ELA: Students finished reading their dog books. Along the way, we practiced a variety of reading skills, including compare and contrast, sequencing events, summarizing, and discussing a book. We are also in the early stages of our realistic fiction piece of writing. This is the first piece of writing that we will take through all stages of the writing process together. So far, students have come up with an idea and are developing their main characters. Students also independently wrote a Halloween piece of writing. These will certainly be fun to read! We continue to practice spelling and grammar skills each week as well.
SS/SCIENCE: We finished up our unit on life science with our study of fossils. Students learned about all types of fossils and how they are formed, then put our learning from that unit to work on our trip to Caesar's Creek. When we got back, students worked hard to sketch and label their fossils like scientists would. Now we have moved back to Social Studies, where we began our study of Ohio history with the very first people to come to North America across the land bridge called Beringia. We have just finished studying the prehistoric people of Ohio, and our field trip to SunWatch brought this learning to life! Students really enjoyed seeing what this Native American village may have looked like all those years ago.
We had our first field trip project presented in class and I know many other students have visited their site! Please start having your children turn these projects in as soon as they are complete so we can spread them out between now and December 8.
FUN RUN: What a great event the Fun Run was! Not only did the kids have a blast running to the high school, but the talk given by Trudy Ludwig was very meaningful and applicable. She gave the students a bunch of tools to use in case they encounter bullying. It was a great day!
As you can see, we've had a great few weeks here in 4th grade! THANK YOU for filling out all the permission slips, for volunteering to drive, for sending in money and packing lunches. These experiences were great for the kids and, I hope, really enhanced their learning!
