Hello Fourth Grade Families!
This week the kids will participate in Jump Rope for Heart to benefit the American Heart Association. If you haven't already, please turn in permission slips and donation envelopes by Wednesday, 4/20. Our time slot is on Wednesday from 1:45 to 2:45. Please feel free to come and join us in the gym!
Also, a reminder that we have an Early Release day on Friday. The kids will be dismissed at noon, before eating lunch. Back up care is available if needed.
This Week In...
Language: We'll be continuing our unit on Figurative Language, learning about alliteration, onomatopoeia, consonance, and assonance. Soon we'll begin to use our new knowledge to write some poetry!
Reading: Students are continuing with their partner reading, formulating discussion questions, and completing comprehension activities.
Math: This week we'll wrap up our unit reviewing fractions, and will begin a new unit where we'll add and subtract fractions.
Writing: We'll be working on writing passages where we compare and contrast.
Science: This week we're learning about the Periodic Table of Elements, and how elements combine to form substances.
Bible: Our memory verse this week is: You are my rock and my fortress. For the sake of your name, lead and guide me. Psalm 31:3
Have a blessed week!
Monday, April 18, 2016
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
This Week...4/11/16
Hello Fourth Grade Families!
We've got our Scholastic Book Fair going at MID all this week. Yesterday the kids made wish lists for the books they'd like to buy, and they should have brought them home. We'll be shopping at the book fair on Friday afternoon from 2:00 - 2:30. If you need to figure out the tax that should be added on so you can send a check for the exact amount, you can go to this link and put 7.25 in the tax percent: http://www.calculator.net/sales-tax-calculator.html.
We'll be going on our field trip to Imaginon on Thursday, 4/14 to see Schoolhouse Rock! We've watched many of the videos during our grammar lessons, so it should be fun to see how they present the songs and concepts on the stage. Permission slips are due on Tuesday, 4/12 and $6.50 for lunch at Fuel Pizza is due on Wednesday, 4/13. I apologize for the mix-up regarding the fee!!!
This week in...
Math: We're continuing our unit on fractions. This week we're working on reducing fractions, improper fractions, and ordering and comparing fractions. We'll review and take our assessment early next week. This link has a bunch of fraction games that will help your child practice these concepts:
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm#fractions
Reading: We're continuing Discussion University where the kids write discussion questions based on their reading that day, and then begin the next day with a discussion with their reading partner.
We also finished our read aloud, Three Times Lucky, yesterday. We were all surprised by the ending! We'll begin our new book today: Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper. It's a great story about a young girl named Melody. Here's the book blurb from the back:
Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school - but NO ONE knows it. Most people - her teachers and doctors included - don't think she's capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons again and again. If only she could speak up. If only she could tell people what she thinks and knows...but she can't, because Melody can't talk. She can't walk, She can't write. Being stuck inside her head is making Melody go out of her mind.
Writing: This week we're working on sequence paragraphs, where we focus on writing about a topic in sequence. This could be a sequence of events, the order in which a task is completed, etc.
Language: We're continuing to learn about figurative language. This week we'll talk about personification and idioms.
Science: We're wrapping up our work on atoms, and will begin looking at the Periodic Table of Elements.
Bible: This week we talked about how Paul finally began to head toward home after three long years of travelling to spread the Good News about Jesus.
Our memory verse this week is: My life means nothing to me. I only want to finish the race and complete the work the Lord Jesus has given me. He wants me to give witness to others about the Good News of God's grace. Acts 20:24
Have a wonderful week!
We've got our Scholastic Book Fair going at MID all this week. Yesterday the kids made wish lists for the books they'd like to buy, and they should have brought them home. We'll be shopping at the book fair on Friday afternoon from 2:00 - 2:30. If you need to figure out the tax that should be added on so you can send a check for the exact amount, you can go to this link and put 7.25 in the tax percent: http://www.calculator.net/sales-tax-calculator.html.
We'll be going on our field trip to Imaginon on Thursday, 4/14 to see Schoolhouse Rock! We've watched many of the videos during our grammar lessons, so it should be fun to see how they present the songs and concepts on the stage. Permission slips are due on Tuesday, 4/12 and $6.50 for lunch at Fuel Pizza is due on Wednesday, 4/13. I apologize for the mix-up regarding the fee!!!
This week in...
Math: We're continuing our unit on fractions. This week we're working on reducing fractions, improper fractions, and ordering and comparing fractions. We'll review and take our assessment early next week. This link has a bunch of fraction games that will help your child practice these concepts:
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm#fractions
Reading: We're continuing Discussion University where the kids write discussion questions based on their reading that day, and then begin the next day with a discussion with their reading partner.
We also finished our read aloud, Three Times Lucky, yesterday. We were all surprised by the ending! We'll begin our new book today: Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper. It's a great story about a young girl named Melody. Here's the book blurb from the back:
Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school - but NO ONE knows it. Most people - her teachers and doctors included - don't think she's capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons again and again. If only she could speak up. If only she could tell people what she thinks and knows...but she can't, because Melody can't talk. She can't walk, She can't write. Being stuck inside her head is making Melody go out of her mind.
Writing: This week we're working on sequence paragraphs, where we focus on writing about a topic in sequence. This could be a sequence of events, the order in which a task is completed, etc.
Language: We're continuing to learn about figurative language. This week we'll talk about personification and idioms.
Science: We're wrapping up our work on atoms, and will begin looking at the Periodic Table of Elements.
Bible: This week we talked about how Paul finally began to head toward home after three long years of travelling to spread the Good News about Jesus.
