Dear Families,

It has been a great first week in fourth grade!

       This week we have started our insect unit.  We have learned about insects and went out to the OLC to catch some. Then we took notes, sketched, and observed them. The read aloud book is also about insects. It’s called Project Mulberry. 

Every week we do a mentor sentence. A mentor sentence a descriptive sentence that we study the whole week. On Mondays we notice all the exciting words like vivid verbs and figurative language. On Tuesday we notice parts of speech and label them. On Wednesday we revise the sentence to make it even better. On Thursday we imitate it by using the same style but in our own words.

Everybody has their own job. We had to apply for two. Some examples of jobs are the message reader, the operator, and our job, the reporter! The zookeeper feeds the our class frogs Kermit and Ms.Piggy. The electrician turns the lights on and off and turns the computers on. 

We have Spanish two times a week. Our Spanish teacher comes up with lots of fun games. And we talk in Spanish to partners. And our teacher talks in Spanish to us (but we don’t understand)! We get to slap Spanish words with fly swatters. We have Spanish names that we use in Spanish class. We have a bunch of songs like “iOle Ole!” and “El reloj" on posters on clothes hangers on a hook. It is fun. 

We hope you enjoyed this blog report!  

Have a great day!!

Bye!  


By *Isabella* and *Claire*