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Hello Lincoln Families!

Here are some reminders: Please make sure you ask your child about what he/she is reading. Each student should have a "good fit" book in their backpack. 4th graders are encouraged to read each day/night for 20 minutes or more at home. Once the reading is finished, students need to record the minutes and pages read. Please sign your initials to the bookmarker. This is one example of how students can earn "yards" and eventually score a touchdown! In addition, all students have a daily planner. Please ask to see it each day. This is a wonderful way to continue the conversation with your child about what is needed for school.

If your child wants to participate in Safety Patrol Program, and you haven't turned in the permission form yet, it is below. The permission form has to be completed before students can participate. We began training last week. The Safety Patrol assignments will begin Monday. It was sent in an email to the parents/guardians who turned in the form. I will explain the program at BTSN. However, if you click on the link for the BTSN link below, the information is on slides 11 and 12. 

It's supposed to be warmer this week. Please make sure your child has a water bottle.

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!

                                                                Fall Volunteer Form


                                Winter Volunteer Form


Be sure to add to your calendar the party dates!


Fall Party--October 31

Winter Party--December 22

Kindness Party--February 14



(click on the link)




Back to School Night, will be interactive! Here is the presentation, if you would like a sneak peek!




Sign-up for Fall Conferences! (click on the link)

Snacks in the Classroom

Please make sure that everyday snacks are quick and easy for your child to handle. For example please no yogurt, pudding, uncut fruit, or messy items for everyday snacks. This avoids spilling on our school devices, furniture, etc. These snacks work better in the lunchroom. Thank you for your understanding. 

Birthdays

We love to celebrate birthdays! For students who would like to celebrate their birthdays in our class please bring in non-food items. For example instead of cupcakes maybe pencils. Sometimes parents put together little gift bags. These are just ideas. There is no obligation to send anything! 


Important Dates

Late Starts: 9/21, 9/28

Back-to-School Night: 9/19 6:45-7:30

Picture Day: 9/22

Count Day: 10/5

Student-led Conferences: 10/10-10/14

Picture Retakes: 10/21

Party Dates:

Fall Party--October 31

Winter Party--December 22

Kindness Party--February 14


This week's academic focus

Reading: This last week I began conferring with readers using their "good fit" books. These conferences help me better understand each student as a reader. Over the next two weeks, I will also do reading assessments. 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 will begin this week! 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.  

Home Connection Unit 1

      Math Units below

  1. Factors and Multiples
  2. Fraction Equivalence and Comparison
  3. Extending Operations to Fractions
  4. From Hundredths to Hundred-thousands
  5. Multiplicative Comparison and Measurement
  6. Multiplying and Dividing Multi-digit Numbers
  7. Angles and Angle Measurement

Science: We will begin Human Machine this week. 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 "Open-Mindedness"



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



Monday

P.E.

Tuesday

Music

Wednesday

 No Specials

Thursday

Media Center

Friday

   Art


ARRIVAL AND DISMISSAL

8:10 Drop-Off Begins: Students can go to the playground or enter the building for breakfast

Supervision will be available on the playground.

8:23 Bell Rings for students to begin to enter the building.

8:25 Bell Rings: Teachers should be outside their

doors to monitor the hallway and greet students as they enter the room

8:30 Tardy Bell Rings

3:50 Dismissal


Late start days are just one hour later for all morning procedures.

Half-day dismissal is at 12:09 p.m.


Shuttle riders should head outside at 3:30 on full days and 11:55 on half days.

Renee Abbott
Fourth Grade Teacher
Lincoln Elementary School
1102 Orchard Ave.
St. Joseph, MI 49085





















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