Writing workshop

Persuasive writing is an important skill that can seem intimidating to elementary students. In fourth grade we  encourage students to use skills and knowledge they may not realize they already have. A classroom game introduces students to the basic concepts of lobbying for something that is important to them (or that they want) and making persuasive arguments. Students then choose their own persuasive piece to analyze and learn some of the definitions associated with persuasive writing. Once students become aware of the techniques used in oral arguments, they then apply them to independent persuasive writing activities and analyze the work of others to see if it contains effective persuasive techniques.


Currently, year 4 is in the "prewriting stage". We are brainstorming ideas and working on our graphic organizers. 
Love, 
Ms. Carla 

Wish us a happy writing journey!

Raz Kids

Comprehensive Leveled Reading Resources for Kids

Raz-Kids is an award-winning teaching product that provides comprehensive leveled reading resources for students. With hundreds of eBooks offered at 29 different levels of reading difficulty, it's easy to put the right content in every student's hands.

Kids access their leveled text through an interactive learning portal designed to keep them motivated and engaged. Every eBook is available in online and mobile formats, and allows students to listen to, read at their own pace, and record themselves reading. Students then take a corresponding eQuiz complete with an extended answer response to test comprehension and determine future instruction needs. Once a child has read ten or more of the leveled eBooks and passed each of the corresponding eQuizzes, they advance on to the next reading level where they have access to lengthier and more difficult text.

A DIGITAL LIBRARY AT YOUR DISPOSAL

• 800+ leveled eBooks for students to practice reading anytime, anywhere
• Corresponding eQuizzes that measure student comprehension
• Digital management and reporting tools to easily track individual and class-wide reading progress

Raz Kids reading at cyber

Reading comprehension and vocabulary in class

ELA centers with our MAPLE BEAR books

Storytelling at the Library 

Play-dough characters! Working on descriptions with Ms. Carla and Ms. Jess

Raz Kids features. Assigments for homework, flight check for running records and level up to improve your reading level. 

Happy reader!

Independent readers

Unit on nutrition!Raz Kids has it all

Reading comprehension activities 

Reading graph 

Maple Bear books always giving support to what we read

Guten News

Com o excesso de informações e temas complexos, nem sempre a leitura de um jornal tradicional consegue despertar o interesse de crianças e adolescentes. Para incentivar o gosto pela leitura e o aprendizado por meio de fatos reais, a startup de educação Guten desenvolveu um jornal digital interativo que traz notícias na linguagem infanto-juvenil. Utilizando jogos, missões e atividades, o aplicativo também ajuda os leitores  a ampliarem sua compreensão dos textos.

Dia das Bruxas

No dia 31 de outubro se comemora o Halloween, mais conhecido no Brasil como o “Dia das Bruxas”. As comemorações do Halloween são mais comuns nos países anglo-saxônicos, em especial nos Estados Unidos. No Brasil, a confraternização do “Dia das Bruxas” vem se tornando cada vez mais conhecida e praticada pela sociedade.

Preposição

We love Science! Energy and Weather

Energy is special. There's lots of it about and it's very useful. Why? What makes energy so important? Here's just a few reasons.

• it lets me swim fast and catch my fish
• it gets you out of bed in the morning
• it means that birds can fly, tigers can roar, wind can blow
• it makes the sun, the moon and stars shine
• it makes plants grow — food (= stored plant energy) for animals
• it makes cars move, factories produce things, light bulbs glow, planes fly and your computer work. I'll bet you can think of many more!

Without energy, there would be nothing: no life, no movement, no light, no heat, no you, no me… nothing.

But there is a problem with energy. Some people have got used to using far too much of it. This means that there's not enough for everyone. And using some kinds of energy causes terrible pollution and makes the Earth's climate get hotter.

This flipped homework is to categorize forms of energy. Are you ready for the challenge?

Instructions: 

Watch both videos, use your form of energy worksheet ( PYP notebook) to take notes. Remember, make it fun and easy to read. Messy and illegible handwriting makes it difficult to study and review when needed. 

Trabalho em equipe

FAB LAB!

Treinadores 

Media Lab 

Maker 

Biblioteca

Computação 

O Year 4 agradece!