I hope all of you had a nice, relaxing Christmas break! I was very impressed with how focused and ready to go the 4th graders were coming back. After spending a couple weeks in December focusing on our multiplication fact fluency, we started a new unit right away in math this week. In Unit 4, we are focusing on equations and word problems.
We had quite an eventful December in the 4th grade classroom, between preparing for the Christmas Concert to learning about Advent to Christmas caroling at the nursing homes. One thing we did to celebrate Advent in the classroom was we created Advent Christmas trees. The students were able to decorate their trees based on good deeds they did to help others. These deeds could be helping out an elderly neighbor, helping family members at home without being asked, visiting elderly in the nursing homes, donating toys to Toys For Tots, etc. Each good deed they did to help someone else, they received a gold star to put on their tree. They were encouraged to be creative with this project and some of them went above and beyond!
I can't believe we're already half way done with the school year! Just a reminder, second quarter ends January 22nd. I hope all of you have a wonderful January! Happy New Year!
We had quite an eventful December in the 4th grade classroom, between preparing for the Christmas Concert to learning about Advent to Christmas caroling at the nursing homes. One thing we did to celebrate Advent in the classroom was we created Advent Christmas trees. The students were able to decorate their trees based on good deeds they did to help others. These deeds could be helping out an elderly neighbor, helping family members at home without being asked, visiting elderly in the nursing homes, donating toys to Toys For Tots, etc. Each good deed they did to help someone else, they received a gold star to put on their tree. They were encouraged to be creative with this project and some of them went above and beyond!
I can't believe we're already half way done with the school year! Just a reminder, second quarter ends January 22nd. I hope all of you have a wonderful January! Happy New Year!