Our memory verse this week is: My life means nothing to me. I only want to finish the race and complete the work the Lord Jesus has given me. He wants me to give witness to others about the Good News of God's grace. Acts 20:24
Have a wonderful week!
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
This Week...4/4/16
Hello Fourth Grade Families!
This week we'll be hosting Math Night in our classroom! On Thursday, April 7th, the evening will begin with a PTO meeting at 6:00 pm, followed by Math Night in the classrooms. You'll get to do some of the hands on activities that your kids do in class. I hope to see you there!
This Week In...
Language: We've started a unit on Figurative Language and are talking about similes and metaphors this week. We listened to some songs yesterday (Life is a Highway by Rascal Flatts and Speak Now by Taylor Swift) and identified the similes and metaphors that we found in the lyrics.
Reading; We're doing partner reading, so each student is paired up with another and they're reading a book together. For the next couple of weeks we'll be doing 'Discussion University'. Every day after they read together, the kids generate a discussion question for their partner. They also complete an activity that demonstrated their understanding of what they read that day. For example, yesterday they created a 'billboard' based on something from that day's reading. The next day's reading begins with a partner discussion using the questions generated the day before.
Our current read aloud is Newberry Award Winner Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage, and it's keeping us on the edge of our seats! The main character is Mo (her full name is Moses because as a baby she was found floating in a river after a terrible storm). Mo was adopted by the Colonel and Miss Lana who run the local cafe, but she still looks for her 'upstream mother' by putting notes in bottles and tossing them into the river. Mo's best friend is a boy named Dale. Eleven year old Mo and Dale run the Desperado Detective Agency, and usually investigate things like missing cats. Everything changes when a local man is found murdered and Dale is on the list of suspects. Ask your child if they have any guesses about whodunit!
Math: We started a new unit on fractions this week. We'll be learning about equivalent fractions, improper fractions, mixed fractions, simplifying fractions and comparing and ordering fractions...whew! In our next unit we'll move on to adding and subtracting fractions.
Writing: In Writing we've been working on the organization of our writing by trying out different styles. This week we're working on writing a descriptive passage by using all of our senses to add details.
Science: We've moved on to our Chemistry unit, and are currently learning all about atoms and their parts: nucleus, protons, neutrons, and electrons. We're finding out that the difference in the make up of an atom determines what element it is. Soon we'll be talking about how elements combine to make many of the things around us, and we'll be studying the periodic table of elements.
Bible: In Bible, we're back in the book of Acts, learning about how Paul continued to travel to different cities to encourage the growing churches, and how he didn't stop even in the face of opposition and abuse. He continued to be faithful in his effort to spread the word about Jesus, and to encourage others who were doing so. His perseverance was amazing!
Our memory verse this week is: Christ has set us free. He wants us to enjoy freedom. So stand firm. Don't let the chains of slavery hold you again. Galatians. 5:1
Have a wonderful week!
This week we'll be hosting Math Night in our classroom! On Thursday, April 7th, the evening will begin with a PTO meeting at 6:00 pm, followed by Math Night in the classrooms. You'll get to do some of the hands on activities that your kids do in class. I hope to see you there!
This Week In...
Language: We've started a unit on Figurative Language and are talking about similes and metaphors this week. We listened to some songs yesterday (Life is a Highway by Rascal Flatts and Speak Now by Taylor Swift) and identified the similes and metaphors that we found in the lyrics.
Reading; We're doing partner reading, so each student is paired up with another and they're reading a book together. For the next couple of weeks we'll be doing 'Discussion University'. Every day after they read together, the kids generate a discussion question for their partner. They also complete an activity that demonstrated their understanding of what they read that day. For example, yesterday they created a 'billboard' based on something from that day's reading. The next day's reading begins with a partner discussion using the questions generated the day before.
Our current read aloud is Newberry Award Winner Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage, and it's keeping us on the edge of our seats! The main character is Mo (her full name is Moses because as a baby she was found floating in a river after a terrible storm). Mo was adopted by the Colonel and Miss Lana who run the local cafe, but she still looks for her 'upstream mother' by putting notes in bottles and tossing them into the river. Mo's best friend is a boy named Dale. Eleven year old Mo and Dale run the Desperado Detective Agency, and usually investigate things like missing cats. Everything changes when a local man is found murdered and Dale is on the list of suspects. Ask your child if they have any guesses about whodunit!
Math: We started a new unit on fractions this week. We'll be learning about equivalent fractions, improper fractions, mixed fractions, simplifying fractions and comparing and ordering fractions...whew! In our next unit we'll move on to adding and subtracting fractions.
Writing: In Writing we've been working on the organization of our writing by trying out different styles. This week we're working on writing a descriptive passage by using all of our senses to add details.
Science: We've moved on to our Chemistry unit, and are currently learning all about atoms and their parts: nucleus, protons, neutrons, and electrons. We're finding out that the difference in the make up of an atom determines what element it is. Soon we'll be talking about how elements combine to make many of the things around us, and we'll be studying the periodic table of elements.
Bible: In Bible, we're back in the book of Acts, learning about how Paul continued to travel to different cities to encourage the growing churches, and how he didn't stop even in the face of opposition and abuse. He continued to be faithful in his effort to spread the word about Jesus, and to encourage others who were doing so. His perseverance was amazing!
Our memory verse this week is: Christ has set us free. He wants us to enjoy freedom. So stand firm. Don't let the chains of slavery hold you again. Galatians. 5:1
Have a wonderful week!
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