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What's Happening This Week in Fourth Grade?
March 30 - April 3
News & Announcements for the upcoming week…
Monday is Hot Dog Lunch. Yum!
Tuesday is Creative Arts Night. I hope to see you there!
Wednesday is Chick-fil-A Lunch. Yum again!
Thursday is the Walking School Bus. Students are also encouraged to wear BLUE for Autism Awareness. Finally, it is also an early dismissal day at 12:30 to kick-off Spring Break. Students report back to school on Monday, April 13th.
Reading & Writing: This week the fourth graders will wrap up work with The War with Grandpa. Students will discuss story elements, character development, point of view, theme, and new and/or interesting vocabulary, as well as the author’s writing style and writing techniques.
Additionally, the fourth graders will read literary texts and respond to them in various ways. One is called evidenced based selected responses which combine a traditional multiple choice response question with a second multiple choice question that asks students to show evidence from the text that supports the answer they provided to the first question. Students will also respond to constructed responses, or short answer responses. Finally, students will complete a literary analysis task which is a longer response that challenges the students to interpret one or more types of literature: poetry, drama, short story, and a novel excerpt. The students will have to support their interpretations of the literary works by citing evidence from the text, such as quotations, details and examples.
Word Study: This week’s unit lessons focus on the suffix -ER/-OR meaning “someone or something that does” with words like actor, painter, runner and teacher. Throughout the week, the students will complete the activities in their Word Study books and “show what they know” on a quiz on Thursday.
Math: The fourth graders will continue to work with concepts related to fractions, specifically multiplying fractions and a whole number. You can find the information about these lessons in Chapter 12 of our district’s math series, Go Math!.
Social Studies: The class will continue to learn about colonial America, focusing on New Jersey, and the historic events that helped lead up to the American Revolution. Throughout the course of this unit, lessons will specifically focus on New Jersey’s role in the war including how the Battle of Trenton was a turning point in the war and how New Jersey played a pivotal role as the Crossroads of the American Revolution.
At the beginning of the school year, the students and I co-created a list of expectations for our fourth grade classroom. These were based on what we considered important for an ideal classroom. Our words and actions will be held accountable to these standards. This is the final product:
EXPECTATIONS for our Fourth Grade Classroom…
We are SAFE.
Our classroom is neat, clean and organized.
We behave in a way that makes others feel welcome, included, and respected.
We have self-control of our bodies, actions and words.
Adults and classmates are supportive, encouraging and we can depend on each other.
Our LEARNING is fun and interesting:
We learn new things and have new experiences.
We accept that we have different strengths and challenges and that we learn in different ways.
We express ourselves in different ways, such as speaking, writing, drawing, building, etc, considering our interests and strengths.
We treat everyone with KINDNESS and RESPECT.
Co-created by Blake, William, Kellen, Oliver, Norman, Nicholas and Mrs. Medea
Monday
- Math: pp. 473-474
Tuesday
- Math: pp. 479-480
Wednesday
- Math: pp. 485-486
Happy Spring Break!
See you on Monday, April 13th.
Monday - Media
Tuesday - Music & Physical Education
Wednesday - Spanish & Health
Thursday - Art & Physical Education
Friday - Pre-School Pals & Physical Education
MARCH SPIRIT DAYS:
Friday, March 13
RAINBOW Day
Dress in rainbow themed colors
Tuesday, March 17
Leprechaun Day
Dress as a leprechaun or wear GREEN to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day
Friday, March 20
March Madness
Wear a shirt representing a college
Friday, March 27
Comfy Cozy
Dress comfy, cozy for Fun Friday!
