Thursday, January 17

Great day in Room 110! We took our Math Assessment this morning and I think we are doing better. I truly believe that the majority of the class completely understands fractions and probability. Unfortunately, I don't think all of them show it very well on assessments... 12 students "passed" with a 72% or better while 10 did not. I don't like that 10 students still aren't showing proficiency but I feel we need to move on. I will continue to put fractions into my weekly plans and probability will continue to pop up in data analysis and many other areas as well. Please feel free to continue to practice fractions and probability at home as well. The afternoon was a little out of the ordinary. We began our checkpoint writing assessment which is an assessment every 4th grade student in HCSD gets for teachers to assess their progress in writing. Today, they read the text and created pre-writings on "What It Means to Be a Citizen." Tomorrow, they will complete the writing. For Reader's Workshop today and tomorrow, they practiced their fluency by working on a Reader's Theater about Martin Luther King, Jr. We will be performing these for some classes on Tuesday. They asked why we had Monday off of school and I thought this was a good way to show them!