Hello again! We had another great week here in Room 11! In ELA this week we worked on using the RADD strategy (Restate, Answer, Detail, Detail) to answer short answer comprehension questions. We started by reviewing the parts of RADD, reading a short passage about lions and completing a RADD response together. Then, students worked on a RADD response about a text about how dogs are helpful to people. After that, we read one more passage called Meerkat Chat about how meerkats communicate and students did another RADD response. After each of these tasks, we looked at examples and discussed how to choose strong, specific details to support our answers. We also continued to work on opinion writing this week. Students wrote a paragraph about whether or not fourth graders should have homework. (A VERY passionate subject, I found!) While working on these paragraphs, we worked on using transition words to make our writing flow more smoothly as well as how to use conjunctions to edit run-on sentences.
In Social Studies this week, students used what they have learned about longhouses to make paper models of longhouses. While doing this we reviewed what parts of the tree were used for different parts of the longhouse. After break, we will start our next unit on Early European Explorers who came to New York!
In Science this week, students completed an edPuzzle activity with a video about motion and collisions.
We also celebrated Valentine´s Day this week! We had our first House Challenge where the four houses competed against each other for points! There are lots of photos of this below!
I hope everyone has a wonderful break! As always, please reach out to me with any questions!
Here are some photos from Valentine´s Day:
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