Upcoming Events

4th Grade Awards Ceremony is on Nov. 5th at 9:00am.
                ALL PARENTS ARE INVITED!!



Veteran's Day Ceremony is on Nov. 7th at 8:50am.

Field Study to GTM NEER

We had a blast on our first field study to GTM NEER.  Students rotate to 3 different stations all focused on the estuary.  Here are a few pictures from our adventure.

Field Study This Wednesday!

We have our First Coastal Science Field Study this Wednesday, Oct. 22nd!

Make sure you are on time to school, wear appropriate clothes, and bring your lunch. 

We will be exploring the salt marsh and taking a hike.  Wear clothes that can get dirty and shoes made for walking.  We are going to have a BLAST!

Main Idea and Supporting Details

Using our Social Studies book to continue our discussion on the First Floridians, students looked at a section and determined the main idea and then had to prove it with supporting details.  Students worked in pairs to complete this 2 day activity.

Point of View

Students focused on point of view this week in reading.  They had to determine if the text was written in first person, third person objective, third person limited, or third person omniscient. 

A Day in the Salt Marsh (Our 1st Coastal Science Unit of Study)

This week we dove into our 1st Coastal Science Unit of Study through a close reading of "A Day in the Salt Marsh".  Students filled out a KWL chart on what they already knew about the salt marsh and what they wanted to know about the salt marsh.  We read the story several times and they went back and filled in the final piece of what they learned in the KWL chart.  We read the story again, this time for the purpose of determining the text structure the author used and how it helped us as readers.  Take a look at a few pictures from this activity.

 

Strong Endings

Our focus in writing this week was to make sure our endings were strong in our fiction pieces.  We created a chart of questions to consider in revising those endings.