No lectures today

Hello,

It's 6:00 and time for our fourth grade potluck dinner, so this is going to be very quick.  We worked more on descriptive writing this afternoon using Chris Van Allsburg's The Mysteries of Harris Burdick.  We will use that book later in the year to write creative stories.

We discussed the electoral college system and figured out that a candidate could win 39 states and the District of Columbia and still lose the election for president.

We made yellow hats at the end of the day so we have something to wear that is yellow tomorrow.  It is a school spirit day and fourth grade has been deemed the yellow grade.  Twelve students in the class said that they don't own any yellow clothing.  I don't either.  Problem solved.

In math today, I was very impressed with all the different ways that students in the class could write or draw 3x4.  We had arrays, number lines, repeated addition, commutative property representations, 3-D drawings.  It was great.  I attempted to show the relationship between multiplication and division tonight.  The homework deals with fact families.  (3x4 = 12, 4x3 = 12, 12 / 4 = 3, and 12 / 3 = 4)  Look familiar. 

Alright.  I hope to see some of you right now at the dinner.

Thanks,

Mr. Shea