and comparing decimal numbers.  In Science:  We finished our solar system scratch art projects and began researching different constellations! Since April is Autism Awareness Month, we read a story and had a class discussion about autism to help build underst...