Hi fourth grade families!

I hope everyone is gearing up for a rainy weekend. Fourth graders have had a busy week! My writers have just finished their last full week of drafting their personal narrative. Next week, we will begin the long road to publishing! We learned about “writer’s craft” and making our writing better using dialogue, sensory details, figurative language, and positive/negative emotions words. We also discussed the revising and editing processes that get us closer to our final draft.

In social studies, we took our quiz on the geography of Virginia just in time to start learning about early life in our state. Students created “flipbooks” to demonstrate what they discovered about the three major native language groups in Virginia: Algonquian, Siouan and Iroquoian. Some of their hard work can now be seen on the bulletin boards outside of my classroom! Next week we will finish our unit on native Virginians before beginning to talk about Jamestown, the first permanent European settlement in Virginia.

Next week will be exciting, as we have our science enrichment teacher coming and a visit from the Alexandria Fire Department on Wednesday, and Individual Picture Day on Friday! Don’t forget to turn in picture order forms as soon as possible.

Have a wonderful weekend and stay dry!

Ms. Becker