Grade 4T

We are a fourth grade class at The American School in Japan

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This @MysterySci water lesson is terrific! Teaching science has never been this easy. https://t.co/o1qXboysI6 #StayCurious #NGSS

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Planning, designing, creating and modifying a Simple Machines subsystem. @asij4koizumi

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Thank you to our phenomenal middle school helper, Kyler. He made our class better!

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Friends make the good times better. @asij4koizumi

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Our last time together as a whole! Takezumi class rocks!

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Such a gift to be in the company of friends! @asij4koizumi

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Being in the moment and savoring our time together. @asij4koizumi

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Field trip to the Tama Coca Cola Plant to see first hand how Simple Machines make life easier. @asij4koizumi

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Examining persuasive mentor texts through the lens of goals and techniques.

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To 4T families and students, Thank you for the showering of beautiful flowers this morning. It was a generous and thoughtful surprise.

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Differentiated instruction based on student choice and interest equals a lot of motivated writers. @beth_puma @asij4koizumi

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Planning and drafting our writing with stamina, fluency and volume. @asij4koizumi

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Adjectives help writers to convey ideas precisely. Looking through poetry books, we examined adjectives and how they describe nouns, often through senses. We shared out our findings.@asij4koizumi

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Developing interpretations in the company of others. Active listening and engagement in 4K and 4T Historical Fiction Book Clubs. @asij4koizumi

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Exploring and modeling how solid rock breaks apart into smaller pieces through a process called weathering. @asij4koizumi

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Sharing our thinking across historical and character timelines. Lots of discussion in book clubs on how understanding the timeline of world events influences the character’s feelings and decisions. @asij4koizumi

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We can rehearse presenting our information, using our PIPES. @asij4koizumi

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Partnering up with our first grade buddy class to distribute onigiri in Ueno park. @ASIJ1T

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Reading and eating yummy popcorn with our first grade buddies. @ASIJ1T

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Nonfiction readers notice that text structures help them determine the information that is most important. 4K and 4T share out their learning. @asij4koizumi