Story telling in Speech

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We love telling stories in speech! We work on using the seven story grammar elements (character, setting, problem, feeling, action, conclusion, end feeling) to get all the parts of our story, using correct grammatical sentence structure, making inferences, answering questions about the story, problem solving, learning vocabulary, etc. There are so many things we learn from stories in the speech room!

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Elizabeth Cope

Music during Read Alouds

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Mrs. Brockbank, our district music specialist, came in and taught us how to use music when reading out loud. We practiced dynamics, pitch and tempo. These are great skills to help us with our oral reading fluency. It was so fun!

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Marina Irwin

Native American Presentation

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This week the fourth graders had the opportunity to learn more about the history of the Native Americans and how they have helped shape the way we live today. We had some amazing presenters, and one of them was a student who attends Meadow Brook.  She shared part of her heritage by showing the students a cultural dance. At the end of the presentation, the students were able to learn a song using hand speak. This is a way Native American tribes communicated when they didn’t speak the same language. 

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Alexis Christensen