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Making Up Instructional Time Lost Due to Snow Closures
- February 4 (will be made up on Friday, May 24)
- February 5 (will be made up on Friday, June 14)
- February 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 (waiver request days)
- Converting 10 Early Release Fridays into full school days, beginning March 29 through June 7; and
- Adding 12 minutes to the end of EVERY school day, starting Monday, March 25, and extending through Thursday, June 13. (See the Revised School Start & Dismissal Times with extra minutes added, which will be effective March 25.)
Important Dates:
3/13 Nature Vision lesson: Geology Rocks!
(Thank you PTSA!)
3/18 Last day for March Scholastic Book Orders
3/18 Second Trimester Portfolio sent home (with green folder)
3/18 Report Cards Available in Family Access 4pm (changed)
3/18 Museo Art Lesson (Thank you PTSA!)
3/19 Museo Art Lesson (Thank you PTSA!)
To volunteer for either Museo Art day: Class Signup
3/20 Class Photos (Grade 3-5)
3/20 6:30 p.m. PTSA Science Fair
3/21 Toymaker Workshop (afternoon)
(Partially funded by a grant from the PTSA)
3/22 Create-a-Country due
3/25 School day extended by 12 minutes ending at 3:38
3/27 4th Grade Music Concert
3/29 Fridays become full days of school (no early release)
4/8 – 12 No School - Spring Break
4/29 Museo Art Lesson (Thank you PTSA!)
4/30 Museo Art Lesson (Thank you PTSA!)
5/9 ELA SBAC testing
5/14 & 15 ELA (performance task) SBAC testing
5/21 & 22 Math SBAC testing
5/24 School is in session – First snow make up day
5/27 No School – Memorial Day
5/30 Wax Museum 10:45 – 11:15 am (tentative)
6/14 Last Day of School with early dismissal
Take Home Folders / Return to School every Tuesday:
Review and Keep at Home: Math practice pages, emotion management practice pages, cub cards
Sign and Return: March Reading Logs (in binders), weekly tracker
Goal for the Week: Start my Create-a-Country final at home.
Coming up this week in class:
Continuing fractions in Walk to Math, showing gratitude toward our classified staff members in SEL, reading a historical fiction text about the 1906 Earthquake, continuing our unit on Washington State Geography, starting the Create-a-Country project, and learning about Geology in our Nature Vision lesson (thank you PTSA)!
Challenge/Extra Credit Opportunities: Discovery Education Videos/Audios (see below) - write a 1-paragraph summary of each video/audio and turn it in for extra credit; the mystery word is peninsula; Social Emotional Learning - Introducing Emotion Management (attached) due Tuesday 3/12
Discovery Education: We've added a new way for kids to keep exploring the ideas we're working on in class through Discovery Education online. Students can sign in to view selected video (or listen to audio clips). Extra credit option: write a one-paragraph summary of each video!
March Scholastic Reading Club Order: Last day to order is next Monday 3/18. To place an order, go to www.scholastic.com/bookclubs, select "parent" and Continue. You'll need to create an account with your own user name and password (if you don’t have one yet), and use class activation code GPZ63 to connect to our class order. Books will be delivered in 1-2 weeks after the last day to order. As always, our class gets free books and materials with every online order placed. Thanks in advance for helping us expand our classroom library and programs!
State standardized testing (SBAC) for 4th grade begins in May. Our testing dates are: May 9; 14; 15; 21; and 22. Please try not to schedule medical/dental appointments or vacations on these days! Thank you!
Math Facts: Fourth grade students must be fluent in all multiplication and related division facts up to 12. Please use our on line program REFLEX https://www.reflexmath.com/go (username: [email protected]) or visit the 4th grade blog to learn strategies and interactive ways to practice math facts at home.
Larson Walk-to-Math: Topic 12 - Adding and Subtracting Fractions and Mixed Numbers with Like Denominators; Extension: Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators. Note: This is a longer topic, and the number of required IXL Skills / Math Menu projects needed to earn a 3 for Effort has been increased!
At-home Reading: Students are expected to read 20 minutes a night, with a goal of 100 minutes each week. Your signature is required on their weekly minute totals every Monday evening. I will be checking for signatures every Tuesday morning.
Social Studies: To review our geography vocabulary students will be completing a fun project called Create-A-Country (attached here). The rough draft will be completed in class by Wednesday and the final poster (provided) will be finished at home. It is due on Friday, March 22.
We are studying the geography of Washington State with desk maps. Coming soon: at-home (optional but highly recommended) WA State Topographic Map project
Reading: We are starting a nonfiction text on Earthquakes. Key reading skills in this unit include identifying main ideas and supporting details, comparing and contrasting, making inferences, understanding figurative language, summarizing a text, and citing text evidence to support ideas.
Writing: Students will continue writing opinion paragraphs with clear topic sentences, three reasons to support their opinion, and text evidence or details/examples to explain their reasons.
Conventions: We are working on correct punctuation for citing evidence in an opinion paragraph and using transition/linking phrases.
Volunteer Opportunities: Thanks, again, for all you do to support children, teachers and learning! Our class Signup can be viewed here: http://signup.com/go/UZYqOEz
If you'd like to volunteer and are not yet on the calendar, please let me know!
Please visit our 4th grade blog…. http://cves4.weebly.com/
In our partnership to ensure success for your child, good communication is critical. If you ever have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to e-mail me at larsone@svsd410.org. I’d love to hear from you and look forward to working with you this year.
With thanks,
Emily Larson
4th Grade, CVES
[email protected]
www.cves4.weebly.com