Learning Through Discussion

A key factor in learning in our classroom is being able to express your thoughts, ideas and answers both verbally and in written form.  In many of our reading units, learning comes from each other in the form of discussions.  As we discuss, students learn to hear other points of view, debate them respectfully, share thoughts, change opinions and answers, and just generally being able to discuss literature to educate.  This morning, students participated in a guided discussion group where we shared our thoughts to various questions.

In a World of Fantasy

Students are starting their fantasy genre unit in language arts - reading this week.  Students are in various groups which are each reading a different novel based on our genre.  Today students did an initial activity with predicting and questioning, along with other pods of read to self, grammar based activities on subject and predicates, and some journalling as we're always practicing our writing skills.

Word of the Day

On of our goals in 4th grade purple this year is to build our vocabulary.  In order to do this, we need to learn a plethora of words and what they mean.  This way we can use them in our speech and writing, and if we come across them in literature we read we'll know what they mean.  We are keeping track of our "Words of the Day" on the blog so feel free to pop by and check out all the new words we're learning.