Math: This week we will be wrapping up unit 9 concepts, but will not test until the Tuesday after Spring break. Unit 10 will be a far cry from fractions, decimals, and percent, and instead will focus on symmetry, lines of reflection, patterns, and negative numbers.
We have been working hard to make conversions between fractions, decimals, and percent. A couple of helpful hints: if a fraction does not have 100 as the denominator, such as 2/5, make an equivalent fraction that does have a denominator of a 10 or 100, such as 4/10, or 40/100. This makes it a lot easier to convert to a decimal and percent. If the denominator of a fraction is a 4, say the fraction as a “quarter.” The students know how to write the decimal for $0.25, or $0.75, which then helps them write the percent as well.
Literacy: Has your child shown you their “Storybird” account yet? As a wrap up to our traditional literature unit, students are using “Storybird” to help them write a fairy tale, tall tale, or myth. Students are required to include the elements of that genre, and the fiction writing strategies we’ve been working on to make a fun story. This is due on Thursday.
As a tie in to our social studies unit on immigration, students have been listening to many short accounts of Wisconsin immigrants’ experiences and making written responses to the stories. They have been challenged to imagine what it would be like and to take the perspective of that immigrant or family.
This week students will start a poetry unit. I will be exposing students to many different kinds of poetry. Students will be reading poetry and finding poetry that they like. After Spring break, we will begin writing our own poetry, trying different styles, and including figurative language, and literary devices like onomatopoeia, alliteration, simile, metaphor, and personification to help us.
Social Studies: We have had some guests in 4th grade to help us with our learning! As you saw in the “Traeger Tales” Representative Hintz visited our class to discuss government. Our own Traeger ELL teacher, Bee Vang, gave an excellent presentation on her Hmong immigrant experience. And finally, on Thursday, Mike Breza, from the Oshkosh Public Museum, came in dressed as a lumberjack to kick off our lumbering unit. We will learn about Wisconsin’s developing economy from logging, farming, manufacturing and tourism.
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