Ms. Wolsey - Grade 4

Today: - In Math, we started our new unit on place value! We began with a fun teamwork math activity to practice working together and communicating as a team. Then, we practiced representing numbers in standard form and expanded form. Ask me to write these numbers in expanded form: For example: 937 241 (900 000 + 30 000 + 7 000 + 200 + 40 + 1)  234 678 894 247 29 873 13 245 42 651  - In science we started working on our waste management poster  - In writing, we finished our figurative language activity. Today, we learned about idioms and hyperboles. Ask me what I learned! We have been learning about figurative language and sensory details to help us add more detail and description to our writing as we begin our descriptive writing unit. - We also practiced using “triple scoop words” to make our writing more detailed and interesting! Ask me what triple scoop words I could use instead of these words: happy, mad, tired, hungry, fast, big, and small. - We started some ne...

Today: - We health we talked about regulation and the different zones of regulation. - In writing we learned about onomatopoeia and personification. Ask me what they mean!  - Ask me what we did in P.E! - Mrs. Dang was in our classroom this afternoon and we did a visual journal art project. Ask me about it.  - In literacy stations we practiced our writing and non-fiction station  - We had our practice lockdown today and did a great job!   Reminders: We are still missing forms for 84 students – Ensure you have completed (in your MyCBE Parent Account): ·        Demographic Verification forms ·        Annual Authorization forms ·        Lunch Registration forms (if in Grades 1-5 and staying for lunch) September 24 from 5:00 – 7:00 – Welcome to the New Year Open House (No sign up is required for this. More information will be sent next week.) September 25 – N...