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| We have been focusing on TAPP when as we continue our writing journey. |
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| A beautiful display of our Colorado Maps, just like our beautiful state! We featured our salt dough maps and supported the display with an expository writing piece. |
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| Our five regions, hosted with a wood work piece by Mr. O'Brien. |
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| Understanding multiplication and factors |
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| Supporting multiplication with factors and multiples |
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| Our *Peace Place* |
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| More multiplication and important definitions |
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| Our voting booth for the 2012 Presidential Election. We use ballots that mirrored what a real ballot might look like. We had 4 elected candidates and our class winner was President Obama. It was a close race, as he won with 14 votes and Romney had 13! 2 of our votes were a miss count as 2 voters though they could vote for 2 separate parties! |
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| We created an anchor chart to help us create well-written Constructed Response |
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| Our beginning thinking about elements of Personal Narratives |
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| One our our favorite authors to support and model writing Personal Narratives |
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| Expanding out our 2digit by 2digit multiplication helps us understand why it works |
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| Have you ever heard of the Lattice Strategy to help you solve large multiplication problems? |
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| Showing our understanding of Multiplication |
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| Our QUEST strategy for solving word problems Q=Question U=Understanding E=Equation S=Solve T=Tell |
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| Creating open and closed circuits |
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| Exploring Circuits |
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| Can you tell if this is Series or Parallel? |
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| Series and Parallel Circuits |
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| Our Book Club Norms and Expectations that demonstrate the purpose and sets the stage for our Learning. |
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| Our Learning Process and the stage of what proficient writers do well. |
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| Our CAFE wall to help support Reading Strategies, evidence of our learning during our Independent Daily Reading (DLI) and application of Metacognition-Thinking about our Thinking as a Reader. |
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| Some of our *Quick Writes* to help set goals for our Learning, Reading, Writing and Math Goals for the year. |
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| To help guide our focus for Writing. We write for Purpose, Relevance, Significance and Clarity. This is an evolving goal for us as writers. |
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| What do Independent Readers Do Well, so Mrs. Andersen can help you achieve your goals and support the learning of others? |
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| It is important to understand the purpose of our reading and to understand why we as readers from a variety of different material. |
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| Our Metacognition Word Salad. We understand that Text + Thinking = Understanding in our Reading. |
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| Our Mountain Math wall we utilize on Monday's and Wednesday's to support our 4th grade math standards. |
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| My favorite...to support my learners and identify my purpose and role to facilitate the goals and success for our 4th grade year! |
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