Hello Families,

We had an early start on Monday which we had Social Thinking with Mrs Burton.
We also started our new explorers unit. We hung posters up then went in groups and wrote how explorers did stuff. We started our nonfiction unit where we read nonfiction in groups. We had a new word of the week: “wallop” Then we had to write sentence with the word in it.To wrap the week up we had a spelling test. It as our eighth spelling test.

During Writing we are wrapping up our real...

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 la...