Dear 4th Grade Students and Parents:
I hope you all had a relaxing Spring Break with family and friends! We are down to the last quarter of school! It is hard to believe that it is 4th quarter already! Soon the students will be our school leaders in the 5th grade!
The next unit we will starting will be our research and presentation unit. The students will be completing an independent study based on their the research question they have developed in class. This unit will start of with some inquiry based "rapid research" where the students come up with research question ideas, select the strongest they have developed, research using technology, and present in 15 minutes! We will be talking about determining credible resources, ways to strengthen the presentation of facts by creating strong categories with topic sentences, and ways to enhance our final writings using visuals such as photographs and charts with captions. The students will also be looking at domain specific vocabulary words for topics by reading short scientific texts. They will be creating a short word bank/glossary of domain specific words for their topic that they are researching for their independent study. This is always an exciting final writing project that can be challenging yet a valuable and vital experience! We will be presenting our projects to the class in various ways- "tv shows", powerpoint presentations, and other creative ways!
As a reminder, the book tweets for 4th quarter are due on May 29th. Please click here for a reminder letter of the requirements. Book tweets which do not follow the directions and contain all the requirements will NOT be scored.
The students will be taking a spelling test on Flocabulary Unit 12 this Friday! We will take a vocabulary test on the words the following Friday. Click here to study your spelling words.
We will be studying our next "root word" in our root word study and take a quiz on Friday. This week's root is "inter" . Click here to practice the words.
Finally- we are almost finished with our transition to "book blogs" from reading logs! The Tigers and Redhawks have a book blog entry due this Thursday!
Tigers Book Blog
Redhawks Book Blog
The Bearcats are completing a transition to book blogs reading log this week that can be found here.
This will be taking the place of reading logs for the rest of the year! The students are doing a fantastic job with using their online discussion skills! This is a great life skill that they are working on and with each blog entry they are getting stronger! For a look at the rules for the Book Blog Assignment please click here.
This is an exciting week as we begin our research unit! Have a great week!
GO REDS!!!!
Mrs. Dooley
I hope you all had a relaxing Spring Break with family and friends! We are down to the last quarter of school! It is hard to believe that it is 4th quarter already! Soon the students will be our school leaders in the 5th grade!
The next unit we will starting will be our research and presentation unit. The students will be completing an independent study based on their the research question they have developed in class. This unit will start of with some inquiry based "rapid research" where the students come up with research question ideas, select the strongest they have developed, research using technology, and present in 15 minutes! We will be talking about determining credible resources, ways to strengthen the presentation of facts by creating strong categories with topic sentences, and ways to enhance our final writings using visuals such as photographs and charts with captions. The students will also be looking at domain specific vocabulary words for topics by reading short scientific texts. They will be creating a short word bank/glossary of domain specific words for their topic that they are researching for their independent study. This is always an exciting final writing project that can be challenging yet a valuable and vital experience! We will be presenting our projects to the class in various ways- "tv shows", powerpoint presentations, and other creative ways!
As a reminder, the book tweets for 4th quarter are due on May 29th. Please click here for a reminder letter of the requirements. Book tweets which do not follow the directions and contain all the requirements will NOT be scored.
The students will be taking a spelling test on Flocabulary Unit 12 this Friday! We will take a vocabulary test on the words the following Friday. Click here to study your spelling words.
We will be studying our next "root word" in our root word study and take a quiz on Friday. This week's root is "inter" . Click here to practice the words.
Finally- we are almost finished with our transition to "book blogs" from reading logs! The Tigers and Redhawks have a book blog entry due this Thursday!
Tigers Book Blog
Redhawks Book Blog
The Bearcats are completing a transition to book blogs reading log this week that can be found here.
This will be taking the place of reading logs for the rest of the year! The students are doing a fantastic job with using their online discussion skills! This is a great life skill that they are working on and with each blog entry they are getting stronger! For a look at the rules for the Book Blog Assignment please click here.
This is an exciting week as we begin our research unit! Have a great week!
GO REDS!!!!
Mrs. Dooley