Katie Oakes

4th grade teacher at Wilson Wims Elementary and NBCT

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Congratulations to @OakesRMHS on his 100th career win as coach! We are so proud of you!

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Today we used inferencing and a mentor text to determine what we need to write an essay, and we composed an entire essay as a class in 13.5 minutes using the boxes and bullets strategy! Students can also define a “thesis statement” to impress their families at home :)

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Today we spent time reconnecting by sharing about our breaks with synectics, a Padlet, and a Menti. So happy to have my fourth grade family back!

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It’s more fun to brainstorm ideas when we can “Give One, Get One”! Students analyze the challenges different characters face together!

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Our first Book Tasting of the year!

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Happy Fall! @spitzteacher

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What is “strength”? We use squiggles and movie clips to explore our Q1 theme!

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We are determined to be ourselves and to persevere through challenges!

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Some days we stick to the plan - other days we get off on a tangent and watch a compilation video of cats that are scared of cucumbers : ) I love laughing together!

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Want to learn everything about our classroom? Let’s do a scavenger hunt!

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What a great first day of fourth grade! We read the book Sticks and talked about how, at the beginning of the school year, nothing is “im-popsicle”! #positive #wimspride

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@MrsEckertWWES Love this!

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So excited to meet my new fourth graders! #Year19

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@WimsicalLibrary @WimsCounselor Where can we order these?? :)

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Using Norman Rockwell’s work to explore our five generalizations of change.

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Today we’re doing a “Food Truck” book tasting to select our new book club books and talking about how these authors’ lives are like different foods. Thanks, @tasty for the great engaging videos!

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Student suggests that Mrs. Jones’s decision to help Roger clean his face in “Thank You, Ma’am” is a metaphor for how he did a dirty deed by trying to steal from her and now she wants to help him clean up his life. Fourth grade. This is fourth grade!💗

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“Let’s find text evidence!” says a student. Be still my reading teacher heart 😍

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Today we took some time to talk about the big feelings many of our classmates are experiencing right now. We talked about focusing on what we can control and used the example of Malala to brainstorm ideas.