This past week we did some exciting things in fourth grade!  I know all the students are really looking forward to our winter concert on Tuesday.  As a reminder, the concert will be held at Glenmont Elementary, not the high school.  There was a note sent home this week stating the change in venue.  All the fourth and fifth graders have been working really hard and I know they’re excited for their performances. 

This week, we started our week off with a close reading of James Taylor's, “Shed A Little Light”.  We dissected the different verses and learned that this song was dedicated to Martin Luther King, a man who sacrificed his life so that others would be treated fairly.  It was a great reminder of why we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. and the students really loved pulling apart the lyrics.   

Check out this amazing rendition we watched:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crKDDS5D_os

In writing workshop we are using all we learned from writing personal opinion essays to draft a persuasive essay.  The students had a short time to draft their essays and now they are working on publishing them. We will have a few days this week to work on them before we move into the Literary Essay writing unit. 

In math, we finished up topic 9, dividing by 1-digit divisors.  The next chapter explores the same topic, but now we will be using fluency to divide 1-digit divisors.  Keep practicing those facts!

We continue to learn about floating and sinking in our science unit.  This week each pair of students got to calibrate their own spring scale using paper clips.  They weighed different objects using their spring scale and we noticed that these measurements were very similar to when we measured using the balance scale.

This week our class and Mrs. Klugman’s class are going to perform the Pledge of Allegiance in sign language at our Assembly on Tuesday.  The students are really looking forward to showing the whole school what our buddy class has been up to!

Thanks for your continued support!

Mrs. Riegel