We had a wonderful time at the Arboretum (with the mosquitoes). Our class would like to thank Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Pinto, and Mrs. Pur for volunteering for this field trip.
Fourth Grade Scrapbooks:
Each child will be making a scrapbook of fourth grade memories. We will be using the cameras that each student brought in to take pictures of classroom activities, field trips, holiday parties, and much more. I will be sending home a camera with each child throughout the school year. To help in the cost of these scrapbooks, I am asking for each family to be responsible for the photo processing of one camera. I will decide who will take each camera by drawing names. Thank you in advance for your help with this wonderful school memory.
Weekly Reminders:
*Lesson 4 spelling pretest on Monday.
*Chapter 2 (lessons 2 & 3) test on Monday.
*Magazine turn-in day on Tuesday.
*Our worms will have their first day of school on Tuesday (Mrs. Sulima's class only).
*Magazine turn-in day on Thursday.
*Lesson 4 spelling test on Friday.
*English Test on Tuesday, October 2.
English:
This week we will complete our English lessons. We will continue learning about the proper use of quotation marks and writing book, magazine, and newspaper titles. On Thursday, the children will fill out a "how to study" sheet, and we will review for the test. Our test will be on Tuesday, October 2.
Reading:
The children will continue working on their picture books this week. Many of the children have chosen to do an expository picture book. They have spent the last couple days researching their chosen topic. They will have Monday and a small bit of time on Tuesday to finalize their research. If they are not done on Tuesday, they will need to finish their research for homework. Those who have chosen to do a narrative picture book have spent the last couple days filling out our CLAPS (Character, Location, Action, Problem, Solution) writing organizer and writing their rough drafts. On Monday, they need to finalize their rough drafts and begin plotting their writing on a picture book story board with 16 squares. Each square represents a page of their book. If children are not done with their narrative rough draft on Monday it will become homework. We will be going to the computer lab at the end of the week to word process the words of our stories.
Science:
I will be teaching both Mrs. Cavoto's & my class science for the next unit. Our next unit is the worm study. The children will observe worm behavior, explore the purpose of decomposers, find out how earthworms are important to our Earth, and much more. My class will need to have their worms (in a butter or whipped cream tub) to school on Tuesday. Mrs. Cavoto's students will not need their worms until Monday, October 1.Social Studies:
Mrs. Cavoto will be teaching both classes social studies beginning Thursday. Please visit her blog at http://ccavotoccsdorg.blogspot.com/ to find out what your child will be learning in social studies. *We are trying this out for one unit.*
Math (For Mrs. Sulima's math students only):
The place value tests will be returned on Monday. We will go over any questions that students found difficult. On Monday and Tuesday, our main focus will be mental math. We will review a few addition and a few subtraction mental math strategies to (hopefully) help the children come to a sum or difference more quickly. We are trying to eliminate the need to count on fingers. On Wednesday, we will practice the concepts of estimating sums and differences. On Thursday and Friday the children will be adding 2-, 3-, and 4-digit numbers with regrouping (carrying). The students will be taking a checkpoint review on Monday, October 1.
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