Partial Quotients Algorithm (1 divisor)
Partial Quotients Algorithm (2 divisor)
Long Division (Traditional)
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Monday, January 13, 2014
Jackson County Soil and Water Conservation Poster Contest 2014
Congratulations to our classroom finalists! Lauren (1st), Alayna (2nd), and Alexis (3rd) will have their posters submitted to be judged against other Jackson County third and fourth grade students. Nice job for all of our students who did a great job creating visual representations of the importance of soil.
Monday, January 6, 2014
Back to School...
Back to Work...
Today has been a very productive day lining out the next couple of weeks and I have to admit how excited I am about the upcoming units we are starting tomorrow, especially reading and writing. In reading, students will return to fiction text and we will spend our time comparing the similarities and differences of texts from different cultures. This will be a lot of fun for the kids as they relate new stories back to familiar stories they have read in years past.
In writing, students will use their background knowledge of informational books and essay writing to eventually compose their own historical essays. This will be a task that will take all quarter to complete, but will encompass a lot of what they have learned in reading, writing, and social studies this year in fourth grade.
In math, our next unit will focus on a variety of skills including solving number stories using both multiplication and division, as well as measuring angles and long division. We will also return to Rocket Math to improve multiplication fluency. This is an area that most students could really use some extra practice at home.
Mark Twain Nominees
The new books eligible for the Mark Twain Award have been released. This is very exciting for our fourth graders since they will be eligible as fifth graders to attend the Reader's Festival in Warrensburg with Mrs. Callahan if they read all of the books. Since we will read a few of them as read alouds in class, they can meet this goal by reading the remaining books on their own time outside of class. I always love to see some of my former students get to attend!
| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Susan Verrico | Privateer's Apprentice | Peachtree |
| R.J. Palacio | Wonder | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Lutricia Clifton | Freaky Fast Frankie Joe | Holiday House |
| Kate Messner | Capture the Flag | Scholastic Press |
| Caitlen Rubino-Bradway | Ordinary Magic | Bloomsbury |
| Tim Green | Pinch Hit | HarperCollins |
| Joanne Rocklin | The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook | Harry N. Abrams |
| Amy Gordon | The Shadow Collector's Apprentice | Holiday House |
| Carl Hiaasen | Chomp | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Frank N. McMillan, III | The Young Healer | Mackinac Island Press |
| Christopher Paul Curtis | The Mighty Miss Malone | Wendy Lamb Books |
| Rebecca Stead | Liar & Spy | Wendy Lamb Books |
I am looking forward to seeing the kids back in class tomorrow!
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