Friday, August 31 -Intramural sheets due to Mrs. Cushing
Monday, September 3 - No School/Labor Day
Wednesday, September 5 - Fourth & fifth Grade Curriculum Night - Parents Only 7:00 P.M. in the multi-purpose room
Welcome to Fourth Grade!
All 4th & 5th grade students have the opportunity to sign up for Intramural Games. This is a "free" after school program that allows your child to stay active. Permission slips will be sent home on Monday with your child. Please return to Mrs. Cushing by Friday, August 31.
This week we will spend much of our time getting to know each other and organizing our things. The children will practice the three behaviors that we will continue working on this year (Be safe. Be responsible. Be respectful.)
Math - We will begin math on Wednesday of this week. We will spend some time getting to know each other in math. Then we will begin the year with understanding place value. The students will model, read, write, and identify the place value of whole numbers through millions.
If you need to know how a skill has been taught in class, you can refer to their math binder. Please keep all papers in their math binder. We will clean them out at the end of a chapter together. They should only take out the papers that are in the back of their binder that are marked take home.
Spelling - Each student will be given a pretest on Monday. This week, however, we will have our pretest on Friday, since we do not have school on Monday. A list will go home in their spelling binder with the new pattern. Every day they will be given a homework assignment to complete at home. Tests will be given on Friday. If there is no school on Friday, tests will be given on Thursday.
English - We will review what a sentence is and the different kinds of sentences. (statements, questions, exclamations, and commands) They will practice writing sentences correctly during Daily Oral Language (DOL). There will be DOL quizzes to assess their learning of the skills from that week.
Reading - This week in reading the students will review and practice their reading strategies as they read the story The Pumpkin Runner by Marsha Diane Arnold. The reading strategies that we will focus on are preview/infer, phonics/decoding, question, monitor/clarify, summarize, and evaluate.
Science - In science this week the students will participate in a textbook scavenger hunt. This hunt will help them become familiar with the parts of their book. They will learn the tools of inquiry which they will be using throughout the year and safety rules they will need to follow when participating in science class.
The children will also be working on the study skill of locating answers. They will learn how to find clue words that they can use to help them skim for answers in the titles, subtitles, captions, and highlighted words, as well as the paragraphs.
Social Studies - We will begin a U.S. government unit this week. The students will understand what the Constitution is and why it is important. They will identify the three levels of government.
