Short Week!

This week was only four days, but we accomplished a lot! In grammar, our focus was on capitalization. Students reviewed categories of words that need capital letters, such as months, names of places, titles, and more. They made corrections on our slides, did some cutting and pasting in their interactive notebooks, and completed some task cards.

We also had a lesson which focused on capitalizing nationalities and languages. The students had fun writing sentences inspired by the mentor sentence.

This week we read three more chapters in Charlotte’s Web. Students wrote summaries in their Reader’s Notebooks and answered some comprehension questions, too.

They were the most excited to choose either a Diary of a Pig or Diary of a Spider book cover to illustrate. That determined whether they will write their book from the point of view of Wilbur or Charlotte. They have some beautiful pictures in the works. We will being our ‘diary entries’ next week.

In addition, we learned a couple more vocabulary words from the novel.

In morphology, we learned about the Latin base ‘cred.’ We brainstormed words, drew pictures, and had an interesting conversation about credit cards!

In social studies, the focus this week was on continents and oceans, as well as using our directions. To get ready for the quiz today, students played games with flashcards, practiced writing and spelling the words on marker boards, and enjoyed games of Sparkle. They also completed some map activities at home.

I also introduced latitude this week with an ipad app called Nearpod. It allows me to share out slides to them and then ‘quiz’ them on the information.

In Morning Meeting this week, 4E had a blast learning the lumberjack greeting and the potato handshake. We played games of 4 Corners and several rounds of Clap, Snap, Stomp among other things. It’s a great start to every day.

Most days during our homeroom period, I read aloud to the class. Our current book is by a Nashville author, Jamie Sumner. Roll with It features a girl with cerebral palsy who is wheelchair-bound. This book leads to lots of great conversations and connects to our visit to Harris-Hillman next month. We will also have the author visit and share about her own child with special needs on Oct. 1.

Today, Mrs. Masoner led a LS assembly about our expectations for walking in the halls, attending assemblies, moving around the lunchroom and more. The assembly featured some 5th grade leaders sharing about these policies.