April Showers

April happenings in the Resource Room include fifth grade students reading novels.  One group has read Where the Mountain Meets the Moon  by Grace Lin.  Students are now busy creating digital books of Chinese folk tales and working on their storytelling techniques.  What fun!

The other group has read a book from the Winston Breen series. There were two separate options.  During this book, we closely examined the text and worked on story elements such as protaganist, antagonist, climax and resolution.  Pictured below are the students using the "cootie catchers" they made and answering questions about text elements.

Fourth grade students have been busy working on an algebra unit.  Every once in a while, we take a break to practice our multiplication and/or division facts so they are speedy and automatic.  Watch as the students play "I have, who has" with multiplication facts.  They were very speedy and accomplished the entire round in less than two minutes!