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Weekly Update April 27th
Math
We will finish Chapter 23 Probability tomorrow, Tuesday, with our chapter Test. Wednesday we will start Chapter 20: Add and Subtract Fractions. The test for this will be Wednesday, May 6th. We only have 3 more weeks of opportunities to pass the multiplication and division time tests, keep practicing!
Writing
We will finish our Biographies this week!
Reading
This week will be a bit unique in Reading, we will be doing some pilot materials for next year’s ELL program. We will still have the Unit 6 Week 4 Spelling test and weekly test on Friday. Our essential question this week is: What has been the role of money over time? We will be working on main idea and key details, expository text, prepositions and proverbs and adages. There will be reading homework this week and next week and that will be all for the year! Book reports are due this Thursday. May’s book report genre is Biography.
Unit Studies
This week our homeroom will start their last rotation with Miss Copening in Social Studies.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday 28th- PLC Day
Tuesday 28th – Strings/Band Concert at 6:00pm
Tuesday May 5th – Chorus Concert at 6:00pm
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Update for April 13th
Math: We finished out Spiral Review Unit on Friday and will be doing another review today. We will have the NESA-M on Tuesday and Wednesday this week starting at 10 a.m. Please make sure your child is well rested and eats a good breakfast! We want them to be able to do their best! We will begin Chapter 23 on Probability on Thursday. Chapter 23 Test will be on the 28th.
Writing: We are continuing to work on writing Biographies. We will finish taking notes from research today, and begin turning those notes into paragraphs tomorrow.
Reading: Today we will being Unit 6 Week 2. Our essential question is: Why is it important to keep a record of the past? We will be learning to reread to help us understand difficult text. We will work more on finding the Theme in a story and learning about homophones and adverbs. The Weekly Assessment and Spelling Test will be on Friday. There is reading homework and it will be due Friday!
Unit Studies: Our class is currently with Mr. Fink for Health.
Upcoming Dates:
Tuesday and Wednesday: NeSA Math Assessment
April 24: Elementary Plan Day (No School)
April 28: PLC Day
April 30: Book Reports Due (Mystery)
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Updates
Reading
This week is the Unit 5 assessment. It is a shorter assessments due to NeSA this month. On Thursday students will read one passage with 10 questions, 1 constructed response, and 10 grammar questions. They will also take the vocabulary 10 meaningful sentences test. Reviewing vocabulary words would be beneficial. Also their grammar packet will come home tomorrow with review from each of the weekly assessments. Studying this packet would also be beneficial. There was not a reading passage homework this week or spelling test.
Math
We have been learning about adding and subtracting decimals. The test for Chapter 22 is tomorrow, Wednesday. We will start a Spiral Review Unit on Thursday, with the test for that on Friday, April 10th. On Monday the 6th we will take our 4th and final DCA Math test as well.
Writing
We are researching now for biographies. Your child picked their person last Friday. We will be learning to research from books and online sources with our presentation for the biographies on May 1st.
Unit Studies
This week marks the last week in Science. Your child brought home a mid unit check with a review sheet on Friday. Studying for the DCA that is tomorrow would be so helpful! This will be their final science grade for the year. They will start Health with Mr. Fink next week and end the year in Social Studies.
Upcoming Dates
April 1st – Math test and Science DCA
April 2nd – Unit 5 Reading Test
April 3rd – No School
April 7th and 8th (after lunch) – NeSA Reading
April 10th – Math Test
April 14th and 15th (in the morning) – NeSA Math
April 30th – Book Report Due – mystery genre
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Updates!
ello 4th grade families,
It has been awhile since I have sent an update to you…I think it is due time 🙂 This week brings the awards ceremony on Friday. There were some miss printed times. The times below are correct. We hope to see you at the ceremony if you can make it!!
- 9:15 Kindergarten & First Grades
- 10:15 Second & Third Grades
- 2:45 Fourth & Fifth Grades
Please let me know if you have questions about anything below!
Reading
We are back to a Friday testing schedule this quarter for reading/spelling. There are a few Fridays that we will not have school, so on those weeks tests will be on Thursdays. This week’s essential question is: What can you discover when you look at something closely? Our stories are all expository texts (non-fiction) and have us looking at things in our world up close. You can ask your child what a sugar crystal looks like under a microscope! Our skills are: sequencing, summarizing, vocabulary context clues, and expository text. The grammar skill is comparing using more/most. The spelling skill is r-controlled vowels. The test for this wee will be Friday, 20th. Weekly reading homework will continue to come home.
Math
We have started Chapter 21 this week with Decimals and Fractions. We are learning how the two relate and how to read, write and model these amounts. The test for this chapter will be Wednesday the 25th.
Writing
In writing we are beginning our focus on Biographies. Your child will be learning how to research from books and online sources and then write a report. They will be selecting a person they feel passionate about learning more about.
Science
This is our last rotation in Unit Studies. Our homeroom class is starting in science. We are doing electricity this quarter and will be learning how to create circuits and make light bulbs light. I will be posting a study guide on the blog in the near future. The DCA for this unit will be Wednesday, April 1st.
Upcoming Dates
Friday 20th – Awards at 2:45
Tuesday, 31st – Book Report Due
Tuesday, 31st- PLC Day
Wednesday, April 1st- Science DCA
Thursday, April 2nd- Unit 5 Test – shortened due to NeSA coming up – still have vocabulary meaningful sentences
Friday, April 3rd – No School
Tuesday, April 7th and Wednesday, April 8th – NeSA Reading Test
Tuesday, April 14th and Wednesday, April 15th – NeSA Math Test
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Another great week to come!
We have a short week coming up, but it won’t be short on the amount we will accomplish and learn!
