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Here are some helpful hints for tonight's math homework.  Try your best!

Make a mixed number into an improper fraction ~

Another way to change mixed numbers to improper fractions~

Make Improper Fractions into Mixed Numbers

A Big Bite

We had another great week filled with learning and fun!  We celebrated Dog Day on Wednesday, participated in a science lab about adaptations of insects, learned about natural resources of New England, continued work on skills with fractions and made progress with essay writing.  Thursday was the 90th day of school and 4th grade is officially at the half way mark!! The second half of the school year is going to be great, I can't wait!!  Check out the pictures below. 

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Williams

You're It

Here is this week's You're It! #goodforyou #happyboy

Juicy Nibble

Hey, gang!  The amazing Mrs. K made a Quizlet to learn the states, capitals and abbreviations for the Northeast.  Click here to start the Quizlet!  Thanks, Mrs. K!

Author Alert

This looks like so much fun!!1 I LOVE Judd Winick and the Hilo series.  I am going to convince Mrs. Merten to come with me.  I'll try to convince Mrs. E too, but she does have that baby at home....

Judd Winick with Jeff Kinney

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Come meet Judd Winick, creator of the award-winning HILO series. Calvin and Hobbes meets Big Nate meets Bone in HILO-the hilarious, action-packed New York Times bestselling graphic novel series that kids, critics (and robots!) love! "A Total BLAST," says the Miami Herald! Chock full of more monsters, more action, more laughs, more FUN!

DJ and Gina are TOTALLY ordinary kids. But Hilo isn’t! Has Hilo finally met his match? Not if D.J. and Gina can help it! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! Mega Robot Monsters are suddenly waking up all over and they’re TOO BIG and TOO STRONG for Hilo to fight on his own! Luckily, he doesn’t have to! He has GINA and some brand new SUPER POWERS on his side! Being heroes can be super fun-but it can also be SUPER dangerous! And the closer Hilo and Gina get to saving their world from the monsters—the closer Hilo gets to the dark secret of his past. Does he really want to know? Do WE?!

ABOUT JUDD:
JUDD WINICK lives in San Francisco with his wife, their two kids; and their cat. Judd has scripted issues of bestselling comic series, including Batman, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Justice League, and Star Wars. Judd also appeared as a cast member of MTV’s The Real World: San Francisco and is the author of the highly acclaimed graphic novel Pedro and Me, about his Real World roommate and friend, AIDS activist Pedro Zamora. Visit Judd and Hilo online at juddspillowfort.com or find him on Twitter at @JuddWinick.

 Register here for this free event. 

Juicy Nibble

Mrs. Merten found an awesome live web cam of baby eagles  and I have been watching this live stream of baby bald eagles in Southwest Florida  It is fascinating! The parent eagles (a mother - named Harriet, and father- he isn't named  yet) took turns keeping the eggs warm, and in late December, two babies hatched!  Think about the animal adaptations we have been studying.  What you notice about how these animals? How will they survive in the wild?  Comment below with your ideas!

A Big Bite

Happy Friday!! It was a short week in room 23 but we accomplished a great deal!! It was so busy in fact that I didn't get a chance to take many pictures; sorry 😢.  We continue to share books that we love and enjoy our Friday Morning Dance Party.  We have been reading like writers and writing like readers in reader's and writer's workshop!  We have been reading non fiction books about dogs and writing essays about the perfect dog for our family. We are developing ideas for essays in writer's workshop and are looking forward to choosing a topic to take to publication.  We continue to work on fractions in math and will have a test this coming Tuesday (a study guide was sent home on Thursday).  Our study of the United States has started with a tour of the Northeast and as part of Project Based Learning with Mrs. E, we are researching National Parks.  In science, we are continuing to study animal and plant adaptations.  In technology workshop, we are writing scripts to create, "how to" videos; such fun!!! In poetry workshop we learned about Robert Frost and will be writing free verse poems using strong imagery in the next few weeks.  Click here to listen to Robert Frost read his poem  The Road Not Taken.  Ask your child about it, I am sure that it will be a fascinating discussion. 😇

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Williams

SciShow Kids

You're It

Here is this week's You're It! #goodforyou

Juicy Nibble

Here are two videos from today's concert, ENJOY!!

A Big Bite

Last week's snow days may have slowed us down a little bit, but we have done SO MUCH during the past seven school days.  Dr. Ashley joined our community meeting to talk about recess fun and playing safe.  She is going to work on getting us some new equipment for recess.  Thanks, Dr. Ashley!

Our new unit of study in science is Animal and Plant adaptations and what better way to kick off the unit than with an in house field trip from the Museum of Science!  Thanks to the PCC for sponsoring this enrichment opportunity.  

We completed travel brochures on Canada and they were great!  Students participated in a gallery walk of the completed brochures.  We learned a great deal from each other's work.  We will be learning about the Northeast over the next few weeks.  Good times!

We continue to share the books that we love in reader's workshop and even got a like/retweet from author, Kwame Alexander!  It is so exciting when that happens.  We are working on identifying main ideas and details in non fiction texts and videos about dogs in order to write an essay about the perfect dog for our family.  We will also be writing essays in writer's workshops on topics that are important to us.  We live the motto, "we read like writers and write like readers."  We are working on verbs in word study and are looking for them in independent reading.  Keep reading!!

Fractions, fractions, fractions!!! For the next six-eight weeks, we will be studying fractions in math workshop.  Fractions are everywhere and are part of our life every day so we are working on mastering basic concepts about fractions.  We will be adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions.  I am so excited and so are the students.  MANY of them said that math was GREAT this week.  Music to my ears. 😊  Keep working on multiplication and division facts at home.

The concert on Friday was FANTASTIC!! Everyone looked great and sounded wonderful.  They are all heroes in my opinion.  Check out my Twitter feed on the right to see two videos froom today's performance. I love my job; being a teacher at JFK is THE BEST job in the world. #nothingjustlikethis. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

We spent time on Friday as an entire grade listening to parts of Dr. Marting Luther King Jr's. "I Have A Dream Speech," while looking at Kadir Nelson's book, I Have A Dream.  We watched a presentation on his life and completed an activity about the presentation.  It is important for us to understand WHY we have Monday off from school.  We agreed that Dr. King's birthday is a great day to remember and celebrate because of his impact on the world and The United States.

Have a great weekend.  Stay Warm!

Mrs. Williams

You're It

This week's You're It! #happygirl

SciShow Kids

Check out these cool videos from SciShow Kids!  Have fun. :)

T-shirt of the day

Look closely....Meow is right!

T-shirt of the day

They have the right idea!