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Cub Reporter Message: Southeast Research, Earning Letters, Mrs. Labowsky

February 21, 2016 | Posted in: Class Updates, Student News

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Written by student #14

This week in room 209, we have been finishing our poetry presentations.  We started a new unit in social studies about the southeast region, and broke up into groups.  We had a last science lesson where we took our science tests. Then, on Thursday, we earned two letters in Spanish, and then, for math, Mrs. Labowsky joined us for our math lesson.  We had a wonderful but short week, but it was great!

Notes from Mr. Moss:

  • We’re hoping to finish the poetry presentations on Monday or Tuesday.  I’ve really been impressed with the kids’ work!  Ask your fourth grader to show you his or her group’s presentation.
  • For the social studies project, kids were divided into focus areas for the region, such as geography, natural resources, food, music, etc.  They are learning how to take notes in bullet-hierarchy form, and how to track their sources.  We’re working on making sure that they write their notes in their own words in order to avoid unintentional plagiarism.  Then, they’ll continue their process of learning how to make a slide show by making Google Slides presentations about their part of the southeastern region.
  • Allow me to explain the “two letters” that this week’s cub reporter referred to.  For a few weeks, we’ve been working to improve our transitions.  We’ve been struggling with having quiet and efficient transitions either when we move from one place to another (such as from the rug to the kids’ desks) or when we switch from one activity to another.  When the class has a good transition, they can earn a letter on the board, working to create the word TRANSITIONS.  When transitions are less successful, they lose a letter.
  • Mrs. Labowsky is our district elementary math coach.  She joined our class to team-teach the second math lesson in our new unit.  You’ll notice that the math worksheets in this unit have a different feel than previous units’ worksheets.  More on this in an upcoming post.  Mrs. Labowsky will be back on March 14th for a special lesson!  (Any guesses?!)