I hope you have had a nice week! We have had a lot of fun things going on here at Wealthy. This afternoon we held our class spelling bee. Congratulations to our winner Julia and runner up Sophie H. Both girls will represent our class in the whole school spelling bee next Friday. Students will spend their lunch hour participating... good luck girls!
Today we got to learn about the legendary Jackie Robinson with a production from Brightstar Theater. They were talented performers who were very informative. Ask your student to tell you about the show!
Tomorrow I will submit our January Scholastic Book Club order. If you would like to place an order online, please use the code HB4N7 at https://clubs.scholastic.com/ All books ordered online are 50 cents cheaper than the books in the catalog.
Tomorrow we will have a full day of celebration of the life and teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In the morning we will attend an assembly that will be followed with a silent march. We will spend our afternoon in mixed grade level groupings participating in a fun project. To ensure your child's comfort, please have them dress warmly and wear shoes/boots that will be safe on the march. The sidewalks are a bit slippery and we want everyone to be safe. There will be no school on Monday to observe the holiday.
Last week you received the sign up form to be a chaperone on the Mackinac Island field trip. If you are interested in entering the lottery for this field trip that is like no other, please have your form to me by January 24th. As noted on the form, this is a physically demanding trip that requires you to be able to hike several miles, bike around the island (8 miles), and take full responsibility of 3 students for approximately 40 hours. As you can imagine, many unpredictable situations have occurred in the past. Flexibility, responsiveness, and firm expectations are important traits for a chaperone to have. I attended this trip last year for the first time and while it was memorable, educational, and fun...it was EXHAUSTING!! I am telling you this so you are prepared when you make the decision to send in the form.
This week in fourth grade:
This week in math we began our unit on equivalent fractions. Please continue to work on homework each night as a way to check in on your child's understanding of the content. We are working hard in class but this is complicated work! We have learned how to find equivalence in fractions (multiply by a common factor), how to reduce fractions to their simplest form, and can find common denominators (look for a shared multiple). If homework is a struggle for your child, please jot me a note and I am ready to help!
In reading we have been learning about the American Revolution. Students are working in new research teams and each group has a different subtopic they're researching. We are building on the skills from our previous nonfiction unit and learning so much!
In science we have been working to understand the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources. We are wrapping up our Earth Science unit and will be preparing for the unit assessment in the next few weeks.
