Happy Friday parents! The end of the year is approaching rather quickly, and we still have so much to accomplish in such a short amount of time. Please take a look at what is happening in fourth grade during this upcoming week!
**Please sign and return permission slips for the girls puberty talk on May 22nd! Thanks!**
Math: Students continue to work through their unit 8 math boxes, weekly morning work, and daily assessment check ins. There will be NO MORE math homework throughout the rest of the year. Each week, the students will also be completing an "Escape the Classroom" math concept review, where they will have forty-five minutes to figure out the clues and escape the classroom game.
Science: During science class, the students are completing STEM projects where they are given a real life problem and asked to solve it by planning and building a product. For example, we talked about the importance of water and how some countries do not have access to clean water. The students then built a water filter. For each project, students will be using an app to post pictures of their finished products for their parents to see if interested.
Seesaw Parent Link(Duke) --> https://app.seesaw.me/s/999-094-327
Seesaw Parent Link(Harlacker) --> https://app.seesaw.me/s/907-259-339
Reading: We are building on our interpretations as we read fiction text and poetry.
Writing: Many students have published their literary essays on the book Fox. Next we will write essays on historical fiction texts the students have been reading during this unit.
Social Studies: The students will be having a quiz on the location of all 50 states.
Vocabulary: Word of the Day quiz will be Wednesday, May 17th
No more word sorts for the year!!
Upcoming Dates:
Career Day: May 19th
May Day: May 19th
Puberty Lesson: May 22nd
No School: May 29th
Last Day of School: June 2nd
Friday, May 12, 2017
Friday, May 5, 2017
Second Week of May (05/08-05/12)
Happy rainy Friday parents! What a fun day yesterday was at the track meet. We are so incredibly proud of each and every one of our students who participated and put forth their best effort. We are now under twenty days of school left, so things are really starting to come to an end. I will not be sending any more math homework home for the remainder of the school year, so students can focus on what they need to get done at school and then mentally relax and have fun outside in the nice weather at home. Please take a look at what is happening this upcoming week in fourth grade.
Math: Students will just be completing project based learning projects. Their grades will consist of their work during this, along with morning work, mental math, and math boxes. Please encourage them to take their time on their morning work and ask questions if they do not understand what is being asked of them.
Science: Students will be working through our end of the year STEM unit. STEM focuses on preparing students to become lifelong learners and to take particular skills that they learn in school and apply it to everyday life. They will be given a problem and then asked to research, plan, and build something that may resolve the problem. An example would be talking about how third world countries have a limited supply of clean water. We have focused a lot on Earth's water this year, so we are going to have the students build a clean water filter to help our the citizens of these countries that are struggling. They will be working collaboratively in groups to complete these projects, which will be another learning experience in itself. They will be graded on the effort and thought that they put into each of these projects.
Reading: As we continue to read Number the Stars the students are learning to analyze parts of the story to develop their own interpretations. I will be administering DRA's next week to assess how much each student has grown as a reader.
Writing: The students wrote a flash draft in class. This means they wrote a draft of a literary essay in a limited amount of time in order to get their thoughts, ideas, and opinions onto paper. We will continue to draft and finally publish these literary essays on the book, Fox. Once students are finished with this literary essay, they will begin
Upcoming Dates:
Sunglasses Day: May 10th
Career Day: May 19th
May Day: May 19th
Puberty Lesson: May 22nd
No School: May 29th
Last Day of School: June 2nd
Math: Students will just be completing project based learning projects. Their grades will consist of their work during this, along with morning work, mental math, and math boxes. Please encourage them to take their time on their morning work and ask questions if they do not understand what is being asked of them.
Science: Students will be working through our end of the year STEM unit. STEM focuses on preparing students to become lifelong learners and to take particular skills that they learn in school and apply it to everyday life. They will be given a problem and then asked to research, plan, and build something that may resolve the problem. An example would be talking about how third world countries have a limited supply of clean water. We have focused a lot on Earth's water this year, so we are going to have the students build a clean water filter to help our the citizens of these countries that are struggling. They will be working collaboratively in groups to complete these projects, which will be another learning experience in itself. They will be graded on the effort and thought that they put into each of these projects.
Reading: As we continue to read Number the Stars the students are learning to analyze parts of the story to develop their own interpretations. I will be administering DRA's next week to assess how much each student has grown as a reader.
Writing: The students wrote a flash draft in class. This means they wrote a draft of a literary essay in a limited amount of time in order to get their thoughts, ideas, and opinions onto paper. We will continue to draft and finally publish these literary essays on the book, Fox. Once students are finished with this literary essay, they will begin
Upcoming Dates:
Sunglasses Day: May 10th
Career Day: May 19th
May Day: May 19th
Puberty Lesson: May 22nd
No School: May 29th
Last Day of School: June 2nd
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