Student News: April 1, 2005
by the Students of Room
208This week we have chosen new
Literature
Circle books. Literature Circles are group where you read books and
then talk about them with questions to boost the discussion. All ages do them.
Even kindergardeners and senior citizens. Some books that we have chosen are:
Little House on the Prairie,
by Laura Ingalls
Wilder , Loser, by Jerry
Spinelli , and many other good books. We've really had some lively
discussions. Another thing the 4th
graders did this week in Math is worked on finding the Area of the classroom and
of polygons. Area is the square measurements in the shape. We also learned the
formulas. For a triangle, it's LB x H divided by 2 = A; for a rectangle, it's L
x W = A; for parallelograms, it's H x B = A. We're learning all of that in just
one unit. We've also worked on a floor
plan of our classroom to start off the unit. The goal was to find the area of
the room. Mr. I assigned us different places to measure. We were like mini
architects. We had to use different symbols for windows and doors.
One other thing we did is perimeter.
Perimeter is when you measure the outer lengths of the shape. We had to draw a
bunch of shapes and measured a bunch. It was a very tiring unit. We are taking
the end of the unit assessment on Monday. We can't wait for the next unit.
This week in Music we also have been
working a lot on our classroom number for "Starz 4 Broadway" [production]. Our
classroom number is a medley from
Oliver.
The first song in the medley is "Food, Glorious Food" by our whole class. The
next song is "Who Will Buy?" by a trio of Brendle, Fionnula, and Hannah. The
class is the chorus. The third song is "Where is Love?", a solo by Teddy with
the class as a chorus. Finally, the last one is "Consider Yourself at Home,"
which the whole class sings. Another song that we have been practicing is, "It
Don't Mean a Thing," with the whole fourth grade singing it. At parts, a duet
of a sax and trombone, with tap dancers come out. The trombone and the sax start
it out. Those are some of the best numbers in the show.
The third graders finished the NCBLAA . NCBLAA stands for
No Child Left
Behind Annual Assessment . We had
reading the first day. The second day we had math. At the end we had to answer
questions like for an example, "Do you think that you are better at Math than
most people in your class?" Some people thought it was fun and some people
thought it was boring. Some people did not want it to end. In reading we had to
read stories and answer questions about the stories. In math we just had to
answer math questions. In Part A we could not use calculators. In Part B we
could use calculators. We also did
conferences this week. Conferences are when you come with your parent and talk
with your teacher and talk about how you rare doing in school and how you've
grown this trimester. Before or after the conference you show your portfolio. We
got ready for the conferences by doing conference reflections. We also wrote a
letter home to tell the parents when our conferences are. When our conferences
are over, we write a thank you letter home.
Posted: Fri - April 1, 2005 at 02:11 PM
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