I hope you're all enjoying these last summer-like days before we settle in for the long haul of Michigan fall/winter. We have been working hard in fourth grade. Next week we will watch our classmates perform in the Variety Show. Join us for the evening show on October 10th at 6:30.
I look forward to meeting with each of you for parent-teacher conferences on October 17th and 22nd. I have so many wonderful things to share! Sign up information will come via email/Skyward soon. There will be no school for students on October 25th.
Our class will celebrate Halloween with a class party on October 31st at 1:15 pm. Please join us! A Sign Up Genius will be coming soon from Mary Tjoelker if you'd like to help. The Wealthy school parade will begin at 2:30.
I will submit the October Scholastic book order on October 11th. You can place your order online using our class code HB4N7. Scholastic has recently unveiled a new digital flyer. This features more books and occasionally, better prices. It is linked HERE.
This week in fourth grade:
A study guide for the Chapter 2 math assessment is coming home today. Please look through each lesson and pick a few problems to work on with your child. The chapter review will come home tomorrow. This is the best resource to prepare for the assessment. Take some time to go over this together tomorrow. There are many multiplication strategies that we teach fourth graders. Help your child find the strategy that works best for his/her math brain. We do not need to master all of the strategies!
We are wrapping up our first reading unit. We have loved reading many realistic fiction books. We have been working this week to make an interpretation about the book we're reading. We learned to use the characters, setting, mood, feelings, recurring objects, and important events to come to an understanding of a book. We will be finishing our class read aloud The Tiger Rising this week. Ask your child to tell you about his/her favorite parts of this book. I am so impressed by the way your children intensely read and think.
We became Citizen Scientists this week and have scoured the playground to find organisms to add to our classroom habitat. Each of the science classes has slightly different creatures in their habitat so it is fun to observe them all! We have been using Project Noah to log our findings. Feel free to check it out together with your student.
