This week has been a very productive one in 4th grade! Students read the final four chapters in Three Times Lucky, and completed their last comprehension questions about the book. They also chose a project on which to work over the new few days before the author visits. Students are designing movie posters, new book covers, writing interviews between a reporter and a character, and more! I can’t wait to see how they put their creativity to use, and we are all looking forward to our visit with Sheila Turnage next week.
In addition, we learned four Greek morphemes this week, all of which are science related: auto, micro, ology and scope. The students had fun coming up with words that include these morphemes and illustrating them.
In grammar, we focused on quotation marks – where to put them and how to use commas, question marks and exclamation marks in conjunction with them.
In social studies, we learned about life in the New England and the Middle colonies. I also introduced the students to the Triangular Trade , the process by which enslaved Africans were brought to the colonies in exchange for goods.
We also had lots to celebrate this week. Liza brought in treats for her half-birthday, we hosted some kindergarteners who paraded through for Chinese New Year, and we attended the preview of the MS play!
On Monday, my class played a few Valentine-themed games of Minute to Win It since we ran out of time at our party. The moved conversation hearts using pencils like chopsticks and tried to build the tallest tower of hearts.
In Morning Meeting, the students enjoyed games of 4 Corners, Pass It!, and Two Arms, One Arm, No Arms among others.
This week we also began talking about and preparing for the ERB tests in April. We practiced some strategies for approaching reading comprehension tests, such as reading the title and scanning the page, identifying the genre and pre-reading the questions. Students will continue to practice this with a variety of passages until the tests.
Miss Earhart's Class 
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