Welcome back to school! We had a busy first few days. We spent some time getting to know each other and participating in some team building activities. Core Values: At Dale Street we have 4 Core Values that help be the best learners and people that we can be. WE spent some time this week talking about them and brainstorming examples and what each value means to our class. Team Work: Working together is a big part of 4th grade. Being part of a group, helping each other and problem solving together. We completed a STEM activity where the students worked in groups to build a structure out of straws. They had to make a cup part of their structure and we tested how strong it was by adding marbles to the cups. I was impressed by all the ideas and cooperation! The students worked in groups to complete team drawings where it gave us a good visual of team work and cooperation. Each student had a color and they were the only ones who could use it. At the end, if they had great team work we would see a pretty even amount of each color. Week 2...we started our learning! In Math we started learning about place value of bigger numbers. We also started learning the routines of our math workshop time. Social Studies: We started learning about Map Skills. We also have been talking about our summer reading book and started building our reading and writing stamina! We even completed a digital breakout in groups about The Wild Robot. We also took time to visit the LMC/Makerspace this week. We were all eager to get in there and see what awesome books Mrs. Cowell has. On Friday we had our turn with class set of Chromebooks. It is exciting learning about technology and all the fun things we will be doing this year on them. We also had all of our specials this week and it was fun meeting new teachers! Instrument lessons started this week. So many new rules, routines, and expectations in the first few days but these students have done a SUPER job! Have a great weekend. I am looking forward to meeting everyone at PIN next week!
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Steve Lewis
9/9/2017 06:17:18 am
Nice blog. Great to see what the kids are working on.
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