Ms. Kreul’s Class Blog

Fourth graders have done a terrific job this week organizing desks and school supplies, greeting old friends and meeting new friends, learning schedules and routines, and working hard during the first few days of school.

After listening to the read-aloud book The First Day Jitters, fourth graders shared times when they felt nervous – or had the jitters – when faced with a new situation or challenge. Students wrote personal narratives describing a memorable time when they felt nervous or scared or anxious.

Be sure to ask your fourth which character had the jitters in this entertaining picture book. 

4K fourth graders have just finished a terrific read-aloud book titled Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume. It’s a wonderful tale of the trials and tribulations of a fourth grade boy named Peter Hatcher whose little brother Fudge makes life in the Hatcher household quite interesting.

The class worked together this week to write a book review for Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.” Lots of people use book reviews in newspapers, magazines, and online to help them decide which books they will enjoy reading. 4K often publishes their book reviews on the class blog or on individual student blogs after they have read books they would like to recommend to others.

For this class book review, we worked on starting off our review with a sentence that will catch the readers’ attention, adding interesting descriptive sentences that will encourage them to read on, and finishing up with an ending that will have them running to the library or book store – because they just have to read this terrific book! Be sure to check the class blog to read 4K’s book review for Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing!

Fourth graders have done a terrific job this week organizing desks and school supplies, greeting old friends and meeting new friends, learning schedules and routines, and working hard during the first few days of school.

After listening to the read-aloud book “The First Day Jitters,” fourth graders shared times when they felt nervous – or had the “jitters” – when faced with a new situation or challenge. Students wrote personal narratives describing a memorable time when they felt nervous or scared or anxious.

Be sure to ask your fourth which character had the jitters in this entertaining picture book. J