Hello Fourth Grade Families!
A big 'Happy Birthday' to Ava! Ava is such a blessing in our classroom...she is a hard worker, not only with her academics, but when helping keep our classroom neat and organized as well. At various times this year Ava has erased the whiteboard, swept the floor, cleaned the desks, organized her classmates' desks, straightened up our bookshelves, and even brought a garbage bag out to recess to pick up the playground! She also loves to help out with Safety Patrol in the afternoons. She is a wonderful helper and a great example to her classmates, and her sweet little sister, Aubrey, who's in Kindergarten. We love you Ava!!!
I hope you'll all be able to join us for the Fall Festival on Thursday night! We've got our door decorated for 'Trick or Treat', and I'm working on putting my costume together :) I can't wait to see the kids all dressed up in their costumes! If you're able to donate candy, please drop it off at the front desk...we could also use your help in other areas, so check out the Sign Up Genius that Mrs. Verdi sent out.
This Week In...
Math: We're starting our Multiplication Unit this week. Some of the kids are already well versed in their multiplication facts, and this will be a review for them. Others are still working on learning their facts.
We're continuing to work on our Math Fact Fluency daily. We've started setting a goal for how many facts we can get right in 3 minutes at the beginning of the week. We went to see if we can reach it by the end of the week. Some kids set their goal on Monday, and reached it on Tuesday! So I told them to reset it a little higher...we're gonna keep on challenging ourselves!!!
Most of the kids did really well on their Unit 2 assessments! I'm planning to send homework once a week that continues to focus on adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers. It's so easy to make small addition, subtraction, or regrouping mistakes, so it will benefit the kids to continue practicing this skill.
Reading: We're continuing our 'Asking Questions' unit. We'll be learning about types of questions, asking questions as we read, noticing when our questions get answered, and reading with a question in mind. All of these strategies will help the kids understand what they read more deeply, and will extend their learning.
We're still enjoying our read aloud, A Snicker of Magic, and the kids are making tons of inferences about what's going on in the story. Ask them what they found out about who Felicity's related to...that should get them talking!
Writing: This week we're going to be doing some activities that will help us become better at making our writing descriptive. We'll also work on 'showing, not telling' when we write.
Language: We're working on Subjects and Predicates this week. We'll learn the differences between the simple subject and simple predicate, and the complete subject and complete predicate.
Bible: This week we're learning about the continued persecution of Christians by the Jewish leaders. Our memory verse is: My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. 2 Corinthians 12:9
Thank you for sharing your kids with me...I truly enjoy our time together every day!!! I'm looking forward to seeing you next week for Parent-Teacher conferences :)
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