Hello Flyer Parents, (Please note special request in red at the end)
I hope that your Thanksgiving break was wonderful. Last Tuesday, the students wrote some beautiful sensory poems. I hope that you and your families had a chance to hear their beautiful and heartfelt words. This week we will be continuing to learn about the culture of Mexico for the upcoming Culture Night (this coming Thursday). We already completed an amazing Mayan calendar display, and this week we'll be making yarn art inspired by Mexico's indigenous tribe, the Huichol. Please come and enjoy the evening and be sure to drop by our hallway. In language arts we will be starting a chapter about native stories that explain natural phenomenon. Our main selection is a story from Brazil about how night came to be. We will be learning about generalizations in literature, and our spelling list will focus on the "ou" sound. Since this is a full week, we will also be doing Lexia. We continue our study of double digit multiplication in ch. 5. If your student comes home with a math page that needs to be corrected, please take the time to ensure that he or she learns the algorithm necessary to be successful. We'll be working on it in school, of course, but that parental attention is so valuable! On Wednesday, we'll be having a guest speaker from the Utah Mining Association come to talk with us about Utah's valuable and unique resources. It should be interesting and the 4th graders always enjoy this presentation. One last thing. I would like to ask you to send an 11x14 canvas with your student for a special winter art project to be completed the 3rd week in December. It should be the kind of canvas that is stretched around a wood frame that costs about 5 dollars. I really appreciate your help in providing the canvases (I purchased them last year, and it was really expensive for me to buy all of them). This project is so neat and I know you'll treasure it. Please label the plastic wrapping with your child's name, and I'll store them until we're ready. Thanks!!
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This week is only Monday and Tuesday with the Thanksgiving holiday, and as such, we will not be doing Lexia, Reading Street, or Spelling. We will be reviewing concepts from previous story selections and taking some comprehension tests. We will also be delving deeper into some important reading conventions. We will be moving forward with math (double digit multiplication), so keep it up with the Reflex practice. I'd love to see each student finish with addition and subtraction and move as quickly as possible into multiplication. I have one student who is nearly finished with all three levels, so it's entirely possible to do! Next week is our Culture Night (11/29) and we're focusing on the culture, traditions, food, and artwork from Mexico. Please come! We will spend some time over the next few days making some displays for our hall. That's it for this week. Please have a wonderful holiday break!! Email or Dojo with any questions or concerns. Hello Flyer Parents,
I really can't believe that we are almost to Thanksgiving! Time has flown and we will be doing lots of great things in class this week. First of all, it's College Week! I loved college, and I really love talking about all of the possibilities that a college degree can provide. We will be making college banners (kids will decorate in the style of a college of their choice), graduation caps with tassels, and we will be doing some fantastic Nearpod presentations about career exploration and virtual field trips to some of the most beautiful and well-known college campuses in the world. In math, we will be finishing up with ch. 4 on Tuesday, and taking a test. I am so pleased that so many of you are insisting that your students finish their Reflex levels. I have many students who are almost finished with 0-12 addition and subtraction, and I have a few who are well into their 0-10 multiplication and division, and one or two who are nearly finished with 0-12 multiplication and division. Can you guess who has a total head-start as we head into multi-digit multiplication and long division? Let's get those kids finished with their levels as quickly as possible, and they won't be the ones counting on their fingers and falling behind. :) Language arts has us continuing our discussion about the patterns in nature. Our spelling words are homophones, and we will be focusing on determining fact and opinion. I will be asking students with a spelling score of less than 80% to bring his/her spelling tests home and then returning them, signed by a parent, on Tuesday. I know that sometimes spelling study can fall away during the week, but I have definitely noticed a decrease in scores. Please make sure your student is putting in the time with vocab and spelling on Spelling City. Last, we will be taking a practice language arts benchmark in preparation for the interim RISE test (replacing SAGE) that will be taken this winter. One last thing, our class has had 100% completion of our Lexia minutes for 2 weeks in a row! Keep it up! Thanks so much for sending salt dough and cardboard last week. Friday was chaotic and wonderful, and the kids made some fantastic topographical maps. We will be painting the three regions and the three remnants of Lake Bonneville tomorrow, and then the maps will come home. I think that's enough for now. Thanks for all the good things you are doing at home to raise these wonderful 4th grade students! They are so smart and fun and kind and good. Have a fantastic week! Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns about your student. Hello Everyone! Welcome to a new week. Spirit Week is always crazy, with the crazy hair, book character costumes, PJ day, etc. I'll be very glad to have kids that are in khakis and polo shirts, who haven't just consumed Halloween candy for breakfast! I would like to take this opportunity to thank our Room Moms: Mrs. Dansie, Mrs. Chaffin, and Mrs. Peterson for planning a fun Fall Festival Class party. I would also like to thank volunteers: Mrs. Singer, and Mrs. Simar for assisting us.
This week, we are going to be studying more about the 3 Regions of Utah, and will culminate the week with our salt dough maps of Utah on Friday. Here's what I need from each student: an 8x10 piece of strong cardboard to build the regions map, and some homemade salt dough (recipe here) . Please have these items at the school by Thursday. We will be using the salt dough to create a topographical map of Utah on Friday, and then adding paint on Monday. In language arts we will be learning about Luke Howard, a British chemist who was fascinated by cloud patterns and later named all of the clouds as we know them today. We will be practicing cause and effect, as well as action and linking verbs. The students will start study soil and fossils with Mrs. Groendyke, and math will see us multiplying with two digit numbers and eventually using the distributive property and using regrouping in multiplication. I think it'll be a fantastic week. Please keep up the 20 minutes of language arts homework (Lexia, Spelling City, personal reading) each day after school, and the 15 minutes of math homework (Aleks, Reflex, homework pages). If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to Dojo me or email. |