Weekly Spotlight:
*Spelling Pretest on Monday.
*Library Summer Reading Program Presentation on Monday.
*Chapter 12 Social Studies Test on Tuesday.
*All library books/magazines are due back by Wednesday.
*PBIS Assembly on Wednesday.
*Spelling Test (LAST ONE) on Friday.
*Fourth Grade Talent Show on Friday.
*Chapter 7, lesson 1 Science Quiz on Friday.
Coming Attractions:
*No School on Monday, May 28 - Memorial Day.
*Wacky Wednesday on May 30. Students may bring a board game to play with a friend in the afternoon.
*"Take Me Bowling" Thursday on May 31. Fourth grade students will take a bowling field trip in the afternoon.
*Film Festival Friday on June 1. We will watch a movie in the afternoon.
*Marvelous Monday on June 4. The children will be provided a fun-filled day by our wonderful P.T.O. We will have field day games, picnic lunch, and an afternoon special assembly.
*"That's All Folks" Friday on June 5. This is our last day of school. Bring a pen and your yearbook or an autograph book for our Fourth Grade autographing session.
Homeroom Happenings:
Science - The children will learn about and observe igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, and metamorphic rocks. Students will take an open book quiz on minerals and the 3 types of rocks on Friday. Next week, we will end the year with a study of the rock cycle.
Social Studies - On Tuesday, the children will take our last social studies test of the school year. This test will cover the three lessons in chapter 12. We will end our study of the West by exploring the Tlingit Tribe. Next week, the children will catch up on some current events with our Time For Kids magazines.
Spelling - This will be our last week of spelling. The children will be working with a list of summer words this week. We will still take a pretest on Monday, and the final test will be on Friday. The children may choose to write in print or cursive on Friday.
English - We will continue to work through our unit on Adverbs and Prepositions. This week the children will learn about Negatives and Prepositional Phrases. We will fill out a "how to study" sheet on Friday for our final English test on Wednesday, May 30.
Reading - The children will take a Sarah, Plain and Tall comprehension and vocabulary test on Wednesday. Please have your child review their vocabulary sheet. They will be allowed to use their book during the test. The children will also receive a readers' theater script on Monday. The script is a portion of the novel Skylark. This is the sequel to Sarah, Plain and Tall. We will read our readers' theater on Thursday.
Mrs. Sulima's Math Class:
*Monday - Students will stay in their homerooms to take Part 1 of a placement test for next year's math groupings.
*Tuesday - Students will stay in their homerooms to take Part 2 of a placement test for next year's math groupings.
*Wednesday - No math due to PBIS Assembly.
*Thursday - Begin unit on Algebra ~ Expressions and Equations.
*Friday - Algebra ~ Isolating Variables.
