October and November Photo Dump

Author's Chair-

We finished our first book!

Some students wrote poetry, from the perspective of an animal, about magic, about something that has happened to them. We loved having choice!

Be on the lookout for your books in your 4th grader's take home folder.
The books went home on Friday!

Our kindness and grit award recipients from awhile back.

We worked on building our vocabulary with words that describe character traits.

We went on the lookout for evidence from our IDR (Individualized Daily Reading) books to find evidence to support.

We had our Shop with Mrs. C event at the Highland Park Jewel down the road.

We worked on rounding, multiplying, subtracting, and more!

Excellent job!

We helped out with Ms. Karasick's class in Mrs. Comitor's room for a fun pumpkin project.

Award recipients from October 26th

Mrs. Thurman read a favorite story from the late Ms. Schippers called The Tailypo: A Ghost Story.

We are learning how to push our thinking as we read. 

As we read, we are working on stopping and checking to make sure we understand what we read, making predictions, and visualizing. Today we took time to write long in our Reader Response Journals.

We are trying to incorporate these sentence starters to build on our thinking of the text.

Our latest kindness and grit award recipients.

Halloween Picture Fun!

We started our day by painting kindness rocks. We will take time this week to spread some kindness around Kipling. 

We had an incredible author visit on Wednesday.

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