Dates to Remember:
Monday, Sept. 16 - Beginning Band Parent Orientation 7:00 in the multi-purpose room
Tuesday, Sept. 17 - Magazine turn in day 1
Tuesday, Sept. 17 - Curriculum Night 4th grade 6:30-7:30
Thursday, Sept. 19 - Magazine turn in day 2
Tuesday, Sept. 24 Magazine turn in day 3
Wed./Thurs., Sept. 25 & 26 Beginning Band Sign-Up
Thursday, Sept. 26 Fall Pictures
Friday, Sept. 27 Early Dismissal 11:00
***Looking for Helpers: If anyone would be interested in helping with running off papers once a week or once every other week, it would be greatly appreciated.
Time for Kids will go home with the students on Monday with a worksheet that goes with it. They should leave the magazine and sheet in their binder on the homework side to remind them that they should read and discuss this with their family throughout the week. They will need to turn the sheet in on Friday, and they will have a quiz over the material in the Time For Kids magazine on Friday. They will be able to use their magazine to help them answer the questions, so it is very important that they leave it in their folders.
Math - We will have test on Wednesday of next week. This test will cover the skills and concepts learned in chapter 1. They may bring home their books to help them review and they can use the papers in their math binder folder to review. We did not finish some of the pages in the chapter, so they may finish them for extra practice if they would like. There will be a review sheet going home as well for homework. Concepts to review: How does the value of a digit in the thousands place compare to its value if the same digit was in the hundreds place? (Make a model: 222,222 - if the 2 in hundreds place was in the thousands place its value would be 10 x more. 200 x 10 )
Spelling - The students will work with long and short "a" and "e" words this week. They will be responsible for workbook pages 17-19. On Monday their assignment will be to write each word twice. Then each day they will be assigned a workbook page. I will check their pages in the morning for completion and then on Friday I will collect one of those pages for a homework grade. There will be a test on Friday.
Reading - The students will read a story called Akiak by Robert Blake. Akiak is about a famous Iditarod race that takes place in the Alaskan wilderness. We will use a story map to examine how a problem and its solution affect the story's plot and characters. We will continue to work on the "Read to Someone" strategy of our Daily 5. We are working on building stamina and the students will learn how to help their partners sound out unknown words.
English This week in English the students will identify the complete and simple subject of a sentence.
They will understand that all sentences need complete thoughts - Sentences need a subject that tells who or what, and they need a predicate that tells about the subject.
Social Studies - This week the students will understand what the Constitution is and why it is important. They will identify the three levels of government. They will Describe the responsibilities of each of the three branches of government.
Science - We will review why we need to have standard units of measure. The students will identify the tools used for inquiry. They will understand how to measure the volume of a solid.
