Conferences begin the week of October 10th! I am also able to meet virtually. The kids have been working hard to complete their slides to present at the conferences. Again, thank you for your understanding of the mistake on the sign-up sheet! Here is the corrected one! Conference Sign-up Genius
Students needing to eat breakfast should arrive at 8:10 and eat in the gym. Many kids are coming to the room with breakfast and we have had many unexpected spills etc. Since we have a special at 8:35, they can't eat until after and it's becoming a problem! Please help by feeding your child breakfast at home or getting them here to eat in the gym. If they take the bus, they should go to the cafeteria right away when they arrive & start eating. Thank you for your help and understanding!
Below are links to Google forms and presentations for 4th grade. Please make sure you scroll down the page. I will go over all of the information at BTSN, but if you are like me, you might want to get a head start! Have a fantastic Week!
Be sure to add to your calendar the party dates!
Fall Party--October 31
Winter Party--December 22
Kindness Party--February 14
Important Dates
Late Starts: 10/5, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26
Count Day: 10/5
Student-led Conferences: 10/10-10/14
Half-days: 10/13 & 10/14
Picture Retakes: 10/21
Party Dates:
Fall Party--October 31
Winter Party--December 22
Kindness Party--February 14
This week's academic focus
Reading: Reading assessments are almost done! Using the data from the Fountas & Pinnell reading assessments, NWEA, and conferring conferences, I am working on what reading strategies and goals each student needs. These strategies are intended to be added to their "reading tool kit". Over the next four weeks, I will read Winn Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo as an interactive read-aloud. These mini-lessons will focus on many reading strategies. It's possible to use more than one reading strategy at a time. These strategies cover comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and expanding vocabulary. Students will be presenting their reading goals at their student-led conferences.
Writing: We will be focusing on sentence structure and brainstorming strategies. Then I will write begin lessons on teaching how to write personal narratives.
Math: Unit 1: In this section, students revisit the ideas of area and factors from grade 3 and encounter the idea of multiples. They begin by building rectangles given specific side lengths and identifying possible areas when only one side length is known. Students use tiles and diagrams to build their understanding before learning new terminology. Next, students build rectangles given a certain area. They see that the side lengths of the rectangles represent the factor pairs of the given area value. Students also observe the commutative property of multiplication when they see that rectangles with the same pair of side lengths have the same area, regardless of their orientation.
Math Units below
- Factors and Multiples
- Fraction Equivalence and Comparison
- Extending Operations to Fractions
- From Hundredths to Hundred-thousands
- Multiplicative Comparison and Measurement
- Multiplying and Dividing Multi-digit Numbers
- Angles and Angle Measurement
Science: Here is the link for the Human Machine Unit.
Social Studies: (Our focus will be on Science this week, not SS) Once we begin SS, it will be Foundational Social Studies on "Thinking Like a Historian, Geographer, Political Scientist, and Economist". Here are all the units for SS. We will begin with Unit 1.
Positivity Project focus this week is "Purpose"
Weekly Specials Schedule
Lunch: 1-1:25 Lunch Recess: 1:25-1:50
A.M. Recess: 11:20-11:40 every day
P.M. Recess: 3:00-3:15 every day
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