What Have We Been Up To in Class?

What have we been up to in class?

English

We are currently learning about Nouns and Verbs in English. Students have been doing different activities in class to differentiate between the two parts of language such as playing charades, cutting ans pasting activities, as well as identifying these as we read our stories in class. These students are doing a great job recognizing what is a Noun and what is a Verb.

Noun- a person, place, object, thing, idea: house, cat, table, chair

Verb- an action word: jump, play, go, ride, eat

Also in English we are learning to write better sentences in our journals. Students must remember that when we write sentences we begin them with a capital letter and finish the sentence with a full stop. See the example below:

 Example:

 mubarak went to the store to get some milk

Fixed Sentence:

Mubarak went to the store to get some milk.

-Notice that there is a capital at the begining of the sentence and a period/full stop at the end of the sentence.
 

Math

We are learning about some great concepts in math currently. First we are learning about place value. Students are expected to know what each number space is called for each numeral in a number.

See the picture below:

Students are also expected to know a number by looking at how many base 10 blocks are shown. The picture below shows the number 233. There are 2 hundreds blocks, 3 tens blocks, and 3 ones blocks.

 

 

Science

Students are continuing to learn about the scientific method. Each science experiment we do in class is done using the scientific method, which helps the students learn as they think about what is happening in an experiment. The steps of the scientific method we are using is located below:

As you can see the steps follow one another. Between step 1 and 2 we expect the students to make observations of the experiment. This is where the students will use their senses of sight, touch, taste, hearing, and smell to observe what is happening in the experiment.




Homework and Practice:

Students can use the following websites for extra practice at home. There are also some game sites that will help with the students learning.

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/english.htm


and


http://www.funenglishgames.com/wordgames/hangman.html 

School Expectations

Learning about the School Expectations

This first week of school the students have been doing a great job learning about the school expectations. The following video and pictures show the students engaged in some activities while learning about how to:

-Be Safe

-Be Responsible

-Be Kind and Respectful

-Be a Leader 

The above video showcases the activities we have done in the first week of school that have taught our grade four students about the school expectations.

Look at these great expectation collages!

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Using Grade 4's Kidblog

For More Information about Grade 4 

at Mubarak bin Mohammed

Please Visit the Following:

http://kidblog.org/MBM4thGrade2013-2014/

http://kidblog.org/MBM4thGrade2013-2014/3d8fb90b-c3cc-410a-8c8d-71d2d8eda632/welcome-to-kidblog/

http://kidblog.org/MBM4thGrade2013-2014/3d8fb90b-c3cc-410a-8c8d-71d2d8eda632/homework/

http://kidblog.org/MBM4thGrade2013-2014/3d8fb90b-c3cc-410a-8c8d-71d2d8eda632/class-behavior/

-The blog located above has valuable information regarding all subjects of grade 4.

Welcome to Mubarak bin Mohammed School.

I am Mr. Joe and welcome to my 4MA and 4MD classroom blog website. Here you will find useful information about what is going on in Mr. Joe's classroom for the week. Here you will also find pictures and videos of your students being engaged learners inside the classroom. I have created this site for parents and students to see what is happening in Mr. Joe's classroom.

September 8-12, 2013

Lets begin by talking about what we will be doing in the classroom for the first few days of school.  Students will learn about the schools expectations. The students are expected to follow all school expectations of the school each and every day. These expectations are:

1. Be Safe

2. Be Kind and Respectful

3. Be Responsible

4. Be a Leader

The students will be learning about what each of these expectations are to make sure we have a positive and successful school year.

Technology in the Classroom

Students will be using all different types of technology within the classroom. The students will also be expected to use computers/internet at home to complete certain assignments. Parents will also be involved within their students learning by checking their behavior/homework on the following web sites:

www.classdojo.com

Classdojo is a helpful website where students earn point within the classroom depending on their behavior. Students with good behavior will be given point toward rewards. Bad or misbehaving students will not receive point. this is a popular tool for parents to see how their students are doing in class for that day. All the you have to do is log onto scoot pad, enter the students special code and you can see how the student's behavior was for that day.

The next program is called ScootPad from www.scootpad.com Here the students will be able to do homework in areas of English and math that will help build their skills for the 4th grade level. Homework assignments will be given out on Scootpad and students will be able to not just complete their homework but engage in other interactive opportunities the sight offers such as talking with friends, sharing ideas, and even talking with the teacher. I will be sending home handouts to your students with their log in and sign on information.

  www.scootpad.com

I will be sending out all log on information to each of these sites for you to log on at home. please do not loose these log-in and passwords.

This year is going to be a great one. I am excited to meet all of you in the upcoming days and weeks.