What a fabulous first week of 2017 we've had!  I know it's tough getting back into the swing of things, but I couldn't be happier to see all of my sweet 4th graders!

Writing/Social Studies
We started our new writing/social studies project this week.  This unit will be all about cities in Missouri.  On Thursday, kids read a paper about a city and scored it using the rubric I will be using to score them on.  On Friday, the kids preferenced their top 3 cities they wanted to study and then were assigned one.  We will begin working on this research project on Monday.

Math
We started our next division unit this week.  Our lessons centered around how division relates to repeated subtraction and used fact families to help us solve problems.  On Friday, we took our timed operation assessments.  I'll share those results at conferences in February.

Daily 5
We got back into the swing of things with Daily 5 this week.  On Wednesday, we revisited our stamina the whole class participated in focused reading for over 30 minutes!  We also started learning about the Great Depression by reading some books to build background knowledge for our next read aloud, The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis.

Important Upcoming Dates:

• January 16- MLK Jr. Day (NO SCHOOL)
• January 20- 3-5 Spelling Bee
• January 27- Citizen of the Month Assembly
• February 6- NO SCHOOL
• February 13- Parent/Teacher Conferences
• February 14- Spring Party Day
• February 16- Parent/Teacher Conferences