Students are using partial quotients instead of traditional long division to divide large numbers. The strategy helps students build a conceptual understanding of division. While the standard algorithm for long division works, there is no mathematic reasoning for why it works. Below is a youtube video that explains the partial quotients strategy.
Month: February 2019
Poetry Celebration
Fourth grade students ended their poetry writing unit with a poetry celebration! During the unit, students wrote poems that incorporated many skills and forms of figurative language: alliteration, simile, metaphor, personification, consonance, idioms, sensory descriptions, and onomatopeia. All poems were structured with lines and stanzas. Antonym diamante poems were also created. Students revised and edited their work before assembling it into a poetry anthology. Some students included every poem that they wrote during the unit, while others were more selective. The writing celebration began with students taking turns reading poems aloud from their anthologies to the audience. Afterwards, they broke into small groups to share their anthology, teach their family and friends one poetic skill from the unit, and write a poem as a group.