Writing
We continue to work on our 3rd Quarter genre of Persuasive Essays. This week students will pick a topic that they feel strongly about. They will be working on writing a persuasive essay that includes a thesis statement, reasons an examples, and addressing a counter argument.
Math
We will start the week with our District Common Assessment #3 to see what areas we need to address with re-teaching prior to the NeSA-Math in April. One way to help your child at home is to continue to practice multiplication and division facts. We will also be starting Chapter 19: Fractions. The test for this chapter will be Friday, March 6th.
Reading
We will be combining the learning and skills of Unit 5 Week 1 and 2. There will be no Week 1 spelling test this week. You can expect new spelling words on Friday with the test being the following Thursday. This week we will read stories to answer the essential question, “In what ways do people show they care about one another?”. The vocabulary skill will be Figurative Language: similes and metaphors. The next two weeks our strategy will be Visualization and our skills will be Character, Setting, Problem and Solution, and Cause/Effect. This unit our grammar skills will be about adjectives.
Unit Studies
Our class moves on to Social Studies this week with Miss Copening where they will continue to learn about Nebraska History.
Upcoming Events:
February 20th – Seagull Supply Store
February 25th – PLC Day
February 26th – Lakeview Branch of Westgate Bank open
February 26th – Weekly Reading and Spelling Assessment
February 26th – Science Fair
February 27th – Book Report on Poetry
March 6th – End of 3rd Quarter
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Parent Teacher Conferences and Other Updates
Parent/Teacher Conferences are quickly approaching on January 29th and February 3rd. Please call the office, or email me to set up a conference.
Math
Tomorrow we will start Chapter 16/17: Geometry. You can expect their math scores from Friday‘s test to come home in their planners tomorrow.
Reading
We will continue to work on Unit 4 Week 2 with the weekly test on Wednesday this week. Thursday we will start Unit 4 Week 3. Our skills will be: predictions, point of view, historical fiction, vocabulary context clues, pronoun-verb agreement, and words with /u/. The test for week 3 will be Wednesday the 21st.
Writing
The state writing test has been scheduled for Tuesday, January 27th and Wednesday, Janurary 28th. The students have been working very hard! If you have any questions, please let me know!
Science
We will finish Space in the next week. With the cold day and a few assemblies having happened during this rotation, students will take the test next Tuesday, the 20th.
Reminders:
– Sheldon Art Gallery Field Trip – Jan 29th
– Book Report Due Jan 30th
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Ringing in the New Year!
Welcome back!!
Today marks our first day back to school in 2015! There are many new things starting in 4th grade.
Reading – Our new unit begins today with the big idea: How do different writers treat the same topic. The other focus for the unit is “Our Government”. This week’s essential question is: Why do we need government? Our weekly skills are: Cause and Effect, Ask and Answer questions, Latin Roots and Pronouns. The spelling skill is inflectional endings -ed and -ing. We will continue to have weekly reading homework coming home on Mondays and due on Fridays.
Math – we will begin Chapter 14/15 on Graphing and Analyzing Data. The test for this chapter is scheduled for Thursday, January 15th.
Writing – January brings the State Writing Test. We will continue to prepare and practice writing personal narratives.
Science – We start a new Unit Studies rotation this week. Our homeroom will start with science with me. This quarter’s science topic is Space.
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Final week of 2014!!
It is hard to believe but we only have a few more days before an extended winter break and the end of Quarter 2! This coming week will be very busy at school. Below you will find the updates for the week and what to expect!
Math: We will be finishing up with chapters 12 and 13, measuring with customary and metric units for weight, length, and capacity; telling time, and reading a thermometer. The chapter test will be on Thursday. We will be taking our 2nd DCA on Tuesday.
Writing: We are prepping for the NeSA writing which will be sometime towards the end of January. We will be writing more prompts, and we will do one this week.
Reading: We will take our Unit 3 Assessment on Wednesday and Thursday. There is another reading passage due on Friday. Students will be practicing their grammar work this week in class. Expect the grammar packet to come home to practice before the grammar section of the test on Thursday.
Spelling: No Spelling this week!
Science: Last week the class voted to move up the DCA to Tuesday so they could have less assessments on Thursday. The study guide for this is on the blog. The test will be tomorrow afternoon.
Book Reports are due this Friday. We will also have our Book Carnival, where students can use their tokens to play each others’ games. Students can bring a game from home or create their own carnival game! They can give prizes for their games but please refrain from using candy as prizes.
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Heritage School is approaching…
Our class will be attending Heritage School on Wednesday, December 10th. Heritage school is a field study immersion experience that is part of the Nebraska history students are learning in Social Studies.
Heritage School was originally the Cunningham School in Saunders County. It has been restored as an authentic reproduction of a one-room prairie school.
Students will experience what a day was like in a one-room schoolhouse in 1892. During this “role play”, students will participate in songs, stories, and other activities that are authentic to the time period.
We have begun the process of preparing which includes learning songs sung in the 1800’s. Here is a song book if you want to sing at home! Heritage School Song book
LUNCH INFORMATION:
Common lunches for pioneer children included:
- Leftovers…cold pancakes from breakfast
- Sandwiches…cheese, jelly, egg, butter, honey, lard, sugar, honey, molasses, or syrup
- Boiled or baked potato (also served as hand warmers in their pockets on cold mornings)
- Fresh fruits and veggies…apples, pears, plums, carrots, cabbage wedges
- Cookies…molasses, oatmeal, sugar or snicker doodles (cookies were considered special treats).
Lunches were often wrapped in cloth. You may choose to use wax paper to wrap items. Students will also need a slate rag that can be any piece of cloth. It will cover the items in their tin or basket and help identify which container is theirs. If you would prefer, the school will make your child’s lunch and bill their Snap Account.
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