Happy HALLOWEEN!  We had a fun day with a party, kids voting, and a pumpkin run!

Wacky Hair Day!

They really got into the final Red Ribbon theme. Lots of crazy hair today!

We are working on taking notes in reading. This group is researching hurricanes. 

Check out all the hats to show Putting a Lid on Drugs!  Tomorrow will be Wacky Hair. 

Showing our Character and staying off drugs. Today's Ref Ribbon Week theme looks super cute. Tomorrow wear your hats!

Look at all this red for Red Ribbon Week!  Tomorrow dress as your favorite character. We also played a fun online game called Kahoot to review for social studies. Anna was the champ!

Look at these boots stomping out Drugs today!  Wear read tomorrow!

Game Time!

Students were able to create games in small groups during library. Then they returned to library his afternoon and shared with our first grade buddies!

Today students received new family team shirts. They should wear these on early release days. 

We learned a lot today at the Sheldon about science and musical instruments. It was also Miss Thompson's last day in fourth grade. She is on to fifth and the class will miss her!

Note taking and Buddies!

We practiced taking notes using graphic organizers and looking at the text structure of a passage from our book.  Today our groups found problem/solution, description, and compare/contrast text structures. We also met with our buddies and shared our salt maps. 

Show Me Missouri!

Today we painted both the regions and border states on our Missouri salt maps. They look great!

In math we are looking at finding products using models to help multiply. 

Our class was very generous in their donations to Backstoppers today. Thank you!

We are starting to look at 2 digit multiplication. Today we used Place Value to help us Multiply. 

We started our salt maps today. They turned out great!  Hopefully they will dry by Friday so we can paint the regions of Missouri!

Missouri Brochures

We finished our brochures showing the regions of Missouri today. Each brochure gives two facts about each of the 5 regions in our state. 

Pushing Our Thinking

In writing we used some prompts to encourage us to push our thinking and elaborate on our ideas.

Permission Needed

Check your backpacks for a yellow permission slip about skating in gym class!  They need your child's show size and permission!

Researching Missouri

We started to research the different regions of Missouri today. We will use this research to create a brochure showing off our state. 

Students also generated ideas for their opinion essays. Today we wrote ideas about a person that is special. 

Starting Essays

Today we started our unit on writing essays. We started as a class writing an essay about ice cream. Students will begin to brainstorm ideas for their own topics later this week. This chart in the picture shows the format we will use when writing essays.