1.21.22

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• Community Building
• Martin Luther King Jr. - his life, activism style, & speech analysis
• Peaceful protests in history
• Visit from our school counselors Ms. Bird and Mr. Addison
• Friendship Dynamics
• In-bound vs. Out-of-bound Comments
• Reading
• Continued working on extreme weather projects
• Researched real life examples of natural disasters 
• Worked in groups to synthesize information & create posters
• Writing
•   Began the drafting process for their second persuasive essay
• Variety of evidence including facts from informational texts or videos, interview quotes, or anecdotes
• Keeping your audience in mind & making sure your evidence supports your thesis
• Word Study
• Continued work on spelling list 6 - speed sort, rainbow writing, & word search with their words
• Math
• Number Corner
• Continued with the Jan Calendar Pattern & Collection
• Vocab - Equilateral triangle, irregular quadrilateral
• Fractions & inches on a Number Line
• Division Capture game
• Problem String - making the connection between multiplication & division
• Each student added thirds, sixths, & twelfths to their fraction manipulative collection
• Changing improper fractions to mixed numbers and vise versa
• Egg Carton Fractions
• Social Studies
• Started our US Geography unit
• Focused on location and landforms of the U.S.
  

Important Information

• 12:30pm Dismissal Friday January 28th
• Teacher Workshop Afternoon
• Donations
• Please send in any wrappers or empty food containers with nutrition labels - thanks to those who donated already!
• We are in need of paper plates for lunch heat-ups
• Picture Day Make-Up will be Monday January 31st
• New students and students who were absent on the first picture day will have their individual photos taken
• We will also take a whole 4th grade class photo
• We will send out information soon regarding After School Activities - due to COVID, dates are being changed

This Week In Photos (TWIP)