RRW Guidance with Mrs. Moore!!

Leader of the Week

Today, at our first Monday Morning Huddle, Mya was honored for being the Leader of the Week in 4th grade!!!     Mya displays her habits regularly by Putting First Things First and taking care of her responsibilities and then always asking how she can lend a hand to others, including teachers.  She is a kind hearted student who shows respect towards all learners and the fourth grade is very proud of her for her work this school year.

Congrats Mya!!!! 

(And high five to Logan, who played photographer this afternoon...well done kiddo!!)

Parent Teacher Conference Info!!

Please sign up for Fall Conferences!

Here's how it works in 3 easy steps:
1. Click this link to go to our invitation page on VolunteerSpot: http://vols.pt/mgXr8N

2. Enter your email address (You will NOT need to register an account on VolunteerSpot)
3. Sign up! Choose your spot - VolunteerSpot will send you an automated confirmation and reminders. Easy!

Note: VolunteerSpot does not share your email address with anyone. If you prefer not to use your email address, please contact me and I can sign you up manually.

Just a bit of Vitamin D to keep us going :)

This beautiful weather this week reminds me of last Friday, when we took advantage of some awesome weather and took our work outside!!   A great way to kick off our Fall Break and reward Team Wilkinson for strong stamina during our math test!!!

Hope your Fall Break is treating you all well...see you on Monday morning!!

My favorite part...

...of our morning is Fluency!!  Team Wilkinson has recently taken over, all on their own, and leads their own choral reading practice. Great leaders!!

Rock Cycle

Have you heard about our fun science model this morning?   Ask your child how we used Ms. Wilkinson's favorite thing (sweet treats!) to model the rock cycle!!   Have them use their vocabulary to explain what eat picture represents.

p.s.  Several mentioned showing this model at home, all you need are 3 different colored Starbursts!!

Unit 3 Vocab - Math

Our mathematicians are working very hard on their "Number Talks"...the conversations we have to share our thinking and processing during problem solving.  Here are some important vocabulary words your child can practice at home:

multiples - the pattern of products 

factor - any number, when multiplied by another, that results in a product

composite - a number with more than one factor pair 

prime - a number that has only 2 factors 

composite - a number that has more than 2 factors 

multiples - the sequence of products of any number 

multiples* - can be found using skip counting  (*this is the strategy, not the definition*)

composite - a number that can be represented using more than 2 arrays 

array - a visual representation of a multiplication number sentence 

product - the answer to a multiplication problem

Models and the Earth

Today our scientists learned that scientists use models to represent their research, thinking and understanding. We built models of the Earth's layers...please ask your child what each color represents and how we created this model; including what we captured in our Notebooks.  

Working hard on Family Journals!

Sometimes your best writing comes when you're the most comfortable!!   Have a great weekend Team...enjoy your Family Journal!