Mystery Symbol

Students had to use their critical thinking skills and active reading skills to investigate some complex reading and video clips to guess what our next Social Studies unit will be.

Factors and Multiples

Students learned a game about finding factors and multiples of numbers. They played in small groups using their critical thinking, and collaborations skills.

See, Think, Wonder

We have been working on showing our thinking to help with comprehension while reading. Students were broken into 6 groups and given a  different picture. Each group had to collaborate, communicate and use critical thinking skills to write down what they saw, thought, and wondered about their pictures.

Solving Muti Step Math Problems

On Friday, students were working in pairs on solving multi step word problems. Students were required to write an equation, number the steps, solve and check each problem.

Thinking While Reading Equals Meaningful Reading!

We read a story and listened to a song called, Don't Laugh at Me by Mark Willis. While the class was reading the text we were adding green pieces of paper to a salad bowl to represent text. During the story students were sharing examples of what their brain was thinking while reading. At that time, students would add red paper to the salad bowl to represent the readers thinking. The point was, in order to be a good reader you must be thinking while reading to make it meaningful. A salad would not be good with just lettuce but other vegetables too!

Getting to Know You!

Students received Skittles to sort by color and tally. Once they finished tallying the colors they had quesitons to answer. For example, if a student had 4 red Skittles they had to name 4 books they have read.

We are all different!

We read a story called Chrysanthemum, by Kevin Henkes and discussed how we are all special and different in our own way. We put all of  our shoes in a pile and tried to fit into someone elses shoes. Ask  your child the point of this activity.

Welcome to 4th Grade!

Our first day of school with a bag of treats from Mrs. Olson! :)

Are you a bucket filler or dipper?

We read a story called, Have You Filled a Bucket Today, by Carol McCloud. Ask your child if they are a bucket filler or bucket dipper and why!