Happy Friday fourth grade families!
NWEA: We will begin NWEA testing on Monday and continue through the week until Thursday. If your student has their own headphones, we highly encourage students to bring them on Monday. Students are also permitted to bring and use a mouse with the chromebooks. Please make sure that students arrive on time and have a good breakfast before testing. Free cafeteria breakfast will continue to be provided.
Math: We have had a great week in math! I am so impressed with all the 4th graders and their eagerness to learn. We spent time getting to know each other and preparing for a great year of math learning. We are starting the year with understanding place value through millions with whole numbers, and place value through thousandths with decimals. We will also be working on our multiplication fact fluency daily. It is essential that students continue practicing/learning their multiplication facts as we move to more difficult concepts throughout the year. I am looking forward to a great year in math!
ELA: We had a fantastic first week of school! This week in ELA students spent time getting to know one another through various classbuilding activities. Students were introduced to our partner reading strategy and practiced it with a text about Olympic skateboarder Sky Brown. After reading, we reviewed Depth of Knowledge levels and discussed using the strategy of R.A.C.E. (Restate, Answer the question, Cite evidence, and Explain your answer/evidence) when responding to text-based questions. We wrapped up the week by beginning our first text Night of the Spadefoot Toads. We will be reading 1-2 chapters of the text during class each day.
Science/Social Studies:
This week in Science and Social Studies students prepared for learning content by setting up their notebooks for each subject. If your student has not brought in a composition notebook for each of the two subjects please send them with one by Monday or reach out to me via email. We will be using these notebooks on a weekly basis. We have spent a lot of time this week building our class community and finished off with an escape room activity to review the rules we have learned over this past week.
Next week in Social Studies, we will begin looking at what makes a civilization. This will be an important building block for students as we begin to discuss ancient civilizations such as the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. In Science we will begin by discussing science safety and the inquiry process. Students will be applying this process through a scientific demonstration towards the end of the week.
DOJO: Thank you for connecting with your student’s account on Class Dojo! We will be using this to communicate student behaviors throughout each day by giving students positives, warnings, and infractions based on their behavior. Please check this often so
If you have not yet had an opportunity to connect, please do so here: https://www.classdojo.com/invite/?c=CZSB3K6
Looking Ahead:
August 9-12: NWEA testing
August 18: half day
We look forward to working together this school year! Have a great weekend!