Literacy - 4th graders spent the last few weeks working on their individual biography reports. There were a few components to this project, which culminated in an oral presentation of a slideshow detailing their person. 4th graders are working on pulling information from the text and this was a great way to show progress in that skill. Speaking and listening skills were also on display during presentations. Finally, each student prepared a slideshow using Google Slides and their technical skills are progressing nicely. Students are now able to insert photos, videos, and transitions to their slides, furthering their development of 21st century skills.
Writing - We finished our opinion unit, with a final writing piece demonstrating 4th graders' ability to organize writing into 5 coherent paragraphs, including a proper introduction, 3 paragraphs with details and examples, and a conclusion. Our final writing unit has an emphasis on informational writing, beginning with a short research project about wallaby's, and ending with a research project of their choice. Math - We began our next Unit in math, and have been studying fractions of a whole. We continue to do fact fluency tests, and students have made tremendous progress since the beginning of the year. We will be moving onto creating line plots with fractions, continue work on 2x2 multiplication, quotients with remainders, and further develop our word problem decoding strategies. Science - We introduced our next unit in Physical Science, Electricity! This unit will be broken into two pieces as we have state-wide Science testing (NECAP) beginning on Monday, April 17th. We will review common problems found on the standardized test and will practice doing some experiments from previous NECAP years. This class has a strong interest in Science and I am excited to see how they do! MicroSociety - Marketplace is off this week, enabling ventures to catch up on some paperwork and to plan for the upcoming Micro Day! This exciting event invites parents to come into MACS and explore Marketplace for the day. Real money can be exchanged for Micro dollars and parents can buy produced goods from students, catch a movie in Kindergarten, or try one of the STEM experiments!
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