Happy Friday parents! We wanted to thank you all for your cooperation this week with the PSSAs. The students did a wonderful job focusing and doing their absolute best. Ms. Duke and I are so proud of them. This upcoming week, the students will not have PSSAs because it is a short week. Please take a look at what will be happening in fourth grade.
Math: Students will be finishing Hands-On Equations this week. They will have a short quiz on the seven lessons that they completed. There will be no study guide being sent home for this. Also, on Thursday, we will be conducting our first ever Math Madness tournament championship. Over the course of the last four weeks, the students have been competing in tournament brackets for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. We have gathered a winner for each operation that will competing against the other top third, fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. We are really excited about this tournament and we are hoping that it is a true success.
Science: We continue to work through our unit on the Pennsylvania Food and Fiber system. Next week, the students will begin a project on Biological Pests. They will be given a certain invasive species that they will need to research and learn about. They will be creating a Powerpoint presentation of the information to present to the class. The students will have access to their Powerpoint at home through Google Classroom if they choose to work on it there.
Reading/Writing: As we research history the students are keeping in mind that there are big lessons that can be learned. This helps them with identifying theme. Next week we will begin a new unit on Historical Fiction. The students have finished up their final research paper on the Revolutionary War. We continue to stress the importance of organization through using transitional phrases and paragraphs, as well as using proper conventions in our writing pieces.
Word Work: A new word sort will be sent home next Day 1, April 13th. Tic Tac Toe homework will be due the following Day 6, April 21st. A Remind text will be sent home.
Social Studies: Our next unit in Social Studies will be our 50 states.
Upcoming Dates:
Crazy Socks and Hat Day: April 12th
Grandparent's Day: April 12th
Math Madness Championship: April 13th
Easter Break: April 14th-16th
Math PSSA: April 24th-28th
Science PSSA: May 1st-3rd
Track and Field Day: May 4th (rain date: May 18th)
No School: May 29th
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