Student News: January 27, 2006
written by the Scholars of Room
208This week we are
practicing for the MEAs. MEAs are a test that 3rd and 4th graders take. We've
been mostly working on Math MEAs. We've also been working on Reading fictions
stories for the MEAs . One of the stories we read was
Rabbit's Big
Race. We learned to read the questions first
before reading the story. We now know when [the] MEAs come we will be
ready.This week in Reading we started
Literature
Circles. Literature Circles are when
a group gets together and reads the same book then they talk about the book and
things it made them think about. We are doing a class Literature Circle on the
book, Charlotte's
Web. When we do Literature Circles,
we have roles. We have four roles: Luminary, Discussion Director, Connector, and
Illustrator. We have only learned two of them. Earlier, we watched two
Literature Circle movies. One Harvey
Daniels did and the other one, Mr. S's class
did in 2002. The main reason we do Literature Circles is to become life-long
readers. That is what we did with Literature Circles this week.
Also this week in Math, the fourths
learned a way to divide large numbers. The way we learned to divide large
numbers is called "Partial Quotient" [method]. Partial Quotient is not long
division. This is an easier way to do division. While the fourths were doing
that the Thirds were learning about decimals. Decimals are a way to show pieces
of numbers. They learned tenths, hundredths, and thousandths. That is what we
learned in Math. Finally, this week we
had some guests come into our classroom. One of the guests was Sara Nics. She
was from the MPBN radio station and she is going to put us on
the radio. We will tell you when the date is soon! Another guest was Janet
Hill. She was in Iowa in her kitchen when she visited
us. To get here, she walked to her computer and looked at a little
camera called an "iSight". That was fun! The third visit was Leah
Tondreau, a second grade teacher, and David, a technology coordinator. They came
from up north in Maine (around Bangor). They came to learn how we work [on]
podcasts because [Ms.] Tondreau wants to do a podcast with her second grade
class. She thought our podcast was a good example! They drove three hours to
come and see our class and how we do our podcast. We thought that that was nice
of them to do that. Those were our visitors that came to our classroom.
Posted: Sat
- January 28, 2006 at 05:32 PM
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