Fractions, Fractions, Fractions Everywhere!

                                       
A fun way to review equivalent fractions!  Fraction dominoes, flashcards, games, and match-up game.  Much more fun than pencil and paper!

This week.......

A busy week ahead! 
Our reading story:  Encantado:  Pink Dolphin of the Amazon
Math:  Fractions, Fractions, and More Fractions!
Social Studies:  Ch 14 - Slavery in Alabama
Language Arts:  Subject and Object Pronouns
Spelling:  final le, al, en

Author Edie Bowman, aka Chester Drawers, will visit our school Thursday! 
            

 An online reading with Former First Lady, Barbara Bush, also on Thursday.
                

Progress reports will be sent home on Thursday, February 2.

                                                    BIOGRAPHY SPOON PUPPETS
Students read a biography.  then they made a spoon puppet of their person, timeline, vocabulary words from the book, and gave oral reports.  Our biographies included:  Babe Ruth; Betsy Ross, Daniel Boone, Benjamin Franklin, George & Martha Washington, Clara Barton, Thomas Edison, Will Clark, Meriwether, Lewis, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Amelia Earhart, Henry Ford, and various other important historical figures.

Our Spoon Puppets!

Creative Writing: "My Life as A Soldier During the Revolutionary War"

                         

Students wrote their own historical fiction stories from the perspective of a soldier.  They did a great job!

                                                         OUR ALABAMA BOXES
Assignment:  Construct a box, with facts about Alabama on each side. 
Write a story:  "When I opened my Alabama Box, out came......"

Students did a great job with their stories!!  Very imaginative, as well as informative!

CONGRATULATIONS to our fourth graders on their great DIBELS scores!

We are very excited to have Miss Kristy, UAH student, observing our class for the next few weeks!  The students enjoyed reading with her today! 

We will read The Houdini Box this week!  This story is always a favorite with the students.  A young boy taxes his mother's patience by trying to imitate Houdini's magic tricks.  When he spots Houdini in a crowded train station, the child boldly appoaches his hero.  A magical ending for the child.  Read the book!

Welcome to our classroom!  We are a fourth grade class in Alabama.